My cats have severe hunger issues. Every day (if I am there), around 3PM, Kjartan (the fat one), starts yowling for food non-stop. Normal dinner time is 6PM. He is incredibly pushy and aggressive, not to mention annoying. At most I can get a minute or two of respite by menacing him with the sprayer. Around 4:30 Zeno joins in and adds naughty behavior to the yowling (destruction of plants and jumping on things he isn't supposed to, behavior he doesn't engage in any other time of the day, except for before breakfast).
The yowling builds, and the cats stalk me, raising the noise level and activity any time I make a move in the general direction of the food dish. Also after 5 the annoying yowl n' destroy fest builds.
I always feed them at the same time, and NEVER deviate from this unless I am gone (which is infrequent), so I don't encourage this behaviour. All I can figure out is that by now they thing that they won't get fed unless they act up for three straight hours.
I find myself working late just to avoid my cats, not coming home until it's dinnertime. When I am at home, the only way I can get a moment's peace is by reading, surfing the web, or sleeping/pretending to sleep, and even then, any slightest move I make that could possibly be construed as a move towards the food bowls sets off a chorus again.
Can somebody please give me some advice to help me try and get my afternoons back? (They do the same thing in the morning, and I can only get some sleep with earplugs)
The yowling builds, and the cats stalk me, raising the noise level and activity any time I make a move in the general direction of the food dish. Also after 5 the annoying yowl n' destroy fest builds.
I always feed them at the same time, and NEVER deviate from this unless I am gone (which is infrequent), so I don't encourage this behaviour. All I can figure out is that by now they thing that they won't get fed unless they act up for three straight hours.
I find myself working late just to avoid my cats, not coming home until it's dinnertime. When I am at home, the only way I can get a moment's peace is by reading, surfing the web, or sleeping/pretending to sleep, and even then, any slightest move I make that could possibly be construed as a move towards the food bowls sets off a chorus again.
Can somebody please give me some advice to help me try and get my afternoons back? (They do the same thing in the morning, and I can only get some sleep with earplugs)