Where do you feed your cats?

MowMow eats on the bar section of the counter.



Book eats on the bathroom floor.

We feed Blacky in a fairly unused room. The room is one big waste of space, I only go in it when I'm walking through to the garage - another large room filled with junk, never has been used for cars - and then through to the backyard.

There's an old pool table in the room so we feed her on it, it's also were we keep most of the food since it's such a large table. The reason we originally fed her there was that she was a feral and afraid of the indoors, we opened up the cat door and she learned to come inside that one quiet room to eat. No way she would've walked around the house looking for food, and it just stuck that way.

Now there's a feral coming in the room through the cat door late at night, but we don't really want to move her feeding location to other parts of the house.

I wouldn't feed cats in the kitchen, it's already cluttered with one to three dog dishes on the floor at a time and I'd rather cats just stay out of the room as much as possible. Blacky shows no interest in the kitchen, even when we're eating chicken, pork, beef... she never goes in there unless she's headed straight through onto the sundeck, I'd rather not have her suddenly start begging or jumping on counters, especially since there isn't a lot of counter space in there.

Zinny only goes in the kitchen to hide behind the fridge or dishwasher (I'm not actually sure which one she uses) to hide when guests are visiting.

The feeding station is at the base of my toy shelf. The kibble feeder is no longer there, and now there's 4 bowls for food. I am feeding canned and raw now, hopefully going to only raw by the end of next month!


I have read a lot of things about plastic water bowls giving acne on cat's chins. While I haven't seen any on my cats, still not sure I want plastic (their food bowls are glazed ceramic). So, after I switch the floors from carpet to tile, then I'm going to save up to get one of these water fountains!
Hand-made Ceramic Art Pet Drinking Fountains - elegant and functional
I want to custom design one, and have it battery operated, so it'll cost about $200.
The reason I want battery, is because when my dad passes, I am seriously thinking about buying travel trailer and living in that. I just can't stand the thought of having neighbors all around me in an apartment! Besides, trailer lots are a LOT cheaper in rent than a whole apartment, and by then it'll most likely just be me, Zinny and Nebbie.

I used to have a three section red/yellow bowl that was probably some kind of chip server at one time. When they were little I fed them out of that but Kermit became such a glutton that the other two would sit back and watch him gobble their section...so we switched to separate dishes. that bowl now hangs from a tree as a bird/butterfly waterer.

Now, I use two small pet bowls for Kermit and Marble in the kitchen...they eat from them and then Kermit goes to hers and licks it clean...I mean he would lick the label off of a cat food can if I let him. In the kitchen is a dry food cat dish if they want that as a snack.

Eliza eats out of her own dish upstairs in a room where she spends most of her time. She is 18 now and doesn't roam as much, just keeps wife company up there. Wife is COPD and doesn't roam much anymore either....and I bring our meals up there twice a day and we eat on tv trays on the bed....Kermit sits on the bed and waits for a handout which he gets cause he is a polite beggar.

One ice creme bucket full of water is the watering hole tho I keep one on the back porch too so they have water out there when they sit out there. A liter box is out there also.

Murphy's food is on the kitchen floor on a little raised tray that my husband made that's wide enough for 3 dishes -- wet, dry, and water. Murphy makes sure that the dry is covered with his toys so it doesn't .... what, get taken by predators? This is ant season, and they always make a beeline (can ants make a beeline?) to his food. To ward them off I created little moats around each leg of the raised tray. Each moat is a small food dish with a shot glass in it, so the leg of the tray doesn't get wet. Amazing what crazy things we do for our kitties.