A week ago Saturday we went to the local animal shelter and adopted a small kitten. She is maybe 4 months old, I would guess. She appears to be partly Birman if not all Birman, though the shelter keeper said she was Siamese.

She is precious and we are enjoying her, but we have two problems that have developed. She is litter box trained, but seems confused by our bath mats. She pees and poops on them whenever I put them down and pooped on my husbands bath towel last evening, too. If there are not towels or mats in the bathroom she goes right to her box and uses it.

The other question I have is about her apparent hunger. She seems to always want more to eat. She climbs right into the refrigerator whenever I open it. She is determined to get to people food when I am preparing it, eating it, or cleaning up after a meal.

If/when I give her canned cat/kitten food, she gobbles it up like she hasn't eaten for days. She wanders around a meows constantly until I find some way to satisfy her hunger. I keep dry food out for her at all times, but she doesn't seem very interested in dry food, though she does eat it some.

How much food should she be eating, and what is the best food to give her and how?

Thank you!

Once my kitten peed on a grey plastic bag as it may have looked similar to the litter.
So I decided that once she ate and drank, I'd pick her up and put her in the litter tray and also I'd hold her paw and scratch the litter so she knows that is where she should be doing her business. After a few days she got the hint.

I'm not sure about the constant hunger though. Have you spoken to a vet about this? My vet told me dry cat food is best. I buy mine from the vet too and it has a measuring cup with it that tells me how much she should be eating.

About the constant hunger... make sure she doesn't have worms. Take her to the vet to be sure.

Two months ago I switched my cats to grain-free food (dry.) Now they eat their fill and leave quite a bit in the bowl. Their poops are smaller and smell hardly at all. Cats are not evolved to digest grain.

It sounds as if she needs to see the vet and possibly be treated for worms. She also may just need more of your attention while she's so young. When you aren't cooking, can you or another family member carry her around with you? A cat resting on your shoulder, with it's arms wrapped around you neck is a workable "necklace."