to have told the cat there are starving cats in africa?

[juneybean]

He's one of those cats that's not happy unless he's eating, he doesn't have worms or anything untoward, he's just a greedy buggar!

So I just snapped at him.... AIBU?

YANBU - I feel like doing the same after ours sniffs disdainfully at a brand of cat food he's been eating cheerfully for months, or suddenly decides he'll eat nothing but fish cat food - then just as we've stocked up, refuse to touch it and will only eat meat...

Tell him you're fed up with waiting on him hand and foot and if he's really that hungry he can go and make his supper himself... and clean up afterwards.

ROFL it is tempting to just put the open can on the floor and walk off. It's my mothers fault, she's totally babied him.

YANBU!

My old cat yowls constantly for food, but won't eat any 'left-overs' my younger cat has left in the bowl.

I do like TootaLaFruit's suggestion.

Cats today are so ungrateful.

You tell your pussy there is a cat sancutury in Logos and people are very kind and feed the cats - but they have to share - not like his place with all the food - you tell him

Yes I agree. My cat was homeless and we adopted her and now she has airs and graces and wakes me at 5 am to feed her. I've shown her pictures of skinny cats but she just turns her bum towards them and flicks her tale! How can she so easily forget her humble beginnings?

Totally agree. Our rescue cats have become quite demanding also. They KNOW they get dried food in the morning and tinned food after 'The Simpsons', but DO they still complain?

Do they ever.

Might try the starving cats in Africa line.

Ooh- never disagree with your cat, or try to talk to him as if you are the one in charge! I gave my old cat a telling off for messing up my study notes, stealing my pen and then finally deliberately knocking a pint of water over all my work, because I wouldn't feed him immediately. I threw him out the room and shut the door.

Came out of my bedroom half an hour later and stood in a steaming cat turd, done just outside my door- cat was sitting smirking in the hall!

You have to come to terms with the whole master/ slave relationship, and just go with it. They always win.

oh god, I can relate to this! My cat is a ruddy SOD! "She'll eat when she's hungry enough", my arse she will!

She has turned her nose up at practically every type of food going! Has to be whiskas, HAS to be the meat not the fish selection. HAS to be the meat in jelly, not gravy. HAS to be 'senior'.

Every now and again, I try buying a cheaper food, and she won't eat it. Just sniffs, gives me The Look and bogs off to one of the neighbours for dinner.

The other week I was bullied to the shop at silly o'clock because she refused the food that I put out and I didn't have any other and she would NOT Shut The Fuck Up.

I am ruled by that bloody cat.

She won't go through the cat flap, I hold it open for her Although if she wants to go to the front garden, I have to open the front door because she won't walk round from the cat flap at the back door She yells at me if I don't get her breakfast before I make myself a coffee in the morning. If she wants to sit on me and I'm busy she scratches at my leg until I give in...the list is endless.

When people tell me pets are soothing and relieve stress I laugh my bloody arse off!

catmando

tv dinner

fly guy

the person who does these must know my cat!

OH! That reminds me of the other cat! I opened the conservatory door to let the dogs in and she was sat waiting to come in so I shouted of her and she looked at me with such disgust, that I had to go round and open the other back door for her to come in.....I mean really?!!?

My cat likes to come in the back door and go out the front as well. Sits there staring at me through the glass doing little tippy paws on the ledge - it's a semi detached so she could just walk round to the front perhaps .

but we do it, don't we? My husband calls her a "stupid" cat. Stupid? Really?

She has us going out to tesco at silly a.m. to buy her food cos she won't eat what's in the house, has us open the front door cos she won't walk from the back, has us hold the cat flap open cos she won't push it herself...

I know who's stupid and it's not her!

Those links are fabulous

Hahaha so bloody true!

When my cat turns her nose up at Sainsburys own brand cat food I tell her that "there's cats in the world as would be grateful for the food".

Bloody animal is draped fluidly over the back of the sofa fast asleep at the moment. Feline fluidity - it's wonderful.

I appear to have Mog The Forgetful Cat, too. Forgets she has eaten about 5 minutes afterwards.

She has wet food to stop cystitis, and dry food to help her keep the few teeth she's got left. Dislikes the dry stuff, but I leave it there until she's eaten it

Love those cartoons.

I blame it on Gordon Brown.

... yep why not Fluffyone - everything else appears to be his fault

We have a cat that is so fat I can no longer lift her up.

We call her "door stop".

And Sue.

Darn, beaten to it. I was going to say it was Sue's fault

Yes, how could I forget Sue? She's obviously to blame as well!
When I were a young thing cats knew they where they were lucky, they got half a tin of Go Cat once a week and they were grateful.