Post Twelve: We survived the 4th of July

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Well, everyone survived the fourth of July celebrations and don’t seem fazed over the frightening experience. You might wonder why they are not fazed by it. Well, now that you’re thinking about it, I will tell you.

Humans conceive time very differently than cats do. We have no evidence to suggest that cats can spontaneously recall memories and can think when those memories actually took place. For an example, a few days ago, as opposed to a few hours or a few weeks ago, a cat can not distinguish between them. This is something we as humans find easy to do.

Cats do have a general sense of the rhythm of the day and get used to having certain activities happening at the same time each day, such as meal time. They are creatures of habit.

So in that sense, cats do measure time, even though they probably don’t think about time passing the way we do.

Cats will also take their cues from the onset of daylight and the arrival of night. Since they do know the difference between night and day, I believe that they might also know when we are away.

So when we are away, we use automatic feeders on our rear porch. The clowder will still gather at the rear door waiting for food, but as soon as they hear the food drop from the feeders they race over to eat.

 

The next day and even the day after that will be the same with them, waiting by the rear door for us to bring out the food.

Now, when we do hand feed the clowder we give them a mixture of wet and dry food.

 

 

The feeders are enclosed inside a wood box which have locks. No, the locks are not so the cats can’t open the feeder box and overeat. It’s so the raccoons can’t open the feeder box. On occasion, we have been visited by raccoons that come onto the porch and try to open the box.

With the wood lid off, it exposes the automatic feeder. The feeder can hold up to five pounds of dry cat food and can be dispensed different times of the  day with different quantity settings.

I am in the process of making an improved feeder box which I will share with you in a future post.

 

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Till next time.

S&B