A kitten named Biscus has melted hearts on social media after his owner caught him on camera trying to tell her about his big brother stealing his special food, but there was a problem with his communication attempt.
The viral video, shared on Instagram in May under the username juliaa_thecatlady, shows the kitten walking up to his mom looking concerned and trying to meow something unsuccessfully.
Although his meows didn’t leave his mouth, the poster knew something was going on, so she followed him to his food bowl and found her big cat, Banzai, eating everything in it.
“That time my kitten was trying to tell me that the big cat was eating all his kitten food – but he couldn’t get the meows out,” a caption explains.
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The poster, Julia Comeau from North Carolina, told Newsweek that at the time the video was taken, little Biscus had only been with her for about a month and was extremely underweight.
“He was abandoned into a cat colony by humans, I suspect, and I found him in a dumpster, so he was on kitten chow and extra wet food to help get his weight up.”
Comeau also explained that Banzai is much older then Biscus, and he’s on senior urinary function food, although he clearly preferred the kitten’s fare.
“He was constantly pushing Biscus over to his food bowl so he could eat the kitten food. Biscus learned how to tattle on him when he did this, which is indeed what is happening in the video.”
Catster explains that when they’re newborn, kittens should be fed milk, possibly their mother’s, or formula, and only when they’re about four to five weeks old can wet food start being introduced into their diet.
After they turn six weeks old, dry food can be introduced alongside their wet pouches. From eight weeks on, they can eat either, or a combination of both, at every meal.
While newborns are supposed to be fed every two to four hours, as they grow up, they will need to eat every six hours, and after six months old, you can feed them twice a day, giving them 2/3 to 1¼ cups of dry food; or 1/4 can to 1/2 can per pound of bodyweight.
The video quickly went viral on social media, getting viewers from across Instagram. It has so far received over 4.9 million views and 506,665 likes on the platform.
One user, Priscosaurus, commented: “Psst, I’m no snitch but I haven’t had a full meal in days.”
Itskika95 wrote: “He didn’t want the other cat to hear that HE snitched.”
Han.intheclouds added: “Ma’am there is a full grown panther in your house.”
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