Hi! There's a tldr at the end. Me and my husband (using his account right now because my phone is broken) have two about 8 months old male cats (and a dog but that isn't relevant I think). One of them, Freddy, doesn't try to eat our food (unless it is olives, corn or chestnuts, then he goes crazy??), but the other one, Ketchup, does not leave us alone while we are eating. It's especially bad when my husband is eating meat. It doesn't help pushing him away, he always comes back and tries to snatch whatever we are eating (It doesn't even matter what, he wants to eat rice, potatoes, vegetables, pasta, literally anything), and I also don't want to yell at him or even hit him (lightly I mean, like cats do it to each other, not to hurt him, but to showhim I dont like what he's doing? I don't know if that would be even ok) So we have developed a habit of putting them (both of them, so Ketchup isn't alone) in our entrance room, where they have their litter boxes and one of their water bowls.
Now the thing is that I feel kind of bad about taking away their freedom likr that? Is it cruel to them? As soon as we're done eating and putting everything away, we let them out, and they rarely cry anymore.
Is there anything we could try to do to avoid doing this? Or is there maybe not even a problem with doing that?
Thank you in advance for any help or advice!!
TLDR: One of our cats does not let us eat in peace and keeps trying to snatch away our food, is it ok for us to lock him and his brother in a seperate room while we are eating?
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