I'm always saddened by pet owners who can't read when their pets give very clear signals about what they want. I mean, we've all experienced a pet vocalizing and clearly wanting something, and not knowing what it is, but sometimes it's super clear, and sometimes the owners are just oblivious.
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My partner and I understand my cat, but we have to ignore him or we'll go insane.
My cat is a fat little shit and is constantly screaming for food. He has a variety of meows that range from "it's two hours before feeding time" to "it's past feeding time and you haven't fed me", with special ones like "I just ate but now my bowl is empty" and angry warbles as he sprints around with his ears back that mean "I understand you just said 'no you've been fed' but I want more".
We use a small esky for the two dogs' water because they drink 10 litres a day and the cat likes to drink from it despite having his own water the dogs can't access. If the level is too low for him to reach, he doesn't have a meow for that one. Or he chooses not to use it. He just tips it over pouring the last litre of water out on the floor. If he wants to go outside he just sharpens his claws on the screen door of my rental π₯²
Cats can be such assholes.
Tangential story: my cat did the same kind of thing with meowing for food all the time. She had dry food available all the time, but got a quarter can of wet food every evening, which she loved, and would scream for it when she thought it was time. But the time (in her head) got earlier and earlier. Then one night I gave her the wet food, she scarfed it down, and then started screaming again like I hadn't fed her.
I was really annoyed with her, but then I realized I hadn't had to refill the dry food in quite a while. I took her to the vet that week and it turned out that she has kidney disease, and the dry food is really problematic for that. She was literally starving, only getting a quarter can a day.
So now she's on a prescription wet food. Since weight loss is a common problem for cats with KD, the doctor said to give her as much as she wants. Now I have a very quiet cat. I only put a little food in her dish at a time, but whenever she eats it I put more in. She's very happy and so much more quiet.
Iβm sorry you are dealing with that, but they can live a very long healthy life even with ckd!
Just an FYI, the vet kidney disease diets are low protein, which is bad for obligate carnivores like cats. They do it because low phosphorus and low protein works well for humans and dogs, its just not really appropriate for cats. Cats use protein for synthesis of things we use plant sources for, so they just sort of degrade, and you end up needing to do a lot of interventions.
Instead, if you find foods that are made to be low phosphorus but not prescription, you can give a better variety and when they inevitably get turned off to one food, you can swap, or better yet feed a variety so if one stops being available its not a problem.
My cat was diagnosed with kidney disease in 2016 and the vet said even with treatment Iβd only get 6-12 mths. He didn't like the vet food so I did a ton of digging into it, and discovered common wisdom is wrong, they need protein but not phosphorus, and over the next several months of trial and error, found some low-phosphorus foods he liked (he liked weruva slide and serve and the core line, especially the tiny tasters, and they are very proud of making foods that are ok for kidneys because if is good for ckd cats, is good for all cats). I added 1/16 tsp coconut oil every meal to boost the calories, as well as occasionally giving him butter or bacon fat as a snack. I also gave him just about anything he would eat, figuring any calories were good calories (he was down to 4 lbs at his lowest, 10 at his heaviest) and he loved chicken nuggets with the breading removed.
Sadly he passed a couple years ago, about 8 years after he was given 6-12 mths. He was healthy (very relative term), active, playful, and friendly right up until he wasn't anymore, and then it was time.
Thanks for the advice, I'll look into it. Yeah, the deal is that the kidneys filter out toxins, so when they stop working well anything in the good can build up in the blood. Phosphorus is among the more problematic things, but not the only thing.
Mine just turned 16, and she's doing well on the prescription diet. She gained like 2.5 pounds since late last year (I thought she was getting skinny because she was old - didn't realize she had kidney problems and wasn't eating her dry food).
My cat gets both wet and dry, he gets bladder infections really easily if we only give him dry. He's always hungry if we only give him wet, and he's overweight so we can't keep giving him more to keep him quiet lol.
We had cats that would gorge themselves on as much food as they could get - to the point that they'd throw up and then be hungry again. It's so much nicer having a self-feeder, and we've had those too. Unfortunately if there's one cat that will eat everything, you can't have food just out for any other cat(s).
Yeah when I first got him he was my first pet as an adult living by myself. He drove me insane with his meowing. I found out that keeping the bowl full would let me get some sleep. He was a 1 year old malnourished rescue so I think he had issues with food insecurity. But I took him to the vet for the first time a couple years ago and they told me he needed to go from his 8kg down to probably about 5kg. So no more full food bowl and back to getting yelled at 24/7. He's 11 now and hasn't changed.
Yeah, that kind of early situation can last forever with a cat he's looking good - you seem like a good pet owner.
My Gigi just turned 16!
This morning my cat came to lay down next to me in bed, in silence until my alarm went off. I snooze 10 minutes, she just stays there politely until I get up. Absolutely cute.
She did beg for a refill after I fed her. Request denied.
I sing the same theme while increasingly physically imposing as the cat realizes she did the remindinf/loitering thing and begs off elsewhere.
Theyve all more or less internalized it but it doesnt always stop them from trying to reestablish peckish order
It's true. If you take the time to get to know your cat, you will pick up on their specific mannerisms and meanings. There's a very clear distinction in a "greeting" meow or one made in pain or fear. I love getting to know all their little quirks and personalities.
Lmao mine literally just asked me to turn on the bathroom tub trickle
My cats make a specific face when they want treats, donβt even need to vocalize.
Although I have learned what it sounds like when one wants her blankets straightened out.
Cat parents?
We raise them, feed them, love them, cuddle them and they end up ungrateful little shits. But we still love them.