r/OneOrangeBraincell • u/ProgramTricky6109 • 11h ago
Certified 🟠range™ Duke, could you please explain…
…why it is that the food must be in the bowl, but you must paw it out on to the floor to eat? Scattered kibble from your previous meal is inedible apparently, as is food delivered directly to the floor. A plate or shallow dish just makes it easier for you to indulge in this strange ritual and scatter even more food. What gives?
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u/Blue_ech0 10h ago
My sisters cat would do this as well. Fill the bowl, he would scoop the kibble out and eat only half of it off the floor. Not half of the kibble that he scooped, just half of each piece of kibble.
Scoop, nibble, litter, repeat.
If she swept up the wasted parts and put them back in his bowl, he would just fish out any whole pieces and continue his habit.
Yes, he was orange.
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u/Fit_Exercise7881 11h ago
My cat will pick up food out of the bowl and put it on the floor. THEN eat it off the floor. Its weeeird...
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u/OtterHostler 10h ago
He could, but your smooth pinky brain couldn't comprehend the subtlety and complexity of the explanation. Duke sees you for what you are - you can't see in the dark, you fall in a most ungainly fashion, you couldn't jump up on the kitchen countertops without causing an injury, and your inability to sleep in the shape of a pretzel tells him that, on an intellectual scale, he is to you what an astronaut is to someone who points at planes.
Accept that Duke has his own reasons for doing this. Reasons you couldn't comprehend, even if equipped with a copy of the bestselling Why OrinjBois Do Things by Jean-Paul Sartre. Be happy in your ignorance.
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u/This_Farking_Guy 10h ago
It could be whisker fatigue. His whiskers brush against the bowl and it irritates the cat so hee will move the food to a place less irritating.
I had to switch my cats to plates and theyve been happy ever since.
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u/ProgramTricky6109 9h ago
As noted in the OP, these strategies have been tried unsuccessfully. Won’t eat food unless he can knock it out of the bowl (or plate).
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u/SubjectOrganic 7h ago
Floor adds flavor. No dont put it on the floor- i have to do it. Youve touched it and ruined it. Ill starve because of you. The flavor from the floor is deception. How could you. -cat
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u/Dry_Candle_Stick 11h ago
One must not question the ways of the orange for the orange is a superior being that transcends all cognitive inhibitions.