According to a group of vets cats that show too much eagerness to be fed could be suffering from the newly-diagnosed condition of psychogenic abnormal feeding behaviour

So... all cats are crazy?

Didn't we know this already?

/Mmmm, titbits.
//Now available in cinnamon and strawberry! ^_^

MaudlinMutantMollusk: mmmm... sugar titbits

/bet you can't eat just one

Why I have a basement freezer.

/Creamy Buttery Orville Redenbacher please

Yep, my cat begs for food all the time. This includes dinner time. She does indeed gets tidbits from the table. And when somebody leaves a chair vacant, she will sit in it and hope somebody brings her a plate. Or doesn't push her away from whatever plate may already be there.

The thing is, though, she's a skinny old lady of eighteen. She wants to eat, more power to her. First breakfast (a portion of canned food), second breakfast (a portion of kitten chow with water), whatever. When she stops wanting food, then it's a problem.

/But yes, she's crazy.
//Dementia. It happens.

One of our cats likes to slurp a little milk from a spoon after we finish our cereal. She got to be a huge pest because she was expecting it and now she only gets it a couple times a week, when she's not being too annoying. I'm pretty sure she doesn't need professional intervention.

t3knomanser: Mister Peejay: /not making this stuff up

Are you sure?

It's not clear, but you both may be correct:
http://grammarist.com/spelling/tidbit-titbit/

FTA: According to the researchers, who set out their findings in the Journal of Veterinary Behaviour, other symptoms can include "food-related aggressiveness" - taking food from other cats' bowls - and "context-specific excessive appetite" - jumping on the table to eat from the owner's plate.

So... These researchers have never been around cats? This is how they all behave.

My cat, for some reason, was addicted to donuts.

I had to kill a cat this morning. It had been hit by a car coming the opposite way just seconds prior to my arrival. I rode by, it was convulsing and writhing, blood was all about it. Its body was broken, and it was trying so dearly to run, to move in any way to escape the most agonizing pain of its miserable existance. I rode by, and sincerely and pathetically said, "That poor cat." Then I realized I was just driving by, so I quickly turned around and approached it; it had stopped moving and I thought, "Well at least that didn't last long" but then the damn thing starts kicking again and whips its head back in a death throw. So I line my wheel right up and gunned it over its head. I felt so farking bad for this poor, poor kitty.

uh, what's this article about?

Spiralmonkey: My cat, a rescue cat who didn't know where his next meal was coming from becomes fixated on food when he finds a home? Unpossible! Must be an eating disorder...

Exactly. My rescue steals food from my plate. Why? CUZ IT'S MAYBE HIS LAST MEAL EVER.

Meh, A bunch of vents realized if you can create a lot of bullshiat mental disorders in people and get them to buy drugs to 'help', you can probably do it for animals.

Next up: Does your dog want steak? He could be suffering from a food related anxiety disorder!

Our cat doesn't beg at the dinner table but goes apeshiat if we're eating ice cream. I swear he can hear it being scooped.

ultraholland:

uh, what's this article about?

cats appetites might mean they are farking nuts!

Well, my dogs must be batshiat insane.

My cat can beg for food but I draw the line at ammunition.

Torqueknot: Meh, A bunch of vents realized if you can create a lot of bullshiat mental disorders in people and get them to buy drugs to 'help', you can probably do it for animals.

Next up: Does your dog want steak? He could be suffering from a food related anxiety disorder!

Those are some talented vents.

just munchies, it'll wear off

Mine only beg if is some kind of fish that has just been cooked.

according to a group of vets, it is a sign of a creature whose obsession with food has driven it to the edge of insanity.

They claimed that cats that show too much eagerness to be fed could be suffering from the newly-diagnosed condition of "psychogenic abnormal feeding behaviour".

And the attention-seeking behaviour is a symptom called "excessive solicitation of interspecific interactions".

Oh, ffs.

My old cat and his new brother (
Occasionally I'll catch OG on the counter helping himself to something I left out briefly (maybe twice a year) but overall he's pretty well behaved.

Okay, but why does my cat beg for toilet paper?

/You gonna wipe with that?
//NOOO!!! Not the other side of the bathroom door. NOOOOO!

ladyfortuna: My old cat and his new brother (
Occasionally I'll catch OG on the counter helping himself to something I left out briefly (maybe twice a year) but overall he's pretty well behaved.

Ok whatever they did so it auto posts? I need to find out if I can put it back, because I have NO IDEA what caused this. Rawr.

ultraholland: I had to kill a cat this morning. It had been hit by a car coming the opposite way just seconds prior to my arrival. I rode by, it was convulsing and writhing, blood was all about it. Its body was broken, and it was trying so dearly to run, to move in any way to escape the most agonizing pain of its miserable existance. I rode by, and sincerely and pathetically said, "That poor cat." Then I realized I was just driving by, so I quickly turned around and approached it; it had stopped moving and I thought, "Well at least that didn't last long" but then the damn thing starts kicking again and whips its head back in a death throw. So I line my wheel right up and gunned it over its head. I felt so farking bad for this poor, poor kitty.

uh, what's this article about?

Thank you for being that kind of person.

My previous cats would come and sit by me on the couch when I had potato chips and would wait patiently for about maybe about ten chips for me to offer them one. If I didn't they'd get close enough to bat the next one out of my hand.

The best thing about them was that they were smart. If I had chips, they would take an offered one without hesitation. If I had chips AND dip, they would look at me like I was some kind of alien and would wait for me to dip it and THEN offer it to them. 

They were a little crazy though as they did not like tuna fish but did like celery.

Never had cats beg for food they weren't already getting, or should but I've forgotten. My cat and my boyfriend's cat will meow in a specific spot if something's not right, which is usually followed by a few minutes checking the essentials before giving them a pat. They generally whine for their wet food (which they do get every night), empty dry food or water bowls (or just water that needs to be changed) or when the litter box isn't pristine.

Heck, I'd rather they do that than anything else!

Animals want food? I feel so smart now.

So what this article is saying is that the pharmaceutical industry will soon infiltrate Veterinary offices too?

Dimensio: My cat, for some reason, was addicted to donuts.

Weird. Same as my last cat. And it was a no-holds barred kind of addiction, too. He would cut you for a donut. He went after them like he was drowning and the donut was air.