I'm imagining you typing that comment blissfully unaware of your cat dangling from the spinning ceiling fan a few feet behind you. It releases and lands on the couch in a supine position just as you look and think to yourself "lucky, lucky me."
My cat yells at the sink, opens a cabinet under the sink and bats around at things looking for cat food. I haven't put cat food in there for over a year.
I keep my catfood right on the floor, 2 feet from the cat dish, not hidden or covered in any way. She seems vaguely aware that that particular area of the floor has something to do with food, but she's never bothered to do anything about it or investigate much.