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Roommate's cat stealing food from my cat

post #1 of 3
12/8/10 at 11:49am
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Well, Dante and Charlotte have worked out somewhat of a truce now (I've decided she is basically just a grouchy old lady) but....

Charlotte keeps attacking Dante and taking his food. If the catfood I bought him were cheap, I wouldn't mind this so much-- but it's not.-- and she's already overweight. He's on a special diet of grain free food for allergies, and I don't appreciate it when the older cat decides she's going to harass my boy into submission, then chow it all down while I'm not looking. It costs me almost 30 dollars a bag and it's enough that Dante is already a very big cat (Maine Coone). When this happens he wakes me up at 3 am to loudly announce that he didn't get enough to eat last night. Our house is pretty big, and the cats live in the "Main area" which comprises the kitchen, living room, and dining room. Charlotte sleeps and spends most of her time in roommates' bedroom, but dante is not allowed in our bedroom because my boyfriend is mildly allergic.

She's fed plenty-- I guess it's just a dominance thing.
Any way I can keep her from doing it? I've talked to the roomies about this problem and they don't really seem to bother-- but it's not their dime she's gobbling.
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post #2 of 3
12/8/10 at 1:59pm
In my opinion, Charlotte is just being a cat. They don't have the same way of viewing things as people do, nor the same values. I wouldn't be too peeved with her. I'd just try to make it harder for her to eat Dante's food.

I'd find a way to separate them during meal times. I have 5 cats and some have to be locked away from others for 30-60 minutes when they get their wet food meal. At that point it is usually gone, or else it gets thrown out. They also get dry food twice a day, but they all get the same thing then, because it would just be too complicated otherwise. Though they all have their own bowls and they go to them when the food is set down, eventually, before all the food is gone, they all eat out of each others bowls.

Living with roommates always involves a lot of compromises. I hope you can work it out.

Good luck!

Robin
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post #3 of 3
12/8/10 at 2:05pm
You can't feed him in a seperate room, stay in there with him and make sure he eats? That's what I have to do a lot with Midnight, because Luna steals his food. Luna's gotten better since she first came here and doesn't do that as much anymore, but still does it. But when they first came here, I had to seperate them every time they ate. Now we watch them, and just move them back to their own dishes.
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