Transcription A Bluesky post from "Slippy", @damnslippy.slippy.me, with a profile picture of a woman with short, purple hair holding a knife: Sincerely delighted to discover, 45 minutes into this nearly-wordless three-hour documentary about French monks who take vows of silence, that among the reasons they \\\can\\\ talk is "to make sure the monastery cats know when it's mealtime by making little kitty-calling noises at them." :::
They do it for themselves, not the cats. The cats know when it’s mealtime, unless mealtime happens at a new random time every day.
Do something your cat enjoys at a specific time every day for a couple days, and you’ve got yourself a furry alarm clock that will make sure to remind you of the time if you forget.
My cats remind me every few minutes that it’s mealtime. I don’t even feed them manually; I have an auto-feeder.
It’s not the same, though. It tastes better when you do it.
(Bonus points if you “cook” it in the kitchen like you would your food; they’re part of the family, after all, they’ll appreciate being treated like equals. Or betters.)
Throw up in my own shoes at the same time every day, got it!
My cat will lock in on that stuff if you do it just once! I have to be really careful not to feed her early even if she’s being a pain about it, because if she gets fed ten minutes early once, that’s the new time forever lol.
One time she was being bonkers at 5am so I gave her some treats to keep the peace, it took about 2 weeks to get her out of the “I get treats at 5am every day now” mode.
Yeah cats can tell time somehow. Not just meal times but things like when I’m coming home or my bedtime. I’ve read that they like to stick to routines and find change threatening. Probably why they panic when I move a piece of furniture or organize the closet.
Understandable. That’s why I leave my drying rack out all the time - if I put it away whenever my clothes were dry, I’d be screaming without pause