To really regret getting the cat?

[Reallyhatingcat]

I’m not the source of all evil I’ll doubtless be dubbed as here, but I really can’t STAND the cat.

He is obsessed with food. Has had five pouches already today but is under my feet constantly demanding more. It’s like he’s insatiable.

I’ve put him out - I have to for my own sanity when he’s like this. But it means we can’t have doors or windows open.

He is fine health wise, not thyroid or anything. It’s just sodding relentless and it’s making me SO frustrated that I can’t relax in my own home, every time I move he goes thundering through to the kitchen!

He's an healthy weight and very well looked after, thus nowt 'cruel' in the amount he is fed. He sees our vet once a month, as he has CKD. Weighed twice a month and has really good quality food that I sourced from an independent supplier. Considering his limited life expectancy, he lived like a king. 😎

I think it comes down to routine, not giving in to bad behaviour and high quality food. Mine gets fresh water and (high protein, no filler) dry food topped up in the morning - it's always available.

Then some kind of raw meat in the evening - he came to me from the breeder eating a raw diet. A few times during the week he gets these treats made out of dried organ meat or dental chews. So he is well nourished.

He does nag me a bit when I'm late with it but if he was annoying me, I would just shut him out of the room I was in, which he hated, so it stopped.

At night he sleeps in another part of the house and knows that no one will pay any attention to bad behaviour (and certainly no feeding!) and so is quiet.

Ours is a little piggy as well. He needed to lose weight so we divide his food into three bowls around the house and he has learned over a few weeks to go around and check each bowl at feed times (morning and night) which has stopped him begging for food and turned it into more of a game..this might help you!

My comment above was in reply to @randomuser2020 .

Sounds like the cat would be much better off with a family that loves him. If he's not overweight then he's just asking for what he needs, like any other member of your family. Poor cat 😢

This cat sounds like a legend.

Cats are furry little arseholes. Just chuck him out when he's being a pain.

Have you tried using a lick mat, a bowl designed to slow down feeding and/or different puzzle feeders? I found it helped alot with my greedy boy, he no longer eats too fast, overeats and doesn't pester anywhere near as much anymore.

You can freeze any kind of wet food (jelly, gravy, pate etc) and cat broth/soup in mini icecube trays to use with puzzle feeders if your cat doesn't eat kibble.

Our cat was put down a couple of months ago, and he was EXACTLY like this. I really, really struggled with it. I was absolutely devastated when he passed away, but I cannot lie, there has been an improvement in my quality of life. I feel so bad writing that, but it's true. Is your cat a rescue, OP? I'm convinced they're more food fixated than most.
RIP Bruce. I love you and I am so sorry

@randomuser2020 if my whole comment sounds 'odd', it's probably because I'm knackered after what feels like an inordinately long week and my communication skills are below par; none of us is infallible.

Oh, give over!

Nothing wrong with whiskas. My cats love it and don't greed for more

I’ve had texts from people seeing this post today asking if I wrote it! I was actually wondering if I really had when I read it - I know exactly how you feel and you ANBU.
I took in my parents cat after they died, I was fond of the cat and I liked him - despite him being a bit greedy. We’ve had him 3 years now and he’s a furry dictator who has made mine and my partners life hell.
I have the same greedy puss as you, he follows us round, starts with a miaow that graduates to a howl and doesn’t stop unless his mouth is closed eating. He steals food from our plates and has gone into the neighbours and made them think they were going crazy when their defrosting joint of Sunday meat just vanished, we caught him with it under the bed purring!
He growls if you approach his food and gobbles it down and licks the bowl clean.
We feed 3 pouches a day, he won’t eat dry food and if I mix wet with dry he somehow manages to eat only the wet food, I have no idea how he separates it but the dry is always left in the bowl. He was sometimes eating up to 8 pouches of food a day with pestering me and my partner separately, he’d just follow us terrorising us till we filled his dish, he still tries for more but we don’t give in. It only takes doing something twice for cats to form a habit.
My partner is autistic and struggles with hours of high pitched howling and has even broken down in tears, he’s asked me many times to rehome the cat. We rent and aren’t allowed a cat flap so he comes and scratches at the bedroom window whilst we are in bed, he drags his claws down the glass and it’s a horrible noise, brain torture.
I just can’t bring myself to go back on my promise to my parents and the cat is 15 now so it’s not fair to uproot him again. Now the weather is nicer and lighter nights he’s spending hours outside hunting and prowling.
I went to the vet who just said he’s a gluttonous cat, nothing physically wrong just greedy, we thought maybe grief or depression but he’s always been greedy. We live in the middle of nowhere surrounded by forests and fields so it’s cat’s paradise, he’s out hunting for hours in the day. He eats what he catches too - we’ve seen him walking round with huge rats hanging out of his mouth and he’ll devour it and suck up the tail like spaghetti.
it looks like I’m stuck with this furry narcissist but it’s nice to know I’m not alone in being terrorised.

Mine has one!!

One pouch of wet cat food a day. She has dry biscuits down all day though and she grazes as and when she wants

Cat appetites vary. We have two female Siamese. One is 4-years-old, weighty (all muscle) and very active, running, jumping, climbing trees. The other is 10-years-old, a much finer build. She gets out and about and climbs too, but now she is older, she isn’t out nearly as much as the other. Interestingly, it’s the older, finer one who has the biggest appetite. She can ask (loudly) to be fed 4/5 pouches a day, plus dried (she’s always had a big appetite, no health problems). She is all muscle though, so obviously needs those extra calories.

I’d suggest getting an automatic feeder if one exists for moist food and fill it twice a day. He can then eat what he wants. Also, my cats historically won’t eat cheap(er) dried food. It’s essentially crap and obviously not appetising. They really like Royal Cannin, Scumbles and another that I can’t call to mind. Try another good quality dried food. He may like it. Then there can always be some there for him.

Zooplus (online pet store) is really good for grain free high protein food - you buy in bulk, but only about £30 for free delivery.
My one loves Cosma, but that's a supplementary food, and we have Wild Freedom and Animoda as well.
She still asks for food a lot - but it's an attention seeking thing, she'd be a barrel on legs if I gave in every time.

Put him on different food or just let it moan and dont give in. He will get the message eventually. My cats acted like addicts on pouches. Cost me a fortune and i hated the constant begging. I found that getting a good quality dry food that they actually like was the answer. James wellbeloved turkey one seems to be loved by all my cats, and then i started putting a small portion of canned cat food once a day. They got the hint after a few days and dont beg as much.

Okay, firstly don't ever mix water or wet food with dry.
Dry food develops bacteria very quickly.

Dry food is okay, but not great for male cats especially as it increases risk of urinary issues.

The general rule is that if you're going to choose one to be the best quality then make it the dry.
Thrive (which you can get on Amazon is the best).

Cats prefer to eat smaller meals often. I find 3 meals a day suit mine. I feed at 9am, 5pm and 1am. Cats are smart, so setting an alarm on your phone will not only help him get into a routine of when to expect wet food, he will also associate the alarm with feeding time.

I would put Thrive dry in an automatic feeder that he can access and then I would get regimented with the wet.

Zooplus is a great site for cat food.

Brands like Bozita, Feringa, Yarrah and Wild Freedom are all good.
They don't work out too expensive because they come in larger cans.

The high meat content from those brands will keep him fuller for longer. (it's like steak, veges and potatoes vs McDonald's for us).

The meowing and constant wanting of food can be VERY draining, but give it two weeks and he should get into a routine and accept it.

I would also get him a water fountain for his water :)

Get him a toy that you could put dried food in.

Good quality, natural, grain-free food is best as it’s nutritionally dense and fills them up.. All our cats have been different- one supplemented his wet food with sparrows, one had a large kibble dispenser and would just graze all day, our last cat, a young Maine coon cross, would eat 6 sachets a day plus large Maine coon kibble, whereas our current rescue girl only has 1-2 sachets plus a bit of kibble and a LOT of Dreamies! We put some inside toys to keep her entertained but she has them emptied in minutes.

DONT FEED YOUR CAT 5 POUCHES!

That's really not normal. Take to the vet ASAP.

My cat is greedy like and will always want more food but I'd never feed 5.

He probably needs better quality food. Feeding cheap pouches is like feeding your child McDonald's then wondering why he wants more junk later. The cat isn't getting the nutrients he needs which is why he's still hungry.

@Novatherova My cat easily had this much a day, plus a good quality dry food.

There's no fat on him, he's outside a lot.

Every cat is different.

sorry but whiskas is terrible, look at the ingredients!