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Getting a cat to shut up and give me some peace
My cats were fed a couple of hours ago and immediately after he stopped eating Frankie came into the computer room and started screaming for more food.
He was almost climbing my leg at one stage. He had already eaten his food and his sister's food and was driving me nuts trying to get more.
This happens every day. Even when there is food in the bowl he tries it on. He is fit and healthy, young and recently been to the vet (his sister beat him up) and is in perfect health.
Is there any way to shut him up? How long can a human mum endure this baby-like noise before they crack up? Even when I snap and shout at him he only disappears for a few minutes and then returns.
As I type this his sister is barfing up a hairball.
Remind me - why do people keep cats as pets? They are not pets but pests.
He was almost climbing my leg at one stage. He had already eaten his food and his sister's food and was driving me nuts trying to get more.
This happens every day. Even when there is food in the bowl he tries it on. He is fit and healthy, young and recently been to the vet (his sister beat him up) and is in perfect health.
Is there any way to shut him up? How long can a human mum endure this baby-like noise before they crack up? Even when I snap and shout at him he only disappears for a few minutes and then returns.
As I type this his sister is barfing up a hairball.
Remind me - why do people keep cats as pets? They are not pets but pests.
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Has he been wormed? or is he really just greedy.
My cat drives me absolutely mad - she hates doors beening shut.
If she is in she cries and cries to go out, we put her out and she cries and cries to come in, we let her in shut the door and she cires and cries to go out - GIVE ME STRENGTH.
She is the same with the bathrooom door, shut it she cries to get in, let her in she wants to go out. It is a real phobia with her. BUT I LOVE HER JUST THE SAME x
My cat drives me absolutely mad - she hates doors beening shut.
If she is in she cries and cries to go out, we put her out and she cries and cries to come in, we let her in shut the door and she cires and cries to go out - GIVE ME STRENGTH.
She is the same with the bathrooom door, shut it she cries to get in, let her in she wants to go out. It is a real phobia with her. BUT I LOVE HER JUST THE SAME x
..and that is another thing. Why does he have to come to the bathroom with me every time I do?
I think that he is greedy. He usually eats his sachets of meat with a paw in his sister's bowl so she can't get to it. There is a constant supply of Iams, but the sachets are more expensive so they prefer them.
It's the pathetic crying that gets to you. It is not like "meow" at all.
I may be a 'proud mother' but sometimes I just want to strangle them.
I think that he is greedy. He usually eats his sachets of meat with a paw in his sister's bowl so she can't get to it. There is a constant supply of Iams, but the sachets are more expensive so they prefer them.
It's the pathetic crying that gets to you. It is not like "meow" at all.
I may be a 'proud mother' but sometimes I just want to strangle them.
Hi wolf63,
just reading your question made me laugh coz i also have a cat called franky who is just like yours apart from he dont get hungry as quick as yours but continuosly does that anoying meow and craves attention by climbing my leg.But i wouldnt want my franky anyother way, I put it down to the name.
just reading your question made me laugh coz i also have a cat called franky who is just like yours apart from he dont get hungry as quick as yours but continuosly does that anoying meow and craves attention by climbing my leg.But i wouldnt want my franky anyother way, I put it down to the name.
I also wonder sometimes why I keep cats particularly as my 17 year old has taken to waking me up every morning around 5am by yelling loudly at me. If I dive under the covers she then proceeds to scratch at the duvet until I give up. She has also taken to catching birds this year - she doesn't kill them (she has few teeth so can only give them a good gumming!) but lets them go in the house for me to catch. I imagine, if the vet says he is healthy, that your Frankie is just a pig! Have you tried putting their feeding dishes at opposite ends of the room so he can't get to both at once - or even in a different room and shutting him out?
As I write my younger cat has just brought me in a (dead) mouse! I wouldn't be without either of them though.
As I write my younger cat has just brought me in a (dead) mouse! I wouldn't be without either of them though.
Lovin all this,my own two babies are so similar!..At the moment though,during summer etc..Yasmin,who is 13 and particularly whiney (more than usual)...tends to settle down and sleep,when we bring out the fan to cool us all down in the hot evenings..we plonk him in a suitable distance from it,and he's out like a light ;-)
They get as much Iams as they want. They get between one and two sachets of meaty looking stuff per day.
I have stopped getting up during the night, I fell into that routine when Frankie was ill and I was feeling sorry for him.
He isn't overweight, he is a young and active cat. His sister is a long haired cat and it is difficult to tell if she is overweight (not that I can talk), but I don't think that she is.
I can ignore him for so long - but he can whinge on for longer than I can hold out. I don't usually feed on demand - just morning and night - but it doesn't stop him trying to get loads more food.
I have stopped getting up during the night, I fell into that routine when Frankie was ill and I was feeling sorry for him.
He isn't overweight, he is a young and active cat. His sister is a long haired cat and it is difficult to tell if she is overweight (not that I can talk), but I don't think that she is.
I can ignore him for so long - but he can whinge on for longer than I can hold out. I don't usually feed on demand - just morning and night - but it doesn't stop him trying to get loads more food.
Do you only feed them Iams meaty food or do they get biscuits too? My kitten was never satisfied by wet food cause theyre made with 70% water. Try mixing wet and dry food together or switch to dry food completely. I found it satisfies him for longer but i also read the ingredients of Iams and was horrified to discover the lack of decent meat in it and the high contents of rubbish. Im only mentioning this because its one of more expensive foods on the market and claims to be best for cats!!! I now feed malibu Burns chicken and brown rice which is GM, dairy and wheat free and has a high percentage of meat. hope this helps.
They get dried Iams - but if any of the other 'Premium' dried foods are on special it gets mixed in too.
They are like children - always bickering, fighting over toys etc. They are only two and are actually very good natured. But it is the pathetic noise they make when they want something that drives me nuts. What happened to "meow"?
They are like children - always bickering, fighting over toys etc. They are only two and are actually very good natured. But it is the pathetic noise they make when they want something that drives me nuts. What happened to "meow"?
Sam can be the same - if I'm out one of my housemates will give him his dinner and then when I come in he follows me around, wailing and whining saying "Mum I'm starving, you abandoned me and nobody fed me and I'm starving" all the while having a bowl full of biscuits which he hasn't touched!
His newest and most charming habit which has developed in the last couple of weeks centres around his litter tray. I'll be kneeling on the floor cleaning out his litter tray and he sits next to me watching what I'm doing and looking in the tray. As soon as I've taken out the last of the dirty stuff he climbs in and does a really long wee then climbs out, looks at me as if to say "well about time I've been crossing my legs for hours", then walks off!
Mad beast!
His newest and most charming habit which has developed in the last couple of weeks centres around his litter tray. I'll be kneeling on the floor cleaning out his litter tray and he sits next to me watching what I'm doing and looking in the tray. As soon as I've taken out the last of the dirty stuff he climbs in and does a really long wee then climbs out, looks at me as if to say "well about time I've been crossing my legs for hours", then walks off!
Mad beast!
annavc
Sam must be related to my two. Frankie is the same with the litter tray. He also hates getting his feet dirty and spends ages perched on the edge of the tray 'wiping' his paws on anything within reach.
They were fed about 6am and I went back to bed. I am off out to work now and will be back at 5 when we will all have dinner. The Iams will sit there untouched. They both like the Iams.
Sometimes they are amusing - sometimes I want to kill them.
Sam must be related to my two. Frankie is the same with the litter tray. He also hates getting his feet dirty and spends ages perched on the edge of the tray 'wiping' his paws on anything within reach.
They were fed about 6am and I went back to bed. I am off out to work now and will be back at 5 when we will all have dinner. The Iams will sit there untouched. They both like the Iams.
Sometimes they are amusing - sometimes I want to kill them.
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