Cats have that too. Boris will sit next to the table and make munching noises even though he gets his dinner at the same time as we have ours. Most of the time he doesn’t even want our leftovers, he just wants to stare at us and munch.
Well, she keeps wanting things that make her sick. Like sourdough bread. Or any other bread product.
I had a cat that loved sourdough bread. I had to keep it in the stove when I bought it because he would tear through the wrapper to get to it and wolf it down. He never got sick from it, though.
My cat Pig is on a diet, and you should hear her beg for food, even right after she’s been fed! She’s a genius at sneaking food from the other cats. She’ll do things like sneak in, grab a mouthful and run away with it, or sit under a chair and reach out to grab a piece with her paw and try to eat it quietly.
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Well Missy seems to have a very sensitive stomach. I just had to throw away half a bag of treats because she started having trouble with them. She was fine with them for two weeks.
I think I need to get some very good air-tight containers for her treats.
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You have treats that last more than two weeks? What is this sorcery!?
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Bread, baked goods… I have two cats that will enact M:I scenarios to get them. One will pry open a box of doughnuts, lick off all the glaze/powder, and leave the box as it was. So horribly disappointing to discover. The microwave and fridge are the only places we can keep baked goods.
The boy wants people food, all of it. Vegetables are often preferable to, say, cheese. He will snatch food off my fork en route to my mouth, and run off with it in victory-bounces. He will beg for food from ANHWizard, but backs down fast. Apparently I’m the omega and my food is fair game.
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I’ve bought some treats in bulk. Other treats were given to us by other people, in small quantities, so I was spacing those out more, with the treats we have more of.
We usually get these processed food meat chew stick things for Boris (the Furbeast) and we’ve taken to calling them Cat Meth because he goes completely spare for them… to the point where if you hold one in your hand for more than ten seconds he starts climbing up you to get to it…
…needless to say, none of these last as long as that! Even if we bought a 56lb economy bag of the they’d be gone in a flash of fur and ‘smphrl’ noises.
We refer to Gizmo’s treats as Kitty Crack because if you don’t give them to her fast enough she will stick her paw in the container to try and get them herself.
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The Maro-snacks and Beefy chews come in large plastic jars with screw top lids. Then again, she’s usually pretty good about not taking something that’s not given to her.
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Kitty Crack is what I call DeliCat cat food. I bought some for the 18+ year old who has been losing weight. It’s pretty much kitty junk food, but he’d been losing weight, and my vet told me that they kept some of this stuff on hand to temp really picky eaters, and sure enough, he’s been gaining weight back. The first time I offered it to him, he perked right up and ate more in one sitting than he’d eaten for the full day and a half!
The problem is keeping it out of the other cats. Pig, especially doesn’t need kitty junk food since she would happily go for the world’s fattest cat title given half a chance. She’s finally down from 18 to about 11 or 12 pounds. She had gotten so fat that she couldn’t clean herself.
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We get these dried chicken treats (basically just dehydrated chicken slivers). Charlie will eat them but Ollie goes absolutely bonkers as soon as we even open the door to the cupboard where they are kept.
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I don’t know what’s with her today. She’s gone to the door constantly in Full Panic Mode™:
“I gotta go, I gotta go!”
Then we get outside, she’s goes all Surfer.
Oh, wow, dude. Like… dirt. Woah.
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Mouse is like that. If you have potato chips or good forbid, some biscuits, he will cut you for them. Not really. He’s very polite actually but does not give up.
And him, his brother and his sister are the cookie fiends. When we bring out the treats the three of them vie for who gets them first.
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I hate these laws. It presumes that the person injured was completely faultless.
I almost lost my dog, when I was very young, because he protected me from someone trying to abduct me.
And too many parents look on happily when their children grab at and harass animals. I’ve told several children to leave Missy alone, and gotten bitched at by the parents because somehow the child’s “intent” somehow excuses the fact that they refuse to listen or learn how to approach an animal.
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Well, here’s something I did not know, but I will be on the watch for it.
http://www.sureawesomeness.com/if-you-find-your-pet/
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Any time your pet starts displaying a change in behaviour, it’s a good idea to check with your vet, especially if nothing is new in their environment.
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My problem with Missy is that her behaviors mean many different things, with no way to know which one it is this time.
Yes yes yes!! And you too, @Nabiki yes! So many people wait until we can’t fix them. And sometimes its normal behavior, or something much less scary than what an owner may have thought, but better than if you wait and its seizures or unregulated diabetes or liver failure or worse!
As for Missy, its very hard when behavior issues change from minute to minute. If you were in town I would have you consider a consult with the behaviorist, so if you have one in your area its worth considering once things calm down. Note to all: a trainer is NOT a behaviorist. A behaviorist is a DVM with a specialty in behavior, similar to a psychiatrist being an MD with a specialty in human behavior