Feed the Cat
is an online game where the purpose is to feed some cats by catapulting fish into their mouths.
The cats will appear on a brick wall, and you click inside their mouths when they meow to catapult the fish. How far the fish flies depends on how hard you hold the mouse button down. If you miss the cat's mouth or hit the cat when it isn't meowing, then the cat will see stars for a few seconds.
Once a cat is fed, it will fall off the wall (but don't worry; cats land on their feet). If the cats meow too many times without being either fed or stunned, then it's Game Over. Occasionally, money will come out of the catapult instead of fish, which strangely earns you more points.
Feed the Cat provides examples of
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Downplayed. The cats are orange and white, but with blue stripes and blue noses.
- Ambiguous Gender: All the cats' genders are not referenced; they are only referred to as "it" in the instructions. Orange cats are more likely to be male (about 80% male) but it's still unknown.
- Ambiguously Related: The cats are all the same colours but different sizes, so possibly they're siblings from two different litters, but that's not revealed.
- Cats Are Lazy: The cats are all rather chubby, and they rely on your aim to get food.
- Everybody Lives: There's no way the cats can die in this game, even if you're very bad at it.
- Nearly Normal Animal: The cats are pretty much regular cats— they meow, crawl along walls, hiss, and eat fish— but they also sit like people (with their back legs spread out in front of them and their front legs to their sides, as opposed to the normal cat way of sitting, which is sitting on their haunches with all paws on the floor), and they're happy about getting money.
- Never Trust a Title: It's called Feed the Cat when there's actually about ten of them.
- Stock Animal Diet: This game is about cats eating fish.
- That Poor Cat: Inverted. The cats say, "Reoww!" as they happily fall offscreen.
- Vocal Dissonance: The kittens meow just as loudly and deeply as the adult cats.
