Saturday, August 09, 2025

Caturday 85: TFW

I had to look it up. TFW is short for That Feeling When: an acronym that I shall promptly forget.


As I must surely have posted previously, Lacey expects five feedings per day. I refer to only wet food meals and not the ever-full dry food dish or the semi frequent treat-tossings. 

All of these feedings only amount to one small can per day. I used to divide the can into four segments, but she often wanted more. So being a human with a superior brain, I simply opted to divide the can into five portions. 

It works for the most part. Her first feeding is usually served by 9am and her last by 10pm. During the wretchedly long night, she much subsist on dry food: poor thing. 

There are occasions when she will bother me for ages for the next feeding. Sometimes, the cat will hound [sic] me for a long time, but when I finally lay her dish before her majesty, she, like the cat in the photo, seems to have a TFW moment, and will simply stare vacantly in the general direction of her dish for a moment before walking off. 


18 comments:

  1. The cat conundrum must have bother the early Egyptians too, they just made her a goddess. Somehow all cats since then have puzzled the hoomans who care for them.

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  2. She wants to show you who is the boss.

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  3. I don't think I'll remember that acronym. Cats have their own agenda, definitely.

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  4. I think Barbara has the answer. The Egyptians made a cat a goddess and that was that.

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  5. I can TOTALLY relate. One of mine is deaf and has no volume control so there is often a lot of insistant bawling.

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  6. I'm thankful that my two are satisfied with dry food--as long as the bowl never gets empty. When I was young I had a cat who would only eat raw chopped kidneys.

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  7. Cats is funny people.

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  8. Lacey has mastered the fine art of keeping you on your toes while keeping her own appetite a mystery

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  9. LOL that she harangues you to feed her and then turns her nose up.

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  10. so it's not just me who has to look up these things. i feel better.

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  11. She sounds like a very cute, very well loved cat :)

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  12. What a picky eater much like my oldest granddaughter!

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  13. Our cats are as picky. We've been changing the food around, but it isn't going well. They lick off the gravy and let the meat go dry.

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  14. must be a black-and-white cat thing! Lizzie is much the same!

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  15. She has quite the appetite! Mari gets three dry food meals per day. But I sometimes give her treats during the day too. She's particularly fond of cottage cheese, cheese and eggs. Me too!

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