Water
Empty and refill Tobi’s water fountain on Wednesdays and Sundays, if you happen to be there on either of those days. It’s very simple!
Lift the main compartment (it’s not connected to anything) and take it to the sink Pop off the top, empty the water, rinse each component individually in warm water Fill halfway with cool water from the kitchen faucet, replace the filter and click the top back in place over the filter nozzle Replace the compartment over the base station, with the bottom notch over the cable Water should start gently bubbling up in the top after about 4-5 seconds. Summer 2025 feeding routine
The auto-feeder will handle Tobi’s dry food needs daily (2x/day). Please ensure this remains plugged in and powered (the white LED ring should be lit) continuously! Find his cans in the cardboard box atop the Tobi cabinet. He should eat a minimum of 0.5 cans of Royal Canin every 24h. If he’s not up to this rate after 2 days, contact us. He may need some cajoling to get used to new caretakers. Any day he cleans out his food, feel free to give him more up to 1.5 cans of Royal Canin every 24h. Use the silicone lid on any unfinished opened cans. Try to empty an opened can within 24h. Default 2025 feeding routine [ignore for summer 2025]
He normally eats about 10oz of wet food/24h. This is about 2 cans of Royal Canin Adult Instinctive Pate. Serve him 1 can for every 12 hours. It’s best to space the servings out as far apart as possible, so he has time to finish one can before the second can starts to dry out. If you won’t be in the house for long enough to see him finish his first can, you can put both cans out on different dishes. Optional dry snack: If he hasn’t made progress with the first can after a couple hours of being set out, you can put out a small handful of dry food from the clear container on the counter, and say “snack-y snack” to get his appetite going. If he’s eating at a good enough pace to put out the second can before you leave, skip the dry food. Treats
Tobi’s treats are in an open plastic candy box in the top drawer of the “Tobi cabinet”. Please give him no more than 2-3 a day. Avoid giving him any when he’s meowing for food/attention - we don’t want to reward noise-making behavior. He loves a treat right after a good play session, or after receiving many pets. If he’s shown you some love, give him a treat! He responds happily to “treat-treat”. Feeding hygiene
Tobi has a total of 4 porcelain bowls to eat from. He eats less when eating out of a bowl with dried food residue or too much of his own fur in it, so change bowls 1x/day. Scrape any dried food into the garbage, as excess food bits in the sink/dishwasher drainage may spawn unwanted visitors. Wash it in the dishwasher if you’ll run it before running out of tobi-bowls, otherwise just rinse it in the sink and dry it. After your stay, leave these bowls in the dishwasher (dirty) or on the tobi cabinet (clean) Rinse and toss the can/tops into the cardboard box for glass/metal/plastic recycling in the “Tobi cabinet” (see ). He’s messy with wet food. We recommend vacuuming/brushing up the dried-up food off the floor near his food bowl ~every other day (you can use the mini-broom in the “Tobi cabinet” (see )) Food-words
Tobi understands a few words related to food, and we would appreciate it if you use these words with caution around him:
Treat-treat: pretty powerful response, and he will expect a treat (see above). If you accompany this with opening his treat drawer, he will likely come running to you. Food-food: he listens to this, but may not come to you unless he’s starving (he’s usually not). Use this to let him know you have refilled his food. Snack (or snack-snack): this is the ultimate word because he associates it with his dry food, which we control quite tightly, and he will go nuts. Please don’t say this around him or he’ll meow your ear off (in what may seem like affection, but is really just desperation). 
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