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Hey. Looks like we could use a new focus of discussion. So how about this:

When I feed my house panthers, I find myself (often, not always) bending down, and, like some over-familiar waiter at a restaurant trying too hard to be mellow, saying, “enjoy.”

I do realize that I am my cats’ servant…but everytime I do this, I have this sudden sense of being wholly ridiculous.

And then I do it again…

Is it just me?

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  4. 4.

    S Cerevisiae

    Right now in the house are 3 humans, 3 cats, and 2 shepherds- it’s a crazy zoo at times. The 2 shepherds set each other off barking which scares the cats, all the critters try to get each other’s food, never a dull moment!

  5. 5.

    Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg

    My house panthers benefit from an entire discussion on why their portions are limited as I place their bowls before them.

  6. 6.

    Alison Rose

    When she’s getting wet food, Briery tends to get a bit yowly and impatient (a couple times she’s jumped up on the counter if I’m taking too long). So I don’t tell her “enjoy” when I put the bowl down, I usually say something like “Here, damn it, now shut up”.

    But I say it with all the love in the world.

  7. 7.

    Doc H

    Me: *puts bowl of kibble down*

    Maisie the advenureteckel,”WTF, dude? Some bacon grease? Some wet food on top?”

    Me, out loud, “You get what you get and you don’t get upset.”

    Maisie, out loud, “BOWOOOOOWOOOOWOOOO”

    Narrator: Maisie wins often enough that she’ll never give up.

  8. 8.

    Alison Rose

    Also, since it’s an OT and we’re talking about food (in a sense) and a lot of you like to cook…World Central Kitchen is putting out a cookbook!

    (I do not cook, but I thought I’d share this for those of you who engage in such things.)

    From their FB post:

    Since our founding, WCK has served more than 300 million meals around the world—and now, after years of cooking & meeting incredible heroes along the way, WCK’s first ever cookbook is available for presale!

    A special collection of not only recipes, but inspirational stories from renowned chefs, local cooks, friends of WCK, and José Andrés, World Central Kitchen Cookbook: Feeding Humanity, Feeding Hope, is a celebration of dignity, community, resilience—and above all, hope. You can preorder The WCK Cookbook now at WCK.org/cookbook-order, and it will be available on September 12. All author proceeds will support WCK.

    The publisher site indicates it’ll have a foreword by Stephen Colbert, which is cool, and adds:

    Each chapter reflects a value of the organization. “Urgency” focuses on food that can be eaten on the go, including the Lahmajoun Flatbread served after a devastating explosion rocked Beirut in 2020. In “Hope,” readers will find soups, stews, and comforting meals such as Ukrainian Borsch served to families living through an unthinkable invasion and Chicken Chili Verde prepared for California firefighters. Famous WCK supporters have shared recipes too, like Breakfast Tacos from Michelle Obama and a Lemon Olive Oil Cake from Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex. Other contributors include Marcus Samuelsson, Ayesha Curry, Reem Assil, Brooke Williamson, Emeril Lagasse, Tyler Florence, Guy Fieri, Sanjeev Kapoor, and Eric Adjepong.

    Pretty cool! Also, if someone wants to make that lemon olive oil cake and drop it off at my door, I wouldn’t say no.

  9. 9.

    trollhattan

    Possibly.

    When the dog I feed, I have him sit and pretend I matter in his universe for that moment before I signal it’s time. I do not wish him bon appetit, in part perhaps because he’s a German breed. Also, it’s kibble and does not look particularly bon. He normally does not complain.

  10. 10.

    Josie

    Since Duncan the corgi is such a gentleman, he waits anxiously as I refill his water and scoop out his food. I tell him “Okay. Good dog.” and then he starts to eat. I didn’t train him to this. He’s just always been this way.

  11. 11.

    Percysowner

    I have a very old cat, 21 this year. Sadly, he forgets where his food is sometimes. Not his normal kibble, that is down all the time, but his  canned food that he gets 2-3 times a day. He’ll start eating then wander away. Then he complains and cries and I have to open the gate to his food ( I have a beagle, if the cat food isn’t behind a gate, the cat food gone in 60 seconds) and literally put the food under his nose and say “It’s here”. Then he’ll eat it. It’s sad, because I know he’s going downhill. The vet thinks this and other behavior indicate dementia. So, I keep showing him where the food is and will for as long as he’s with me.

  12. 12.

    HeartlandLiberal

    No, it is not just you. My wife has taken to taking a plate of soft cat food up with us when we go upstairs to the bedroom, to watch and episode or movie. We have one picky cat. Wife puts the food on her dresser, shows the cat where it is, and eventually the cat will deign to eat it, sometime in the course of the evening.

  16. 16.

    CaseyL

    I don’t need to say “Bon appetit” or “Enjoy!” to feel like a servant.  Just preparing the wet food does that, and here’s why:

    Back in December when Seattle had a big bad cold snap and my heater was broken, the canned food was really cold.  I thought it was too cold, so I heated some water to Very Hot and mushed the hot water into the food until it was about body temperature.

    Oscar loved it.

    Oscar loved it so much he refuses now to eat the food unless it has been well-mixed with hot water.

    If the mix isn’t sufficiently warm, he will give me The Look that all cat owners know: “Why are you feeding me this SWILL?”

    So every day now starts with me as the anxious kitchen help, hoping His Lordship will approve of what I put before him.

  18. 18.

    cvannatta

    @Alison Rose: Thanks for the heads-up — I preordered it right away.

    I talk to my cat all the time about the State of Things, and that includes food service.

    “Here, you are, my darling,” as I put her bowl in front of her with a flourish.

    And when she gives me The Look and haughtily walks away, I express respectful regret that the makers of kidney-diet foods didn’t consider her discerning palate.

  19. 19.

    MazeDancer

    My cats know the words “lunch” and “dinner”.

    So, I say “Here’s your lunch, Kai, Tess, or Alethia,” to each cat as I place their dish in front of them.

  20. 20.

    Alison Rose

    @CaseyL: I do the same thing for most of Briery’s canned meals. When I first open a new can, it’s fine at room temp, but one can = four meals over two days (she also gets kibble), and since I have to keep the opened covered can in the fridge, which I keep very cold, the other three meals get mixed with hot water. She’ll still eat it if it isn’t, but she kind of wanders around mewing for a few minutes first to register her displeasure. The thing is, especially in the morning, it takes fucking forever to get hot water in my kitchen sink, and some days I’m like “sorry girl, even with 12 feet of rain this year, we’re still technically in a drought”.

  23. 23.

    KayInMD (formerly Kay (not the front-pager))

    Our cats are fed on their own special table, set under a window with a view of a bird bath just outside. They are getting older, so our large cat needs a step stool to get up to the table these days. When I give them their afternoon kibble, I just say, “Here ya go!” But my husband has a whole patter down when he feeds them their canned food in the morning. It’s an east-facing window, so they often spend the morning lounging on the table in the sun after eating.

    The reason for the table in the first place is that my son’s chihuahua used to want to eat all of the cat food, he was very food-driven and fiercely protective of food, and for everyone’s health and safety we had to find a way to keep him away from it.

  24. 24.

    CaseyL

    @Tom Levenson:

    He is an awesome individual with, as I type this, a case of Poopy Butt.  If he can’t remedy that himself, I will have to give him a bath.  It would be his first ever.

    Let’s see if Mr. Awesome Individual and I both survive the experience

    @Alison Rose:  I zap the water in a mug in the microwave.  About one ounce, 40 seconds does it.

  25. 25.

    neabinorb

    My cat wants to be escorted to the feeding station and then encouraged to eat. Sometimes he requests a little catnip before he’ll eat. He seems to like it if I sit on the floor and watch.

  26. 26.

    New Deal democrat

    A couple of Sunday updates on the SVB debacle.

    The Finanscenti seem to be divided into two camps: (1) those who think there will be bank runs everywhere Monday morning as large depositors discover that maybe they should diversify where cash in excess of $250,000 is held, vs. (2) those who think the FDIC will announce tomorrow morning before the opening of Wall Street which bank or consortium of banks will assume the assets and liabilities, including 100% of all deposits, of SVB.

    I lean to the latter.

    Secondly, this is a good explainer from Jim Bianco of the difference between SVB and 2008:
    https://twitter.com/biancoresearch/status/1634885127179325440

    “This is not a solvency crisis like 2008. Bad loans or poor investments were not made. Money was not lost. So, everyone is going to get their money back. (And please no takes about no interest rate hedging. Asset/liability mismatches are how banking works.)

    “Instead this is an old fashion 1930s liquidity crisis. Too many depositors demanded cash at once (as in right now) and SVB (and SI) could not convert loans and securities (and crypto) to cash that quickly. So, everyone is getting their money back from SVB (and SI), just not at 8AM Monday. And, yes this is a big problem as this is working capital for a lot of companies. They have payrolls to meet and vendors to pay next week. And if they don’t pay bills and employees, they in turn don’t pay their bills and this can quickly cascade into a major economic problem.”

    If there is no takeover deal announced by the FDIC tomorrow morning, the other big divide is what to do about depositors. While there is lots of bleating about how they are “innocent,” I beg to differ. Nobody put a gun to Roku’s CFO’s head and ordered them to put $500M on deposit with SVB. Moral hazard sauce for the student loan goose is moral hazard sauce for the VC gander (and the former are about 1000% less sophisticated than the latter).

    There are ways to protect working firms that have to make payrolls this week short of 100% guarantees of their excess deposits. There is no reason that customers who made regular (e.g.) biweekly withdrawals to make payroll can’t have that regular recurring amount backstopped for the next week, or alternatively (3) granted a loan in return for a loan guarantee that the funds will be paid back with interest promptly (e.g., within 60 days).

  29. 29.

    EarthWindFire

    @CaseyL: Our doggo Penny had a spell of bad appetite while on her antibiotic so I put chicken broth on her food as enticement. Her last pill was a week ago. The chicken broth is still being poured on her food. Because, shut up, that’s why, my hooman. I see you.

  30. 30.

    different-church-lady

    I think it would be more ridiculous to wish your cats hated their meal.

  31. 31.

    Redshift

    but everytime I do this, I have this sudden sense of being wholly ridiculous.

    Nah, I don’t feel ridiculous at all. 🙂

    Our current bunny Joe is quite a character. They’re grazing animals, so they eat hay all through the day, but more than most, Joe often treats being served hay as a meal, and will sometimes grab a piece from my had as I’m putting it down.

    The other meals are the ones he gets excited about, though. In the morning, he races over to where I give him a blueberry and waits impatiently. In the evening, he gets his greens, and best of all, a piece of dried banana. For that, he does “the banana dance,” standing up on his hind legs to beg for it. And then he’s eager for his bunny chow at night.

  32. 32.

    Hungry Joe

    Phoebe the Cat has never been picky — just demanding. And vocal. Once I start the evening ’s Wet Food Routine, she starts up. Meow. YOWL! “Do you really think this is helping?” I ask her, every time. “Do you think this makes me go faster?” Then, when I place it before her, “Here is your supper.” Every time. I’m not obsessive/compulsive about anything else, but when it come to the critters … yeah.

  33. 33.

    WaterGirl

    @sab: If Mr. Bear greets me a the door when I come in, and Miss Willow does not, I say;

    Where’s your lazy sister?

    And Miss Willow makes her classic sound to let me know where she is.

  34. 34.

    Redshift

    @Redshift: Oh, and there’s patter, too. It varies a bit, but morning hay as usually accompanied by “are you ready for brekkie?”, banana with “are you ready for some TREATS?” and dinner with “chow time, Joe!”

    Like I said, not ridiculous at all!

  36. 36.

    Another Scott

    @New Deal democrat:

    Dean Baker at CEPR cuts to the chase:

    The most obvious solution would be to have the Federal Reserve Board give every person and corporation in the country a digital bank account. The idea is that this would be a largely costless way for people to carry on their normal transactions. They could have their paychecks deposited there every two weeks or month. They could have their mortgage or rent, electric bill, credit card bill, and other bills paid directly from their accounts.

    This sort of system could be operated at minimal cost, with the overwhelming majority of transactions handled electronically, requiring no human intervention. There could be modest charge for overdrafts, that would be structured to cover the cost of actually dealing with the problem, not gouging people to make big profits.

    Former Fed economist (now at Dartmouth), Andy Levin, has been etching the outlines of this sort of system for a number of years. The idea would be to effectively separate out the banking system we use for carrying on transactions from the system we use for saving and financing investment.

    We would have the Fed run system to carry out the vast majority of normal financial transactions, replacing the banks that we use now. However, we would continue to have investment banks, like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, that would borrow on financial markets and lend money to businesses, as well as underwriting stock and bond issues. While investment banks still require regulation to prevent abuses, we don’t have to worry about their failure shutting down the financial system.

    Not only would the shift to Fed banking radically reduce the risk the financial sector poses to the economy, it would also make it hugely more efficient. We waste tens of billions of dollars every year maintaining the structure of a financial system that technology has made obsolete.

    […]

    We can go down the list, but the point should be clear. We maintain an enormously wasteful financial system because a relatively small number of people get very rich from it. And, these people use their money to lobby members of Congress to make sure no one talks about modernizing the system in a way that would take away the big bucks. (For those wondering about public sector comparisons, Fed Chair Jerome Powell gets $226,000 a year, just over 2.2 percent of [SVB CEO] Mr. Becker’s paycheck.)

    And, our rich bankers have plenty of allies in the media and academic circles. Some of this is due to the fact that they can finance the voices of people who will tout their wisdom, put part of it is likely ideological bias. Plenty of neo-liberal types, who will go on the warpath over a policy that helps workers or low-income people that they claim to be wasteful, can manage to completely ignore the massive waste in our financial system that is a major contributor to inequality.

    Anyhow, we are not about to overturn the massive power of the rich in the financial system and the enormous network of elite opinion makers that supports them, but perhaps we can at least make the failure of SVB a teaching moment.

    The rich are ripping us off bigtime. They are not lucky winners in a market competition due to their intelligence and hard work. They are people who have managed to rig the game to put big bucks in their pocket. That is the reality. We just have to find ways to change it. A key place to start is to stop pretending that their great wealth has anything to do with a free market.

    I think everyone realizes, after looking at the S&L bailouts, and the LTCM debacle, and the housing bubble, and all the rest, if not earlier, that the banking system in the US is broken and needs to be fixed. Separating investment banking from normal banking that the economy depends on would be a good start. They were much more separate (but not enough) before the shotgun marriages that (coincidentally, of course) made the big banks even bigger after the housing bubble burst…

    Hold onto your wallets if there are stories on Monday morning that Congress and the Fed needs to act NOW NOW NOW to save the Baily Building and Loan SVB.

    Grr…,
    Scott.

  37. 37.

    WaterGirl

    Every time John Cole calls me (I think he calls around lunchtime on purpose!) the cats start meow-ing their equivalent of prisoners banging their cups against the bars of the prison doors, and Cole makes me stop the conversation so I can feed them.

    I swear John calls around lunchtime on purpose, and I swear the kitties know that as soon as they hear his voice. they will be fed.

  41. 41.

    zhena gogolia

    @Momentary: That’s hilarious!

    My one black cat always had to have a bit of whatever we were eating cut up for him and given to him on a little plate. It delayed dinner quite a bit, but we just had to do it. Later cats had no interest in human food.

  42. 42.

    different-church-lady

    @Another Scott:

    We maintain an enormously wasteful financial system because a relatively small number of people get very rich from it.

    Wait ‘til he hears what we’re doing to the environment.

  43. 43.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    I say to Yogi, Eat your breakfast/dinner.  It’s delicious.  He’s barely had any food in his life other than dog food.  My in-laws on the other hand just got a new Bassett puppy.  They treated their previous 2 like garbage disposals and it makes me sick.  And it makes the Bassetts fat.

  46. 46.

    Redshift

    @New Deal democrat:

    I lean to the latter.

    Yeah, me, too. The ones in the first category seem to be saying “all these highly paid money people are brilliant like me and also too dumb to realize their deposits are at some risk until something like this happens.”

    I also think some of these bozos are trying to create panic to make it more likely their friends will get bailed out. But the alternative is that they’re just idiots who don’t know anything, which is all too plausible.

  47. 47.

    Zelma

    You are not the only one.  Every time I go out, I tell my dog Bandit how long I’ll be gone.<g>

  50. 50.

    FelonyGovt

    When we had our cat Fuzzle, he would seem to know I was making tuna casserole even before I did. He always demanded a little tuna first as tribute. At one point I was speculating facetiously about Fuzzle’s religion, and my husband said, “he’s a Tunatarian”.

  51. 51.

    Doc Sardonic

    @Alison Rose: Let me mansplain /s …… No too long, let me sum up. My wife puts water on the food out of the ‘fridge and zaps it in the microwave for like 5 seconds. Works wonders for two of our cats that are very finicky and if the food doesn’t smell (even though I can smell the damn stuff 6 feet away) they won’t eat it. That 5 seconds in the microwave is gold Jerry.

  52. 52.

    eclare

    @Redshift:   At this point I think they are trying to cause panic/more bank runs to increase the odds of a bailout.

    And no bank should offer services to Peter Thiel.  He is a systemic risk.

  55. 55.

    Ruckus

    @Another Scott:

    I think everyone realizes, after looking at the S&L bailouts, and the LTCM debacle, and the housing bubble, and all the rest, if not earlier, that the banking system in the US is broken and needs to be fixed.

    Fucking This.

    I researched the last two banks I’ve used, one in NorCal and one in SoCal. There are classes of banks depending on how they are run, how risky they are to put your money in – especially if you run over the Federal Insured limit. It is a pain in the ass to do but in the long run it helps. If I had anything like a large sum of money ( I do not) I would never trust the name or the concept of the bank. A lot of commercial banks have policies that can cost you a lot, and make life more difficult. Be careful though that the rating agency that you use is not owned by 1 a bank, 2 a mortgage company, 2 an investment company. They are, let’s say, slightly biased. There is a federal site that does this but it is about the largest pain in the ass to use I’ve ever seen. Might be worth it if you actually have enough money. There are little things, like fees and other charges that can cost you a lot. Some of the biggest banks are the worst, that seems to be how they got big, cost the customer the most.

  58. 58.

    MagdaInBlack

    @CaseyL: La Gordita has had her canned food mixed with hot water for so long I can’t remember not doing it. The siamese yowling when I’m doing this too slowly makes me worry the neighbors will think shes being slaughtered

  59. 59.

    eclare

    @rikyrah:   Yep.  No way my taxes should go to bail out Mark Cuban.  I thought the whole point of investing was that you win some, you lose some, and isn’t he on a TV show where that is exactly the point?  I forgot when the government promised every investment was safe.

    You want your money go see Thiel.

  60. 60.

    Hungry Joe

    When we’d have people over for dinner, Hennie (RIP), our wonderful gray tabby, demanded her own chair, her own place at the table. There she’d sit, through the whole meal, never whining or begging. And she NEVER sat with just us

  61. 61.

    Lethe

    @Percysowner:  usually just lurk, but you truly have my sympathies. My old boy lived to 22, and I miss him everyday even tho I have 3 more now…(and 3 brain cells between them).

    I took herbs and spices from the pantry and sectioned them in one those cheap white plastic craft palettes. Every day he would go to a different one and just sniff. Good stimulation for him when playing was too tiring. Kept him a little more alert, and gave him something he could still enjoy.

  62. 62.

    Another Scott

    @Baud: He’s leaving out lots of steps there.

    Maybe this (which seems to be a similar idea) will help:

    […]

    Currently, banks are allowed to have accounts with the Federal Reserve that come with a lot of privileges: higher interest rates, instant clearing, and the security provided by being nondefaultable. Authors Morgan Ricks, John Crawford, and Lev Menand argue for ending these exclusive privileges by offering “FedAccounts” to everyone. FedAccounts would be a public option for the unbanked and underbanked while also providing substantial benefits to businesses and our economy as a whole.

    FedAccounts would provide the following features to all Americans, as well as American businesses: no fees or minimum balances; the same interest rate that commercial banks get; and no interchange fees for debit card payments. Also, payments between FedAccounts would clear in real time, and there would be no need for federal deposit insurance, as FedAccount balances would be sovereign and nondefaultable. The lack of fees and minimum balances would remove obstacles that exclude millions of Americans from our financial system, and the perks of central banking would greatly increase the cost and efficiency of transactions for businesses.

    Central Banking for All: A Public Option for Bank Accounts [16 page .pdf] details the FedAccounts proposal and its benefits. It also discusses the merits of FedAccounts over other reform proposals like narrow banking, postal banking, and cryptocurrencies.

    The embedded link says:

    If adopted on a large scale, FedAccounts would bring about less obvious, but no less profound, systemic changes. Financial stability would be dramatically enhanced: we expect that FedAccounts would crowd out unstable, privately issued deposit substitutes, which are one of the driving forces behind financial instability. Monetary control and monetary policy transmission would improve: current problems with “pass through” of policy rates would diminish or disappear. And far from being fiscally expensive, we expect FedAccounts to generate revenue for the federal government—possibly a lot of it—all while imposing minimal or potentially zero user fees.

    HTH!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  63. 63.

    kindness

    I feed my cats on a table in the open area living room/kitchen/dining area.  If I fed them on the floor the dogs would eat all their food before they could touch it.  I don’t get much a chance to ask them to to enjoy their meal.  One is always demanding I get up a 6 and feed her (damn it!).  She’s been waiting all night for her wet food, even though there is always a full bowl of kibble there for them.

  64. 64.

    SkyBluePink

    After feeding the pigeons at the office I say” Have a good day. Stay safe.”  

  65. 65.

    Kelly

    Our cat Martin likes to nibble a bit throughout the day and stays trim. Our other cat Phoebe gobbles all the food down right away and is kinda fat. All attempts to put Phoebe on a diet result in hostility toward Martin. “There is not enough food! It must be Martin’s fault.”

  66. 66.

    brantl

    I always ask my dog, Speckles, if she wants her dinner/breakfast, and she looks at me with an expression of: “Is this a trick question?”, so of course I feed her, and give her 5 pats of her ribs. And tell her she’s the best dog ever.

  70. 70.

    J R in WV

    @EarthWindFire: ​

    Our doggo Penny had a spell of bad appetite while on her antibiotic so I put chicken broth on her food as enticement. Her last pill was a week ago. The chicken broth is still being poured on her food. Because, shut up, that’s why, my hooman. I see you.

    One of our dogs was on antibiotics for a whole f’in month, served 3 pills in a teaspoon of peanut butter. Her big bro just got the p’nut butter, no pills. Now they both get a little peanut butter, ’cause the kibble isn’t that attractive, is it?

    ETA: I have used chicken broth also too…

  71. 71.

    J R in WV

    @zhena gogolia:

    My one black cat always had to have a bit of whatever we were eating cut up for him and given to him on a little plate.

    We had a big white tom cat with orange/red spots I named Rufus on account of his red spot on his head. He actually liked to sit in a chair at the dinner table with us, esp. when we had company.

    Very polite guy! He would tap his plate gently to ask for a sample of what we were eating. So one of us would give him a nibble of meaty foods.

    Long gone away now, sadly, a superior cat in every way. Nigh onto 20 pounds!​

    ETA: I see that we are not the only people to have had a cat that wanted to sit at the table with us. He was so polite !!

  72. 72.

    Sister Golden Bear

    @Doc Sardonic: It may also be working because in the wild, cats’ prey is still warm when they eat it. So one tip I’ve gotten from a cat behaviorist is to put wet food into a baggie and then let it sit in a bowl of warm water to bring it up to “prey temperature” before serving it.

  74. 74.

    karen marie

    @Percysowner: Not much of a beagle if it takes 60 seconds for the cat food to disappear. My spaniel got a cupcake last night within two seconds of me turning my back.

    Never turn your back on a cupcake when there is a spaniel in the room.

    @CaseyL: Your cat’s kidneys thank you! Adding water to wet food was recommended to me by a vet many years ago. He said cats don’t drink as much as they should.

  75. 75.

    evodevo

    @Baud: ​
      Yeah…what happens when your rent/car payment is due before the paycheck is deposited…probably would happen a lot… I would think Postal banking would be a better idea for working people…

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