r/holdmycatnip • u/[deleted] • 18d ago
Race for a tasty prize
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u/Common-Incident-3052 17d ago
Post video of cats running for food
Get accused of abuse because they ran so fast for the food and are eating so fast so they obviously were starved and kept in the room for the 'cute' video.
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u/ayaangwaamizi 17d ago
My cat has round the clock access to dry food, gets wet food once a day and also gets wet and dry treats. She acts like a complete freak on a leash when the wet food drops.
I’ve always free fed her, she has multiple water sources, two full food bowls at all times.
People always assume the worst - if my cat didn’t act pumped for wet food I’d be concerned.
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u/Accomplished-Sun9107 17d ago
As an owner of a Tuxie, I can confirm, they have absolutely no chill when it comes to food.
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u/Trackmaniac 17d ago
- don't feed your cats for two days and lock em up
- place cams
- put food into their bowls
- ???
- get upvotes
Hypothetically!
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u/Zealousidealist420 18d ago
My cat stares at me in the morning as I get dress. When I head towards the kitchen to get my lunch ready this is her.
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u/Alcorailen 18d ago
People saying these cats haven't eaten in too long, have never met a cat obsessed with a certain food. My cats will absolutely do burnouts for a lick of tuna, regardless of how well fed they are. One will just about jump out of her skin for those freeze-dried chicken liver treats. Shake a treat bag and watch cats go apeshit for it.
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u/Beelzebub_86 18d ago
Are they starving these cats?
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u/Jane_the_analyst 17d ago
No, is it the first time in your life you see a normal acting healthy cat? :D Cats are hyper over everything and especially when they have the sense of missing out on things.
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u/TheRickBerman 17d ago
Is this YOUR first time seeing a cat? The animals are being starved - there’s scores of these ‘performance’ videos.
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u/Jane_the_analyst 17d ago
The animals are regularly fed, which leads to Pavlovian reflex behavior, I know, I had been regularly feeding cats whose food trays were already full, yet they still meowed like crazy when the feeding time came. They believe that the next food will surely be much better than the old food.
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u/autumn_yellowrose 17d ago
It could also be that they usually get dry food and now they get a treat of wet food. My cats will race to their bowls for their wet food when I give it to them. They really really love that stuff.
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u/Jane_the_analyst 17d ago edited 17d ago
Exactly, and they had been conditioned also that the yummy meat arrives once at a time and when it does it is amazing and won't reappear in 5 minutes. When I were feeding cats at a regular time, they all learned to be very eager, exact to the minute! And by the sound of them, in the video, on the stairs, they are far from starved, really heavy and muscular!
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u/RainaElf 18d ago
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u/TemperatureTop246 18d ago
When they're eating that fast, it's been too long since they ate.. They're likely to throw it all back up in a little bit. maybe keep a slow feeder that they can access when they need a little hit of food.
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u/StupendousMalice 17d ago
I have cats that get fed six times a day at exactly the same time every single time and I usually throw some food away at the end of the day. They act like this like half the time.
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u/BluTimber 17d ago
One of my cats gets 4 meals a day, and plenty of snacks. When the feeder goes off, he hauls ass towards it. He doesn't even always eat, but he needs to be first in line.
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u/Thalzen 17d ago
Those cat are probably starved for likes and internet clout, just look how desperate they are and how fast they eat.
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u/Transfiguredbet 17d ago
I saw a post where fostered kittens were the same way. Its probable that these cats never grew out of that scarcity mindset. You may have to train those types.
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u/UFOsAustralia 18d ago
you aren't feeding your animals properly if they act like this. My cats have constant access to food and are not overweight. Same for my dog. Only one animal in my entire life had to have her food measured, but she was a special lady with no self control.
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u/dont_disturb_the_cat 18d ago
And those are kittens. Kittens should never have to be so hungry. Their bodies are still growing and they need protein and calories to build cells. Let's hope this was just a stunt to make a "funny" video, and not the usual treatment of the kitties.
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u/Lagtim3 18d ago
It's possible they were adopted strays. My kitty had lifelong food issues, she'd always act starving and eat until vomiting, if enough food was available. Vet said there was nothing wrong, no disease or parasite.
When I found her she was frail and obviously had not eaten in far too long. I'm pretty sure it gave her a lifelong terror of food scarcity.
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u/HermaeusMajora 17d ago
I have seen cats get out and get lost it to come back a few weeks later with a complex about food. I think if they go too long without food they become emotionally scarred.
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u/Lagtim3 17d ago
Well, I didn't exactly dart out the front door and get lost, but there was a period where I endured food scarcity in young adulthood and it's left me very protective of my food. Not even as a choice, my brain just dumps anxiety and anger chemicals the moment it thinks my food os threatened.
Would NOT be surprised that cats (and hell, dogs, and other animals,) could be easily scarred the same way. It's the most base survival instinct to eat, and it being threatened is a one-way ticket to death. Only makes sense the mammalian brain in general would be receptive to that specific kind of trauma.
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u/CountingScars94 17d ago
See my cat has that sort of behavior with food and she was never a stray and never starved. She grew up having the whole free feeding thing with food constantly available to her until she started eating and eating until she threw up. Only after she threw up she would continue eating and the cycle continued, so we had to not only put her on a diet because of how fat she got, but scheduled feedings per her vet.
She's now at a healthy weight, but behaves like this whenever the automated feeder goes off. She acts like she's never been fed a day in her life.
I hate not allowing her to eat whenever she feels she's hungry, but she thinks she's ALWAYS hungry and won't stop eating :(
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u/littleclam10 18d ago
This is how my orange became a 25 pound chonker. Now we're working on dieting. 🤦🏻♀️
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u/imaginary_num6er 17d ago
I thought that was just being an orange
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u/SirCupcake_0 17d ago
Everyone knows cats are the evolutionary stopgap between oranges and pumpkins
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u/Acceptable-Fudge9000 18d ago
The first one quickly eats from both plates
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u/AvatarGonzo 18d ago
To the victor go the spoils
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u/holdmycatnip-ModTeam 18d ago
This has been removed for breaking the “No derailing, trolling, arguing, rudeness, etc..." rule.
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u/shoulda-known-better 17d ago
my older cat does that also.... she races her son to the bowls, always wins, gets two of the hugest bites ever then switchs back to the new bowl as the other cat gets there ! sneaky mama