I cat-sit for a friend who travels a lot and has three tiny cats, getting up in years, and one with persistent medical issues that require medications and a shot every three days. A 1/4 can of cat food per cat at a meal and that one with the most medications takes about five minutes to eat everything. The others are quicker, at 2 - 3 minutes per what is essentially 2 tablespoons of food.

She was over for dinner at my house and when I fed the dogs she was astounded at how quickly they wolfed down their mix of dry and veggies; it's usually finished in around 30 seconds.

I had cats for about 40 years, and I didn't get more after the pack of dogs arrived. The last one was a Siamese who would sit beside his empty bowl at mealtime and shoot laser vision at you until you noticed him. We had a little tortoise shell who arrived as a stray and didn't live as long as he did, but I was astonished to realize after a few weeks that she joined him in the silent bowl laser vision routine.