My kitten, Ramona, and I are new to this forum. I was hoping somebody could answer my questions (reading some of the posts here, you all seem to know a LOT more about kittens than I do!).

I adopted Ramona about 3 months ago (she was about 6 weeks old). She went through the whole routine of biting my ankles constantly as I'm walking around, "marking her territory", etc. But recently she has picked up a rather strange habit... Eating tissues! One day I came home from work, and there were shreds of tissues EVERYWHERE! She pulls them out of the box, one by one, and proceeds to wrestle them around and tear them into tiny pieces. She even turns over the trash can and pulls out used tissues! (Gross!) So I got a new trash can with a lid (solved THAT problem). Then I started stuffing the tissues inside the box, and turning them upside-down. But of course, she figured out how to flip them over and actually dig the tissues out! I need to have the tissues around because I have bad allergies, but it seems no matter how high I put the boxes, or how I try to hide them, she always manages to get to them. (It's pretty impressive, actually.) Basically, I just want to know if this is normal behavior, and more important, if this is DANGEROUS behavior. I don't see how a box of tissues could propose a danger to a small kitten, but I don't want to make any assumptions there. Does anybody have any comments or suggestions?

Thanks!
Ramona's Mommy