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11. Cats, too. I have seven cats, one of which is on a special diet because she

Mon Feb 11, 2013, 04:17 PM

Feb 2013

was losing weight on what the other cats were eating.

As long as I'm watching, one of my cats will not try to take the food away from the special diet cat. But let me look away for any reason, even if I am still standing in the room, and he is up in a flash at the other cat's food. If he knows I'm watching, he just sits there waiting for his chance...

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