One cat bowl is empty. One cat bowl has about 1/3 of the total food supply left in it. Both cats are sitting at my feet looking weak and pathetic, and they are being sooooo adorable about it too. I anticipate there will be another hour or two of peaceful cuteness, and then the whining and destructiveness will begin.

Doesn’t matter. I will hold firm. There will be no more food added to either bowl until afternoon. They will just have to adapt no matter how awful it is for everyone.

Now to say something good about the monsters: aside from the day or two a week of utter insanity when they persist on breaking anything in the house that can be broken, they have been a lot more loving and affectionate the last few weeks. They even occasionally sit in laps now for brief periods of time. :)