Soft food scam alert!!!
@catsalad I sadly fall for this scam over and over and over :(
@catsalad Read this to our cat - all she did was glare at me 😹
@catsalad this can escalate into a "protection racket" for those nice fabrics you keep about

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[laughs in nerd]

Ha, cat! I have RECEIPTS!

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The funny part is my cat seems to understand what this is for.
When I show it to him, he quits the act.
@hellomiakoda Loki: dang it...
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The funniest was when my roommate had just fed him, and he came up here doing his "I need food" yowling at me.
When someone taps that button, the HA server also announces it via speakers.
He's up here yowling, when [alert sound] "Loki has been fed!". He stopped, looked at the floor a moment, and then left my room.
🀣

@hellomiakoda @catsalad I had a cat before and he always had a bowl of dry food and he ate when he wanted. He didn't get fat or anything. His teeth were in great shape always, because dry food is good for teeth. He had wet food once or twice a week or randomly for a treat. He had perfect teeth at 13 when he died because of vaccine caused carsinoma (cats should never be vaccinated in the neck, always in limb). I never brushed his teeth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine-associated_sarcoma

Vaccine-associated sarcoma - Wikipedia

@bhasic
@catsalad

I've done that with previous cats. Loki, however, got picky

@hellomiakoda @catsalad My cat didn't like all dry foods, but most. His favourite food was green olives. He heard me open the jar from sleep and was immediately there to get some olives and lick my hand from the vinegar. Cucumber was also what he loved. If I left a shopping bag with a cucumber on the floor, he bit and ate it trough the plastic. To get olives he would sit and give paw.

@hellomiakoda @bhasic @catsalad It’s actually good. Cats don’t have a strong thirst drive and are meant to derive most of their hydration from their food. The high rate of cat kidney disease is in part due to them being chronically dehydrated. Cats don’t chew their food anyway, so hard food doesn’t do anything to clean their teeth.

Also, what’s that app you’re using?? Our cat is very guilty of the β€œI haven’t been fed” scam.

@hellomiakoda @catsalad which electronic service is this screen from?

@vandorb12
@catsalad

Home Assistant.
I used the Variable integration to store time stamps as sensors.
If you are interested, when I have a little energy, I'll put together how I set this up.

I don't have the option enabled at this time, but I could (and want to) easily put a Zigbee button by the place we feed him to trigger the "Log Meal" action. I often forget to go in the app and tap it.

@vandorb12
@catsalad

The report lost button sends a message to my Telegram AND announces it with sound, and then sends his chip data, recent photo, and the phone numbers to report him lost with the chip place, to the group chat., and of course, changes "Lost?" to Lost with a time stamp.

@hellomiakoda @catsalad we just use a family calendar hung on the hall wall…
@catsalad when I babysit a friends strong willed ragdoll cat I take notes of the time I fed him because he’s a great gaslighter
@catsalad my grandma got taken by this scam. Over and over again. Really sad when the most when the most vulnerable of us gets take advantage of. 😭
@catsalad Breaks my heart realizing they only want to be BIG!

@catsalad
Ours come and get us and then lead us to various places of our apt, sometimes it’s to get, water from the bathroom faucet. The catfood scam is real though.

They are so picky too, β€œoh no not that kind again, I had that a week ago!”

@catsalad I WOULD NEVER!! ​​
@catsalad It's hard not to believe even if that someone is also you.
@catsalad
I once build a small device for that exact purpose. It resets a timer for each cat when the corresponding button is pressed.
https://daniel-westhof.de/electronics/feedometer/
daniel-westhof.de | feedometer

ο»ΏThe feedometer measures the time since each pet has been fed. So everybody in the family knows if they are honest wen they claim that they have not been fed jet.

@catsalad All cat owners know this one. Dogs will try this too.
@catsalad remember - if you just saw a cat scamming food from a human...no you didn't
#acab
@catsalad Meeeeeeeeeooooow ​​
@sharkitty Oh you poor starving thing. Let me just put some food in you– wait a minute! 
@catsalad β€‹β€‹ ​​

@catsalad

WARNING!!!
Dogs do this too!

Like literally last night, I got home from a walk and my cousin noted that the dogs heard me coming and were barking like mad to be fed.

I had just fed them an hour earlier.

"No, dogs. You don't get food just because I 'came home' (again)."

And really, I do this *every* weeknight -- an hour long walk after feeding the dogs. You think they'd "know" by now. πŸ™„

Clever cat plays with food bowl to ask for dinner #Shorts

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@catsalad @DelilahTech I’ve heard a rumor that some dogs will do this too (although without the meowing part). 

@catsalad ALERT UPDATE - this scam has crossed species into dogs!

Just tell them "I'm on to your shabby little game..."

@catsalad Nooo, I would never do that...
@catsalad Attention: Beware a similar scam: cats may pretend their bowls of dry food are empty when they are in fact full, because they want more food, attention, or both. Consider giving in to their demands. β€ΌοΈπŸˆπŸˆβ€β¬›οΈ
@catsalad my cats have an auto feeder problem solved!

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I will always fall for that. Happily.

@catsalad
At our house, the one on a diet ignores half his food, loses it to the other cat, and lodges a complaint. Sorry bud, try defending your "kill" for a change.

@catsalad

Usually, they work in pairs or groups.
Somehow, They victimized me.
Every day...

@catsalad why would you freely share this information, you traitor!