Do you have a cat who begs for food more intently than a dog? If you've thought the behavior was crazy -- you're right. Your cat might actually be teetering on the brink of insanity.

According to The Telegraph, a group of veterinarians found that cats who are too eager for food could be suffering from the newly-diagnosed condition of “psychogenic abnormal feeding behavior." Symptoms of this condition include taking food from other cats’ bowls and jumping on the table to eat from their owner’s plate.

The vets discovered the affliction after studying an eight-month-old Siamese named Otto who would jump on his owner and grab at his food container as meals were prepared. They determined there was no medical explanation for the behavior and reasoned it had to be a psychological condition.

The vets addressed it as such, treating Otto with behavioral tactics, such as feeding and stroking him only at certain times of day, and ignoring it at other times. Their methods "cured" Otto, furthering their belief that the condition was psychological and might have been brought on by stress.

Paolo Mongillo, who led the study, explained how the condition materializes, saying, “If you feed them from the table, just once in a while, the cat will think it is like a slot machine -- if they always ask, every so often they will get what they want.”

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