@Kamaji That cat looks exactly like my oldest cat,"Martha". Martha was abandoned in my yard as an adult cat that had been neutered,and was obviously a house cat her whole life because she was trembling in fear at the grass blowing. I was able to just pick her up and take her in the house. Maybe the most laid-back and peaceful cat I have ever seen. Her "stance" when I bring a new cat into the house is to lay down on her belly,close her eyes,and put her head between her paws.
She is so obviously passive that kittens don't even bother her because it just isn't worth the trouble.
Don't know how old she is,but she was already a spayed adult when I found her,and that was probably 15 years ago. Had to take her to the vet last year to get several of her teeth pulled because they went bad for some reason,possibly from age.
Martha is the reason the other cats get to eat canned cat food once a day. Martha's mouth has healed from the tooth surgery,and she still has a little trouble eating dry cat food,so I put out 2 small cans of cat food each night to make sure she gets something to eat. I see her eating dry cat food,but I have no idea how sore,if sore at all,her gums are and if she manages to eat enough to get full each day,so I put out the cans. She is always one of the first to hit the plate when the plate hits the counter.
The cats seem to have some sort of strange "pecking order" when it comes to the canned food. The same cats line up around the plate first every night,and the other ones just wait patiently for them to finish eating and leave before they hit it.
One of the "second string eaters" is my 10+ years old black female,and the biggest cat I have,so the pecking order has nothing to do with age or size. Or even fighting ability because the black female can probably whip any of them if she wanted to.
Then again,as long as they understand it and are ok with it,it doesn't matter if I understand it or not.
