Its so cool to see Yige and Justin on here! For anyone who doesn't know, these two run the satellite nursery at Orphan Kitten Club, which is Kitten Lady's rescue organization!
This gave me an immediate flashback to when my cat jumped up and snatched my bacon off my plate a few months ago. The determination that cats have to get what they want is super strong lol
Imagine struggling with that everyday lol my cat will search the trash for anything that smells good including bread, milk or even chocolate (omg no...)
@@TheLily97232 Both my children went through the trash as toddlers.. y'know, like we didn't feed them or something!... Safe to say, the bin went and lived in the downstairs washroom.. with the door shut (at least they were too little to reach door handles!!) LOL!
My cat goes crazy for yogurt. He will be begging like a dog first. Then really tries to get in our faces. I don't know why he is this obsessed because we never gave him any. But perhaps he sneaked some got the taste and now yogurt is his jackpot...
I got distracted scrolling my phone one day, and was holding a chicken nugget in my hand... my cat just snuck up behind me over my shoulder and ninja'd that nugget RIGHT out of my hand in a second. xD
Just adopted a black kitten and is helping with my depression caused by this stressful year. I think it was time after having my baby Obelisk for 13 years passed away 2 years ago 😔. Just subscribed and I'm looking forward to all the lessons! Blessed day for everyone 🤗
Our cat of 19 years died two years ago and after this stressful year we knew we were ready to bring another cat into our lives. We just adopted a 1-yr old male who we call Buddy and he has brought so much happiness to everyone in our household. Cats are the best!
the grief is the worst. i am so sorry! adopting a new baby never replaces another. all pets & people have their own love & personalities. your lost one is not forgotten bc you adopted a new one. enjoy the new one, nothing you can do. yall will bond & have your own new experience! xoxo
Leslie Ann the two kittens I adopted have definitely helped me threw this year. I have been unemployed for 6 months now due to covid and without them I’d sleep all day. They give me a lot of joy
awww I also adopted a black kitten, she's our house panther! haha She was just around 7 weeks old and Jackson's vids definitely helped me and Arya to settle in and work on mojo! Keeping my fingers crossed for you and your panther
My ginger boy Pancakes (~8-9-10ish) had to be put down two weeks ago (fluid on the lungs). Last Saturday we went to a shelter and brought home my gorgeous tabby girl Bonnie~ She's 2 and she's definitely helping me get through the hell year that is 2020. She's so smoochy!
My cat got ahold of a KFC chicken wing once and he went FERAL when I tried to take it away from him. The minute I got it from him he got completely calm and looked up at me with super innocent eyes. It was kind of funny. Also I think in the heat of the moment he thought I was one of the other cats trying to steal it from him.
Sometimes they just get in the zone and don't notice who or what is around them. My kitten will attack his tail, then realize it's his tail and start grooming it. 😆
Yes my cat too! She just sits and stares at you until you offer her some of your food. Then she slowly creeps closer and tries to steal it when your not looking. We really shouldn't, but we always offer to let her sniff our food and lick our plates after we are finished. She loves it.
I've seen that kind of behavior in a cat that had been forced to compete with other cats for food. They had been kept in cages and food may be dropped in once in awhile for them to fight over. They person that was doing that eventually tossed that cats outside because they as she said get too mean and would let her hold them. Well I wonder why? Maybe because she was torturing them. Anyway the one that the people I used to live with wound up with after finding her in a trash can in the coldest November we'd had in decades was like this with any food even if she was fed plenty of food. She never got over her earlier days when she had to fight for food with her siblings and momma. I think about that cat often and hope she finally found peace someplace
Yes! My cat is obsessed with every kind of sweet bread. Muffins, cinnamon buns, croissants, you name it. Best of all is that he's allergic to wheat. I have to try to eat them when he's sleeping or it's a constant battle to keep him away.
Pizza Chinese stew peas carrots fruit noodles gravy salad cream onion rings chickpeas mushrooms, crisps bread mine is an absolute nightmare! Will chew her own food packets open, I have to have eyes in the back of my head! Steals the other cats food nags all day literally for food 😊
I had a cat that did that. He was abandoned as a 4 week old kitten, and I raised him. Here's what I did: I gave Artie (my kittie) his own feeding territory--a bowl that was off limits to everyone else. Allow him to have a very small amount of human food if it is something a cat can digest. He lived to be 18, and we were devastated when he died.
We have a roughly 1 year old with the same background. The issue is, she finishes her food in half a second and sprints to steal the food from our other very polite cat. The problem cat will even abandon her food before it is gone to go steal the other cats food if she knows you're feeding her somewhere. Sorry about your cat
I had the same problem. Rescued two kittens and their mom. They were all scrawny and undernourished, and the food obsession continued even now years later. They’re at a healthy weight and fed good canned food. But one hour before feeding time the chorus begins, and if one doesn’t finish in time, they’ll lose out. It was quite an investment, but I bought microchip feeders for all 3 of them. This keeps everyone on their own food, and everyone gets the right amount. It’s been really helpful when I’ve used a pet sitter and the shy-er youngsters don’t lose out on their food when their more social mom comes out for the sitter. The feeders are around $200 each, but definitely worth it!
I have a food obsessed cat. Although she still hangs around and tries to eat our food, her behavior has calmed down a lot due to these things. 1. Automatic Pet Food Feeder. Small meals and routine works for her!! She even takes herself to bed after the last feeding of the day 😊 2. Wet Cat food once a day. She gets hype (meowing loudly and insistantl) but that’s as extreme as she gets. 3. She loves to perch on the fridge while we cook. She gets to watch us but is out of the way. We have to stay in the kitchen or else she will try to eat the food, but that is just fine. 4. Always keep the kitchen clean and food put away. She will still try to eat our food if we let her, but she is so much less intense about it. And we can cook without her freaking out the way she used to. Hope this helps!!
Strangely enough, the feral two kittens that I caught have been the best adjusted cats personality-wise, with the best mojo, compared to cats that we have adopted from people in the past. Maybe those ferals just simply had more socialization from their mothers and brothers/sisters.
Feral cats in urban settings tend to live in colonies. Sometimes, those colonies are fed by locals. It's very possible your former feral kittens were from such a colony, where good food manners and behavior is rewarded.
My cat use to be like this....her story was that she was starving when they found her. She is much better and has stopped this behavior. It took time and scheduling. I had to make sure she was feed everyday at the same times so she started knowing she is going to eat and stopped trying to eat my food. We did have a couple of fights: she stole my food and I chased her down and took it from her. But with time she has gotten comfortable and knows human food is not an option and her food will be there. She still eats things left out, so I’ve become a neater human. So good things are happening.
I know you usually don’t recommend treating cats like dogs, but I’ve found training my cats to do tricks for treats is a fun and budget-friendly alternative to puzzle toys. It gives me time to bond with them, and it’s so fun to watch the gears turning in their little heads.
I do this with all three of my cats. Most of the training is just a simple sit and come commands but it works. Also instead of using treats, I often use different sounds to call them home/closer to get them. They for some reason like my peafowl imitation call. x3
Jackson has actually mentioned clicker training before and even has a video about it :) so he would probably totally agree with you that learning tricks is a great cat activity
Actually Jackson does recommend traning cats at least to socialize them and modify their behavior. The whole Cat Pawstive Program for shelters is based on that.
lych green happens to be my favorite color! 💚 but I think I just get more of a relaxed vibe with the purple and lava lamp! 💜 both are great backgrounds 🙂
I've wanted to know about this myself. I adopted a brother and sister who were rescued from a hoarding house not longing after moving out of my parent's house. Everything was normal at first, but as I started baking and eating more desserts, my girl started trying to eat everything that had sugar in it. She'd try to drink sweetened tea, ice cream, cake, pie, muffins... literally anything baked or sweet. Not aggressively, but really persistently. I though cats couldn't taste sweet, so I am so confused why she loves these things. She also likes chewing on plastics and certain fabrics. I have to keep the grocery bags locked up in the kitchen and throw away any packaging that comes. I think I'll try those food puzzles.
She may also have PICA, as Jackson talked about in this video. If that's the case, then you might want to use the yes/no technique to introduce her to cat grass.
Usually cats do not taste sweet but its a pretty common gebetic mutation that they can taste sweet. I have a sugar-boi myself. No interest in most "human" food but will fight you do a pastry!
Wow. Our new kitten Emmit was found alone, fostered alone, totally acts like this! OMG. We followed your guide to base camp progression for socialization but always hit a snag with food. The food puzzles look like a good solution to help. Thank you for posting ❤️
Make a video about the danger of using cayenne or chili pepper as a deterrent for your cat. I've heard this suggested so many times to keep cats away from a multitude of things. But I didn't know until recently that cats can easily get it on their paw and then later wipe it in their eyes or nose or get it in their mouths while grooming themselves. Tell everyone not to use pepper in their gardens or houseplants
Hiya!! Thanks for tip. What's the best thing to use? If u know. I've tried the sprays at the store, citrus smell but my cat loves it n is not deterred at all
A friend's cat was super aggressive about bread, and also really clever about getting it. The only safe place to store it was inside the microwave or the fridge, since he couldn't physically open them. He was rescued after being abandoned in the middle of winter, so most likely it was related to trauma from nearly starving.
Wheat is usually bad for cats ( in general)-- my cat is crazy about wheat/ bread too but ...sooner or later she gets sick. I guess it is sort like us humans who may enjoy foods bad for us & want to eat even if we are intolerant or have an allergy to eat. Try showing your friend this video?? giving meat based treats like freeze dried chicken/duck/beef/etc to break your friend's kitty's addiction to bread? Plus obviously all the tips that Jackson Galaxy gave really work ( i tried them & still practice them now).
Since adopting my two kittens Ive always let them sniff whatever Im eating or cooking. I think it is slowly helping them learn that yes! This is not yours, but you are still an equal in this house that can look at what I’m eating. (They also don’t dart for the food as much.) The look on their faces when they sniff an orange is hilarious though! 😂
My cat is obsessed with my cheerios in the morning. I had to relocate where I eat my breakfast in the morning. Not other food, just cheerios in skim milk. He is a stray rescue kitten.
Thanks so much for your videos. Me and my fiancé adopted two kittens this summer while we already had a two year old rescue and we got all the help from your videos ! Loved the introduction of cats into household video and the one on cat sounds . My cat Trills all day and just thought he didn’t know how to meow 😸 but now know he is just very happy and excited like a kid. Also the advice at the end about playing to get energy out is key 🔑 So many people wonder why they have a “bad kitty” that bites and scratches and jumps all over them...they need to get that energy out!!
Love how thorough you approached this topic!! Just adopted a sweet kitty who was found in a business park. She loves attention but is also a “Wallflower “ kitty. 3 years old TNR’d and finally up for adoption at a rescue in Texas. Other cats picked on her at the shelter probably because she growls when she’s anxious or around food. We are only on day three but making good progress. She is our only pet and will eventually learn she is safe and will not go hungry. Loves belly rubs and head butts us for attention. Has her own room right now but we are bringing her out for short visits and extra playtime.
My cat Nacho came into the house when he was 8 years old. We don't really know how he grew up, but he was very skinny and showed dog behaviour. He was obsessed of food. My first cat accepted him, but became stressed out on feeding time too. They both eat in different rooms since then for the last 2 years. Food puzzles aren't enough. We hear him growling and meowing in the other room because food is not coming out fast enough. Nacho is still faster with dinner time than the other cat and so he starts scratching the door and making really loud noises because he wants to come out. Once I open the door after the other cat is ready, Nacho storms out to see if there are any crumbs left. Nothing can stop him. Even if we wait another hour to let Nacho out, he will still be focused to find some food. Sometimes it's making me crazy!
Thanks for the info and advice. We have a couple of aggressive cats in our house. We keep them separate from each other but they still try to fight through the doors. Eagle is more aggressive than Rosie is or rather he is more destructive. We have just started using one of those kitty calming diffusers. It’s only been a couple of days though. We have one diffuser in the boys room and one in the living room. We are thinking of putting one in the girls room too. The boys stay in their room during the day and the girls have the run of the house. Then we switch them and the girls stay in their room at night and the boys have the run of the house. We have also instigated a play session each night with Eagle to help get his energy out. I’ll let you know if his behavior improves.
You’d think that fried chicken was heroin the way my cats become very aggressive when they get a hold of it. They act like a couple of crack addicts anxious for a hit. But definitely not as intense that Ollie has.
My mom's cat once snatched a quesadilla right off my plate when I got up for a second! He also chewed through a plastic container to get to some pizzele cookies. It's not something he does often and he's not aggressive about it...you just can't leave food unattended around him!
This was many years ago, my sister had accidentally dropped her burrito and her little kitty at the time, turned into a lion, and was devouring the heck out of it until she was able to get it from her. It was cute and scary at the same time...lol
Our cat goes crazy for bread. After grocery shopping we have to put the bread away immediately or she will rip open the wrapper and start chowing down.
There's a type of training they could try, where you get cooked chicken and tell the cat to "drop it"-the toast. When the cat will spit out the bread and go for the chicken instead, you praise it and let it eat the chicken. It worked wonders on my pet and her food aggression.
My rescue cat def has food insecurity issues. So she will try to get my food and gulps down her own food so I’ve found food puzzles really help and several smaller meals at first when I got her. But now that she’s been with me for two months she is getting more food secure. She’s not as OCD about her food and sometimes prefers her toys over the treats. Hooray. But she is a work in progress as are we all. But I’m pleased with how the hunt, kill, eat strategy is working for her. She wakes me up every morning next to her toy toy box ready to play. 😊
my cat Simba rejects anything that aren't cat food. i've tried boiled chicken, beef, kangaroo meat, raw salmon etc. he's not eating any of them. i know it's great that he doesn't eat "human food". but i couldn't help but feel guilty as i pour the same food into his bowl for the 1000th time...
My kittens will eat anything My Bella (2yrs) will not eat human food so when I go kittens I was surprised 😮 I also felt bad that she ate same thing I did find treats that are fun to give and more like human food by whole hearted . They have salmon , chicken and tuna chunks that are all real meat and then squeeze tubes of yougurt like treat that she lives too. They are around $2-$3 each but petco has them on sale a lot . Try them out
@@justmelisa5822 We've just rescused a new kitten my son named Bella. She loves people food. She's so quick and steals food off my plate!! Lmao. She's a booger. She loves green beans. She wants to try everything we eat.
You could maybe give him some variety in meats when giving him wet food. I always get a box with meats like rabbit, trout and veal, and my kittens love it!
My Sheba is the same - the only thing she likes is Maple syrup - I leave the food out for her which I know is 'bad' but she grazes most of the day and a cup (250 ML) of food lasts her two days - I wish she would eat more but it is what it is.
Our cat constantly meows and begs for food. Vet check says she's physically okay. Going to try extra play and some harder food puzzles. She was a rescue and I always called it food anxiety... she has been forced to worry about where her next meal is coming from. Although, she still turns her nose up at dry food oddly? Thanks for this video!!!!
Funny story: Both of my cats are rescues that were born in feral colonies. One lived in a storm drain outside of a Thai restaurant and the waitresses used to feed her before my friend got her off the street and adopted her out to me. To this day, I can not bring any Thai food into the house- she goes COMPLETELY CRAZY and won't take "no" for an answer! Of course, you can imagine giving curry chicken to a cat is not a good idea for a LOT of reasons...so the result is I have to eat Thai in the restaurant and no leftovers can come home!
My four-week-old foster kitten is a resource guarder. Not with toys or anything like that but with human food, his cat food, and treats. He was a singleton and emaciated when I found him and since he's a foster I really wanna somehow kick the behavior in the butt or learn how to manage it so I can either help his future adopters know how to manage it. My one other cat doesn't bother him and is actually really respectful of his food and we started crate training for his breakfast and dinner which helps a bit but he still snatches and growls with treats and bites when you're trying to give it to him. This video made me think maybe I can also only give him treats through puzzled and doing small meals will help. I cross my fingers that it will help!
I taught my son to give our kitten brothers some pets when they ate so they wouldn’t growl. Well Mars took it a step further and invited you to dine with him (pet him) when he ate. He would be so happy and do a figure 8 walk around you and go back to the bowl purring loudly. Man do I miss that (both brothers passed in 2015).
Brothers kitty was very young and he was doing that stealing food the same thing. The problem is they were not feeding that kitty enough quality food he was not getting enough food for as energetic as he was. Also they were using cheap food with a lot of fillers. So once they started free feeding quality dry available all times & 2/3 times quality wet the kitty until he was at least 7-12 months old. Vet should definitely tell you same, free fed kitten first 7 to12 months.
Really great video! This one was the best so far for us personally. That puzzle website, very helpful! I had been making a bunch at home and they have not been very good.
My late darling, Patches, developed the same habit, it got to the point where she was trying to steal food from your hands as you were eating. Then she lost 90% of her weight in a few days. Rushed her to the vet, and she had severe diabetes. Sadly, they were not able to regulate her blood sugar. 💔
Great video and explains so much about my new kitten! He was found at 5 weeks old, alone and underweight. I was fostering him but have now adopted him. He was very aggressive and growling at all wand toys. That has subsided quite a bit. But he still wants any food I am eating! He’s 13 weeks old so hopefully I can use your tips to break this habit soon!
If that behavior have a pretty sudden onset it could be hypertyreosis. DO go to the vet for a healthtest and bloodtest if it lasts more than 2 weeks. Thyroid illness is a very common silent killer in adult cats.
Other reasons can be that the cat was the runt of the litter and had to compete with his litter mates in order to survive. Or it could be that he was once a stray and has experienced some level of starvation. It’s most likely an anxiety driven behaviour. My cat Berlioz is food aggressive, and he was a stray when he was a young kitten, and was likely the runt. I decided to feed my cats 3 times a day instead of twice. They already get fed in separate rooms, and I’m going to increase the amount I feed him a little bit to help him feel full. 😺
My cat is obsessed with any kind of starch or fat. He loves oil so much he’ll lick drops of cooking oil off towels. I was using some old coconut oil as a hair mask and put some moldy chunks of the coconut oil into the trash can. Didn’t realize what would happen. Half an hour later my cat dug through the trash and ate it. I tried to sleep and woke up to him licking my plastic wrapped hair
3 food covers and a metal food safe here. He worked out how to lift the blue one. Atleast he doesnt drag steaks off my plate now while I'm cutting them!
My friend got puzzle toy feeders for her rabbits... one of them heaved a sigh at the idea of having to WORK for his food and just stared at her sadly til she dumped the food out. Another basically ripped the toy apart to get to the treat inside, but never actually figured it out, she just fussed over it til she got it open... The third bunny though... oh man. That rabbit. We never thought he was super smart or anything, because he's... a weird rabbit. Doesn't really act like most rabbits because he grew up rather feral and never got proper socializing with other bunnies or with people. He is EXTREMELY food motivated... and he figured out the easy, medium and hardest modes of that puzzle in MINUTES. And repeated the actions over and over again. He was ON IT. So we realized he is super smart... my friend is now working with him to train him to do all kinds of tricks as part of his socialization training!
All our stray kittens do it although I usually find them between ages 4 - 10 weeks... The one making the sound usually claws whoever (cat siblings) is beside... the bowls are always a couple of feet from one another AND I feed them after playing. This doesn't apply to pellies, they don't mind sharing from the same bowl (always available when they are kittens, then they only have it during the day so I can sleep at night...)
This video is exactly my cat. She's very horrible with food. I never realized it was a thing. She will rip open packages of sealed food. She growls and gets mad when you take things away from her. We have to have a garbage with a lid and lock it up in the cupboard cause she's into our garbage. She also has a huge issue with chewing up silicones and rubbers. Pot and pan handles, soles of our shoes, crocs. I never know it was a real thing. She loves food puzzles and is very food motivated and does a bunch of tricks. She's 5 years now and has really simmered down. She came from a BYB with a bit of an overcrowded setting and taken from mom early. So now I know that it is likely the cause.
I just brought two stray cats into my house, they are both females at estimated 5-6 months old. They have already learned that I can leave food bowls out all day and they will only eat when they are hungry and won’t shovel all the food down in one go. They don’t fight for food and they both have their own bowls. As of today one of the females started going crazy over people food, anything I’m eating she tries HARD to get. It’s only the one female and she doesn’t get aggressive, just very persistent on getting the food. She isn’t this way with anything else, just human food.
Kiki, Suzi and Matt the Cat all know what is theirs & what isn't. They know the command SIT must be followed before getting any food or treats. They also know that they can make me ask them if they want treats.
Dear Jackson, You should really review/react to Rachel and Jun/Rachel and Jun’s Adventures; they’re really caring cat guardians and I wanna hear what they do right
I think I need to message Jackson. We have a little girl (Wednesday) who has similar food issues. But, she sneaks and steals. She waits until we're not paying attention and pulls food out of Kitchen cupboards, off of the counter. She never fights us to take it away... But, we've had to secure cabinets and ALWAYS put food away.
my foster kitten doesn't get aggressive, but he does get very desperate, especially for my vegan yogurt, ice cream, & milk, he'll constantly try to get to my food to the point where i have to stand up & eat. he was rescued at 8 weeks old, so that probably explains it. i'm using some of the tools you mention here because i've read your book, & our situation is already improving after just a few weeks, he is in love with the puzzle toys 💛
My cat wanders around with one of her toys if she feels abandoned (which she does all the time, like leaving a room and then complaining that everyone is gone.) She will carry the toy until she finds us and then drops it. Our older cat, who didnt like or notice human food at all until the younger cat clued her in, is now obsessed with our food. She complains about her food if we are cooking something that smells better than that.
This actually ONLY started happening, with my 7yr old, after she got fixed. She would do it, before that, only when she would catch a mouse. She's "semi-feral" (but, not so much anymore...Thanks @Jackson Galaxy !) But....I'm wondering if she totally freaked when we took her food away the night before the surgery. Now, mix in the hormonal changes?? idk. She was raised by dogs, so now....anything that lands on the floor is hers. lol! She's getting fat. We've been having her sit for food. We'll be adding further exercise, for extra food.
I love that trixie puzzle feeder, it really made our cat Trixie think to get her food. To get her to quit scarf and barfing, we put her food in a paper bowl (mostly dry kibble but some wet with water, because we're trying to get her weight up) on top of a boot tray with her water dispenser. The paper bowl doesn't really have any friction against the tray, so she has to kinda chase the kibble not only around her larger bowl, but also chase the bowl around the tray kind of. It's a little entertaining. :)
People raising single kittens need to take the responsibility to teach them much as their mother would. We have always redirected bad behavior with a firm but gentle no and a tap on the nose. Then moving them to what they can... eat...scratch...hunt. This is yours we would say. I'm proud to say we have never had a cat who scratched the furniture, begged for food or was temper driven. Perhaps we were just lucky.
Hi Jackson, I'm between the need of stopping the feeding aggression of my rescued kitten and the need of training him to my presence. Usually I would use feeding time to start touching him, but he's really aggressive as soon as we get the food.
We adopted a couple of very young rescues & the tiny female would climb up your arm, sit on your shoulder & try to get food out of your mouth. She wanted to be hand fed human food on the shoulder at dinner time. We suspected that someone had been feeding her human food on the shoulder because she was sooooo cute. She grew up to mostly like cat food & normal things like crab & BBQ chicken.
I adopted a rescue cat who was on the streets with her mother until she was 7 months old, and was in foster care for 2 months before I adopted her. She is food insecure for sure, and I also have another cat who is not food insecure. Thank you for your tips, I ordered a puzzle toy and I do try to play with her, but I can ramp that up. I’m also attempting to clicker train her.
I don't know my cats full backstory; I got her as a feral kitten from someone who was hoarding animals with their own little makeshift "rescue", the animals were all in poor health. She's horrible about food; she will break into cabinets to steal our food, steal food off of a hot pan, and overall be very dangerous for herself
You can get freeze dried meats for treats that can be torn up. They are good for allergy kitties two because they are only one ingredient so if you know it is a safe ingredient for your cat you can be confident with it.
My cat legit scratches my leg like a cat tree trying to get my food then gets cranky with me when I have to push her off the kitchen tops (which she isn’t allowed to do). She hates being told no. She will leave her own food and comes for mine She even will finish her food then try to get more food immediately after despite she has a full belly
My Sweet Baby Boy grabbed string cheese out of my son’s hand and threw it on the floor. Then he sat there looking at him like “what are ya gonna do?” He didn’t eat it, he doesn’t even like it 🤣😂
My kitten was a bottle baby, he’s about 9 weeks right now and oh my god he is a psycho. Any and all food is a trigger. It’s scary and he scratches and bites me over food. The dishes, the trash, anything. We feed him separately from our older cat because he eats so fast to eat my other cats food. He eats like four times a day. I don’t give him anything or feed him human foods because I don’t want to encourage the behavior but I can’t eat anything around him. Treats are a scary thing for us, because he will attack us for anything we have. He bit my toe one time because he thought it might be chicken that fell off the counter.
I’m dealing with 2 cats that have this issue. They snatch food only when I am not around, they also act as if they are starving even after meals constantly begging for food bolting into kitchen meowing getting in my way making me trip every time I get near the kitchen and honestly it’s getting on my nerves! I am beginning to resent these cats like I don’t want them in my home. No one should have to deal with that.
i'll be honest, the same thing happens to me with my cat and occasionally i'd be at my wit's end and splash him with water from the sink. i felt terrible whenever i did it, but now he stays away from the kitchen whenever the water's running
Our local outdoor kitty doesn’t like ppl food. She doesn’t even like wet cat food. Been feeding her dry food since she was younger and that’s what she likes. She grazes all day and will fight other cats to the death to protect it! The neighbors leave wet food out for her but she won’t eat it. I’ve tried giving her ppl food and she’ll ONLY eat fish. 🐟
We had a cat who would draw blood to steal cantaloupe. It was really scary the way she would fly across the room and snatch the melon out of our hands! If you tried to take it back she would attack with full claws and barred teeth!
I know it's a problem for the owners, but I really want to see more Ollie eating food videos 😂
He is super cute
Yes! Me too lol
My cat use to growl an hiss like that over food
No matter how annoying it is our cats will always be cute.
It is so cute to watch admittedly, but can be adverse re cat's health.
Its so cool to see Yige and Justin on here! For anyone who doesn't know, these two run the satellite nursery at Orphan Kitten Club, which is Kitten Lady's rescue organization!
How cool of them 🥰
This gave me an immediate flashback to when my cat jumped up and snatched my bacon off my plate a few months ago. The determination that cats have to get what they want is super strong lol
Imagine struggling with that everyday lol my cat will search the trash for anything that smells good including bread, milk or even chocolate (omg no...)
@@TheLily97232 Both my children went through the trash as toddlers.. y'know, like we didn't feed them or something!... Safe to say, the bin went and lived in the downstairs washroom.. with the door shut (at least they were too little to reach door handles!!) LOL!
My cat goes crazy for yogurt. He will be begging like a dog first. Then really tries to get in our faces. I don't know why he is this obsessed because we never gave him any. But perhaps he sneaked some got the taste and now yogurt is his jackpot...
@@mignonhagemeijer3726 lol😁
I got distracted scrolling my phone one day, and was holding a chicken nugget in my hand... my cat just snuck up behind me over my shoulder and ninja'd that nugget RIGHT out of my hand in a second. xD
Just adopted a black kitten and is helping with my depression caused by this stressful year. I think it was time after having my baby Obelisk for 13 years passed away 2 years ago 😔. Just subscribed and I'm looking forward to all the lessons! Blessed day for everyone 🤗
Our cat of 19 years died two years ago and after this stressful year we knew we were ready to bring another cat into our lives. We just adopted a 1-yr old male who we call Buddy and he has brought so much happiness to everyone in our household. Cats are the best!
the grief is the worst. i am so sorry! adopting a new baby never replaces another. all pets & people have their own love & personalities. your lost one is not forgotten bc you adopted a new one. enjoy the new one, nothing you can do. yall will bond & have your own new experience! xoxo
Leslie Ann the two kittens I adopted have definitely helped me threw this year. I have been unemployed for 6 months now due to covid and without them I’d sleep all day. They give me a lot of joy
awww I also adopted a black kitten, she's our house panther! haha She was just around 7 weeks old and Jackson's vids definitely helped me and Arya to settle in and work on mojo! Keeping my fingers crossed for you and your panther
My ginger boy Pancakes (~8-9-10ish) had to be put down two weeks ago (fluid on the lungs). Last Saturday we went to a shelter and brought home my gorgeous tabby girl Bonnie~ She's 2 and she's definitely helping me get through the hell year that is 2020. She's so smoochy!
My cat got ahold of a KFC chicken wing once and he went FERAL when I tried to take it away from him. The minute I got it from him he got completely calm and looked up at me with super innocent eyes. It was kind of funny.
Also I think in the heat of the moment he thought I was one of the other cats trying to steal it from him.
Sometimes they just get in the zone and don't notice who or what is around them. My kitten will attack his tail, then realize it's his tail and start grooming it. 😆
Normal'sWayOverrated haha once my kitten did that and bit his own tail too hard and yelped. I was like yeah you bite too hard now you know how I feel!
So... What did you do with the wing after you took it back?
My cat is very polite she wont force herself on you for your food or take it when you're not looking she just sits down and stares at you 😂
Omg mine too. She just wants to smell it most of the time but if I don’t offer a bite she gets mad 😂
I forget where I heard this, but dogs will beg for food while cats just stare at you until you do the right thing :)
Lmao my catboy did it too xD but that only happens if he's very hungry. He will follow u around and rub himself on your leg until you give him food xD
Yes my cat too! She just sits and stares at you until you offer her some of your food. Then she slowly creeps closer and tries to steal it when your not looking. We really shouldn't, but we always offer to let her sniff our food and lick our plates after we are finished. She loves it.
I've seen that kind of behavior in a cat that had been forced to compete with other cats for food. They had been kept in cages and food may be dropped in once in awhile for them to fight over. They person that was doing that eventually tossed that cats outside because they as she said get too mean and would let her hold them. Well I wonder why? Maybe because she was torturing them. Anyway the one that the people I used to live with wound up with after finding her in a trash can in the coldest November we'd had in decades was like this with any food even if she was fed plenty of food. She never got over her earlier days when she had to fight for food with her siblings and momma. I think about that cat often and hope she finally found peace someplace
Oh my god
That's absolutely disgusting. People make me fucking sick the way they treat innocent animals.
Yes! My cat is obsessed with every kind of sweet bread. Muffins, cinnamon buns, croissants, you name it. Best of all is that he's allergic to wheat. I have to try to eat them when he's sleeping or it's a constant battle to keep him away.
vanyadolly It’s crunchy snacks for my boy, he hears me open a bag from upstairs! If I don’t let him try a bite, he won’t leave me alone 🤣
Pizza Chinese stew peas carrots fruit noodles gravy salad cream onion rings chickpeas mushrooms, crisps bread mine is an absolute nightmare! Will chew her own food packets open, I have to have eyes in the back of my head! Steals the other cats food nags all day literally for food 😊
Rice cat over here. He even tried to eat it raw while it was soaking.
My one cat was like this with bread and sweets my other cat is like this with other foods, and it’s crazy how they act lol
Those may have toxic ingredients, be careful.
I had a cat that did that. He was abandoned as a 4 week old kitten, and I raised him. Here's what I did: I gave Artie (my kittie) his own feeding territory--a bowl that was off limits to everyone else. Allow him to have a very small amount of human food if it is something a cat can digest. He lived to be 18, and we were devastated when he died.
We have a roughly 1 year old with the same background. The issue is, she finishes her food in half a second and sprints to steal the food from our other very polite cat. The problem cat will even abandon her food before it is gone to go steal the other cats food if she knows you're feeding her somewhere. Sorry about your cat
I had the same problem. Rescued two kittens and their mom. They were all scrawny and undernourished, and the food obsession continued even now years later. They’re at a healthy weight and fed good canned food. But one hour before feeding time the chorus begins, and if one doesn’t finish in time, they’ll lose out. It was quite an investment, but I bought microchip feeders for all 3 of them. This keeps everyone on their own food, and everyone gets the right amount. It’s been really helpful when I’ve used a pet sitter and the shy-er youngsters don’t lose out on their food when their more social mom comes out for the sitter. The feeders are around $200 each, but definitely worth it!
I have a food obsessed cat. Although she still hangs around and tries to eat our food, her behavior has calmed down a lot due to these things.
1. Automatic Pet Food Feeder. Small meals and routine works for her!! She even takes herself to bed after the last feeding of the day 😊
2. Wet Cat food once a day. She gets hype (meowing loudly and insistantl) but that’s as extreme as she gets.
3. She loves to perch on the fridge while we cook. She gets to watch us but is out of the way. We have to stay in the kitchen or else she will try to eat the food, but that is just fine.
4. Always keep the kitchen clean and food put away.
She will still try to eat our food if we let her, but she is so much less intense about it. And we can cook without her freaking out the way she used to. Hope this helps!!
Strangely enough, the feral two kittens that I caught have been the best adjusted cats personality-wise, with the best mojo, compared to cats that we have adopted from people in the past.
Maybe those ferals just simply had more socialization from their mothers and brothers/sisters.
Feral cats in urban settings tend to live in colonies. Sometimes, those colonies are fed by locals. It's very possible your former feral kittens were from such a colony, where good food manners and behavior is rewarded.
They often have better socialisation and some breeders dont create adequate conditions for their cats.
And we rip them away from their families...
My cat use to be like this....her story was that she was starving when they found her. She is much better and has stopped this behavior. It took time and scheduling. I had to make sure she was feed everyday at the same times so she started knowing she is going to eat and stopped trying to eat my food. We did have a couple of fights: she stole my food and I chased her down and took it from her. But with time she has gotten comfortable and knows human food is not an option and her food will be there. She still eats things left out, so I’ve become a neater human. So good things are happening.
I know you usually don’t recommend treating cats like dogs, but I’ve found training my cats to do tricks for treats is a fun and budget-friendly alternative to puzzle toys. It gives me time to bond with them, and it’s so fun to watch the gears turning in their little heads.
You could hire your cats out as animal actors!... 😎
What do you do?
I do this with all three of my cats. Most of the training is just a simple sit and come commands but it works.
Also instead of using treats, I often use different sounds to call them home/closer to get them.
They for some reason like my peafowl imitation call. x3
Jackson has actually mentioned clicker training before and even has a video about it :) so he would probably totally agree with you that learning tricks is a great cat activity
Actually Jackson does recommend traning cats at least to socialize them and modify their behavior. The whole Cat Pawstive Program for shelters is based on that.
Where’s the purple background with the lava lamp, Jackson?!!!! 😭 great video though as always 🙂
Yeah a bit depressed vibes
I like this set up much better ~
lych green happens to be my favorite color! 💚 but I think I just get more of a relaxed vibe with the purple and lava lamp! 💜 both are great backgrounds 🙂
I've wanted to know about this myself. I adopted a brother and sister who were rescued from a hoarding house not longing after moving out of my parent's house. Everything was normal at first, but as I started baking and eating more desserts, my girl started trying to eat everything that had sugar in it. She'd try to drink sweetened tea, ice cream, cake, pie, muffins... literally anything baked or sweet. Not aggressively, but really persistently. I though cats couldn't taste sweet, so I am so confused why she loves these things. She also likes chewing on plastics and certain fabrics. I have to keep the grocery bags locked up in the kitchen and throw away any packaging that comes. I think I'll try those food puzzles.
She may also have PICA, as Jackson talked about in this video. If that's the case, then you might want to use the yes/no technique to introduce her to cat grass.
Usually cats do not taste sweet but its a pretty common gebetic mutation that they can taste sweet. I have a sugar-boi myself. No interest in most "human" food but will fight you do a pastry!
... I thought you were talking about children at first, lol
It sounds like PICA,you should see a vet for confirmation
Wow. Our new kitten Emmit was found alone, fostered alone, totally acts like this! OMG.
We followed your guide to base camp progression for socialization but always hit a snag with food. The food puzzles look like a good solution to help.
Thank you for posting ❤️
Make a video about the danger of using cayenne or chili pepper as a deterrent for your cat. I've heard this suggested so many times to keep cats away from a multitude of things. But I didn't know until recently that cats can easily get it on their paw and then later wipe it in their eyes or nose or get it in their mouths while grooming themselves.
Tell everyone not to use pepper in their gardens or houseplants
Hiya!! Thanks for tip. What's the best thing to use? If u know. I've tried the sprays at the store, citrus smell but my cat loves it n is not deterred at all
I grow peppers and it's not a problem if you use common sense
A friend's cat was super aggressive about bread, and also really clever about getting it. The only safe place to store it was inside the microwave or the fridge, since he couldn't physically open them. He was rescued after being abandoned in the middle of winter, so most likely it was related to trauma from nearly starving.
Wheat is usually bad for cats ( in general)-- my cat is crazy about wheat/ bread too but ...sooner or later she gets sick. I guess it is sort like us humans who may enjoy foods bad for us & want to eat even if we are intolerant or have an allergy to eat. Try showing your friend this video?? giving meat based treats like freeze dried chicken/duck/beef/etc to break your friend's kitty's addiction to bread? Plus obviously all the tips that Jackson Galaxy gave really work ( i tried them & still practice them now).
Mine open the microwave. Yup, I know. I have to use the oven.
Jackson, you are brilliant as always!! You should be the patron saint of cats, you have done so much for them and their well-being!
Nah, this cat is a recently reincarnated human who resents cat food and just wants “normal” human food
🤣🤣🤣
Since adopting my two kittens Ive always let them sniff whatever Im eating or cooking. I think it is slowly helping them learn that yes! This is not yours, but you are still an equal in this house that can look at what I’m eating. (They also don’t dart for the food as much.)
The look on their faces when they sniff an orange is hilarious though! 😂
99% of the time it convinces my cat it's not for her. Fruit in particular, lol. Way less begging because of letting her sniff it.
Really helpful and well-formed analysis - thank you Jackson!
My cat is obsessed with my cheerios in the morning. I had to relocate where I eat my breakfast in the morning. Not other food, just cheerios in skim milk. He is a stray rescue kitten.
At 10:08
Thank you for the "up to 5 times a day"...and "syncing' ...that's what I ended up doing for my rescued Henry....💐💐
Oh my god! That is the cutest face! Never saw markings like that before.
OLLIE!!!!! so, so cute! thanks much for helping him!
My kitty is naughty.
He knows he's not allowed to eat of human plates.
So now he tried to swipe or paw food off the plate lol
Naughty boy
"What? It's *not* on your plate, human, so it's fair game!"
ok just discovered the channel and now totally binging on all the vids lol
This is EXACTLY what I needed to see, I just asked this via live chat on his newest video
Thanks so much for your videos. Me and my fiancé adopted two kittens this summer while we already had a two year old rescue and we got all the help from your videos ! Loved the introduction of cats into household video and the one on cat sounds . My cat Trills all day and just thought he didn’t know how to meow 😸 but now know he is just very happy and excited like a kid. Also the advice at the end about playing to get energy out is key 🔑
So many people wonder why they have a “bad kitty” that bites and scratches and jumps all over them...they need to get that energy out!!
Puko is such a talker all the time for anything! Very informative!
Love how thorough you approached this topic!!
Just adopted a sweet kitty who was found in a business park.
She loves attention but is also a “Wallflower “ kitty.
3 years old TNR’d and finally up for adoption at a rescue in Texas.
Other cats picked on her at the shelter probably because she growls when she’s anxious or around food.
We are only on day three but making good progress.
She is our only pet and will eventually learn she is safe and will not go hungry.
Loves belly rubs and head butts us for attention.
Has her own room right now but we are bringing her out for short visits and extra playtime.
My boi acts the same when I just open my eyes in the morning (or NIGHT) and he is right there, BOOPING AND BOOPING AND BOOPING MY NOSE.
You are the BEST, Jackson Galaxy!!! Good luck with Ollie, awesome couple!' He's a cutie!
I started feeding my cats close together after your video on introducing new cats to one another...now to change the routine.
My cat Nacho came into the house when he was 8 years old. We don't really know how he grew up, but he was very skinny and showed dog behaviour. He was obsessed of food. My first cat accepted him, but became stressed out on feeding time too. They both eat in different rooms since then for the last 2 years. Food puzzles aren't enough. We hear him growling and meowing in the other room because food is not coming out fast enough. Nacho is still faster with dinner time than the other cat and so he starts scratching the door and making really loud noises because he wants to come out. Once I open the door after the other cat is ready, Nacho storms out to see if there are any crumbs left. Nothing can stop him. Even if we wait another hour to let Nacho out, he will still be focused to find some food. Sometimes it's making me crazy!
I love the thumbnail picture so much!
Thanks for the info and advice. We have a couple of aggressive cats in our house. We keep them separate from each other but they still try to fight through the doors. Eagle is more aggressive than Rosie is or rather he is more destructive. We have just started using one of those kitty calming diffusers. It’s only been a couple of days though. We have one diffuser in the boys room and one in the living room. We are thinking of putting one in the girls room too. The boys stay in their room during the day and the girls have the run of the house. Then we switch them and the girls stay in their room at night and the boys have the run of the house. We have also instigated a play session each night with Eagle to help get his energy out. I’ll let you know if his behavior improves.
You’d think that fried chicken was heroin the way my cats become very aggressive when they get a hold of it. They act like a couple of crack addicts anxious for a hit.
But definitely not as intense that Ollie has.
Abby Normal- I died.
Little lion can't get enough of bread😂😂
Lulu needs to see this 😂😂😂
My mom's cat once snatched a quesadilla right off my plate when I got up for a second! He also chewed through a plastic container to get to some pizzele cookies. It's not something he does often and he's not aggressive about it...you just can't leave food unattended around him!
This was many years ago, my sister had accidentally dropped her burrito and her little kitty at the time, turned into a lion, and was devouring the heck out of it until she was able to get it from her. It was cute and scary at the same time...lol
Our cat goes crazy for bread. After grocery shopping we have to put the bread away immediately or she will rip open the wrapper and start chowing down.
I wish Jackson sold face masks with the whiskered JG logo on them
OoOoOoOoOo yea! I would buy
There's a type of training they could try, where you get cooked chicken and tell the cat to "drop it"-the toast. When the cat will spit out the bread and go for the chicken instead, you praise it and let it eat the chicken. It worked wonders on my pet and her food aggression.
Did Olly actually enjoy the taste of the bread, or was he just being territorial?
My rescue cat def has food insecurity issues. So she will try to get my food and gulps down her own food so I’ve found food puzzles really help and several smaller meals at first when I got her. But now that she’s been with me for two months she is getting more food secure. She’s not as OCD about her food and sometimes prefers her toys over the treats. Hooray. But she is a work in progress as are we all. But I’m pleased with how the hunt, kill, eat strategy is working for her. She wakes me up every morning next to her toy toy box ready to play. 😊
my cat Simba rejects anything that aren't cat food. i've tried boiled chicken, beef, kangaroo meat, raw salmon etc. he's not eating any of them. i know it's great that he doesn't eat "human food". but i couldn't help but feel guilty as i pour the same food into his bowl for the 1000th time...
They tend to like routine, though, so he's probably very happy.
My kittens will eat anything
My Bella (2yrs) will not eat human food so when I go kittens I was surprised 😮
I also felt bad that she ate same thing
I did find treats that are fun to give and more like human food by whole hearted . They have salmon , chicken and tuna chunks that are all real meat and then squeeze tubes of yougurt like treat that she lives too. They are around $2-$3 each but petco has them on sale a lot . Try them out
@@justmelisa5822 We've just rescused a new kitten my son named Bella. She loves people food. She's so quick and steals food off my plate!! Lmao. She's a booger. She loves green beans. She wants to try everything we eat.
You could maybe give him some variety in meats when giving him wet food. I always get a box with meats like rabbit, trout and veal, and my kittens love it!
My Sheba is the same - the only thing she likes is Maple syrup - I leave the food out for her which I know is 'bad' but she grazes most of the day and a cup (250 ML) of food lasts her two days - I wish she would eat more but it is what it is.
Actual footage of me when it’s time to eat 😂
Our cat constantly meows and begs for food. Vet check says she's physically okay. Going to try extra play and some harder food puzzles. She was a rescue and I always called it food anxiety... she has been forced to worry about where her next meal is coming from. Although, she still turns her nose up at dry food oddly? Thanks for this video!!!!
I DIED laughing at this! Ollie needs his own RUclips channel!!!
Funny story: Both of my cats are rescues that were born in feral colonies. One lived in a storm drain outside of a Thai restaurant and the waitresses used to feed her before my friend got her off the street and adopted her out to me. To this day, I can not bring any Thai food into the house- she goes COMPLETELY CRAZY and won't take "no" for an answer! Of course, you can imagine giving curry chicken to a cat is not a good idea for a LOT of reasons...so the result is I have to eat Thai in the restaurant and no leftovers can come home!
Wow! Thats really interesting that she does that. Thanks for sharing!
I found my kitten near a pizza restaurant & I’m convinced she’s obsessed with pizza. Whenever we get it, she gets on a whole other level of crazy.
My four-week-old foster kitten is a resource guarder. Not with toys or anything like that but with human food, his cat food, and treats. He was a singleton and emaciated when I found him and since he's a foster I really wanna somehow kick the behavior in the butt or learn how to manage it so I can either help his future adopters know how to manage it. My one other cat doesn't bother him and is actually really respectful of his food and we started crate training for his breakfast and dinner which helps a bit but he still snatches and growls with treats and bites when you're trying to give it to him. This video made me think maybe I can also only give him treats through puzzled and doing small meals will help. I cross my fingers that it will help!
I taught my son to give our kitten brothers some pets when they ate so they wouldn’t growl. Well Mars took it a step further and invited you to dine with him (pet him) when he ate. He would be so happy and do a figure 8 walk around you and go back to the bowl purring loudly. Man do I miss that (both brothers passed in 2015).
Ollie is my spirt animal 😂. That is a really cool puzzle toy, I still have your one Jackson and my cat is 11 years old and she still loves it.
Did you see how much of the bread he got? That cat acts and is quick to do so. 😹😹😹
Brothers kitty was very young and he was doing that stealing food the same thing. The problem is they were not feeding that kitty enough quality food he was not getting enough food for as energetic as he was. Also they were using cheap food with a lot of fillers. So once they started free feeding quality dry available all times & 2/3 times quality wet the kitty until he was at least 7-12 months old. Vet should definitely tell you same, free fed kitten first 7 to12 months.
Really great video! This one was the best so far for us personally. That puzzle website, very helpful! I had been making a bunch at home and they have not been very good.
Ollie reminded me of our family dog! Sandy used to do that all the time if he got a hold of people food. I've never seen a cat do it, though.
My late darling, Patches, developed the same habit, it got to the point where she was trying to steal food from your hands as you were eating. Then she lost 90% of her weight in a few days. Rushed her to the vet, and she had severe diabetes. Sadly, they were not able to regulate her blood sugar. 💔
Great video and explains so much about my new kitten! He was found at 5 weeks old, alone and underweight. I was fostering him but have now adopted him. He was very aggressive and growling at all wand toys. That has subsided quite a bit. But he still wants any food I am eating! He’s 13 weeks old so hopefully I can use your tips to break this habit soon!
1:42 I swear Jackson must have been a pirate in his previous life!
If that behavior have a pretty sudden onset it could be hypertyreosis. DO go to the vet for a healthtest and bloodtest if it lasts more than 2 weeks. Thyroid illness is a very common silent killer in adult cats.
That video was hilarious! I'm glad they picked a piece of bread over everything else, so funny 👍😂
Love the "yrrgg, yrrgg, yrrgg"!
Other reasons can be that the cat was the runt of the litter and had to compete with his litter mates in order to survive. Or it could be that he was once a stray and has experienced some level of starvation. It’s most likely an anxiety driven behaviour. My cat Berlioz is food aggressive, and he was a stray when he was a young kitten, and was likely the runt. I decided to feed my cats 3 times a day instead of twice. They already get fed in separate rooms, and I’m going to increase the amount I feed him a little bit to help him feel full. 😺
My cat is obsessed with any kind of starch or fat. He loves oil so much he’ll lick drops of cooking oil off towels. I was using some old coconut oil as a hair mask and put some moldy chunks of the coconut oil into the trash can. Didn’t realize what would happen. Half an hour later my cat dug through the trash and ate it. I tried to sleep and woke up to him licking my plastic wrapped hair
3 food covers and a metal food safe here. He worked out how to lift the blue one. Atleast he doesnt drag steaks off my plate now while I'm cutting them!
Hi @P Heart from WildEarth :)
@@animallife6140 hi AnimalLIFE!
My friend got puzzle toy feeders for her rabbits... one of them heaved a sigh at the idea of having to WORK for his food and just stared at her sadly til she dumped the food out. Another basically ripped the toy apart to get to the treat inside, but never actually figured it out, she just fussed over it til she got it open...
The third bunny though... oh man. That rabbit. We never thought he was super smart or anything, because he's... a weird rabbit. Doesn't really act like most rabbits because he grew up rather feral and never got proper socializing with other bunnies or with people.
He is EXTREMELY food motivated... and he figured out the easy, medium and hardest modes of that puzzle in MINUTES. And repeated the actions over and over again. He was ON IT. So we realized he is super smart... my friend is now working with him to train him to do all kinds of tricks as part of his socialization training!
All our stray kittens do it although I usually find them between ages 4 - 10 weeks... The one making the sound usually claws whoever (cat siblings) is beside... the bowls are always a couple of feet from one another AND I feed them after playing. This doesn't apply to pellies, they don't mind sharing from the same bowl (always available when they are kittens, then they only have it during the day so I can sleep at night...)
This video is exactly my cat. She's very horrible with food. I never realized it was a thing. She will rip open packages of sealed food. She growls and gets mad when you take things away from her. We have to have a garbage with a lid and lock it up in the cupboard cause she's into our garbage. She also has a huge issue with chewing up silicones and rubbers. Pot and pan handles, soles of our shoes, crocs. I never know it was a real thing. She loves food puzzles and is very food motivated and does a bunch of tricks. She's 5 years now and has really simmered down. She came from a BYB with a bit of an overcrowded setting and taken from mom early. So now I know that it is likely the cause.
I just brought two stray cats into my house, they are both females at estimated 5-6 months old. They have already learned that I can leave food bowls out all day and they will only eat when they are hungry and won’t shovel all the food down in one go. They don’t fight for food and they both have their own bowls. As of today one of the females started going crazy over people food, anything I’m eating she tries HARD to get. It’s only the one female and she doesn’t get aggressive, just very persistent on getting the food. She isn’t this way with anything else, just human food.
Btw Jackson, I love the new 'hair-do' (beard...lol)!!
So cute wanting a slice of bread.
Kiki, Suzi and Matt the Cat all know what is theirs & what isn't. They know the command SIT must be followed before getting any food or treats. They also know that they can make me ask them if they want treats.
Dear Jackson,
You should really review/react to Rachel and Jun/Rachel and Jun’s Adventures; they’re really caring cat guardians and I wanna hear what they do right
Thank you Jackson!
Great video!! If I ever eat when my kitty isn’t...it’s salad. I let him smell it, he walks away 💕
I think I need to message Jackson.
We have a little girl (Wednesday) who has similar food issues. But, she sneaks and steals. She waits until we're not paying attention and pulls food out of Kitchen cupboards, off of the counter. She never fights us to take it away... But, we've had to secure cabinets and ALWAYS put food away.
pulled this video up while my recent adoptee was exploring my desk for the first time looking for my dinner 😂 thanks Jackson
When my cat Picasso was around 2-3 months he used to try to attack me when I was eating cereal 😂😂 insane .
my foster kitten doesn't get aggressive, but he does get very desperate, especially for my vegan yogurt, ice cream, & milk, he'll constantly try to get to my food to the point where i have to stand up & eat. he was rescued at 8 weeks old, so that probably explains it. i'm using some of the tools you mention here because i've read your book, & our situation is already improving after just a few weeks, he is in love with the puzzle toys 💛
My cat wanders around with one of her toys if she feels abandoned (which she does all the time, like leaving a room and then complaining that everyone is gone.) She will carry the toy until she finds us and then drops it.
Our older cat, who didnt like or notice human food at all until the younger cat clued her in, is now obsessed with our food. She complains about her food if we are cooking something that smells better than that.
This actually ONLY started happening, with my 7yr old, after she got fixed. She would do it, before that, only when she would catch a mouse. She's "semi-feral" (but, not so much anymore...Thanks @Jackson Galaxy !) But....I'm wondering if she totally freaked when we took her food away the night before the surgery. Now, mix in the hormonal changes?? idk. She was raised by dogs, so now....anything that lands on the floor is hers. lol! She's getting fat. We've been having her sit for food. We'll be adding further exercise, for extra food.
I love that trixie puzzle feeder, it really made our cat Trixie think to get her food. To get her to quit scarf and barfing, we put her food in a paper bowl (mostly dry kibble but some wet with water, because we're trying to get her weight up) on top of a boot tray with her water dispenser. The paper bowl doesn't really have any friction against the tray, so she has to kinda chase the kibble not only around her larger bowl, but also chase the bowl around the tray kind of. It's a little entertaining. :)
People raising single kittens need to take the responsibility to teach them much as their mother would. We have always redirected bad behavior with a firm but gentle no and a tap on the nose. Then moving them to what they can... eat...scratch...hunt. This is yours we would say. I'm proud to say we have never had a cat who scratched the furniture, begged for food or was temper driven. Perhaps we were just lucky.
Hi Jackson, I'm between the need of stopping the feeding aggression of my rescued kitten and the need of training him to my presence. Usually I would use feeding time to start touching him, but he's really aggressive as soon as we get the food.
We adopted a couple of very young rescues & the tiny female would climb up your arm, sit on your shoulder & try to get food out of your mouth. She wanted to be hand fed human food on the shoulder at dinner time. We suspected that someone had been feeding her human food on the shoulder because she was sooooo cute. She grew up to mostly like cat food & normal things like crab & BBQ chicken.
I adopted a rescue cat who was on the streets with her mother until she was 7 months old, and was in foster care for 2 months before I adopted her. She is food insecure for sure, and I also have another cat who is not food insecure. Thank you for your tips, I ordered a puzzle toy and I do try to play with her, but I can ramp that up. I’m also attempting to clicker train her.
I love the thumbnail. (We love 🙂😸😺 chicken wings over here.)
I don't know my cats full backstory; I got her as a feral kitten from someone who was hoarding animals with their own little makeshift "rescue", the animals were all in poor health. She's horrible about food; she will break into cabinets to steal our food, steal food off of a hot pan, and overall be very dangerous for herself
You can get freeze dried meats for treats that can be torn up. They are good for allergy kitties two because they are only one ingredient so if you know it is a safe ingredient for your cat you can be confident with it.
My cat legit scratches my leg like a cat tree trying to get my food then gets cranky with me when I have to push her off the kitchen tops (which she isn’t allowed to do). She hates being told no. She will leave her own food and comes for mine
She even will finish her food then try to get more food immediately after despite she has a full belly
My Sweet Baby Boy grabbed string cheese out of my son’s hand and threw it on the floor. Then he sat there looking at him like “what are ya gonna do?” He didn’t eat it, he doesn’t even like it 🤣😂
My kitten was a bottle baby, he’s about 9 weeks right now and oh my god he is a psycho. Any and all food is a trigger. It’s scary and he scratches and bites me over food. The dishes, the trash, anything. We feed him separately from our older cat because he eats so fast to eat my other cats food. He eats like four times a day. I don’t give him anything or feed him human foods because I don’t want to encourage the behavior but I can’t eat anything around him. Treats are a scary thing for us, because he will attack us for anything we have. He bit my toe one time because he thought it might be chicken that fell off the counter.
I’m dealing with 2 cats that have this issue. They snatch food only when I am not around, they also act as if they are starving even after meals constantly begging for food bolting into kitchen meowing getting in my way making me trip every time I get near the kitchen and honestly it’s getting on my nerves! I am beginning to resent these cats like I don’t want them in my home. No one should have to deal with that.
i'll be honest, the same thing happens to me with my cat and occasionally i'd be at my wit's end and splash him with water from the sink.
i felt terrible whenever i did it, but now he stays away from the kitchen whenever the water's running
Our local outdoor kitty doesn’t like ppl food. She doesn’t even like wet cat food. Been feeding her dry food since she was younger and that’s what she likes. She grazes all day and will fight other cats to the death to protect it! The neighbors leave wet food out for her but she won’t eat it. I’ve tried giving her ppl food and she’ll ONLY eat fish. 🐟
We had a cat who would draw blood to steal cantaloupe. It was really scary the way she would fly across the room and snatch the melon out of our hands! If you tried to take it back she would attack with full claws and barred teeth!
My Russian Blue grabs Feta cheese and pizza. Wonder why he is after the cheeses.