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My Cat Is Always Hungry

I have a cat problem, My cat is ALWAYS HUNGRY.... He was born a stray, and "adopted" until he was about 8 months and started spraying by the people who lived in the same apartments as my daughter. They kicked him out of the house and refused to neuter him even though my daughter and I offered to drive him to the vet for them. His owners moved away and he lived in the apartment parking lot for about 4 months, my daughter feeding him when he came to her door.

After his owners moved and left him, my daughter had him neutered, wormed and put advantage on him for fleas and made sure he would use the litter box so I would take him home and adopt him. Well, she talked me into it... and I brought him home and totally fell in love with him. We think he's going to be 2 years old next spring.

He was so skinny when I first got him, and I'd never had a pet before so I gave him probably twice the food he needed. When he hurt his paw, I took him to the vet and the vet said he is very healthy but he needs to lose weight and to cut down his food intake by 20%.

Since I've cut his food intake, all he does is beg CONSTANTLY! He now gets into the garbage (to lick my old lasagna TV dinners) and we've had to lock up his dry food or he climbs to the very top of the shelf and gets in it. He is ALWAYS HUNGRY!

I feed him a high quality dry food in the morning and a low fat, high protein wet food before bedtime. But no sooner do I feed him, but he starts begging... (Meow, Meow, Meow) He even wakes me up at night for food... Which I refuse to give him because the Vet said he could get diabetes or other health problems.

Is he hungry all the time because he remembers living in the parking lot, or are some cats, just hungry ALL the time?

Cyinda from Seattle, WA

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