Hungry Hungry Hippos
You know what's fun?Trying to train cats who have been free-fed their entire lives to start eating on a schedule.
See, we're planning on getting a kitten in February, and the last thing Riley and Abbie need is kitten food. Abbie's a documented Fat Cat, and Riley's been packing it in a lot more lately so he's chunking up. It makes him more fun to snuggle, but since he's a lot more wee than Abbie, he doesn't have the bone structure to carry 16 pounds. But both of them have spent their entire lives with filled bowls always available for them to snack from, so this whole "small portions at designated times" thing is sending them into a tizzy.
So now when I get home from work or first wake up in the morning, we do the Hungry Hungry Hippo Routine, which basically consists of me walking into the kitchen with the two of them swarming around me meowing while I say "Time for Hungry Hungry Hippos!" over and over in the most annoying sing-songy voice ever. (There is, on occasion, a little bit of dancing to go along with it, but that's gone undocumented so no one can prove that part.) It is something that I do not see ending any time soon.
I'm pretty much the biggest dork ever, but really, I should tell you something you don't already know.
posted by Melinda @ 6:37 PM
1 Comments:
Ugh. I'm having to do this as well. Felix and Pepper have developed an allergy to the dry food I feed all of them, so I have to feed them a separate food. It's either lock them in a different room during the day, or try the designated feeding times. They SWARM me now every time I go into the kitchen. And with having 7 cats, it really is a swarm :)
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