I think it’s just gaslighting when I was the one that already fed her.

One of my cats always starts asking for food 2 hours before lunch/dinner time, and he does it as if he was on the brink of starvation. He drills your brain in the hopes of getting food earlier, and I mean drill, he doesn't shut up.

Does this apply to cheetah?

Criminals, all of them.

My cat has been inadvertently conditioned to believe that whenever someone comes home, she’s to be fed. So if my wife gets home from work first, cat gets fed. If I get home after, cat tries to get fed again. My wife & I have to check with each other to make sure the cat’s not playing us.

I got one of those automated feeders and flashed it with custom ESP32 firmware so I could tie it in with HomeAssistant and get fancy notifications when it fails to dispense food or it runs out or whatever.

Ofc it also provides a way for me to manually trigger the food dispensal routine, so now I can get scammed from anywhere in the house!

This makes me so glad my cat grazes on his food throughout the day and doesn't try to eat everything all at once. I only need to fill up his bowl in the morning and he's set for the day.