Daylight Saving Dinnertime

Spring Forward, Now Fall Back...

Yesterday was a good morning for anyone who wanted that extra hour of sleep, whether they were working or whether it was their weekend and they were going to sleep in anyway.  For anyone with animals, though - be they pets, farm stock, or zoo animals - you may have sensed that they aren't entirely sold on this Day Light Savings nonsense.  For one thing, most of them already get to sleep as much as they want (as so ably demonstrated in this video from Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium), so it's not like the extra hour on one night is much of an incentive.

What they DO notice is that, on the day after, they are hungry, and their food is not delivered in what to them seems to be a timely fashion... which to them is an outrage.

Some pet owners, farmers, and zookeepers respond to Day Light Savings by adjusting the feed schedule for their animals; say, feeding dinner at 4:30 instead of 5 as a compromise.  Others just slog through it and by the next day the animals are on their "new normal."  To the extent that there is one...