Actually, my dad‘s cat when I put out food for her she waits until I leave to begin eating. She eats treats when I am there but not her actual food. It‘s weird. But yes she often just needs an audience.
We‘ve had lots of people over in the last 2 weeks and she just likes hanging out where the people are. Unless there are toddlers…
I’ve never trusted that those sucker pads will reliably cope with 6kg of tabby landing on them, so I’ve never put anything like that up at our place. That looks great, though!