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- From: feldman@flash.crd.ge.com (Sandra F Feldman)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
- Subject: Re: Feline Hierarchies
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.150930.28841@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 15:09:30 GMT
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- Is it possible that the Top Cats allow the Lesser Cats to eat out of the food
- bowl? I haven't yet decided for sure whether Tom or Pepper is Top Cat. However,
- whenever Pooky, a 6 mo. old female kitten, tries to invade their food, they
- allow it! They will nose each other out of the way if they find themselves
- forced to share, but they will just sit and watch Pooky or else they will cry for
- me to take Pooky away. I've seen the same behavior between Snooky and Pooky,
- and again I suspect that Snooky is higher than Pooky in the hierarchy.
-
- I think that Tom and Pepper have managed to share the Top Cat post. Pepper
- always gets the food in the first dish. Tom always gets the food in the right
- dish. So, if you fill the left dish and then the right dish, everything is fine.
- Try and fill the right dish first, and both cats go for the food at the same
- time and then they have to figure out which one of them needs to switch to
- the other dish.
-
- Sandy
- (GE has no opinion on cats. It just doesn't allow them in the labs.)
-