I would start with the water squirt bottle now.

Other than that, he is a C A T and this is what they do, some more than others.

As you can see from my siggy, I have a few kitties. I always know who will come running when I am working with chicken, which ones I will see when I prepare fish, and so on. One who has passed on now, Chestnut, went nuts for shrimp (none of the others cared for shrimp!) and would NOT leave until he had 3. Not 2, not 4, THREE. I have no idea what was magic about that number. So any time I had shrimp, I knew 3 were for Chestnut; life was just easier that way.