My cat is broken. Any amount of food put in front of her will be eaten as quickly as possible. Even if it makes her puke from being too full. She has zero self-regulation. She’s a former street cat so maybe that’s where she gets it from?

The only way I prevent her from inhaling her food in literally (I timed it - literally) 30 seconds is her lick mat. Mush her raw food into the mat so she has to lick it up instead of just smashing her face into a wad of meat. Now it takes her maybe a minute and a half.

My girlfriend does this. She almost always leaves two bites of a meal, or the two last cookies, and then eats it later. She says she's eaten plenty and then puts it away for later. I still don't understand.

TIL my dog is a cat.

(But I alreaddy kinda thought so)

I imagine most Labradors will never experience fullness.

I scrolled to the bottom to find the first comment about whisker fatigue and I couldn't find any (I might have missed it).

It MAY be because the feeding bowl is a bit too narrow, making your cat's surprisingly sensitive whiskers to bend, giving an unpleasant, if not painful experience.

If your cat keeps looking at you after finishing half of their meal, check if they want to finish it if you dump it onto a tray.

This might be the most accurate 4 frame comic ever produced.

Which is kind of weird when you think about it since they're both predator animals. You'd imagine that evolutionarily they'd both be more inclined to each as much food as they can when it's available because they don't know when they'll catch another prey.

Though I read that because the small cats we have as pets hunt mainly much smaller prey compared to themselves and they feed multiple times throughout the day, whereas dogs are descended from wolves who can spend days at a time hunting much larger prey before getting a kill, a cat's stomach is also a lot smaller in relation to their size than dogs. So a cat could well actually be full after just a part of their daily portion, and physically don't have space to finish it unless they go off to digest for a while before coming back, while a dog is specifically adapted to gorge themselves as fast as possible and then potentially go without food for a long time.

Somehow we rescued the only Great Dane who isn't food motivated. He'll get super excited to get fed, then just go take a nap and eat mouthfulls throughout the day. He won't even eat stuff on the counter unless his bowl is empty (unless it's a fast food cheeseburger)

my dogs save their food for later, although they eat a bit over half of it at once then save the rest and eat it throughout the rest of the day