He’s never forgotten to remind you about breakfast. Cause and effect.
I bought an auto feeder to try and decouple myself from my cat’s food. Now she just screams at me right before it goes off and still thinks I magically trigger it.
this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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We've got an automatic feeder too and mine does the same thing. About a half hour before it goes off he'll meow up a storm because he thinks I control it. We do get some cathartic payback though.
Our feeder has the ability to record an audio clip to play when it goes off and it has come with some entertaining Pavlovian side-effects. When the mic engages it makes a crackling sound that sounds kind of like a pig oinking. So now if I oink at my cat and call him a little piggy he expects food and sits next to the feeder waiting 😂
Hah, mine had the same function. Somehow I managed to hit record while feeding her manually one day, so the call sound became her meowing and the feeder going off. Then, I managed to do that at least two more times. It became this awful recursive meow and feeding sound.
I wonder if she'll break the association if you're not home before the feeder triggers?
You’d certainly think so, but she actually gets fed twice while I’m at work.
Well, the feeder moves in mysterious ways.
*smack smack