Cat always hungry, not worms..

[Catty1]

Also - she might still have some kind of food panic stress after fighting for her food with your mom's cats.

A vet checkup is a great idea...she may benefit from some Feliway calming spray. (The patent has come off it, so it is MUCH cheaper than it used to be!) One of my cats has to use it - He wears a stretchy collar, and I shake the bottle and put a tiny squirt right into the collar. Not supposed to go on fur or skin.)

Please update and let us know how she is doing!

[CathyBogart]

I would get a wellness blood panel run at the vet's to rule out thyroid problems or diabetes.

[Jessika]

This thread is over two years old, though I'm curious to know how the situation turned out

[agirlwithaguitar]

My cat will eat until she throws up or until she gets really fat if I just leave food in her bowl all the time. So I feed her at regularly scheduled times, and she starts meowing and begging 1 hr to 1.5 hrs ahead of her feeding time. Some solutions I've used to prevent her from waking me up were, #1) I don't feed her until an hour after I normally get up so the meowing usually starts right around the time I want to get up anyway and acts as a back-up alarm clock, #2) At one point I used to keep a spray bottle of water next to my bed, so if she woke me up I would spray her, and that discouraged her #3) I give her one feeding late at night so she won't be so hungry first thing in the morning.

Also if the pesky meowing gets really bad I sometimes squirt water at her with a spray bottle (even after I'm awake), which she hates and which will shut her down for a good 15 mins or so, or an idea I read on (I think) another blog was good - putting her inside a pillowcase for a little while or throwing a blanket on top of her. This distracts her and becomes a game, because it takes a while for her to find her way out, so it stops her from thinking about food for a few minutes. Finally, I also did find that putting out a wheatgrass plant for her to chomp on at her leisure did seem to help take the edge off her hunger a bit. The problem was I can't keep those darn plants alive so I had to keep buying new ones. Any tips on what to do with wheatgrass? They come without dirt in the box - are you supposed to plant them? I never could understand the logic there but then I don't have much of a green thumb.