The Look You Get When The Cat Food Bowl Is Empty
When I got home from running my errands today Stripes met me on the porch and he was very put out with me. You can probably tell that from the expression on his face. It appears that he was blaming me for the front porch cats' food bowl (the one right in front of the little gnome lady) being empty.
Mind you, it was not empty when I left this morning to go on my errands. The bowl became empty while I was away. Such details mattered not one flick of his tail to Stripes. There was no food in the bowl and, obviously, it was my duty to remedy this injustice being perpetrated on cat kind.
As an aside, you may notice that the food bowl appears to be floating in another bowl. It appears to be because it is. Our pet sitter and friend, L, told us that if we floated the cat food bowl in another bowl partially filled with water it would keep the ants out of the cat food. K thought it was a good idea. I thought it would deprive the cats of free protein. I lost the argument.
Now back to the empty cat bowl conundrum. I don't usually give the front porch cats extra food during the day but Stripes insisted that if I was going to use his picture on my blog I could at least give him half a scoop of crunchies to tide him over until supper. I gave in. So enjoy this picture. It cost me half a scoop of crunchy cat food.
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Comments
cheri wrote on August 6, 2015, 10:58 PM
SO you better fill that up or else....LOL
Paulie wrote on August 6, 2015, 11:11 PM
Stripeds is really cute and the l like the expression on his face. How many cats do you have?
DWDavisRSL wrote on August 6, 2015, 11:30 PM
We have two indoor cats, both 13 years old now, and three squatters who live on our front porch whom we feed and once a year take to the vet. The three front porch cats are strays dropped off in the woods next to our house that we feed but who are free to come and go as they please.
Paulie wrote on August 6, 2015, 11:34 PM
Talking about strays, when I lived on the farm, we always had a lot of stray cats come by for the milk we set out for the cats.
bestwriter wrote on August 6, 2015, 11:44 PM
I am doing that all the time. It is a kind of a moat that keeps ants away from even my dishes.
I like the look of your cat.I really enjoyed reading your post.
Rufuszen wrote on August 7, 2015, 4:37 AM
My big cat sometimes can't even wait for the bowl to empty before he is demanding a refill!
Lovebeingmummy wrote on August 7, 2015, 6:47 AM
Your cat is so cute,I have 2 cats
wolfgirl569 wrote on August 7, 2015, 9:53 AM
I have seen that look many many times. You fill the bowl up or else lol
DWDavisRSL wrote on August 7, 2015, 10:05 AM
Stripes expression says just that, doesn't it? 8-)
DWDavisRSL wrote on August 7, 2015, 10:06 AM
My wife grew up on a dairy farm, too, and tells me stories of people driving by a night and leaving whole litters of kittens along side the road near the barn.
DWDavisRSL wrote on August 7, 2015, 10:07 AM
Thank you. He is a handsome fellow and a very personable cat. You can tell he was someone's pet until they dumped him off in our woods.
DWDavisRSL wrote on August 7, 2015, 10:08 AM
My indoor cat, Joe, is like that about his soft food. He wants it fresh and won't eat it after it starts to get dried out.
1DWDavisRSL wrote on August 7, 2015, 10:10 AM
Stripes is one of three strays who have claimed our front porch as home. He and a big black cat we think were dumped off in the woods next to our house by people who were moving and couldn't or didn't want to take them along. The third is a petite female we think is the feral offspring of another stray.
DWDavisRSL wrote on August 7, 2015, 10:10 AM
I've never dared find out what the or else would be. 8-)
wolfgirl569 wrote on August 7, 2015, 12:13 PM
With Ghost our old girl it is I will climb all over you or your things until you obey me. She can act very clumsy and put claws out while doing this lol
CoralLevang wrote on August 7, 2015, 2:57 PM
Do you feed all the feral cats, or is he a pet?
DWDavisRSL wrote on August 7, 2015, 5:08 PM
Stripes is more of a freeloading friend than a pet. The other two benefit from our generosity to Stripes. Stripes will follow me around the yard, out to the mailbox, and greet me when I come home. He likes to talk, and much like Tiger Cat, will carry on a conversation if you keep answering his meows.
1CoralLevang wrote on August 7, 2015, 5:33 PM
I used to have feral cats I would feed in Guam.
AliCanary wrote on August 7, 2015, 10:18 PM
Certainly well worth the price. That little face...!
OldRoadsOnceTraveled wrote on August 8, 2015, 2:06 PM
This is Guiness the Cat. Serves you right. The cat bowl is supposed to stay full--and properly stirred if canned food--at all times. And just because you humans see an optical illusion causing you to think there is food in the bowl, if we cats say there isn't then there isn't.
DWDavisRSL wrote on August 8, 2015, 9:21 PM
I thought Guiness was a fine ale, not a curmudgeonly cat.
WordChazer wrote on August 9, 2015, 6:17 AM
Ah, but for such a beautiful cat as Stripes, surely the half a scoop of crunchies is worth it?
WordChazer wrote on August 9, 2015, 6:22 AM
Guiness-with-ONE-N is your man the cat. Guinness-with-TWO-Ns is the good Irish dry stout.
DWDavisRSL wrote on August 9, 2015, 12:35 PM
Stripes is very expressive, both vocally and with his face. I'd love to let him be an indoor cat but Joe and Tiger are too old and Ace would just chase him around the house.
DWDavisRSL wrote on August 9, 2015, 12:36 PM
I stand corrected. Thank you for the spelling lesson. I won't make that mistake again.
DWDavisRSL wrote on August 9, 2015, 12:37 PM
Stripes is certainly worthy of an extra half-scoop of crunchies now and then.
WordChazer wrote on August 9, 2015, 12:49 PM
Better hadn't. You know how curmudgeonly GuiNess can be! Takes a pint of GuiNNess to get over being told off that roundly by a cat.