If a cat looks at my Mom she thinks it is hungry. If it meows and rubs against her she thinks it is hungry. Basically if the cats are doing anything more than sleeping, she is following them around trying to feed them.

We have to hide the animal food in the house because Mom will forget the last time she fed the dog or the cats and feed them constantly throughout the day. I will put out a few decoy cans in the evening in case she gets up in the night to feed them or the cats come in late asking for food.  Then it is my hope she will use that can as opposed to whatever she can find in the fridge to feed them.

I typically get up early to feed the cats so it is done and they are out the door hunting around outside. Otherwise Mom will obsess over thinking they are hungry and I have to convince her they really did eat. If they are around she will say things like “Why is he looking at me? He must be hungry” or “I don’t think the cats ate they look hungry.”

One day I caught her following a cat down the hallway saying “Here kitty, here you go” with a piece of banana she was shoving in front of him trying to generate interest. No go of course. On a recent morning I went out to the garage and sitting next to a favorite cat sleeping area I spied a coffee mug filled with water. When I came back from shopping that same day I passed through the laundry room and found a cat bowl filled with vanilla flavored creamer and one  beside it filled with crumbled up tortilla chips…..I was curious as to why no Salsa? No wonder they didn’t eat it!