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Friday, August 21, 2009
My Peculiar Cat
My cat has an unusual habit. He gathers all his toy mice and deposits them in his food bowl from time to time. He also has the uncanny ability to find rubber bands and places these in his food bowl with the toy mice. I’m not sure if this is a recessive predatory instinct in action or a territorial thing, but it’s darn peculiar.
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I've lived with cats my whole life and never seen such a thing, so I concur with your assessment of the phenomenon as damn peculiar. Pretty adorable, though.
Now THAT is a talented and smart cat!
It is a rather unusual behavior, but I do have an unusual kitty. He has a few more weird behaviors, at least to me, that I should document. My personal favorites are some of his elaborate play games.
I just realized what your cat is doing. By gathering all his mice and rubber bands in his food bowl, he is visualizing his success rate for when he captures all known mouse toys and then uses the rubberbands to tie them up. By placing them in his food bowl, he is using positive mental reinforcement on himself to ensure success at eating all captured mice.
Wow, I have way too much time on my hands...
That explains the rubberbands. :)
This cracks me up!
My kitty drops his fuzzy mice into the water bowl...ends up with multi-colored H2O depending on the mouse color!
Richard & Old Bag,
One of my cats does the same thing--puts her toys in her water & food bowl. Wow. I thought she was odd but perhaps not. Wonder why they do this?
Hey Richard, are you coming up for any of the Tour of Missouri?
yes, Lily does the same thing on the odd occasion , all her toys end up in one spot or another!
I've Seen the same thing. Funny habbit. Watch that your cat doesn't eat the rubber bands. Six thousand dollars and a major surgery for the little fella later, I've learned that lesson.
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