Three schedules. One bowl. A sticky note that moved. A text: “pretty sure Sam did?”
A kitchen moment you know
Roommate cat care breaks in the gaps: weekends, guests, late shifts, whoever “usually” does mornings. Verbal memory is a terrible shared system. Reddit is full of the fallout.
Catter does not moralize about who fed more. It shows what happened. Often that is enough for adults to rebalance without a house meeting.
When someone moves out — remove them cleanly. Cats keep history. Password can rotate. The ritual stays with the people who stay.
