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Hi there!
I'm new here, and I was wondering about my seven year old cat Sunshine, but his sister has a similar (though less severe) problem.
When they were two years old, Sunshine was sent to the vet to be catheterized and was sent home later that week. He had urinary crystals blocking him up. The vet said,
"Don't feed him anything except urinary SO by Royal Canin."
She told us to stay away from the dry stuff as well.
So here is my real issue:
No matter what we do, he doesn't stop his quest for a lick of human food, ever.
Leave the room, turn around for a second, and he's got it in his jaw and running. He licks clean plates (I guess because he can smell food through the soap), eats garbage (even the stuff covered in cat litter), and opens our cupboards and drawers to get inside! We have child locks on all our cabinets, and no paint on the bottom of the doors from scratching hopefuls. He eats everything a cat is apparently "not supposed to like" and we have tried everything. He even jumps up on the counter when we are at the table!
We have tried cayenne but they eat that too, (I mean, we cant leave tissues out or we find them in their stool) as well as spray bottles and many other things, and still he persists with this suicide mission!
I don't think they are hungry, as they eat the recommended amount. It is more expensive than we would like as it is, considering we have to feed her the same, or he gets vicious.
I just want to know if there is anything we can do. We already lock up everything, and constantly worrying about it is unneeded stress.
PS: these are cats that eat mesh and lace clothing, whole tissues, most feathers and cat toy parts, paper of all kind, and the list goes on. We once had to pay $2000 to get a penny removed from him!
I'm new here, and I was wondering about my seven year old cat Sunshine, but his sister has a similar (though less severe) problem.
When they were two years old, Sunshine was sent to the vet to be catheterized and was sent home later that week. He had urinary crystals blocking him up. The vet said,
"Don't feed him anything except urinary SO by Royal Canin."
She told us to stay away from the dry stuff as well.
So here is my real issue:
No matter what we do, he doesn't stop his quest for a lick of human food, ever.
Leave the room, turn around for a second, and he's got it in his jaw and running. He licks clean plates (I guess because he can smell food through the soap), eats garbage (even the stuff covered in cat litter), and opens our cupboards and drawers to get inside! We have child locks on all our cabinets, and no paint on the bottom of the doors from scratching hopefuls. He eats everything a cat is apparently "not supposed to like" and we have tried everything. He even jumps up on the counter when we are at the table!
We have tried cayenne but they eat that too, (I mean, we cant leave tissues out or we find them in their stool) as well as spray bottles and many other things, and still he persists with this suicide mission!
I don't think they are hungry, as they eat the recommended amount. It is more expensive than we would like as it is, considering we have to feed her the same, or he gets vicious.
I just want to know if there is anything we can do. We already lock up everything, and constantly worrying about it is unneeded stress.
PS: these are cats that eat mesh and lace clothing, whole tissues, most feathers and cat toy parts, paper of all kind, and the list goes on. We once had to pay $2000 to get a penny removed from him!