Whisker fatigue causes stress and overstimulates their senses. Using a flat bowl or plate will relieve this issue and allow your cat to eat all their food without stress.
You can also search for “whisker fatigue” bowls specifically made for cats.
I did need to know this! Maybe I’ll buy my cat a flatter bowl to eat off.
My cat likes to invert her spine into a kind of gel substance and then stick her face down the side of the bed between the wall.
I am fairly sure that she is perfectly happy with having a whiskers compressed, what she’s not happy about is having less food.
My cat likes it when I cup my hand and cover the front of her face like a hand mask. Not sure why, but it definitely presses on her whiskers a bit and she doesn’t seem to mind either.
I… actually always thought that my cat didn’t like stale food, and that the stuff on the bottom of the bowl had just been breathed on with hot, wet cat breath enough times that he thought it was disgusting.
I’m going to try a wider bowl and see how that goes.
cat didn’t like stale food
That’s a thing too. Dry food in bags has more odor than food that’s been sitting out for a while. The fats in food left out in the open air will eventually go rancid too, but that takes a long time and shouldn’t happen if you’re cleaning the bowls periodically.
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I have a whisker friendly dish and my cat still does this. My cat just likes company when he eats and he’ll meow at you to come join him. He digs in as soon as I sit down with him at his bowl. Just a little weirdo butt.
Not really weird. It’s a survival thing. He wants you to watch over him while he’s vulnerable and eating.
