Personal - katz

I've moved the cat food around so Boozy has to eat more of his kidney-diet food. Used to have the regular dry food on the floor (where both cats could get to it). Tonight I moved it to the kitchen bar counter for Lucas's consumption only (Boozy is unable to jump up there.). It's been hours already and Lucas still can't figure it out. I've put him on the counter a half dozen times (at least) and he's still searching for the bowls in their old location (in this room). I trust he'll figure it out eventually. Weird that he's not interested in the food he's craving when it's been relocated (within easy reach) and put in front of his nose.

I didn't just spring this change on the cats tonight (i.e., Thursday). Several days ago I put a bowl of regular dry food up on the counter near Lucas's wet food (which of course he eats). Lucas wouldn't touch it, no matter how I arranged it. He'd go eat it at the old location, even after I'd stopped refilling that bowl to the point it was almost empty (and the food undoubtedly stale).

Boozy and Lucas on the (dirty) terrace

I'd also set up a bowl of the kidney-healthy dry food by Boozy's wet food. Boozy's not that crazy about it, however. (Subsequently I mixed in some of the old food.) 

Since Lucas came into the household three years ago (approx. 13 months old), I'd been serving the cats their wet food in different locations in the kitchen (Lucas's up on the counter), so Boozy wouldn't hog it. I'd put bowls of dry food down on the floor in the office, which (unlike the kitchen) has two entrances, so Boozy wouldn't be able to restrict Lucas's access. (Boozy hated Lucas at first, while  - as the people at the Humane Society had told me - Lucas "likes other cats." Lucas could never understand the hostile reception.) (I felt really bad for him.) (For the first week or so after Lucas got here, I kept the cats separated while I was at work.)

Boozy and Lucas in the office. Boozy likes to lie right at my feet. (I don't always like it.)