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I have a kitty that's coming up on 4 months old named JohnnyMac. He has what I would call a presumptuous personality, not easily frightened and readily invades his brother's space to snuggle or tackle them when they are sleeping. Even the way he lays with his legs crossed has something presumptous about it. We really enjoy him, but the minute I step into the kitchen and he spies me at the sink, he goes ballistic.
I feed him 4x a day. I feed raw, so I warm the meat to room temp in a baggie inside a bowl of warm water and it takes some time. The cry he makes is shocking. It's demanding for sure - long, drawn out and scolding. My husband and I were amazed the first time we heard it, that such a big sound could come out of a little kitten! He was climbing the drawer pulls to get on the counter but I moved to the other side of the sink where there's only one pull. He still attempts to reach it, but he's not getting on the counter.
He's doing this to some extent when I'm in the kitchen preparing human meals too, and it's really wearing on me. Sometimes we put him in the bathroom until the food is on the floor in the dish. It's such a habit, that today at one feeding, he only ate half, but a short time later when I went in to cook he started doing it again (and he wasn't even hungry!). At one point, I thought maybe he needed to eat more often, so I added a feeding, but he didn't eat much. One of my older kittens has started to copy him now too. Not cool.
He's an adorable little purr-ball, but I dread the torture of feeding time. Is there some way to train him?
I feed him 4x a day. I feed raw, so I warm the meat to room temp in a baggie inside a bowl of warm water and it takes some time. The cry he makes is shocking. It's demanding for sure - long, drawn out and scolding. My husband and I were amazed the first time we heard it, that such a big sound could come out of a little kitten! He was climbing the drawer pulls to get on the counter but I moved to the other side of the sink where there's only one pull. He still attempts to reach it, but he's not getting on the counter.
He's doing this to some extent when I'm in the kitchen preparing human meals too, and it's really wearing on me. Sometimes we put him in the bathroom until the food is on the floor in the dish. It's such a habit, that today at one feeding, he only ate half, but a short time later when I went in to cook he started doing it again (and he wasn't even hungry!). At one point, I thought maybe he needed to eat more often, so I added a feeding, but he didn't eat much. One of my older kittens has started to copy him now too. Not cool.
He's an adorable little purr-ball, but I dread the torture of feeding time. Is there some way to train him?