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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 138978" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>I found Piper (our Torbie) in a dumpster.....and she was malnourished, food aggressive, and just waiting for love...not TOO much as well you know a cat - they get love when THEY want it. </p><p></p><p>I would not have tried to feed her anything from my hand at first for fear of loosing a finger. So I sat on the floor with her every time I got her food - and I held it in my lap. If she wanted the food she HAD to come to me. She didn't like it, she didn't like me for doing it - but it was food so she finally gave in. As she would eat I would just talk (NOT PET) to her in a low, soothing voice. Eventually I would start with a hand full of kitten chow (we fed her Iams) and she would eat out of my hand - that took about a week of training her in a quiet secluded place where she got used to the idea that YES, there was food and NO - no one was going to take it away from her. </p><p>After I got her to eat out of my hand for about a week - I added in canned mixed with dry - in my palm. She would then eat the meat parts out, and at that point I was able to get her to allow me to touch her food bowl. Once she was okay with me picking up HER food bowl which we kept in the same place and never moved - I would fill the bowl and leave it. If she wanted to eat - she did. If not - fine. And I would not put so much in the bowl so that I couldn't approach her when she was eating to put MORE food in - and that seemed to work. </p><p></p><p>It was a lot of work - but now she shares, and she has CAT-Lag - what a belly. She's not a lovey dovey cat - but when she wants attention she's around. She IS a terrific mole catcher and dragon slayer - (we keep telling her NO to the little lizards she brings in as we like them just not 1/2 deflated in our laps) </p><p></p><p>Hope this helps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 138978, member: 4964"] I found Piper (our Torbie) in a dumpster.....and she was malnourished, food aggressive, and just waiting for love...not TOO much as well you know a cat - they get love when THEY want it. I would not have tried to feed her anything from my hand at first for fear of loosing a finger. So I sat on the floor with her every time I got her food - and I held it in my lap. If she wanted the food she HAD to come to me. She didn't like it, she didn't like me for doing it - but it was food so she finally gave in. As she would eat I would just talk (NOT PET) to her in a low, soothing voice. Eventually I would start with a hand full of kitten chow (we fed her Iams) and she would eat out of my hand - that took about a week of training her in a quiet secluded place where she got used to the idea that YES, there was food and NO - no one was going to take it away from her. After I got her to eat out of my hand for about a week - I added in canned mixed with dry - in my palm. She would then eat the meat parts out, and at that point I was able to get her to allow me to touch her food bowl. Once she was okay with me picking up HER food bowl which we kept in the same place and never moved - I would fill the bowl and leave it. If she wanted to eat - she did. If not - fine. And I would not put so much in the bowl so that I couldn't approach her when she was eating to put MORE food in - and that seemed to work. It was a lot of work - but now she shares, and she has CAT-Lag - what a belly. She's not a lovey dovey cat - but when she wants attention she's around. She IS a terrific mole catcher and dragon slayer - (we keep telling her NO to the little lizards she brings in as we like them just not 1/2 deflated in our laps) Hope this helps. [/QUOTE]
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