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Hi everyone!
Just rescued a stray/semi-feral cat last month and he’s been great aside from his terrible eating habits.
My problem - My new cat has really bad eating habits. He acts like he’s starved all the time and will eat everything in sight if he likes the taste. He is very territorial over his food and immediately inhales both his wet food and dry food when I set the bowl down for feeding time. This is understandable because he’s lived outside most of his life (vet said he’s a year old), but a problem for my resident cat and myself because he’ll eat my food too. He has scheduled feeding times and I never leave food out. My main problem is that my resident cat is 10 years old and likes to eat her wet and dry food throughout the day, so I haven’t been able to trust feeding them together because I know he’ll eat all of her food.
About him - He’s basically lives in my computer room right now and we‘ve just started letting him roam the house last Wednesday, but he gets in trouble because all he does when he’s out of his room is search for food. I end up putting him back into his room because he starts irritating my resident cat by his paranoia of trying to find food. She loves food too, so she’s not too happy when he starts eating her food.
My only saving grace is that he apparently has an iron stomach and has never puked (yet), considering he eats his wet food in less than 10 seconds when set down!
Is there any solution other than feeding them in seperate rooms or buying one of those expensive microchip feeders? I want them to live together and have him out of his room at some point, but this food problem is a huge issue preventing me from trusting in him out of the room. I’ve been training him to learn the word “No”, but not sure if that would be effective when it comes to his one true love - food, lol. I also bought a ”slow feeder” food bowl which has definitely slowed him down from eating his dry food, but he still try’s to eat it as fast as he can. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you!!
Just rescued a stray/semi-feral cat last month and he’s been great aside from his terrible eating habits.
My problem - My new cat has really bad eating habits. He acts like he’s starved all the time and will eat everything in sight if he likes the taste. He is very territorial over his food and immediately inhales both his wet food and dry food when I set the bowl down for feeding time. This is understandable because he’s lived outside most of his life (vet said he’s a year old), but a problem for my resident cat and myself because he’ll eat my food too. He has scheduled feeding times and I never leave food out. My main problem is that my resident cat is 10 years old and likes to eat her wet and dry food throughout the day, so I haven’t been able to trust feeding them together because I know he’ll eat all of her food.
About him - He’s basically lives in my computer room right now and we‘ve just started letting him roam the house last Wednesday, but he gets in trouble because all he does when he’s out of his room is search for food. I end up putting him back into his room because he starts irritating my resident cat by his paranoia of trying to find food. She loves food too, so she’s not too happy when he starts eating her food.
My only saving grace is that he apparently has an iron stomach and has never puked (yet), considering he eats his wet food in less than 10 seconds when set down!
Is there any solution other than feeding them in seperate rooms or buying one of those expensive microchip feeders? I want them to live together and have him out of his room at some point, but this food problem is a huge issue preventing me from trusting in him out of the room. I’ve been training him to learn the word “No”, but not sure if that would be effective when it comes to his one true love - food, lol. I also bought a ”slow feeder” food bowl which has definitely slowed him down from eating his dry food, but he still try’s to eat it as fast as he can. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you!!