>>5115430
>too stupid to understand it has to drink water
>stops eating once it smells its food
What dumb creatures

>>5115431
>too stupid to understand it has to drink water
Cats were originally desert dwelling animals, they rarely feel thirst and they're supposed to get most of their water from meat

>>5115430
So does that mean if you put water in with their food they will eat more?

>>5115523
>Cats were originally desert dwelling animals
Half-true

>>5115430
tl;dr they do it out of pure malice because they know if you don't clean it up within a few hours you'll get ants all over the place and have to deal with them too

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>>5115534
This. So you'll have to clean it up.

>>5115534
Just give them half meals and force them to act a cheif mousers if they want more.

>>5115431
>Anti cat schizo immediately triggered
Lmao

>>5115580
My cat used to eat paper of any type, toilet paper, important documents you left on your desk, and would then vomit up a lump of it later on.

>>5115534
just get a bowl with a moat.

>>5115430
Cats are also prey, so they have this as an innate mechanism to discourage them from returning to a food source too many times and ending up eaten by a dog or a larger cat.

The cat has no idea why it does this. It just loses its appetite and wants to go find another source of food. But nature knows - the more times you show up at the buffer, the more likely you are to get your shit pushed in by another customer.

Many cat behaviors are to keep them from getting eaten by their top two predators, canids and large birds. They hide in high spaces dogs cant reach but still avoid being exposed to the sky and make sure they’re under something. They lick themselves periodically and try to hide excrement to break up their scent trail and avoid being tracked.

The larger a cat species is, the weaker these behaviors are.

>>5115430
Humans do this too, but based on flavour instead of scent. It's called menu fatigue, and it seems reasonable that cats would also have it.

>>5116581
I figured it was this all along, not scent. I rotate between 5 or 6 different wet foods for my cat, something different every day. She doesn't get sick of dry food, though, she loves crunchy foods, but gets constipated easily, and requires wet food to keep things moving.

>>5115430
when you serve food to them in a bowl like that, they will only eat a little bit because their uber sensitive whiskers keep rubbing up on the side of the bowl
serving on a plate can sometimes help with cats leaving food behind