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How can I prevent my cat from chewing up the carpet?
My cat loves to bite and pull at the carpet everywhere there is a seam (between rooms, patches, etc). I've tried squirting him with water, but now he just runs away if I even move while he's doing it....
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Why is one of my cats licking walls and windows?
I've been catching my cat licking windows and recently some walls. The doubtful advantage is that the lower half of my windows don't fog any more, but why is she doing that? Is it unhealthy for the ...
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How can I stop my cat from eating plastic?
One of my cats will eat anything that is soft plastic. He will eat shopping bags, cellophane wrappers, anything. Fortunately, he hasn't had any issues. I've seen plastic in his poop, so when he ...
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What are the problems associated with my cat eating paper?
My cat has recently started chewing on paper products I leave around the house. I try to keep him away from the paper stuff, but, well, I can't be everywhere always.
I figure since paper isn't cat ...
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Is it a problem to pet my kitten while she is eating?
For purely selfish reasons I like to pet my ~10 wk old kitten while she's eating. I mean, she's really soft, and she just lets me give her the attention while she purrs and eats. How could I not??
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How do I get my cat to stop waking me up at 5:45am?
I have a small, 8lb (around 3.6 kg) female cat whom, in a day, I feed a third of a cup dry food and a can of simple nourish wet food. I split this into a morning and evening meal, but the cat meows ...
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How can I combat food anxiety in an ex-stray cat?
I have three adult cats, all found as strays. The first two I found as kittens so they now behave just like regular domestic cats. The third one I found a year later as an adult. I have integrated her ...
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How can I teach my kitten not to steal the other kitten's food?
I have two kittens, not from the same litter. The older kitten is 5 months old, and I have had her for 3 months. The younger kitten (not even half the size) is 3 months old and I have had her for 2 ...
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How can I tell if my cat is bullying her sister and what can I do to combat the problem?
I have two cats from the same litter that I adopted when they were around 12 weeks old. They are going to be a year old in two days, and as of recently I have been wondering if there's something wrong....
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My sons 12 week old kitten will eat only human food
My Mother-in-law started feeding her off of her plate as soon as she was weaned and she just will NOT eat cat food. I have tried many brands of high end dry & wet but no ~ I tried tuna ~ no ~ She ...
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Is it normal for cats to periodically vomit dry food?
I have two 1 year-old cats that are brothers. For a while now, they have been occasionally vomiting up dry food. Each cat will vomit maybe 2-3 times a month, and I haven't been able to figure out a ...
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Devastated and Lost Due to My Cat Not Wanting to Eat
Hi all fellow pet lovers, I am trying to find some courage on here. I have a 1.5 years male cat. Found him outside and decided to take him in and we formed a great bond. He acts more like a dog. Last ...
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New cat only licks sauce / gravy from wet food and ignores the chunks, but eats dry food without issues
My girlfriend and I adopted a shelter cat, unknown age, but we were told she was rather old (10 to 17 years?) Was very shy in the beginning and hid under the bed or in my wardrobe. But purred when ...
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What does it mean if my 5 year old cat isn't eating and has changed behavior?
My cat is usually really social. Is all over you at night meowing and wanting attention. For the past few days, he spent the nights sleeping under the bench at the foot of the bed and doesn't come out,...
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My cat is hiding and won't move
My cat, Max, has been hiding under my grandma's steps since the 27th of September. We had to drop off all of my cats at my grandma's temporarily, so we can move into another house. We didn't want them ...
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Why does my cat LOVE coconut oil?
Just curious if anyone understands why my cat seems to go crazy for coconut oil?
Do they have different ways of perceiving taste than us?
I have tasted the coconut oil and the flavor is very mild. I ...
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Cats are still skittish; have obsessive eating disorder
We adopted two little kittens at 5 weeks old. I think the lady we got them from was some sort of cat hoarder or she was capturing ferals from outside and rehoming them.
Anyways, the kitties are two ...
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Cat is eating and drinking but hasn't gone to the bathroom since I got him a different kind of litter yesterday
My cat is normal overall, but usually I get up in the morning and there's something to clean. There was nothing.
Yesterday I got him a new litter box with new silica litter. Up until this point, he ...
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My cat is on steroids and she won’t stop crying for food
So my cat has been on steroid medication for a few months now and it makes her hungry ALL the time. She wakes me up at 6am every day. And at night I keep her in my bedroom like I have done for years ...
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How To Train a Cat 3 Questions?
He meows at me, as soon as I get out of bed, for food. I used to feed him in the morning, but then started to feed him at dinner and he meows throughout the day anytime we go into the dinning room or ...
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New cats: Female intimidating/bullying her brother
My Wife and I recently (two and a half weeks ago) adopted two cats, a brother and sister around 7 years old, from our local shelter. On the first day, the brother was more confident, but then became ...
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Why does my cat prefer eating on the carpet?
I have wooden flooring in my kitchen with a small carpet, which does not cover the entire room. I put my cat's bowls on the wooden flooring and most of the time he carries his food to the carpet and ...
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Why my cat uses paws to bring food from plate to floor and then eats it from floor? [duplicate]
My cat doesn't like to eat from plate. She rather likes to eat from floor.
In case of large food such as a piece of fish she will kick the food on plate a few times. Then she grabs the piece with ...
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Cat won't drink water, only gravy from wet food; can I prepare the gravy myself?
My cat eats Royal Canin gastrointestinal wet food from the vet. She has constipation issues with her dry food (science diet sensitive stomach), so I took it away completely ($700 vet bill from ...
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Why does my cat like licking tape so much?
One of my cats (3 y.o. female Bengal, spayed) absolutely loooves the taste of the sticky side of tape - especially packing tape (or at least, that's what's usually available) but I've also caught her ...
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My cat only eats Lickables
I have read several posts on this site, some very funny, about cats only eating gravy. My situation is a tad bit different and I need opinions. My 1.5 year old cat, Sparky, will only eat gravy. ...
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Cat eating with paws and then flings it EVERYWHERE
My cat loves his wet food. He can't have dry because he has so few teeth from a genetic mouth disorder, lucky us. So after ruining one of my walls, because when he is done eating he flings his paws so ...
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Can a 4yo cat be taught not to binge eat?
This is a 4 something year old Siamese cat. It is used to being fed precise meals.
I would love to train it to eat only as much as it needs. Currently, it eats everything in the bow, possibly vomiting....
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What to do with my indoor-outdoor cat when we are not home?
We have a male cat, aged 1 year and 6 months roughly. He is not a complete indoor cat. He can go in and out of our house as his will.
He usually spends half his time indoors and half outdoors. The ...
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Kitten stealing other cat's food and fighting them [duplicate]
I have- or my family has an kitten (we dont know how old) and they are keep stealing the other cat's food even if their bowel has food or not. We tried to make the kitten not take the food by saying &...
