Listener Questions - Nutrition, Feeding, Omega 6 to 3 ratios and more!

And so I thought, "Well, we'll just tackle them all at once." So the first one comes from, from Karen, who I love, sends me all kinds of wonderful things, and she says, "My female cat makes me bring her the food, or even chase her down occasionally.

I've learned to call her and set it down beside the kitchen door.

She may be telling me she doesn't wanna eat in the same room as the boy cats.

Most of the time she doesn't care, but I don't wanna force her to be uncomfortable.

I think they lead you to wherever they want you to be.

They definitely have their reasons but can't tell us, and I read the following online: 'Walking away from a half-full bowl is almost never about the food.

It's a highly calculated emotional test to see if you actually care enough to follow me.

I'm secretly waiting for you to pick up the bowl, walk into the other room, and beg me to take just one more bite.

Because sometimes a girl just needs to feel pursued, even if it's over dry kibble.

But then you just sigh, pick up the bowl, and put it in the fridge.

Now I'm still hungry and my feelings are deeply hurt.' Does anyone else test people like this, or is it my attachment style and just, or is my attachment style just entirely broken?" Well, Karen, I don't know if I agree with all of that.

[laughs] I think cats usually leave a bowl, right? They don't, they don't finish their meal because, um, sometimes I guess they're full, right? We've overfed them.

We're not feeding them frequently enough, so we've put too much food in the bowl, and they leave because they're full or because something or someone may be in proximity to that bowl has made them feel uncomfortable.

Loud noise, someone's walking through, I think they might step on my tail, you know, things like that.

Um, they could be experiencing a stomach ache or GI issues.

You know, if you're gluten sensitive and you eat something, or you're lactose intolerant and you, you consume these things that, uh, your body's having trouble with in digestion, your stomach will almost immediately start to act up, and I think that's true with cats, too.

Whether it's the type of food, the brand of food, some ingredients in food, that as soon as they're eating or they get about halfway through eating, all of a sudden their stomach starts to hurt or they get bloated or gassy or, gosh, I know it happens to me sometimes when I [laughs] eat certain things.

Or maybe they're, they're just experiencing FOMO, right? They have a fear of missing out, something that's going on in the other room.

Doorbell rings, they hear somebody come in, something like that.

But I also think, you know, a lot of this behavior, especially what you're describing as, as your cat that, you know, makes you chase her down occasionally, as you put it, it can become a learned behavior.

I know Pico does this to me.

He won't eat if, you know, his dad feeds him twice a day and I feed him twice a day.

So if his dad has fed him, he won't actually eat until he comes and gets me.

Sits there and stares at me, and then starts walking me to his food bowl, 'cause he wants me to look at it and tell him how yummy it looks and how lucky he is to have a daddy that'll fix him breakfast and that kind of stuff.

And he'll do that.