We have had our 10 month old rescue cat Sammy for about 4 months now. For some reason he has started waking us around 1am and again at 3.30am for food. When we first got him, we had diarrhoea issues re food intolerance for a couple of months before we stabilised him. He eats a commercial UK brand called Felix which is plain meat in jelly and a few kibbles Royal Canin Sensible 33. The kibbles are only given usually once a day as a "treat" (he likes biscuits) and not as a regular plateful of food. I know that grains are no good for cats, but we had so many problems with diarrhoea when we first got him due to food intolerance, currently we are not wanting to upset his digestion again.
Has anyone any ideas for how we can break him of this habit. He comes into the bedroom, and starts jumping on the bed, jumps off, goes downstairs, then comes back and does it all over again. This continues until my husband or myself goes and feeds him. We tried locking him out of the bedroom yesterday and he became very stressed and upset and pooped on the bathroom floor and urinated on our sofa as a result. We left the door open last night and he has not repeated this behaviour.
We have a senior cat, and both cats get on very well together. The eating problem is compounded by the fact that you cannot really feed one cat without feeding the other, although Timmy, the senior cat, does not have the same behaviour as Sammy.
I would be grateful for any help.
Thanks.
Has anyone any ideas for how we can break him of this habit. He comes into the bedroom, and starts jumping on the bed, jumps off, goes downstairs, then comes back and does it all over again. This continues until my husband or myself goes and feeds him. We tried locking him out of the bedroom yesterday and he became very stressed and upset and pooped on the bathroom floor and urinated on our sofa as a result. We left the door open last night and he has not repeated this behaviour.
We have a senior cat, and both cats get on very well together. The eating problem is compounded by the fact that you cannot really feed one cat without feeding the other, although Timmy, the senior cat, does not have the same behaviour as Sammy.
I would be grateful for any help.
Thanks.