Tonight I had a huge breakthrough with Sammie and I am so proud of her! In the 5 months she's been with us she's never shown any interest in having a treat, or eating when she does not feel it's her mealtime. Well, tonight I bought her some Feline Greenies to replace the treats I just bought but lost (dammit).

I sat on the kitchen floor, shook the pouch and asked Sammie to come over. When I ripped it open she came over and I asked "Sammie want a treat?" (Yes, I talk to her with the expectation she knows English, haha) and held out one piece. She sniffed it, gave it a few licks, and then ate it! I was beyond excited!

I decided to see if she would do it again, so I got out another one and left it in my palm to see if she would take it out of my palm (she ate the last one off of the floor). And she did!

Before this I just put a few treats in with her normal food to eat because she would not eat unless it was time for her to eat, and she only showed a liking to her dry food only. I know she couldn't have been hungry tonight because there was food in her bowl and it wasn't her normal dinner time, so I think she really just ate a treat from me!

So as a reward for finally showing a bit of "normal" in her, she got lots of playtime with Da Bird, which she got yesterday!

I just hope this is the beginning of a future of positive behavior improvement in Sammie. It saddens me a bit that I basically have to give her the proper socialization at age 2, that her original owners should've done as a kitten, but I am so happy that I am making some breakthroughs, especially when in the near future we are considering adding another furbaby to our family, but don't want it until Sammie is a bit more socialized and less aggressive.

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Awww thats great! glad that your making progress.

hehe, i think i might've gotten too excited... so after a huge da bird session, i decided to see if she wanted another treat. well, she decided that she just wanted to lick it, and would have another to do with eating it. i was sitting there like "you crazy cat, it's a dental treat! chew it!" oh well..

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lol
it's a start at least

those greenies cat treats are a fave around here... Linden won't take any other treats, but if we have a bag of those in the house it's not unusual to see her break into the cupboard and grab them out and go walking through the house dragging the bag around with her =)))

She also bites holes all through the bag trying to get at them.

All three of our cats go nuts for greenies!!