First, sorry for the long post here. I'm sort of at my wit's end with this and figured I should put as many details as possible here to find the root of the issue.
I own two cats. One cat, Theo, is a 2 year old male that we adopted just a year ago (today even, I think). He has all kinds of behavioral problems. He's a big, sweet, orange and white cat that loves a lot of attention but plays a bit too roughly. As a result, my other cat seems to alternate from thinking he's OK to flat out hating him.
My other cat is a black, 3 year old female cat named Moon. While Theo's behavior is always bad, we've come to expect it from him. It's Moon's recent behavior that is bothering me. When she was just a year old she was diagnosed as having recurring UTIs. This has been a real problem for us and for poor Moon and she has to go to the vet regularly for it because her body keeps making painful crystals. She also just recently was diagnosed as having kitty asthma. Poor kitty! The vet suggested that we try to make her lose some weight because cats who are overweight tend to be more at risk for things like UTIs and asthma. She was 12 pounds and we've got her at about 10 now.
The way we've been feeding them is that we give them about a cup of the dry food in the morning and we split a big can of wet food at night.
Now here comes the problems. For the past three weeks our usually well-behaved Moon cat has outdone herself in being bad! She has been scratching at doors to get them open (I rent a place so this is not good), but doesn't want to go through them. She just wants them open. She finds boxes and rips them to shreds. If one of my roommates leaves out a bag of chips or the bread, she tears through the plastic with her teeth and leaves bits of the plastic remains all over the apartment- but she doesn't eat the food at all. She does the same thing with the trashcan. She'll knock it over after we're asleep (she NEVER does this when we're awake- and I know it's her because I've caught her twice when I got up to go to the bathroom). Then, instead of eating food inside it like you'd think she'd do... she starts ripping apart the trash bag and pulls out boxes and other plastic bags from the trash can and starts ripping those up too. I woke up this morning to the trash can spilling out all kinds of gross food all over the kitchen floor and the trash bag ripped to shreds- and a Poptart box completely destroyed.
Does anyone have any idea why she's doing this?? She's usually so well-behaved!
I own two cats. One cat, Theo, is a 2 year old male that we adopted just a year ago (today even, I think). He has all kinds of behavioral problems. He's a big, sweet, orange and white cat that loves a lot of attention but plays a bit too roughly. As a result, my other cat seems to alternate from thinking he's OK to flat out hating him.
My other cat is a black, 3 year old female cat named Moon. While Theo's behavior is always bad, we've come to expect it from him. It's Moon's recent behavior that is bothering me. When she was just a year old she was diagnosed as having recurring UTIs. This has been a real problem for us and for poor Moon and she has to go to the vet regularly for it because her body keeps making painful crystals. She also just recently was diagnosed as having kitty asthma. Poor kitty! The vet suggested that we try to make her lose some weight because cats who are overweight tend to be more at risk for things like UTIs and asthma. She was 12 pounds and we've got her at about 10 now.
The way we've been feeding them is that we give them about a cup of the dry food in the morning and we split a big can of wet food at night.
Now here comes the problems. For the past three weeks our usually well-behaved Moon cat has outdone herself in being bad! She has been scratching at doors to get them open (I rent a place so this is not good), but doesn't want to go through them. She just wants them open. She finds boxes and rips them to shreds. If one of my roommates leaves out a bag of chips or the bread, she tears through the plastic with her teeth and leaves bits of the plastic remains all over the apartment- but she doesn't eat the food at all. She does the same thing with the trashcan. She'll knock it over after we're asleep (she NEVER does this when we're awake- and I know it's her because I've caught her twice when I got up to go to the bathroom). Then, instead of eating food inside it like you'd think she'd do... she starts ripping apart the trash bag and pulls out boxes and other plastic bags from the trash can and starts ripping those up too. I woke up this morning to the trash can spilling out all kinds of gross food all over the kitchen floor and the trash bag ripped to shreds- and a Poptart box completely destroyed.
Does anyone have any idea why she's doing this?? She's usually so well-behaved!
