I have determined that, while most veterinary supplied food is detested by all cats, there are some items that everyone likes, everyone to the exclusion of the one for whom it is meant.
Neville is usually served Recovery soft-food, but others, especially Valkyrie, will consume all of it on offer if she has a chance. That I understood. But it seems that Neville’s gastro-intestinal hard-food, which I credit, at least in part, for reducing his vomiting, is a favourite of other cats, as well. I have seen Sable eating it, and now have witnessed Indigo making one of her rare excursions from the bedroom just to indulge her taste for it. I knew something was up when whole bowls-full were disappearing while I was at work: Nev doesn’t eat enough to accomplish that and, if he did, would leave half on the floor, the result of his largely toothless - though ultimately successful - attempts to eat.
I want to leave this food out, so that Neville can nibble during the day. How to keep those who don’t need it from vacuuming up the expensive delicacy in his stead is the unanswerable question.
It sounds like an unsolvable problem, but if anyone can, it is you.
ReplyDeleteThere's only one way that you can keep the rest of the cats from eating that food. That's to take the batteries out of them before you leave for work. I don't know now if they use AAA size or if they use larger D batteries.
ReplyDeleteI think they may be nuclear-powered.
DeleteThere's little chance of doing that, unless Neville is isolated. But on the positive side, you don't have to vacuum.
ReplyDeleteI have never read more true thoughts on the matter! It's inevitable! You are correct from the first word to the last!
ReplyDeleteIt's almost impossible to keep an animal on a special diet in a multi-pet household. It seems all the cats love the special food except the one the food is purchased for.
ReplyDeleteThat's a tough one, especially because I suspect that its greatest appeal for the others is that they know it's "Neville's food."
ReplyDeleteOf course, one could train Neville to his own dish the only he can command it open. He would have a collar I think, with the "Open Sez Me" code to open the food dish.
ReplyDeleteThey are a bit pricey, but there are automatic dishes that can be set to only open for a certain microchip.
ReplyDeleteOh, bother!
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