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That is a good idea! I've never heard of them. Can you just get one at PetSmart? Or did you order yours online??

I wish I could just shut the door! But he would meow still and scratch and scratch and scratch. And probably destroy the carpet, too. Ugh! It wouldn't be much better. Plus, we have a little 2-year-old kitty who I don't want to punish, either.

Well, no offense, but from the tone of your post, it might be best that you find another home for Oliver--one that's willing to work with him a bit more and have more patience. Good luck.

Update. Well, we fed Terrell half of his evening food at the normal time and half at about midnight (when my night-owl husband was ready to go to bed). Sure enough, at 4.45AM this morning he wakes us up, pacing up and down the bed, walking all over us, meowing, etc. UGH! But we both just...

Our vet told us to feed him twice a day. He's on SD prescription diet food because he's overweight, so I'm wary of messing with his meals and mealtimes. I'll ask her about that, though. The thing is, I don't think it's because he's hungry. He eats at 8PM! Often there will still be food in his...

Our big boy, Terrell, wakes us up at 3AM literally every morning to feed him breakfast. I am SO frustrated! And totally exhausted. I don't know what to do. This has been going on for about a year now. We feed him at 8PM, so I don't really think he's hungry. But he will NOT let up. He'll walk...

Is there any ideal time? I usually feed mine at 6AM and again at 8.30PM. I'd like to feed them earlier in the evening, but when I do, they get me up at like 3AM meowing for their breakfasts. What does everyone else do?

Renny, we don't keep them separated. They won't eat if they are. They're too intersted in what the other cat is eating! (Those stinkers.) So I usually try to feed them when I'm doing someting in the kitchen (dishes or cooking or getting my lunch ready in the morning) so I can watch them and head...

Thanks for the reassurance. Terrell is 25 pounds, when I weighed him unofficially. (I weighed myself, and then weighed myself holding him.) When he was 22 pounds, our doctor wasn't THAT concerned: She said that he's just a big boy all around, but that if he gets any bigger we'll have to do some...

I should also say that my "kitty" is ten years old. Not a kitty, per se, but my kitty forever.

My boy Terrell is so overweight. He always has been a big guy, but it's gotten very bad lately. He's going to the vet next week, but in the meantime, I'm feeling just horrible. I try so hard to get him active (we even adopted a kitty playmate for him!), and I'm super careful (almost obsessively...

We successfully introduced Penny, our 3-month old kitten, to Terrell, our 7-year old cat. Terrell is a bit overweight (vet said not too much to worry about), and we were hoping Penny would spur him into activity. Well, now that they're together, Terrell is eating all of Penny's food! We've...

We free feed our kitten, Penny. We feed our adult cat Terrell twice a day. And their food is already in different rooms! I just don't know what to do. Now, we're just shutting a door between the rooms so Terrell can eat in peace and open it again when he's done. I hope she grows out of this...

Whoops, and she's also a 11 weeks old. We keep her own dish full of food for her so she can eat whenever she wants. I'm pretty sure she's not hungry, because she always has her own food in her own dish. I think she's just nosey and likes to eat, period.

Why put the squirt bottle away? Also, we're feeding her Hill's dry kitten food, which the vet gave us.