Why do cats beg for human food?
Cats mistake human snacks like yogurt, applesauce, and cheese for their own treats because the packaging or sounds closely resemble wet food and lickable tubes. This causes them to scream, jump on people, and demand food even shortly after being fed.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Letting the cat smell the human food package to realize what it actually is
- 2Giving the cat their own treat while eating
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“We stopped eating Gogurts in my home because the cats kept yelling at us thinking we were eating their Churus 😂”source ↗
“when I have any sort of can in my hand they are immediately standing next to their plates thinking they are going to get their wet food as if I didn’t feed them 20 mins ago.”source ↗
“My cat thinks apple sauce packets are lickables and will freak out until I let her smell it and realize what it is”source ↗
“My cats do this with those string cheese sticks. Scream when I get one out of the fridge and then jump all over me, then sniff my mouth in betrayal when I eat it all.”source ↗
Where this came up
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