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Litter tray drama

Background - British short hair male, Arthur age 5. Was given to me by a friend as she and her partner couldn’t cope with his clingy tendencies and how absolutely ridiculously vocal he is 😅. Had him 2 years.

The last two weeks, Arthur is not going number 2 in his litter tray. He will happily go for a number 1 in there, but number 2s are all over the kitchen floor. It’s absolutely killing me 😅. Important to note nothing has changed, no new pets or members of the household, no moving of the litter tray etc.

The only thing that has changed is that he will only eat a certain yellow biscuit that is mixed in with the others in his dry food. Rather than keep wasting I am giving him the other biscuits every time I put the bowl back down rather than keep throwing these away. He eats them begrudgingly. The number 2s appear to be around his food bowl… am I over thinking this or is he protesting? Or is it something else?

Any advice appreciated!
Let him eat whatever he wants out of his food and take away the uneaten food at your usual time.

If its a dirty protest, then he should return to using the litter tray again.

I also have a 2 year old "picky eater" - which is weird to me. Mine eats out of a large twin dog bowl, which is literally overflowing with dry food because he insists on getting breakfast every morning. Like Arthur, he picks through and only eats certain biscuits - unless I give him a hand full of a new flavour of biscuit (he insists on being fed the same brand) out of my hand. He eats every single biscuit then.

The thing is that I have more to do with my life than hand feeding the cat whenever he wants to eat. I trained him into hand feeding because I would give him treats by hand when I first got him... he was the runt of his litter and he would struggle to eat a whole treat at 6 months old - so he would drop the odd bit back into my hand and eat that afterwards.

Now he is being picky and won't eat a treat that he's licked or partially eaten from my hand. I have to put it down for him to eat it instead.
It sounds like he is protesting indeed, but did he eat the other biscuits happily before? Did the recipe change or anything?
OneDay · 26-30, F
Try taking him to the vet and see what's going on but I feel for you....😞
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