Hello,
This is my first post since I didn't really know where else to go for this problem. My cat was a very calm and behaved simese for the past 7 years. He is my favorite animal I've ever owned. For about 6 years, he had no problem with eating just cat food and regularly avoided any human food. About just a year ago, our vet recommended that we stop feeding him hard cat food and began to feed him canned cat food (for digestion issues). Ever since then, my cat started slowly begging for human food and my family would toss him a few pieces during dinner. Now if he ever sees human food, he just keeps meowing and meowing for it. He now has started to hop on our kitchen counters and kitchen tables no matter if we have food on it or not. He even licks dirty dishes. This all upsets my entire family but I can't stand the idea of losing him. He's been with me for a big portion of my life. Any advice is appreciated.
tl:dr my dad is going to get rid of my cat if he doesn't stop going on our kitchen counter and table.
This is my first post since I didn't really know where else to go for this problem. My cat was a very calm and behaved simese for the past 7 years. He is my favorite animal I've ever owned. For about 6 years, he had no problem with eating just cat food and regularly avoided any human food. About just a year ago, our vet recommended that we stop feeding him hard cat food and began to feed him canned cat food (for digestion issues). Ever since then, my cat started slowly begging for human food and my family would toss him a few pieces during dinner. Now if he ever sees human food, he just keeps meowing and meowing for it. He now has started to hop on our kitchen counters and kitchen tables no matter if we have food on it or not. He even licks dirty dishes. This all upsets my entire family but I can't stand the idea of losing him. He's been with me for a big portion of my life. Any advice is appreciated.
tl:dr my dad is going to get rid of my cat if he doesn't stop going on our kitchen counter and table.