My 2 year old Abyssinian is always trying to get a bite of what we are eating. He is not starved and always has a full bowl of food at all times (because we are gone 8-12 hours a day). Yet every time we eat he gets really close and tries to eat what we have. He also wants to smell our mouth while chewing or after eating. When we adopted him he was pretty emaciated and I wonder if those first few weeks of his life have impacted his perception of food.
It's funny until we find that he has managed to get into something he isn't supposed to. Probably about once every couple weeks he gets a taste of something behind our back (we do not feed him human food). Just a list of things he steals or takes bites of when we aren't looking:
- Totally wrapped and sealed chocolate chip cookie from Whataburger. He tore it open and apparently ate some
- Bite sized Kit-Kat from our Halloween candy bowl. Again, he got the wrapper open and ate most of it
- Starbursts (I took these back before he could eat them)
- Peanut butter cups (stole back)
- Took a whole loaf of bread by the end of the wrapper and ran under the bed with it. I stole it back
- Waits for you to pour a bowl of cereal and turn around to grab the milk, then he takes a mouthful of dry cereal from your bowl and runs
- Nonfat greek yogurt, blackberry only (never tries to steal other flavors)
- Scrambled egg
- Starbucks frappuccino cup in the trash--he digs it out like a dog and licks the whipped cream remnants
- Goldfish
- Popsicles
I'm worried one day he will get very ill from something. Somehow, he has never gotten sick, not even from the chocolate. Any way to train out this behavior? We already try to keep food put away at all times.
HELP
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