Shiva has always been a finicky eater, but ever since Mamma Kitty went to the Bridge, she has become impossible!!! No matter what I feed her, she is never happy! If I feed her any kind of canned food, she will usually lick the gravy up and leave the food to go to waste. Then she will start begging and insisting that I must have something better to feed her.
I am trying to feed her as little dry food as possible, but sometimes that is the only thing she will eat - unless that is what I put in her dish. Then she turns her nose up at it and goes nuts meowing at the top of her lungs until I go into the kitchen. Once she has me in the kitchen, she will continually beg for something else to eat. If I give her canned food - it doesn't matter what kind - she will sometimes sniff at it and then continue to beg for something different, or she might just lick up the gravy.
On those rare occasions where she actually eats the food, I make a point of giving her the same food next time I feed her. But then she just acts like I am holding out on her and I simply must give her something better for her to eat. In the mornings, if I don't feed her anything else when she gets like this, then she will go outside and eat the food I put out for Lynx -- which is the same exact food that is in her dish!!!
She hates 'people food' and refuses raw meat. I am at my wits end! I do not know what to do with this cat. It is getting so unbelievably frustrating that I find myself yelling at her. Feeding time has become an unpleasant chore because she keeps refusing what I give her and making my life a living h*** with her non-stop meowing and begging.
Heaven help me if I try to go to sleep (I sleep in the living room because it is too hot in the bedroom) because she will go crazy and tear the living room apart trying to get my attention. If I ignore her, she will jump on the air mattress and meow in my face, then run into the kitchen meowing like a banshee. If I do manage to ignore her or somehow sleep through her temper tantrums, she usually eats at least a little bit of the food that is in her dish. Most of the time the dish is empty in the mornings, but sometimes she will go all night without eating and still turn her nose up at whatever I feed her.
I would thing there was something wrong with her, but she isn't losing weight and I know she is eating. I also know that she is using the litter box so here is no obstruction or anything. Also, she hasn't been throwing up so I doubt she has a hairball. I have been giving her hairball remedy treats just in case - and she does eat those like a feline vacuum cleaner.
Does anybody have any ideas on how to deal with this before I go insane?
