Some cats are fucked in the head. Don’t ever get a Bengal.

Cats greed-stuffing until they barf. My orange one killed a roomba that way.

I’ve had cats all my life and never had one that couldn’t have a bowl of food out at all times. Throwing up doesn’t mean they eat too much, just that they eat too fast, like, yanno, when they think they’re going to be starving until the next meal.

Nah, some are just wired like this.

So you tried to defeat someone else’s experience with an anecdote where you have not had that experience. What even are you trying to say here?

Lots of people’s cats have behaviors like this. Feeding them a certain amount on a fixed schedule helps. We have six cats. One of them is like this. It’s a pain in the ass.

Especially if you’re away from home

I’ve got 3 cats, one who wouldn’t hesitate to eat the food of all 3. Very difficult to manage as the other two only nibble away slowly at their food. Solution I can’t up with is 3 RFID feeders that only open for the right cat, works great. I’m trying to figure out if I can emulate the online server portion of the stack to remove the cloud requirement.

Some cats are gobblers, some are grazers. Currently we have two gobblers, and one obligate grazer who throws up if she eats more than a tablespoon or so of food at a time. The logistics involved in making sure she gets enough without the other two stealing her food are . . . tedious.

The gobbler tendency may show up more often in rescue cats, who are likely to have been through rough patches here and there—we’ve never taken in a cat who was less than eight months old, so their habits are set before they get to us. Or it may just be a genetic quirk.

Your cat must have quite the appetite to eat a whole roomba.

No, the Roomba had the appetite. On the wrong thing.

Edit: now i’m imagining Garfield jump-attacking the XKCD roomba.

I have three cats. A chonk, an old lady with kidney issues, and the other guy. When there was no restriction on who got what chonk was very chonky and the other guy was pretty skinny. Everyone but chonk are grazers so it’s not even a matter of separating him from them during meal time, unless I’m banishing him for like three hours. Also both the chonk and the other guy would love to eat old lady’s prescription $30/lb food.