![]() No problem! I'm sorry, I know how scary and frustrating it is! I'm thinking maybe you could try having the minimum of blankets and pillows on your bed and every morning you can take the pillows/blankets off and put them in a closet or maybe get a storage ottoman or something like that to keep them in when you're not using them? But that doesn't solve the problem while you're asleep. My heart goes out to you, and if anything ever works for you please share it with me!!! People love to tell me he’s just bored and if I stop locking him in my room he’ll stop- as if I haven’t tried everything. I’m glad I’m not the only one going through this, it’s so so hard, and no one understands how bad it is. But he gets bored with toys- it’s almost like he enjoys chewing and eating stuff he knows he’s not supposed to. I bought him Kong Extreme dog toys because they’re the only chewable toys that don’t break off in pieces, so I recommend trying those. We even tried prozac and if anything it made him more aggressive. I tried different diets, he’s been tested for a million health issues, and it’s just a really bad case of pica. I’m so frustrated I don’t know what to do. He’s locked in my room, because as you said, I have to keep my eyes on him every second when I let him out and it’s just too stressful and risky. I have to use a lockable garbage can as a laundry bin, can’t leave any food out in my room or any clothing, not even sheets of paper. He chews my wooden window frame, he will chew holes in clothing and swallow it, etc. He even tries to chew the metal frame, to the point that the paint is chipping off. He chewed my wooden bed frame so I had to get rid of it and buy a metal one. He started out chewing wires, then progressed to strings on clothing, and it’s gotten to just about anything. I have a now 3 year old boy, got him when he was only 8 weeks old and a rescue. I'm truly doing the best I can over here and I feel like a bad cat mom. Is there anything I can do that can help train this out of him once he heals? He basically has to be in a blank empty room with tile floors to not eat things. ![]() I try and keep him exercised and he gets plenty of exercise both from playing with me a wrestling with my other cat. ![]() I've even taken to giving him cat sized pieces of different dog chews (only wholly digestible single ingredient items like beef trachea or bully sticks, no rawhide here) to try and redirect this behavior onto something edible. I genuinely do my best here to keep my house clean and as cat proof as I can make it. If he starts showing interest toward a specific item I'll take it away and hide it in the closet where he can't get to it. He's only allowed the run of the house while I'm home and awake, and even then he managed to get obstructed. He's eaten through 3 fabric face masks, pulled up and ate small pieces of carpet, a bar of soap that I had out for 5 minutes next to me as I was cleaning (I did stop him, he only took a bite then looked at it weird). He attempts to get into the trash when I'm not looking. He chews on the spring things on the backs of doors for instance. His personal favorites are plastic grocery bags, hair ties and foil, but he oftentimes goes for things he never has before and that I never thought would be an issue. So I have a 1 year old (ish) cat that I've had for about 6 months, he just got emergency surgery last night for eating something he shouldn't and getting obstructed. ![]()
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