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So my ~12 year old female cat, Athena, has always been pretty aggressive with human food. Ever since I adopted her when she was about 3, she’s kinda helped herself if you step out of the room. But as soon as you came back in and yellled at her, she’d take off and leave the food.
Back in January, we had a terrifying incident where she had diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) caused by a steroid shot she was given for an ear infection. She didn’t eat for 3 days and was within hours of death by the time we took her to the emergency vet (I want to add that we HAD taken her to the regular vet after 2 days, but he gave her some insulin and sent us on our way).
She was in the hospital for about a full week, and on a special diet with a glucose monitor fir a week or so after she returned.
After about 2 weeks her appetite came back and oh. My. Goodness. You would not BELIEVE the food agression!!!!
I’m talking like she gets in your face and refuses to leave the table while you’re eating, and tries to steal food off our 3 year olds plate while she’s eating, even while I’m yelling at her (the cat) from 2 feet away. She just flat out ignores me and proceeds to pig out off our plates. If you get up to grab a condiment out of the fridge; you can kiss your meal goodbye. There have been multiple times where I’m downright screaming at her and running towards her and she just defiantly keeps munching off my plate until I reach her and put her down.
and 90% of the time I put her on the floor she IMMEDIATELY jumps right back on the table and walks right back over to the plate she was helping herself to.
We have three cats (Athena is the oldest and doesn’t get along with the other two). They always have fresh water (in a fountain) and plenty of food. Athena likes the food.
what’s the deal? Am I going to have to lock her in the spare bedroom every time anyone eats from now on? It’s not fair to my toddler to have to compete with a cat bully for every single meal.
Back in January, we had a terrifying incident where she had diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) caused by a steroid shot she was given for an ear infection. She didn’t eat for 3 days and was within hours of death by the time we took her to the emergency vet (I want to add that we HAD taken her to the regular vet after 2 days, but he gave her some insulin and sent us on our way).
She was in the hospital for about a full week, and on a special diet with a glucose monitor fir a week or so after she returned.
After about 2 weeks her appetite came back and oh. My. Goodness. You would not BELIEVE the food agression!!!!
I’m talking like she gets in your face and refuses to leave the table while you’re eating, and tries to steal food off our 3 year olds plate while she’s eating, even while I’m yelling at her (the cat) from 2 feet away. She just flat out ignores me and proceeds to pig out off our plates. If you get up to grab a condiment out of the fridge; you can kiss your meal goodbye. There have been multiple times where I’m downright screaming at her and running towards her and she just defiantly keeps munching off my plate until I reach her and put her down.
and 90% of the time I put her on the floor she IMMEDIATELY jumps right back on the table and walks right back over to the plate she was helping herself to.
We have three cats (Athena is the oldest and doesn’t get along with the other two). They always have fresh water (in a fountain) and plenty of food. Athena likes the food.
what’s the deal? Am I going to have to lock her in the spare bedroom every time anyone eats from now on? It’s not fair to my toddler to have to compete with a cat bully for every single meal.