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My cat is an arsehole

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Besswess88 · 09/12/2021 17:58

Digs into one type of food like it’s his last meal on earth, I go and buy a box of 40 sachets and he looks at me like I have presented him with his own shit to eat.

Argh!! What to do? Why is he so fucking fussy?!

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Snaketime · 11/12/2021 10:28

Something else my furry little areshole does is try to eat the Christmas tree. We have an artifical tree and he tries to eat it every year, except last year when we had a real tree and he wouldn't go anywhere near it Hmm

bozzabollix · 11/12/2021 10:40

You could have my problem. Obese lardarse cat who moves occasionally and will literally mug anyone for more dinner, and would eat his own sachets (of any type) countless times a day.

TheBalletCats · 11/12/2021 13:49

@Aderyn21
You could make a fortune selling that picture as a Christmas card… 😻

@TheSmallClangerWhistlesAgain
My daddy’s cat is local Top Cat, ruling her neighbourhood with an iron paw & not infrequently requiring trips to the vet as a result of putting challengers to her throne in place. She’s a wee black & white - absolutely a ferocious huntress though, particularly when it comes to frogs…

@iloveeverykindofcat
I can well believe Tiny!Cat running the street (see above), but thankfully I don’t think The Great And Radiant Cleocatra has ever spat at any of my parental unit’s neighbours. Or indeed anybody else. Bar possibly the vet, at whom she certainly swears noisily, so spitting wouldn’t be a stretch…

Ekofisk · 11/12/2021 18:24

@iloveeverykindofcat

My old tortoiseshell ruled our street too - for some reason she took a violent dislike to our post woman and would attack her if given the chance (had to keep the cat shut indoors at post delivery times). The cat terrorised all the local dogs too, they would cross the street to avoid her.

Fluffmum · 11/12/2021 20:44

My two are the same. The only thing they love atm are dreamies

ViciousChicken · 11/12/2021 22:20

I have two. One big fat ginger boy who happily eats his dry food and adores dreamies (weirdly will not touch human food- chicken, tuna, cheese etc). His brother is an absolute arsehole- I have to have a box of both jelly and gravy types open and rotate them as well as the flavours. He still always leaves some in his bowl then demands fresh stuff an hour later. The cat from across the road often sneaks in in the night and clears all the dishes but that results in my arseholes waking me up and me having to get up and feed them again. What mugs we are!

9999A · 12/12/2021 09:22

Cats 🐈‍⬛🐈
You know our feline friends are fussy !
My Ging boy would always prefer what I was eating.
On one occasion I had some mushroom soup.
Turned by back and he was eating my soup.
My Granddaughter and her friend laughed their heads off.
Advice just buy small amounts of different
Foods. See how it’s goes

9999A · 12/12/2021 09:26

Hi Vicious Chicken.
Your post sounds very familiar.
My mum has the same situ with her cat.
Don’t you just love Umm.
🐈🐈‍⬛🐆

TeaAndBiscuitsAndWine · 12/12/2021 11:46

@iloveeverykindofcat

Not all cats are aresholes! Only one of mine is! The other is an absolute darling and a sweetie. But she's very, very slow in the brain. She genuinely doesn't understand normal cat things. When she was young I asked the vet if there was something wrong with her. He inspected her and pronounced her a very healthy, very happy, very sweet-natured cat. I asked 'then why does she get lost in bushes/not understand I can't pick up a blanket she's sitting on/etc'. This man looked me in the eye and said "All mammalian intelligence is on a curve. Someone has to be at the bottom."
That last bit has made me laugh so hard I scared the cat!
iloveeverykindofcat · 12/12/2021 16:20

@TeaAndBiscuitsAndWine
When she dislocated her ankle in a way that required fusing, the vet said 'I must admit...I have never seen a cat manage to do that before'. But he also said she was a very good girl and no trouble at all to handle. Then after a few weeks he said she was an excellent healer and healed up wonderfully well, ahead of the usual timeframe. So really she's quite excellent in all ways except for having a brain.

I don't care I love my sweet dumb beautiful baby shrugs

TeaAndBiscuitsAndWine · 12/12/2021 20:18

Awww, @iloveeverykindofcat, she sounds lovely, and very lucky! Mine is beautiful, thick, and can hear the kitchen door opening from several gardens away I recon...

9999A · 14/12/2021 21:41

I can’t even see my post about cats.
Think I don’t know how to use this sight.
Any help ??

9999A · 14/12/2021 21:42

I don’t how this site works
Any help ??
👍

S1205 · 14/12/2021 21:52

Lol sorry no advice but I just love the title of the thread lol. Reminds me of my cat. He was the biggest arsehole ever. God rest his soul 🤣🤣

shakeitoffshakeacocktail · 14/12/2021 21:57

@Normando91

Cats are arseholes. My two have taken to refusing any type of cat food I buy them and only eating what I eat. We’ve had to put a child lock on the fridge as they figured out how to open it and kept eating our expensive steaks, pork, chicken etc. Absolute nightmares!
🤣
1967buglet · 14/12/2021 22:09

Cat Alice gets chicken Whiskas wet food. one large can a day which she supplements with mice, rats, baby rabbits, moles, one time a weasel. We are in a rural area and she’s an excellent huntress. No food fussiness but she’s fierce when she’s playing with you. You have to watch her when petting her, or you can get an unexpected swipe from her murder mitts. On the other hand, she loves being brushed and turns into a sweetie of a lap cat. So arsehole part of the time, but I still love her nonetheless.

MidnightMeltdown · 14/12/2021 23:06

My cats are ridiculously fussy. Usually they only like one or two flavours out of a multipack, and most brands they won't touch, even expensive ones.

The best trick that I've learned to get one over on fussy cat is to serve up the food that they like least before I go to bed. I don't enjoy being woken up at 5am so my cats are shut downstairs at night. Their choice is to eat what's served, or wait until breakfast. Usually it's gone by morning.

Pollaidh · 14/12/2021 23:15

This man looked me in the eye and said "All mammalian intelligence is on a curve. Someone has to be at the bottom."

And my cat is right down there with her. Silly cat, always hungry. So stupid that even though she knows perfectly well the dreamies and food are kept on the counter, it hasn't occurred to her to jump on the counter and eat them. We even leave them open.

And she can definitely get on the counter because she'll lick butter knives if you leave them out. Maybe she thinks the 'far away' dreamies packet is different from the up close dreamies packet?

Pollaidh · 14/12/2021 23:24

Current cat is an arsehole because the neighbours have a beautiful boxed tree outside their front door. She likes to perch herself on the four corners and shit in it. She treats it as her own personal cat litter tray.

Previous cat was bright and an arsehole (but I rather admired him). He was capable of opening a cupboard, pulling out a tin of food, pulling off the plastic seal and would then help himself. If anyone approached he would roll the tin over, sit on it to hide it, and nudge the cupboard door closed, whilst whistling serenely if anyone looked at him suspiciously.

NMC2022 · 14/12/2021 23:28

The black and white one eats anything. But he's not actually my cat Hmm
The black toothless one is doing this face because I have a jacket potato AND beans which are his two fave foods Hmm

My cat is an arsehole
My cat is an arsehole
Enough4me · 14/12/2021 23:52

@NMC2022 I too have a cat who stares into my soul with a downward mouth position to hypnotise me to put her favourite foods down. It works doesn't it?

I wonder if all our cats would eat anything a stranger gives them as bonus food, but pickyness is saved for for the people they control.

NMC2022 · 14/12/2021 23:54

Mine won't Grin
A neighbour said to me "I always give Ollie a treat as he asks so nicely and sits and holds his paw up. But then he sniffs it and looks sad. Would he like some wafer thin chicken instead"
HmmHmmHmmHmm
Wrapped around his paw

Beamur · 15/12/2021 00:00

@MidnightMeltdown

My cats are ridiculously fussy. Usually they only like one or two flavours out of a multipack, and most brands they won't touch, even expensive ones.

The best trick that I've learned to get one over on fussy cat is to serve up the food that they like least before I go to bed. I don't enjoy being woken up at 5am so my cats are shut downstairs at night. Their choice is to eat what's served, or wait until breakfast. Usually it's gone by morning.

I do this too 😁 Funny how the least favourite food will get eaten overnight but ignored steadfastly all day.
Wiseowltaylor · 15/12/2021 00:14

This ginger gentleman goes through so many brands that he likes then won't eat them but goes to the next door neighbour and eats any old shite.

My cat is an arsehole
Enough4me · 15/12/2021 00:15

It's stealth eating, where they don't want to be seen accepting substandard (to them) food. Little arseholes.