Thread: Why are MCs so greedy??

We have food available all the time as Louie likes to eat often & the pensioners all eat at different times to fit in with their sleeping scheduals

Raggles will eat all day if we let him and is always asking for food when we are around!
Tilly is a very light eater and Pomeroy is much the same. However, some days all 3 seem to have the munchies and they will all nag for food.
They do have dried food down all day and will sit there crunching it whilst glaring at us if we refuse their requests for wet food outside of their regular times

We have "Tia" the 4th Coonie arriving in the next day or so and like Candles we have boxes of "dis-liked" food stored away. We are hoping that she will like some of this and gradually wear down the food mountain we have collected!!

This topic reminds me of this cartoon...

Originally Posted by Antonia

This topic reminds me of this cartoon...

Hahahaa! That is BRILLIANT! Love it!

Originally Posted by Catlover

Dudley and Sylvester are soooooo greedy- they eat their dinner then yowl at me 10 mins later. They stare at their bowl looking pathetic, like they haven't eaten in days and scavenge food when we are eating dinner (Dudley just takes a running jump onto my plate). They even bin raid if given the chance...... They are crazy every morning for breakfast and I get 'climbed' by Dudley while Sylvester nips me on the calves until I dish up!!
I've never had indoor cats before and I wondered if the food thing was a boredom thing...or just an MC thing. There do seem to be a few posts on here to suggest MCs are greedy but then again a lot of them are indoors...

Oh my goodness Catlover, you are describing the scenes that go on in my house daily. Taking a running jump onto my plate - check. Bin raid - check. Getting climbed up - check. This is how they earned their early nickname 'The Criminals'.

To be completely fair, the jumping onto dinner plates and climbing up of legs went on until about 7 months. Now they are bigger, they can actually reach the kitchen counters quite easily with their front paws, and jump directly up there anyway. But the bin bomb/bread bomb/food bomb still goes on if we forget to put everything away properly!

I don't know if it's an MC thing or not. I just think they are young, healthy, happy, hungry, cheeky, growing kittens doing their thing. Enjoy!

Instead of keeping rejected food around please consider donating to your local shelter...

TIA

Thanks Antonia,that was good for a laugh & how right,my six sound like a heard of elephants come supper time & if little Pansy gets off to a head start by the time she is half way down the hall she just pulls over to one side so she doesn't get squashed by certain ones in the rush .....
Also I agree with Claudel,a lot of "You can stuff that mum"food has passed from our house to the local Cats Protection,although now they are basically all mature,I write that lightly & tongue in cheek,foodwise they have settled into what they like & I have no problems so occasionly now have to buy just to donate instead.
With the sizes of some of them I can't believe what little they do eat now,doesn't cost half so much to keep them at the moment as what it did as babes so perhaps its the growing spurts that make them seem like pigs & they equal out as they get older !

Originally Posted by claudel

Instead of keeping rejected food around please consider donating to your local shelter...

TIA

I second that.