Cat Advice (very off topic)

[Umbran]

"Dummies" was a term of endearment. Turning the dish around didn't work, they chose the back side.

The point of turning it around was not to get to "work". It was to learn something.

For example - food and water bowls for my cats are placed near, but not right up against, a wall. When eating or drinking, they show a marked preference for not having their bodies stick out into the room. They will tend to come at the bowls from the side or back.

Turning the bowl around tells you whether the point is about the bowl, or about position with respect to the rest of the room that mattered.

 

[R_J_K75]

For example - food and water bowls for my cats are placed near, but not right up against, a wall. When eating or drinking, they show a marked preference for not having their bodies stick out into the room. They will tend to come at the bowls from the side or back.

This is good advice, something I did not know. I did place the new bowls in the exact same spot as normal. Now that you mention it they did circle and then eat from the back side usually, closest to the closest wall. They're smart, they're doing what they've always done without my dumb ass even realizing. I admit, I was wrong.

 

[R_J_K75]

Turning the bowl around

Got to admit, I just fed them now and turned theirs bowls around and they did as you expected.