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Hello, neat site. Figured I would post a question.
We have a 7 year old-ish male cat in our house who is very well behaved. We added an 11 month old female cat to the house-hold who just turned a year old. She is well behaved for the most part but she ALWAYS wants to eat table food. We never feed her human food but she always is literally trying to steal food off our plates. After we stop her, she just keeps coming back to try again!
They are both on strict diets. We feed the older cat 1/4" 3X a day. The younger 1/6" 2X & 1/4" 1x a day as she was a bit overweight according to our vet. They both go NUTS at feeding times. They each have their own bowls and do not fight over them. However, if one is not paying attention or is distracted, the other will steal a few bites.
The vet says our older cat is in perfect condition and we shouldn't change a thing we are doing with him (he used to be very overweight.)
1. Can you untrain a cat to not eat table food? Or at least get them to stop begging?
2. Is it normal for cats to go nutty at every feeding?
Let me know what you all think.
Thanks in advance!
We have a 7 year old-ish male cat in our house who is very well behaved. We added an 11 month old female cat to the house-hold who just turned a year old. She is well behaved for the most part but she ALWAYS wants to eat table food. We never feed her human food but she always is literally trying to steal food off our plates. After we stop her, she just keeps coming back to try again!
They are both on strict diets. We feed the older cat 1/4" 3X a day. The younger 1/6" 2X & 1/4" 1x a day as she was a bit overweight according to our vet. They both go NUTS at feeding times. They each have their own bowls and do not fight over them. However, if one is not paying attention or is distracted, the other will steal a few bites.
The vet says our older cat is in perfect condition and we shouldn't change a thing we are doing with him (he used to be very overweight.)
1. Can you untrain a cat to not eat table food? Or at least get them to stop begging?
2. Is it normal for cats to go nutty at every feeding?
Let me know what you all think.
Thanks in advance!