I have broken the one-of-a-kind French feeding bowl which was gifted to Louis Catorze by one of his favourite pilgrims, and I am very sad about it.
Because I hadn’t slept very well the night before, I was clumsy when serving up Catorze’s food and pill; I knocked the bowl with the bag of Lily’s Kitchen Marvellously Mature, sending it sliding off the edge of the worktop and onto the floor. Needless to say, it did not survive the fall.
The good news is that we have a back-up plate: a flat, matt black saucer that Cat Daddy bought for Le Roi’s big brother Luther. (He chose black over a multitude of colours “because it matched Luther’s fur”. I know.)
The bad news is that Catorze won’t eat from it.
Yes, he used to use this same plate perfectly happily before acquiring the fancy French one. And, yes, exactly the same food is going onto it. But he still won’t eat from it. It doesn’t bode well for changing his food next month if the silly sod can’t even cope with the SAME FOOD ON A DIFFERENT PLATE.
Not long after I broke the bowl, he sat at my feet and did the creepy staring again. And, ever since, he has spent his time alternating between screaming and sitting forlornly by his (full) plate.
This is a level of foolishness that we truly cannot comprehend.
jesuisleroisoleil 
I broke four of my people bowls this week. Seems like there’s something in the water.
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Oh dear, did you? 😢😢😢
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Yeah. I was already missing one so I have three. Obviously they aren’t made any more so I’m trying to justify £60 on a Sara Miller set… 🙄
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I’ve never even heard of Sara Miller! Our crockery is from, erm, a discount shop called Wilco … 🤣🤣🤣
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My cats would consider that an empty dish. It must be at least an inch deep to be full.
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I did wonder if he could actually see the food. My thoughts were the colour rather than the depth …
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Wow. Think he’s playing mind games and trying to make you feel guilty?
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Haha, quite possibly! Who knows what’s going on in his mind?
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His mind? He actually has one?
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Hmmm, good point!
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Poor chap. Don’t you have another bowl which looks a bit like the broken one?
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Sadly not. 😢 I have a plan for his food changeover next month which requires a flat plate so I would like to persist with this one at least until he’s happily eating his new food. Fingers crossed that he will get used to it!
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You might try a plate which is not black, then.
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We might have to, although he did once eat from this plate with no issues whatsoever.
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As the saying goes only fools never change their minds.
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My sympathy goes out to you. I’m currently dealing with a kitty boy that love, love, loved his prescription chicken pâté food (thankfully, at the cost), then all of a sudden decided it wasn’t the way to go. Sometimes I think you just have to let the kitty go hungry till he or she realizes there is no alternative but to eat what you present to the little darling! Happily (but for how long), tonight Andy ate the prescription chicken pâté food without protest.
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So Andy loved the chicken food, then he didn’t, and now he does again? Goodness me!
Your theory makes absolute sense but we are dealing with Catorze here: he starved himself the last time and lost a lot of weight, so unfortunately the “He’ll get hungry enough eventually” concept doesn’t work with him! And next month I have to change his food … 🙀🙀🙀
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Good grief! I’m glad it works with Andy. Best wishes for satisfying Catorze’s apetite.
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Doesn’t Louis Catorze insist on drinking water out of a special fancy goblet?
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A glass. Yup. He won’t drink from a bowl. 🙄
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Hmmm… I think he can see his kibble just fine–he is just as picky about his plateware as he is about his drink ware.
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But this is plateware that he used to eat from! It’s not as if it’s utterly new.
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No, but his special plate was fancier, befitting le roi.
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C’est vrai. 🤣
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Perhaps he would prefer something like this: https://www.etsy.com/listing/920191209/elevated-cat-food-bowl-raised-ceramic
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£80.26! 🙀🙀🙀
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Yup–they have even more expensive models. I’m quite sure that le roi expects no less…
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I bet he would still sniff the food in them and walk away.
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Very likely.
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He is something else. 🙂 Our boys only care about the food.
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He is something else indeed. 😳
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Sounds like he”s OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, in case – as is likely – that abbreviation means something different in the UK) but I bet you suspected that already..
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I actually think he does! He’s clean to the point of ridiculousness, constantly washing (but not in an anxious, over-grooming way).
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Wow, what a prima donna (as all cats are)!
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Yup. He’s the worst. 😳
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I can see that!
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And this is by no means the most awful thing he’s done. There has been far, far worse.
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I have no doubt!
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