lizzielou742
10-18-2004, 01:44 PM
See these threads for background:
http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=60112
http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=59757
I still don't know what to do. I am still feeding them both 1/2 cup of food a day. I'm only supposed to feed them 1/3 cup a day each. I could cut Sophie's down easily, but my main problem is with Tito.
Every single morning, he is waking me up earlier and earlier, begging for food. This morning it started around 5:15 am. I can't handle this! My boyfriend can't either. I keep a squirt bottle by the bed, and squirt him when he gets near my head (he stands on my pillow and makes biscuits with my hair until I get up). It's getting worse - if I ignores him, in protest, he started chewing on the metal rods that hold up his kitty window seat! Talk about an ANNOYING noise at 5:30 am. So, the kitty window seat was moved to another room. But now he's chewing on the carpet, computer wires, anything he can find, until I feed him!! I squirt him when he chews, but by this point I'm already up, awake and mad, so I go ahead and feed him so I can go back to bed. If I kick him out of the room and shut the door, he digs up the carpet under the door. There's a four-inch rip in the carpet under my bedroom door from him already - and we rent!! :eek:
I am afraid if I cut down his food portions, his protests will only get worse. I know I have to figure out a way to end this association with chewing on stuff and waking me up/annoying me with getting fed - but how do I do it at 5:30 in the morning? If he wakes me up, I have to drag myself out of bed and feed him, and the longer I wait the less sleep I get. So I just get up and do it. Then I have to wake back up when he starts scratching the carpet under the door (Sophie eats in our bedroom with the door shut, otherwise Tito eats all her food as well as his) and open the door for him. It's such a pain.
Do you all think I should try an automatic feeder? Does anyone know where to get one? Maybe it would help end the association between me and food - but I don't know how it would work with two of them. Tito would monopolize the food and not let Sophie have any. Should I only feed them once a day, in the afternoon? Or would this just make it worse? Does anyone have any other ideas? Please! I can't remember the last time I slept through a night! :(
http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=60112
http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=59757
I still don't know what to do. I am still feeding them both 1/2 cup of food a day. I'm only supposed to feed them 1/3 cup a day each. I could cut Sophie's down easily, but my main problem is with Tito.
Every single morning, he is waking me up earlier and earlier, begging for food. This morning it started around 5:15 am. I can't handle this! My boyfriend can't either. I keep a squirt bottle by the bed, and squirt him when he gets near my head (he stands on my pillow and makes biscuits with my hair until I get up). It's getting worse - if I ignores him, in protest, he started chewing on the metal rods that hold up his kitty window seat! Talk about an ANNOYING noise at 5:30 am. So, the kitty window seat was moved to another room. But now he's chewing on the carpet, computer wires, anything he can find, until I feed him!! I squirt him when he chews, but by this point I'm already up, awake and mad, so I go ahead and feed him so I can go back to bed. If I kick him out of the room and shut the door, he digs up the carpet under the door. There's a four-inch rip in the carpet under my bedroom door from him already - and we rent!! :eek:
I am afraid if I cut down his food portions, his protests will only get worse. I know I have to figure out a way to end this association with chewing on stuff and waking me up/annoying me with getting fed - but how do I do it at 5:30 in the morning? If he wakes me up, I have to drag myself out of bed and feed him, and the longer I wait the less sleep I get. So I just get up and do it. Then I have to wake back up when he starts scratching the carpet under the door (Sophie eats in our bedroom with the door shut, otherwise Tito eats all her food as well as his) and open the door for him. It's such a pain.
Do you all think I should try an automatic feeder? Does anyone know where to get one? Maybe it would help end the association between me and food - but I don't know how it would work with two of them. Tito would monopolize the food and not let Sophie have any. Should I only feed them once a day, in the afternoon? Or would this just make it worse? Does anyone have any other ideas? Please! I can't remember the last time I slept through a night! :(