togetherness

[cellio]

This degree of togetherness is pretty unusual:

And even more unusual, look who was first to leave (letting me get a better shot of Erik):

I still can't get either of the boys to snuggle with Embla (or vice-versa), though.

Erik and Baldur always stand while eating, while Embla always sits. (This feels like the beginning of a logic puzzle: standers always lie, and... no, never mind.) I wonder why that is. Is it a gender thing? An individual-cat thing? Random but consistent for a given cat? Usually random and my cats are weird in their consistency?

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[indigodove.livejournal.com]

I'll have to watch them again...but I think all three sit in this house.

Those are cute pictures!

[geekosaur]

My experience is that cats do have characteristic eating and drinking styles. For my current two, for example: Maggie always hunkers down while eating, while Frankie always stands (neither sit or lie down fully); Frankie won't actually drink from a water bowl, he dips his paw into it and then licks it off.

[rectangularcat]

Claudia sits - I think the slow eaters always sit.

Bela stands and grabs a mouthful and goes away!
Such a cute picture!

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Our three usually seem to stand, but that may be because they've just finished rushing me all at once to get to the food they've been so anxiously awaiting once I set it down. What they do when they inevitably come back later to finish it off, I have no clue.

[anniemal.livejournal.com]

The puppycat hunkers over his dish and eats it all at once. The Pussyrat is a dainty nibbler, who sits primly. Their bowls are far separated, or Mel would grab it all. Mercifully, neither one likes dog food. Even the dog doesn't like it, which is why the utility area is verbotenland for him, and Pussyrat's dish is up high,and the dog's dish is in the kitchen It all works out.

This morning the dog and the puppycat made up a game. I'm not sure what the rules or object were, but they did a bunch of stampeding and looking very innocent. And Mel wasn't swatting the dog, so I guess it was right enough. Nothing crashed.

[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

I think it's an individual cat thing, possibly influenced by height & size of cat and height & size of dish. My parents had one rather small cat who always put one front paw (I think it was always the same one but I can't remember which) onto the edge of her water bowl and another who drank by dipping her paw in and then licking it - since she was a long-hair there was plenty of water scooped up by each dip and plenty left at the end to be shaken onto the floor and then make paw prints leading away, the prints becoming more paw-shaped as the excess water came off. The second cat also usually ate her soft cat food by paw, but she did a decent job of cleaning off her paw before walking away so there weren't paw shaped cat food prints on the floor to go with the water ones.