I am really desperate for help with my cats behaviour. Percy is a rescue we adopted at 6 weeks old. He was abandoned in a box and I think weened too young. He is now 1.5 years.
Percy lives indoors and the issue is around attacking me at night time. Percy would never attack my Male partner only myself. There feels like a hierarchy and only listens to him telling him off.
It started that he would hide under the bed and attack my feet and legs as I would get into bed. We started to feed him some biscuits before bed time and increase play at night to tire him out. It worked a little bit but then another problem started where he will wait until 5 minutes after getting into bed while trying to sleep and attack my head. Pounce out of the blue. Its terrifying and has caused significant bleeding because he pounces with claws out and attacks my face. We don't have any doors in our house but lock him up in the mornings in bathroom because The problem now also happens in the morning but more food related. It seems he is trying to wake me up. He has always had EXTREME food problems and can't control eating. When he was a kitten we had to break it into 6 meals now he manages 2 plus biscuits before bed. I dont know what to do anymore and can't handle it because it affects my sleeping.
He is a big orange tabby cat, desexed. No other issues except his eating. I think he has some anxiety issues however I work from home and he is rarely alone. It is definitely worse if my partner or and I or if I have been out that day or night. He gets pissed off.
Any help would be so appreciated!!! Thank you.
Percy lives indoors and the issue is around attacking me at night time. Percy would never attack my Male partner only myself. There feels like a hierarchy and only listens to him telling him off.
It started that he would hide under the bed and attack my feet and legs as I would get into bed. We started to feed him some biscuits before bed time and increase play at night to tire him out. It worked a little bit but then another problem started where he will wait until 5 minutes after getting into bed while trying to sleep and attack my head. Pounce out of the blue. Its terrifying and has caused significant bleeding because he pounces with claws out and attacks my face. We don't have any doors in our house but lock him up in the mornings in bathroom because The problem now also happens in the morning but more food related. It seems he is trying to wake me up. He has always had EXTREME food problems and can't control eating. When he was a kitten we had to break it into 6 meals now he manages 2 plus biscuits before bed. I dont know what to do anymore and can't handle it because it affects my sleeping.
He is a big orange tabby cat, desexed. No other issues except his eating. I think he has some anxiety issues however I work from home and he is rarely alone. It is definitely worse if my partner or and I or if I have been out that day or night. He gets pissed off.
Any help would be so appreciated!!! Thank you.