{"id":8755,"date":"2025-12-03T01:34:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/?p=8755"},"modified":"2025-12-03T01:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:35:00","slug":"twenty-twenty-five-day-three-thirty-six-the-three-cat-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/03\/twenty-twenty-five-day-three-thirty-six-the-three-cat-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"[twenty twenty five day three thirty six]: the three cat rule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"409\" src=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-3.27.59-AM-600x409.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8756\" style=\"width:717px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-3.27.59-AM-600x409.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-3.27.59-AM-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-3.27.59-AM-768x523.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-3.27.59-AM-640x436.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-3.27.59-AM.png 1480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So there&#8217;s this rule I&#8217;ve developed to deal with cat food. If one cat doesn&#8217;t eat some food that you just put down, that doesn&#8217;t really mean anything: cats are finicky. If two cats don&#8217;t eat some food that you just put down, that doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean anything: it could be coincidence. But if three cats in a row don&#8217;t eat some food that you just put down, it probably means the food is bad and you should toss it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"437\" src=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-3.27.29-AM-600x437.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8757\" style=\"width:717px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-3.27.29-AM-600x437.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-3.27.29-AM-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-3.27.29-AM-768x559.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-3.27.29-AM-640x466.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-3.27.29-AM.png 1388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The food was bad. The replacement food was a hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pictured: food that three cats refused, and one of those three cats chowing down on its replacement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there&#8217;s this rule I&#8217;ve developed to deal with cat food. If one cat doesn&#8217;t eat some food that you just put down, that doesn&#8217;t really mean anything: cats are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193,194],"tags":[274,23,5],"class_list":["post-8755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life","category-the-cats","tag-blogging-every-day","tag-the-cats","tag-we-call-it-living","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8758,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755\/revisions\/8758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}