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Hi! My boyfriend and I adopted our cat Lily mid August. She was pretty chill for the first month. She would spend some time by herself but overall was pretty social and affectionate. We went away for the weekend in the beginning of October so like, a little more than a month after we got her. We were only gone 3 days and my boyfriends mom and 2 sisters came every day to feed her and spend time with her.
Anyway, since we came back from camping, I've noticed new behaviors. She now screams outside our bedroom door every night, wanting to come in and cuddle / run around. Prior to camping we shut our door every night and she'd just chill in the living room / have free run of the apartment. Now she screams and scratches from 3 am to 6 am. By 6 am it's "i'm hungry" screams so we feed her, and then she chills out. We've tried to leave the door open, but it just ends up with her walking all over our heads and waking us up.
She's also now insatiably hungry. She cries for food all day long. She gained 1 lb since we got her. She was small and skinny and now looks pretty normal and doesn't appear to be overweight. She gets Fromm Four Star dry kibble in the morning and Sheba wet food in the evening. She cries for food a lot though. She never used to do this.
Thirdly, and this is more recent, but she tries to run out of the apartment whenever we open the front / back door. Thankfully we live on the second floor so when she bolts out, she has a ground level door blocking her from leaving the building. We just chase her back into the apartment. She cries at the front / back door too and scratches like she wants to go outside. Her being an outdoor cat violates the agreement we have with our landlord. Additionally we just don't feel comfortable with it and would worry about her, so it's just not an option.
So yeah, to recap she:
-always seems hungry
-meows like a maniac and tries to pry our bedroom door open all night
-tries to escape / cries at the door
These behaviors are becoming really irritating if I'm being totally honest. I love her, and I'm glad we have her, but I want to put an end to this. We cant be woken up every night. We can't fear opening the door because she literally bolts when she hears the door knob jiggle. I'm starting to wonder if she's maybe addicted to her dry food and thus always "hungry" or has a metabolic issue or something. She was picked up in a park with two kittens so I can see her yearning to get back outside, but like I said that's not really something we're comfortable with. Any help / advice / suggestions welcome!
Anyway, since we came back from camping, I've noticed new behaviors. She now screams outside our bedroom door every night, wanting to come in and cuddle / run around. Prior to camping we shut our door every night and she'd just chill in the living room / have free run of the apartment. Now she screams and scratches from 3 am to 6 am. By 6 am it's "i'm hungry" screams so we feed her, and then she chills out. We've tried to leave the door open, but it just ends up with her walking all over our heads and waking us up.
She's also now insatiably hungry. She cries for food all day long. She gained 1 lb since we got her. She was small and skinny and now looks pretty normal and doesn't appear to be overweight. She gets Fromm Four Star dry kibble in the morning and Sheba wet food in the evening. She cries for food a lot though. She never used to do this.
Thirdly, and this is more recent, but she tries to run out of the apartment whenever we open the front / back door. Thankfully we live on the second floor so when she bolts out, she has a ground level door blocking her from leaving the building. We just chase her back into the apartment. She cries at the front / back door too and scratches like she wants to go outside. Her being an outdoor cat violates the agreement we have with our landlord. Additionally we just don't feel comfortable with it and would worry about her, so it's just not an option.
So yeah, to recap she:
-always seems hungry
-meows like a maniac and tries to pry our bedroom door open all night
-tries to escape / cries at the door
These behaviors are becoming really irritating if I'm being totally honest. I love her, and I'm glad we have her, but I want to put an end to this. We cant be woken up every night. We can't fear opening the door because she literally bolts when she hears the door knob jiggle. I'm starting to wonder if she's maybe addicted to her dry food and thus always "hungry" or has a metabolic issue or something. She was picked up in a park with two kittens so I can see her yearning to get back outside, but like I said that's not really something we're comfortable with. Any help / advice / suggestions welcome!