r/Unexpected • u/A_MASSIVE_PERVERT • 1d ago

Toxic Relationship

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

[removed] — view removed post

77.8k Upvotes

88% Upvoted

315 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2

u/shayanti 1d ago

Usually people feed their pet once a day, it's not like they need the same schedule as us. The ideal diet for a cat is permanent access to dry food and then wet food once per day. Basically, unlike dogs and humans, cats tends to eat bit by bit, all day long that's why the dry food is there. But then, they will also want a bigger input of food at one point, that's why the wet food is there. As a bonus it helps them maintain their water intake.

Personally, my cat asks thrice a day, but I know it's because I'm inconsistent. I used to feed her at lunch and late in the evening. But when I leave my home and I don't have time to come back for lunch, I give her food in the morning. So now, she asks for lunch and breakfast, in addition to late in the evening. She's not particularly hungry though, it's just habit. So she ends up wasting food if I don't manage properly.

1

u/Halospite 1d ago

Thanks for explaining. I've never had cats before, except for a three week stint when I was a child where we catsat for family friends and they told us to give them dry food as two separate meals a day. Had no idea that that wasn't normal.

3

u/shayanti 1d ago

Honestly, it differs a lot from people to people and cats to cats. Like, some cats can't regulate. If you let them have free access to food, they will keep eating and gain weight.

2

u/Halospite 1d ago

Yeah, the cats we catsat... we had to feed them. separately because one ate like a bird and the other one would basically inhale the first one's leftovers and puke it all up. God they were finicky lmao