Wylla is quiet and just stares, but Charlene glares and yells at me.
I know they'll adjust to the time change eventually. Until then, I'll have to remain strong and try my best to ignore their demands.
So, how are your kitties adjusting?
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Every Meal An Hour Late? We Don't Like This.
Ever since we rolled back the clocks an hour on Saturday night, this is all I see -- two cats trying to convince me it's time to eat. Their schedules have been thrown, and they don't like it.
Wylla is quiet and just stares, but Charlene glares and yells at me.
I know they'll adjust to the time change eventually. Until then, I'll have to remain strong and try my best to ignore their demands.
So, how are your kitties adjusting?
Wylla is quiet and just stares, but Charlene glares and yells at me.
I know they'll adjust to the time change eventually. Until then, I'll have to remain strong and try my best to ignore their demands.
So, how are your kitties adjusting?
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Mine haven't noticed. They eat when they want. If they do sense the change in when I leave for work and come home, they haven't said anything yet.
ReplyDeleteFunny how they never complain when meals start coming an hour earlier in the Spring >;-0
ReplyDeleteMy two are convinced I am creating a food shortage.
ReplyDeleteEmily - The Diva of the House - was already demanding an hour before the cats' actual allotted dinner time. She takes it upon herself to remind my hubby via glares and whines that she is clearly undernourished and we are trying to starve her. NOW, after Daylight Savings? She's unbearable. She's moved from whines to full-throated cries of neglect and anguish. This of course works up the others. It's both amusing and frustrating.
ReplyDeleteEmily - The Diva of the House - was already demanding an hour before the cats' actual allotted dinner time. She takes it upon herself to remind my hubby via glares and whines that she is clearly undernourished and we are trying to starve her. NOW, after Daylight Savings? She's unbearable. She's moved from whines to full-throated cries of neglect and anguish. This of course works up the others. It's both amusing and frustrating.
ReplyDeleteOur 13 y/o gets most of a 3 oz. can of gushy noms twice a day before his insulin shots. There was no sleeping in on Sunday for us. He knows not of this daylight savings time nonsense!
ReplyDeleteMy kitty (RIP) was born diabetic. 2 shots a day for 17 years. It was nothing for me to leave a party, go home for his shot and then return to a party across town. :) Anything for my boy!!!
DeleteSame with us. When we had to go out of town for a wedding last year, we hired a professional sitter with injection experience. She paid us two preliminary visits (for free!) so she could get to know him, since he's incredibly shy (the other 3 are hams). Now he adores her!
DeleteAnything for that boy too!
So THAT'S why Nellie's giving me all that extra attention in the morning; I didn't even make the connection!
ReplyDeletePoor Bean having to rearrange her eating schedule yet again! Maybe you could adjust the time in small increments--every few days feed them 15 minutes later, until feeding time matches clock time?
ReplyDeleteWe have automatic feeders that give our cats four small meals per day, now on the 11's and 5's because of the time change. That really makes things easy since the cats do not look to us for food, but unfortunately it's not an option for you with Wylla's diet. The feeders would not do well with wet food.
Good luck, and hang in there, Bean!
Not adjusting well either. Yesterday, my BF gave in early at 5pm for dinner. And then, when speaking to me at work, realized it was only 4pm. He had forgotten we didn't fix the clock on the microwave - the only one in the kitchen. So kitties got fed "early". He won't let that happen again! (hope this didn't show up twice - for some reason it wasn't letting me "publish" when I hit it the first time).
ReplyDeleteAhh, so I am not alone in this. My kit tie tries to corral me and lead me to the pantry, while being quite verbal about it, and one of my dogs stations himself next to him food station and lets out a yelp about every 3 minutes, much like an alarm of some sort.
ReplyDeleteMy four indoor, plus the ferals that live outside that I feed all get excited and then extremely disappointed that I am not feeding them on "their scheduled time....even at "treat" time, they all think that they are being ignored, and tell me what they think....
ReplyDeleteWe have five noisy, crying, staring and glaring kitties! It's starting to get a bit better now. We always say they have tummy clocks.
ReplyDeleteMy cats pull a Wylla and give me "the look" when they are ready to eat.
ReplyDeleteThey get the wet stinky food as soon as I come home from work (free choice crunchies rest of the day). So I'm sure they aren't happy with the time change but I'm not there to hear about it :-)
ReplyDeleteI adjusted my feedings in 15-20 min increments and there were no complaints.
ReplyDeleteMy Mini wasn't much of a foodie. She always had kibble and really didn't care much about tuna feeding times (although she demanded her water be changed a million times a day!)
ReplyDeleteBut I do recall that every fall, the first cold snap, where the air would chill and it had clearly become autumn (usually in October), she would get the dickens in her. Running around, jumping on everything -- she loved the drop in temperature. And I loved to watch her go kitty-crazy with happiness. She was my heart. :)
My kitties love the change of temperature as well!
DeleteI call that the "chilly kitty sillies" when mine do that!
DeleteInstead of 4AM, my kitties are wanting their breakfast at 3AM. They are not happy!
ReplyDeleteOurs are not adjusting well either. Twice, we woke up to shredded paper towels - one of the things that Sam does when he is frustrated. The others just meow and walk all over us. In the afternoon, they start campaigning by walking over my keyboard.
ReplyDeleteI'm in Arizona, which doesn't recognize the time change (the only thing this state ever got right!). So the cats have not been affected.
ReplyDeletePoor poppets -- my two are the soul of flexibility compared with their distant relatives above! With any luck, all shall be well with everyone within a few more days. Charlene is so saintly that I almost enjoy reading about her glaring, though not about her being starving, of course.
ReplyDeleteAny dramatic kitty flops from Wylla or Bean just too faint to keep standing?
ReplyDeleteMy Maine Coons are not amused! The body checks and tails across one's face start early. Then the Opera begins (Sprite is know for her off key projection). Act 2 is the pounding on the closet door. Then for the finale - climb on the bed and purr. So no, these CT cats are not happy with time change thing.
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing quite like having your cats yell at you.
ReplyDeleteMy sympathies. Our last cat was an elderly diabetic, so we also had to deal with the twice a year shift. My husband is a hospital pharmacy tech, which proved to be a big help in working out Ghost's med schedule.
ReplyDeleteLG has not yet adjusted to the time difference. He's more of a yeller than a sit-and-starer. (What part of "meow" do you not understand? hmm...maybe I'm not meowing loudly enough. MEEOW!!)
ReplyDeleteSunday was really bad for one kitty- like bopping me in the nose to wake me up. His sister was happy cuddling in the blankies. Now that we're during the work week, it's calming down, just in time to throw everyone off by bringing in a new cat on Friday
ReplyDeleteChelsea has been super-cranky about breakfast since the time change. She'll knock over water glasses, knock my phone and lamp off of the nightstand, etc. She'll also love-bite my nose.
ReplyDeleteSunday all 5 got me up at 4AM -- Monday wasn't any better since I woke up at 5AM with 10 starring eyes and 5 wet noses demanding cuddles and food. As soon as they get use to "standard" time it will be time to turn the clocks forward and they will be confused all over again.
ReplyDeleteYes, same problems at my house. Hungry Hungry. Seems even when they finally eat, they are still hungry. Maybe because the weather is cooler too
ReplyDeleteReally very cranky but, duh, I forgot that this would be a problem. Thanks for clearing this up for me. I've only been a cat mom for 30+ yrs. Eek.
ReplyDeleteIt's times like this I wish I had a kitty... my normally quiet pup has taken up to telling me I'm late with the feedings by jumping on me to wake me up. I think a Kitty would be lighter, or at least more passive aggressive :)
ReplyDeleteDon't worry, you're not missing anything. i get the same treatment from my cat that you get from your pup. Except I also get the joy of claws kneading into my face between jumps...
DeleteDon't worry, you're not missing anything. i get the same treatment from my cat that you get from your pup. Except I also get the joy of claws kneading into my face between jumps...
DeleteMy dogs are still waking up early and asking to go out. That wakes the cats who line up in the kitchen waiting. I say no but they don't like it and I feel bad leaving there all cute and hungry. lol
ReplyDeleteMine are doing fine in the morning because I decided to adjust my work schedule a little ahead to coincide with the time change! So now I'm getting to work earlier which is nice and they are getting fed pretty close to when they expect breakfast anyway. At night is harder since they still have not gotten used to the idea that I am getting home after dark now...
ReplyDeleteOne sleeps in until breakfast is served. One (age 17) noisily licks the remains in her midnight feeding dish that I give her each night in my bedroom because she needs to eat more frequently and I must keep the third cat away from this food. The third cat (the heaviest one) stomps across me repeatedly to wake me up, licks my hand, elbow, arm, then follows me into the bathroom, meowing at me. These two then lead me into the kitchen where they get their breakfast.
ReplyDeleteI'm yelled at in harmony at 4:30 in the morning, and pray every day that tomorrow will be the day the yelling won't start until 5:30.
ReplyDeleteabout the same. We have six little fur kitties, and some really don't care, but two get me up earlier and earlier......like "What's up with the food schedule?" I need my goodies........ trust me, they get it......one even bites my toes.......
ReplyDeletegloria g. Hemingway, SC
The fall isn't too bad at our house--it's the spring that drives us nuts! Between the time change and the longer days, the cats wake up earlier.
ReplyDeleteMy cats are used to eating when I get up and when I get home in the evening. They don't seem to mind when I sleep in, or when I get home early/late, which fortunately means that they haven't even noticed the time change!
ReplyDeleteWhether it's spring or autumn time changes, I adjust the cats first by thirty minutesfor a week or so, then the full sixty minutes. It seems easier on them than the full hour change all at once.
ReplyDelete- - Philippa
My kitty's fine- but my stomach's not adjusting!
ReplyDeleteMine think it's time to eat anytime I come home or get up from a nap (I work overnight shifts) so they have no idea about the time change. They think it's always dinnertime anyway!
ReplyDeleteMy cats have always been grazers for their meals, so time change didn't bother than. However, 'treat time' used to be always around 4pm.. and they knew the diff. I think that it was the sun's position that always clued them in. I also had an older cat that knew when it was bedtime. Around 10pm, she'd sit in the hallway and glare at us sitting in the living room.. What a stern little taskmistress she was. :)
ReplyDelete"Treat time" is 10PM at my house. I couldn't figure out why one of my cats was yelling at me at 9:00 tonight...now I know.
ReplyDeleteYou are stronger than me, I feed at six am in winter, seven am in summer, no time change for my kitties!
ReplyDeleteWhy not change the feeding time gradually?
ReplyDeleteTook my kitty three or four days of trying to get me up an hour earlier before she adjusted!
ReplyDeleteWe rolled earlier than you did in France, but it took Pipa a week to adjust to the new hour - she would come and bite my hand early each morning .... it was indeed hard to resist, but eventually :-)
ReplyDeleteI realized that my cat (was cats) got their feeding cues from us and our eating/sleeping habits, so we made the adjustment on Saturday and pushed Amelia's dinner a little later. It worked! At the new 6:30am, her usual feeding time, she started reminding us she was hungry. Perfect!
ReplyDeleteMy clutter wasn't terribly bothered by the time change. We had a little cold front come through on Saturday night and they were content to stay snuggled up in the bed a little longer.
ReplyDeleteTwo sleepless nights this week thanks to this. My boss wants to know why I'm cranky....
ReplyDeleteRiza and Mei have pretty much adjusted in the morning, but now want their late night snack, which used to be a 9:30 pm, at 7:30 pm. There's a lot of pitiful meowing in the evenings.
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