Greedy cat...help!

Bangton

http://s1050.photobucket.com/albums/s412/jenjam2/

Photos attached if anyone is interested ... thank you so much for your replies. I will look at giving her a better quality of food and more of it. It seems giving in is fine and your right..she is too old to be forming habits!

McKneff

I really wish people would stop posting 'poor thing' its insulting and upsetting for the owner.

She is getting well fed, and is well looked after. So stop it.

Like humans, people think its okay to say to me, my you are skinny, I'm 7.4 stones and 5 foot three, and pretty healthy although I have retired. But if I said to any one 'my your'e fat' I would be considerd very rude.

Some cats are just like that.

I have a normal size cat, 2.5 kg, but she would eat 24/7 if i let her. and she wowls for food constantly. I just ignore her, she gets the message as soon as I make my tea and put the milk back in the fridge, she toddles off and goes back to sleep.

scaredy_cat

don't forget to go though Topcashback and you can get 5% cashback from zooplus i think.

Mrs_Z

Your cat would not be asking for food if she was not hungry. If she asks and you give it to her and she does not eat it, then she's being fussy, but if she eats it, she's hungry.
Our senior cat, around 15ish, used to be ravenous eating 4-6 pouches a day. She's a small cat and despite eating huge amounts, only weighted 2.6kg. The vet diagnosed her with hyperthyroidism and since having been on tables (2 x 5mg daily) she has put on weight (3.45kg now) and is not that interested in food any more - only eats about 1/2 pouch in the morning and evening plus biscuits.
I'd let your cat eat as much as she likes, but you need to get the medication sorted for her.

Badger_Lady

Bangton wrote: »

http://s1050.photobucket.com/albums/s412/jenjam2/

Photos attached if anyone is interested ... thank you so much for your replies. I will look at giving her a better quality of food and more of it. It seems giving in is fine and your right..she is too old to be forming habits!

Aww, cutey

spike7451

Daisy eats around 1/2 to 2/4 of a tin a day,broken down into small portions & she also has a good dry food to graze on,I've tried her on nearly all the brands out there but she prefers the junk food,Whiskas or Felix.Believe me,I've tried all the rest,Purely,Botiza ect,she just turns her nose up.

puddy

i assume the 'poor thing' posts are aimed at me, it wasnt intended as a phrase to indicate she is some abused animal, it was just a reaction to her obviously wanting to eat all the time, no more, no less

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

puddy wrote: »

i would be giving her anything and everything, if she wants a tin of tuna, slices of ham, bits of chicken, wet food, dry food, give her whatever she wants

That sounds like Dizziee the Ninja Assassin's ideal breakfast.



One of mine had thyroid problems. She was constantly obsessed with food. I just put the costs to the back of my mind and kept on feeding her. And she would be in the fridge before I opened the door enough to get a pint of milk out. She would have breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, lunch, afternoon snack, a little treat, then dinner. And would still eat every scrap from my plate that I allowed her to. And the ball of pate her medication was wrapped in to start the day before breakfast.

The kitten (GR's Macius' brother) is the most food oriented creature I have ever met. I can't afford to ever get ill, as 24 hours without food and I just know he'd take matters into his own claws.

They aren't so hungry when they get more meat/protein, though. More sleeping by the radiators with bellies in the air making farting noises, mostly.


So perhaps you could add some good quality mince into the diet? It's certainly cheaper than buying pouches all the time. And in 14 years, none of mine have ever decided that they've gone off fresh dead animal, rather than tinned/packeted/dried mechanically recovered slurry



Oh, good grief.

The Ninja Assassin has just spotted a squirrel climbing the telegraph pole outside the front window.

He's just hurled himself halfway up the venetian blinds and is dangling whilst trying to get through them to presumably punch his way through the double glazing.


Now he's behind the blinds and the squirrel is sitting on the garden wall less than 3 foot away from the furry imbecile.


I think he wants to eat the squirrel. He'll have a shock if he ever catches one. [checks insurance policy for squirrel mauling]

Inclusive

Another vote for Hills Science Plan, one of our cats with kidney problems was put on it 15+ years ago. We stuck with it and all the cats since have loved it. As the current two are both 12 and loosing teeth we supplement it with wet food but they still wolf it down. They don't like the senior version and the vet said it wasn't a problem the normal Hills would do just fine.
Check the price comparison sites for price as it varies widely - medicanimal and vetuk have been cheaper than zooplus recently. Both sites are easy to use and reliable. Although it isexpensive I found once you take into account wastage it worked out at much the same price as " normal" whiskers, kitekat etc.

pinkcandyflossprincess

My male cat went through a stage of eating and crying for food every minute..someone told me it was the aldi pouches he was on as their cat had been the same.
since i changed over he has been a lot better.
I was told to try purely? from pets at home for a cheaper altertenative high protein diet, mine didnt get on too well with it so i now use a combo of what i pick up in B&M etc, looking for anything thats about 70 per cent protien and they have a dry food too called natures best by purina as its the only one my boy will eat. Its 1.79 in B&M ...as opposed to about 6.00 in sainsburys:eek:
Mo my cat with PKD has mouth problems so has to have a pate based diet (she cant have teeth done as underweight..got off mad woman who didnt look after her so she was near death when i got her:()
she can only eat soft stuff...she likes the hi life stuff but found out its virtually water so she has anything thats soft that i can find that actually has some meat in it...unless she changes her mind of course:p
she is constantly grazing on food, guards the food and sleeps near the food....what can i say? she was starved to near death so imagine she never wants to let it out of her site again:(