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Hello,
I'm not usually one for sites like this but I'm desperate at this point.
I have about a year and a half old indoor kitty who is super sweet but just the naughtiest creature alive. On top of being a bottle-fed foster kitten of ours, he was also a pandemic cat, so he's affectionate as can be but is also extremely clingy and needy. He will not stop getting into human food and we have tried so much that it's getting frustrating. We do our best to keep everything out of his reach, but that's nearly impossible with small children in the house and he will eat EVERYTHING- I've even caught him eating asparagus. It's turned into a major issue because he's jumping up on the counter looking for food all day long and nothing we're doing seems to help.
We've tried everything from spray bottles to motion-sensored air blasters, and nothing will stop him. He's getting enough food in his diet and is even a little on the chubby side, has food puzzle toys and cat climbers/scratchers galore, and gets attention all day long, but it's just exasperating. We're open to trying more positive reinforcement techniques but just don't know where to start and he's so food-motivated that it seems like it won't even matter as long as there's anything left out that he can chomp on. He will try to grab food out of your hands, run away with entire bags of chips, etc. and it's insane.
Any words of advice are appreciated!! Thanks in advance!
I'm not usually one for sites like this but I'm desperate at this point.
I have about a year and a half old indoor kitty who is super sweet but just the naughtiest creature alive. On top of being a bottle-fed foster kitten of ours, he was also a pandemic cat, so he's affectionate as can be but is also extremely clingy and needy. He will not stop getting into human food and we have tried so much that it's getting frustrating. We do our best to keep everything out of his reach, but that's nearly impossible with small children in the house and he will eat EVERYTHING- I've even caught him eating asparagus. It's turned into a major issue because he's jumping up on the counter looking for food all day long and nothing we're doing seems to help.
We've tried everything from spray bottles to motion-sensored air blasters, and nothing will stop him. He's getting enough food in his diet and is even a little on the chubby side, has food puzzle toys and cat climbers/scratchers galore, and gets attention all day long, but it's just exasperating. We're open to trying more positive reinforcement techniques but just don't know where to start and he's so food-motivated that it seems like it won't even matter as long as there's anything left out that he can chomp on. He will try to grab food out of your hands, run away with entire bags of chips, etc. and it's insane.
Any words of advice are appreciated!! Thanks in advance!