smart kittens...

[wayne0214]

Try eating your meals like a cat, and maybe she will adopt that example!

.........wayne

[BigCharles]

Originally posted by TheAntiPam:
<STRONG>My blind cat, Winston, does strange things while he is eating - and makes a mess too! ...

I don't know if he does this because he's got strange wiring in his little brain, or because he's a cat! </STRONG>

Poor baby. It could be because he is blind. Lamoni will pick up kibbles and crunch. Some drop near the bowl. We are trying to get him to keep his head over the bowl, even got a bigger one.

Winston is taking his bit out of the bowl and putting his head down to keep track of what he has between his paws. I see the outside cats at ThunderingBull's farm do this when they cook an extra chicken for the cats. They pull off a hunk and hold it between their paws.

Please take the following as humor and remember that my wife is blind. Have you had any trouble finding him a white cane? We coud get him on the list for a guide dog. How about a subscription to "Cat Fancy" in braille?

Like I said, poor baby. Being a blind human is tough enough. Give him an extra hug from Cindy, Fifi, Lamoni, and me.

[wayne0214]

I'm finding that after the other cats watching my tabby "water cat" (Aquarius) play in the communal water bowl, now, Snow Cat, Mackerella, and Bear all come in with their front legs all wet. That is the oddest thing I've seen a cat do, while drinking water. Aquarius places his entire front leg into the water and sloshes it around, splashing water all over the floor. When he is outside, drinking from either 5 gal. or a 20 gal. container, he does the same thing. It makes no difference how cold it is outside, he still drinks in that manner.

....wayne

[TheAntiPam]

Thanks, BigCharles and crew! Winston wanted a seeing-eye mouse, but found the cord connecting it to the computer limited his mobility some!

If kitties did have a braille version of "Cat Fancy", they could only read it once, because their claws would re-write the bumps & punches in the paper!

I know Winston has lots of kitty instincts, because he regularly saves me from the invasion of the evil dirty socks. He'll pounce and chomp and shake them, and try to tow them around the room.

No matter what the silly (or messy) behavior, we still love them cats!

[tuxluvr]

The talk of blindness made me think of the use of a finger inside a cup to know when liquid had reached a certain level.


Ritz does this right after I fill her water dish - she gently paws the surface of the water to disturb it, I assume so she can tell how far down to put her face....and always laps from the corner of the dish, never the center.

Also has to lick the paw clean before moving on...

[yorkster]

Originally posted by wayne0214:
<STRONG>I'm finding that after the other cats watching my tabby "water cat" (Aquarius) play in the communal water bowl, now, Snow Cat, Mackerella, and Bear all come in with their front legs all wet. That is the oddest thing I've seen a cat do, while drinking water. Aquarius places his entire front leg into the water and sloshes it around, splashing water all over the floor. When he is outside, drinking from either 5 gal. or a 20 gal. container, he does the same thing. It makes no difference how cold it is outside, he still drinks in that manner.

....wayne</STRONG>

Wayne-
My 1 yr. old M. Coon (on Dec. 29th), does this also- pratically takes a bath in his water dish! It's kind of a pain because I have to constantly be wiping-up water off the floor & carpet. Sometimes he even dumps the whole thing.
He is a beautiful cat: white and orange fluff, but always looks scraggely & messy because his whole front and bottom side are wet so much of the time, that his fur gets all frizzy/kinky looking.
He also gets REALLY matted from it. Normally M. Coons don't mat up too much, but Wylie is a different story.....

[wayne0214]

yorkster, OK, I just wanted to compare notes, as this is unusual behavior for me to watch. Aquarius did this when he was a 2 lb. kitten. Yet, this behavior seems to be contageous with some of the others as well. They will dump the water bowl when it is almost dry, so any water spilled will be minimal. But just the same it is another mess for me to clean up. Thanks for the replies all.

...........wayne

[yumyum6970]

No she (Yum Yum) is not blind..she is in perfect health. I think she has just seen us do it that way and has picked up the habit.
Yesturday, we found her laying on our 350 count kingsize bedsheets right at the head of the bed like she belonged there or something.

[libracats]

Vienna and Chat always scoop their food out of the bowl onto the floor before eating it. This always leaves some food(which happens to be ball shaped) for Chloe to play with. Chloe will spend hours sometimes just playing in the kitchen with the balls of food or her water dish. This I had to change because she kept tipping it over and spilling the water. I use a big double sided dish now but its light and she still pushes it around the kitchen, but it wont tip over Deja likes to "test" the water before she drinks it and will also scratch at the side of the water dish (like when they try to cover up their food, but this is her water??)Then speaking of water, theres Pippi who will sit by the kitchen sink till you turn on the water for her to drink, and Paris and Chloe who prefer the bathroom sink but like to play with the water as it drips all over them in the sink.

[RainbowAndHobbesMom]

Yum, That sound EXACTLY like my kitten, Rainbow! She also makes a mess, but i did put a placemat underneath for easy cleaning! It works very well.... As for the other, Hobbes, HE likes the water dish!

[wayne0214]

Yorkster, what is the "strong" about?

..............wayne

[Kandi~Kakes]

whenever i give my cat cans of food she takes a big bite drops it all on the floor n eats it there. its so cute but messy we had to get her a place mat to make it easier 2 clean up. n one time she didn't like where we put her bowl so she put her paw in it n draged it back a few feet

[AmberLee]

Greetings, Kandi-Kakes,

Is your cat named Kandi-Kakes? How old is he/she? Welcome to Pet Talk. Hope you'll enjoy it here!