Food obsessed kitten

[TroysMammy]

No his food but ours. Haribo is nearly 4 months old, an absolute sweetie but he is obsessed with what we are eating. I reckon he will be one of those cats which will steal a neighbour's defrosting sausages and Sundays roast meat.

He will finish his food and automatically gallop over to see what we are eating. He will sniff breath and inhale the fumes from a hot chocolate, steal a mouthful of rice, stick his nose in jam on toast and he's like a flipping hoover in the kitchen, sucking up a lost peas or crumbs. He sits there licking his chops and salivating.

He is an only spoilt kitten, will be neutered in a fortnight, goodness knows how he, or I will cope when he's nil by mouth from 8pm the night before.

Have I forgotten how kittens behave or is he just a greedy pig and it will get worse?

The licking often progresses to an attempt to latch on and suckle...

How old the kitten?
It sounds like it may have been taken off it's mum and littermates a little too early?

He’s 5 months old. Apparently his mum ignored the kittens from about 5 weeks and “wasn’t a good mum”.

I was hoping for a magic cure for greedy/nosey kittens!!!

Apparently not 😂 I will keep shutting myself in the kitchen to eat my meals then!!!!

Here is the leggy offender

He has amazingly massive ears @xmasfairy86. love cats (and dogs) with bat ears.

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He looks a lot younger than 5 months based on the pictures you posted sleepykat

This morning I had Rice Krispies for breakfast. Haribo fascinated by the snap, crackle and pop jumped onto the kitchen table. I shooed him off, then placed a silicon lid on top of the bowl whilst I went upstairs to get something. I came back downstairs and he was playing with the silicon lid on the floor! I don't know if he'd had a sly munch of my breakfast first.

I bought him some lick-e-lix as Troy used to go mental for it. It's in his bowl, untouched. I'm quite surprised there is something he doesn't like.

Well I’ve had him 3 months and he was 9 weeks when I got him.

Here he is next to the dog. Looks a bit more grown up here?

Silicone lid = best cat toy ever by the sounds of it.

Bless him, he is a beautiful cat 😍
And yes he does.

Too much temptation.

Oh dear, he looks persistent....but gorgeous with it.

Familiar sight troysmammy 😂🙈

The contents of that bowl is what will stop him from starving to death.

The velociraptor aka Haribo is off to the vets tomorrow to be neutered. It's going to be hell in the morning as I took all food away at 8pm.

The last week he tried to steal toast crusts off my plate, tried raw chard and had a failed attempt to yank ham out of a sandwich.

Have you dropped him off now?. I cried all the way home when ours was done.

Yes I have. I was shaking mainly because the last time I was in my vets it was when Troy was having his lungs drained because he had hypertropic cardiomyopathy. He died, not in the vets, just before his 6th birthday.

I remembered from when Troy was neutered the vet said to give him chicken, he never touched chicken again. Chicken = sore balls. I've just poached some chicken for Haribo. It may turn him off it.

You’ll be lucky, lightening doesn’t strike twice!. Looking wan = chicken from now on.

I’m so sorry you lost Troy so young.

Thanks Fluffycloudland77. Well he's home and has had a bit of chicken. He's either under my bed licking his wounds or up to no good in my craft room.

My childhood cat was similar. Random items he ate include leeks, a raw crumpet and jam. Like humans l think some are just more hungry than others. Gorgeous pictures!

Is he home?

Fluffycloudland77 Yes. Been an absolute nutter, no change there. He's re-written the vet's after anaesthetic sheet and developed a liking for chicken! He'll be packing his bags tomorrow when he finds out he's got to eat Whiskas and Hills.

Is he on ketamine? He should crash out soon.

Hanging off my peacock chair.

I was owned by a Maine Coon for over 21 years & she was always like this. She once brought a pigs leg home & left it sticking out under my sofa, as a nice present fir me when I git in from a drunken night at a zombie film party. That sobered me up pdq As a kitten she would literally eat til she burst & in she was so full she would crap herself. We found that out when she worked out how to break into the cat food cupboard