Make with the food, woman!

Of course, it's VERY easy to see what's wrong with this picture.  I'm looking at it.


Yup.  


Empty food bowls.


MomKatt goes through this elaborate ritual before dishing our gooshy food out to us in the evenings.  First, as you see here, she lays out the silver-bottomed bowls in a two-up/two-down pattern.  (WHY she does this, I don't know.  I think she has a thing for symmetry.)  Then (and you can't see this 'cause I'm sitting in front of the area where she puts them) she lays out three ceramic bowls:   one red (for Sasha, because she gets medicine in her gooshies), one baby blue and one pink, both of which say "MEOW" at the bottom.  Then, she puts L-Lysine gel and some fish oil in Sasha's bowl and arranges these three "just so" to one side.  They are for Sasha, Peppers and Sharif.

The four silver-bottomed ones are for me, Morticia, Livia & my nemesis, Boudicca.  I CAN say that ours get filled first, with Morticia & me getting the first two bowls, then Livia & Boudicca.  I eat mine off to the right-hand side there, that you can't see, of the countertop, and Morticia goes to the far left side and feasts.  Livia eats on the counter behind where MomKatt would be standing to load up the bowls and Boudicca ... well, HER bowl gets put on the floor!  (HA!  I take some great satisfaction from that, I admit.  MOL)


Once the four of us are smacking, MomKatt fills the three ceramic bowls and takes them into their bedroom down the hall, where Peppers, Sasha & Sharif get to eat.  (Sharif eats so slowly that, often, Livia sucks hers down - she's ALWAYS hungry, mind you, she's such a little Aby pig! - then attacks his.  It isn't fair that a 16-year old Siamese eats more slowly than a soon-to-be-12-year-old Abyssinian and is, therefore, easy prey, but that's just the way it is.  That, and the fact that Livia is *such* a greedy pig.  Anyway, MomKatt feeds them in the bedroom so that Livia isn't robbing them of their gooshies.)  (Not that Peppers couldn't stand to have some of his gooshies robbed from him.  "Sleek & svelte" aren't adjectives that can be used to describe him.  MOL  Ah, but he's a loveable lug, just the same.)


Let me state, for the record, that I believe our feeding time should NOT be "photo op time" (at least not until we are actually EATING) but MomKatt obviously disagrees.  So she had to take this picture before dishing out the gooshies ... hence my caption, which reflected my thoughts at the moment the picture was taken quite accurately:


"MAKE WITH THE FOOD, WOMAN!"

I'm sure all, if not most, of my peeps here can relate?


Purrs!
Selina