'You need to NOT reward her misbehaving': New cat owner realizes her cat is tricking her into being fed more by trying to eat inedible things, owner worries about her health but kind strangers lead her in the right direction

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Nov 17, 2025 6:00 PM EST

It's the worst feeling in the world to feel duped. Tricked, deceived, mislead – it's just horrible. When someone pulls a fast one on you, it's not overreacting to ice them out and remove them from your life. But what about your cat? Would you ignore your cat if he or she pulled a fast one on you? It raises a lot of questions, but we'll get to the bottom line in the story below. 


The protagonist is a woman who just got a female cat. She suddenly has the sensation of blackmail, treachery, and trickery. Her cat starts getting into some naughty behavior, and started chewing on inedible things like cords, plastic, or string. Because the woman doesn't want her cat to be getting into trouble like that, she assumes the cat is hungry so she feeds her. Well, it may all be an intentional ploy, and it may be completely innocent, but either way the owner is left feeling blackmailed by her own cat, and the cat's health declines from overeating. The owner worries about her cat since she's gaining so much weight now. She goes to the anonymous internet for advice on her manipulative, fat little kitty. Read the full story below. 

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    I'm being blackmailed by my cat

    Cat eating
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    This is gonna sound dumb, but my female cat figured out that if she keeps trying to eat dangerous shit, I'll give her food.
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    I had her checked, it's not some health issue as far as the vet could say. My cat is most likely just a piece of work. She learns all
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    the bad things (opening doors to rooms and cabinets where I had snacks for her and her brother, unplugging my mouse when I'm
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    working, so I will pet her, etc) and, as much as I hate to say it, sometimes makes me regret rescuing her.
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    Recently she picked up on the fact that if they chew on stuff like pieces of string, plastic, etc, I would scold them and make sure
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    they have food, to make sure it's not because they're hungry. Before I had the time to catch on what's happening, she already went full in on this behavior and
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    will now aggressively pull strings out of my matress, clothes and will keep trying to eat small objects until I give her food or snacks.
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    I tried to discourage it, but she's super insistent and just never fucking tires. She has a tendency
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    to eat to the absolute brim and just keeps getting fatter, making her unhealthy.
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    I'm tired of this so damn much, but behaviorists charge an arm and a leg just for one visit and would like to work with her long
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    Vet clinic
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    term. I can't really afford that. I even thought about closing her in her transporter whenever she starts it again, but it reeks of abuse. What else can I do?
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    Welpe 21h ago Cats don't chew on string and plastic because they are hungry in 99% of cases.
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    They know those things aren't food. They do it either because they are bored or because they enjoy the
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    texture/sound. Giving her food/treats was quite literally making this a problem when it otherwise
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    wouldn't be, you reinforced that if she does that behavior she gets rewarded. So at this point it's going to be quite hard to get her to
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    Woman in distress
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    stop. It sounds like you have done this often, rewarding her with attention and love or food and treats when she
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    behaves in a way you don't like, making it worse all the time.
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    You need to NOT reward her misbehaving. Ignoring should be the first option, but obviously with some stuff you simply can't ignore.
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    In those cases, redirection is smartest since most of the behaviors you listed sound like they come from her
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    being bored. Are you playing with her enough? How old is she?
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