Tilly Lu is 3 years old(indoors only;spayed about a year ago, never was pregnant), I've had her since she was about 6 months old.
She started off "free feeding" with a quality dry food, but recently(6-8 months ago) switched to homemade food- boiled chicken, fish, occasional beets and butternut squash. (She also gets GNC Pets multivitamin from Petsmart.)
Around the same time we made the switch, Tilly started becoming very aggressive near meal time. Starting at about an hour before breakfast/dinner, she begins meowing very loudly and progresses into trying to start fights with my dogs(thankfully, they do a pretty good job of resisting) and scratching at my partner and I. If she gets especially worked up, she pees/poops on the spot. After she eats, she's back to her normal self.
After watching a few episodes of My Cat From Hell, we established several high places for her to get on both in the kitchen and in the loft, as well as providing her with a variety of toys. Nothing seems to have helped.
We're pretty much exhausted with all of this, and have no idea how we can stabilize her. It's stressful for the entire household, and honestly isn't sustainable.
Any ideas on what's going on and how we can remedy? I'm open to any and all suggestions at this point.
Thank you.
She started off "free feeding" with a quality dry food, but recently(6-8 months ago) switched to homemade food- boiled chicken, fish, occasional beets and butternut squash. (She also gets GNC Pets multivitamin from Petsmart.)
Around the same time we made the switch, Tilly started becoming very aggressive near meal time. Starting at about an hour before breakfast/dinner, she begins meowing very loudly and progresses into trying to start fights with my dogs(thankfully, they do a pretty good job of resisting) and scratching at my partner and I. If she gets especially worked up, she pees/poops on the spot. After she eats, she's back to her normal self.
After watching a few episodes of My Cat From Hell, we established several high places for her to get on both in the kitchen and in the loft, as well as providing her with a variety of toys. Nothing seems to have helped.
We're pretty much exhausted with all of this, and have no idea how we can stabilize her. It's stressful for the entire household, and honestly isn't sustainable.
Any ideas on what's going on and how we can remedy? I'm open to any and all suggestions at this point.
Thank you.