The same is true for cats. There is no problem with dried small fish, dried pork, canned cat food, freeze-dried… that can’t be solved. If it’s not enough, then I need some catnip and cat biscuits.
But most of the time, a cat is like a child who has just started to eat, regularly rationing? does not exist? I always feel that eating unexpectedly is the most delicious!
The cat stealing food has become the most troublesome thing for the owner, and even if it is too late to react, the snacks at home are nowhere to be seen.
Faced with the cat owner who sneaks out to steal food all day, what should you do?
Causes of cat stealing
1. Instinctive response
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Cat is very curious and has a strong interest in any food, and always likes to try it in person.
Wild cats can eat freely up to 12-20 meals a day.
So even if the domestic cat leaves the wild, the eating habits remain, so don’t be too harsh on a cat that steals food.
2. Really hungry
Sometimes the owner’s feeding time is unreasonable, which causes the cat to eat unevenly. When the cat is hungry, it will urgently need to find food to replenish its energy.
So while teaching the cat, the owner also reflects on whether he is feeding properly.
3. Childhood “oral stage”
Even if Give cats delicious and spicy food every day, and there is no shortage of canned food and meat every day, but it still can’t change the habit of cats who want to secretly taste delicious food.
We often use “little greedy cat” to describe a person’s gluttony, which also shows the characteristic of cats’ curiosity.
Sometimes kittens steal food not because they are hungry, but because their teeth grow and molar and they will actively try to taste and taste unfamiliar food.
CatWhat to do about stealing
1. Hide the food
First of all, we have to make sure that the cat can’t touch the food, and install it at the kitchen door of the house where cats are not allowed to enter Pet fence, can effectively prevent cats from entering.
In addition, if you find that the cat is stealing food, you can stop drinking it, educate it, and let the cat know that stealing food is a bad behavior.
In addition, you can also purchase cat climbing frames, cat sticks and other toys for cats to distract their attention.
2. Develop good eating habits
Although many times the owner will not starve the cat , but some breeds, such as Maine, have a particularly large appetite, and the food the owner feeds daily may not be able to satisfy his cat.
So after finding that the cat often steals food, the owner can check whether the cat’s rice bowl is empty, and appropriately increase the cat’s feeding amount.
The amount of food should not be too much or too little. With the increase of the cat’s age,
In a certain period of time (usually three or four months) the cat’s food intake gradually increases, Over ten months, the food intake gradually stabilized with the adult food intake.
A cat about 2 months of age usually eats a meal every 4-6 hours a day. 3-6 months of age, stable at 3-4 meals, and can eat freely as adults
3. More Some companionship
Sometimes cats steal food to deliberately make mistakes, mainly to attract the owner’s attention and let the owner play with him.
When you find the cat stealing food, stop it in time, and pay more attention to the cat on weekdays, so that it does not make mistakes because it is too lonely.
Other Precautions
1. , Bangmei recommends that you be sure to educate it.
For example, the percussion of the hollow newspaper, your indifference, let it form a reflex connection, and you can’t eat anything other than the bowl, knowing that stealing food is a bad behavior.
If you don’t pay attention, the cat will default to stealing.
2. Some cats steal food because they have a slight pica, such as eating plastic bags or eating weird food like cat litter
. It eats some trace elements and vitamins to improve.
3. Try not to feed the cat human snacks. Human snacks are made for human tastes.
It is often heavy. Salt, heavy oil, or high sugar, sour, spicy, etc., cats’ kidneys and urinary tract systems are very fragile, and it is easy to cause diseases such as urinary stones due to improper diet.
