On becoming the crazy cat lady

We adopted our two kittens in September of 2006, in the middle of the now infamous poison cat food scare. We wanted to make sure that our cats never ate anything that would hurt them, so we bought their food from our local pet store. It's pretty expensive food, made completely from avocados. We also made sure we never used litter with clay in it because we had read that the clay can get into the cat's lungs and eventually kill them.

Time passed. The cats will eat nothing now except the avocado food. There are some exceptions to this. They are so finnicky that we experimented offering them tidbits of things over time. We discovered that they will eat gouda cheese, hummus, ice cream, wheat crackers and ACTUAL avocado. They will not eat olives, chips, tunafish or even any meat like chicken or beef. As far as cat food goes they will not eat anything other than the avocado food. When I try to switch their food, they stage a little hunger strike and act like they are going to die, dramatically walking back and forth through out the house meowing their displeasure.

These cats are spoiled rotten and they don't even know it.

They each have their own food bowl, but lately they've only been eating out of the one on the right side of the room. Thinking something was wrong with the other bowl maybe, I dumped the food, washed it and put it back. They still won' t eat from it. I theorized that perhaps they know I will refill the bowl as soon as the porcelain shows, so they have teamed up to empty that bowl so they will have an excuse to meow at me. I discussed this with Evan yesterday and he suggested I switch the bowls without them looking. Well, the jig is up. The cat's still ate only the right bowl, so my hypothesis is correct-- they are simply tag teaming one of the bowls-- not because something is wrong with the other food bowl, but because they want me to tend to them and take care of them and will do anything to make this happen, including pretending to ignore the other food bowl and act like they are starving.