I’ve met a few cats who are mostly polite and don’t really touch human food even if they really want to, but in exchange they also get a few plain scraps
I used to do this with my gf. The humans got the human food, the animals got the animal food, but then after human dinner the animals got some leftovers and scraps from human dinner. It seemed like it worked for everyone involved. The animals didn’t have to feel like second class citizens because the humans were being dicks and hoarding all the good stuff, but also, there was a system so no one was coming up trying to jump the line and get human food when it wasn’t authorized.
IDK, maybe that makes us sound like overly soft animal parents but the system worked for us.
Everything about this makes sense except for “dinner time.” There are 0% of cats who will not start reaching a paw up to snag something.
I’ve met a few cats who are mostly polite and don’t really touch human food even if they really want to, but in exchange they also get a few plain scraps
I used to do this with my gf. The humans got the human food, the animals got the animal food, but then after human dinner the animals got some leftovers and scraps from human dinner. It seemed like it worked for everyone involved. The animals didn’t have to feel like second class citizens because the humans were being dicks and hoarding all the good stuff, but also, there was a system so no one was coming up trying to jump the line and get human food when it wasn’t authorized.
IDK, maybe that makes us sound like overly soft animal parents but the system worked for us.
The first thing I thought of was monkey brains…
Thanks, I hate it
It wasn’t exactly on my Lemmy bingo card for the week, either! 😬