Cat Won't Eat From Dish

We think our 12-year-old cat is afraid to eat from her dish. She meows until one of us walks over and gives her dry food by hand. We’ve moved the dish, but it doesn’t help—but at least it appears that she is eating at night when we are asleep. What can we do?

It sounds like your cat may have learned that if she meows long enough, you will hand-feed her! If you don’t want to be hand-feeding her all the time, you may just want to give her food at night. There is nothing wrong with her eating while you are asleep.

You may also try to resist the urge to hand-feed her and just leave her to eat at night. You may very well see that she starts to eat on her own during the day, too.

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