@eris set it to go off right before she'd normally wake you up. And/or feed her very late!
@eris then you can gradually move the time later to train her to eat later in the morning.
@ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs @eris I feed our one dog at 2am before I go to sleep so that he won't wake up hungry and pace back and forth all night until we get up and feed him.
@eris @mikemccaffrey get silvervine sticks to chew! And just use all the dry food for her automatic feeder and still do 2 or 3 canned food meals that you give her. Or hide the dry food around your home for her find like a nightime scavenger hunt. Just set it up before you go to bed. Nosework, like cats sniffing out food, makes them super content as long as it is extra and not a frantic rush to find because they are hungry.
@eris ot if you want to save $, when I can't afford canned food, sometimes my cats like when I add water to the dry so it gets all mushy


@ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs @eris this is the only way our kitty will eat dry food


@eris @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs our cat is the opposite, she’s so picky
@dangerdyke @eris sometimes if you change too much, they will wait and see what you offer next (making them pickier), but offering a variety tends to make them less picky overall.
It's walking on eggshells. Good luck out there!