Hi everyone, I am 28F, access to vet care and am posting from the UK
My female Cat Misty is a year old, spayed and up to date with her vaccinations. She is also up to date with her Flea and Worm treatment that we get from the Vets she attends, not store bought. We have had her at the vets twice for this and each time, they've done a general health check and said she's fine. Last time we went we were told to change her food to something with more protein and she's on the best possible food we can get her without ordering it ourselves (Applaws) I want to mention she isn't like this with her own Food.
Its Human food. Mainly meat. She becomes so aggressive with the other cats in the House, hissing, chasing them. She'll cry at the door and claw at it if she knows were eating in another room. I know this is bad, ive recently stopped doing this. But ill give her a chicken nugget from mcdonalds whenever I get them for myself. I peel the skin off and give her the meat underneath. They all get a separate one each. But she will go absolutely nuts afterwards for a couple hours. Hissing at her sisters if they get close and won't leave me alone. She's like this with other foods such as bread with butter or even sweets. Thankfully never gotten ahold of anything. But she'll try to steal food out your hands or growl if she gets hold of an old packet of food.
She was born feral, we got her at nine weeks and she's been raised with moop since being a few months old. Maji has been with her for six months and is unspayed at the moment. We did move house and get a new kitten so granted she was under a lot of stress about six months ago. And the introduction to Maji wasn't done great. We initially had them in a seperate room but maji can apparently open doors and got out basically leading to forced meetings between the two after only a couple days. Normally she's fine with rhe other cats. We have two feliway plugs, one downstairs, one upstairs. She does groom a lot and we know she's quite a stressed cat. Were doing everything we can. They are indoor only. They have toys galore and are never alone as one of my friends works from Home. I'm getting off topic.
She steals food off plates if you let her. We've never let her but she's dragged bread off the counter before. Not losing weight, she's at a good weight ive been told snd toilets fine. If this is just who she is I'm fine with that. Ive changed her food from seriously good to applaws at the vets request about two weeks ago. They get fed quite close together, its a small house but she's not protective of cat food. Just human food. If this is just her, I'm fine with that. But does this behaviour ring alarm bells to anyone? She's my therapy cat and I don't want her getting sick. She plays, cuddles at night. She doesn't like maji, I know that but maji is important to the family too. She's been to the vet twice and each time they say she's fine and I should probably go back onto anxiety meds. But I just want to ask if this rings alarm bells to anyone here? Like she'll cry and go at the door if she knows you have food in there. And she'll take any oppertunity to snatch a crumb off the floor. She was checked for diabetes when they spayed her a few months ago. All clear. I don't know what else to do. She's an amazing cat otherwise. Spends her days watching birds. I just want to know if she's okay or if I'm just overreacting to a behaviour she never let go of from kittenhood.