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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / August 2006No one must find my stash.......
Imp is very notorius at burying things. Anyone else have a cat that buies things? I mean to excess? He used to scratch at the wall after using the litterbox, which he would only use in the middle of hte night. Scratch for several minutes to the point where i would sit up in bed and yell, "ENOUGH ALREADY!!" I keep plastic bags nearby for when i clean the box, and on several occasions i've found at least one bag in the litter box. And when i used litter box liners, i would find the edges folded inward, wrapping the whole thing in a nice package. But that's not as bad as covering up his food or water. I'll admit that i'm a slob and there are a ton of things on the floor. But if they are in the vicinity of Imp's food or water dish....... After he eats he will very slowly and meticulously scrape and scratch at the carpet and try to grab anything to bury his stash. Sometimes after several scrapes at the carpet he's satisfied enough and leaves. But things nearby tend to end up in the food dish. Things i've found 'covering up' his stash: grocery receipt slip leashes (from work) my shirt napkin socks handout from school plastic bag scrub tops towels All covering up the food dish so NO ONE will find it. Imp isn't exactly the smartest cat, ya think? Oh, and I've found shirts, socks and towels in the water dish and water fountain too, and yes they are sopping wet....... *sigh* dingbat...... Kristi > Imp is very notorius at burying things. Anyone else have a cat that > buies things? I mean to excess? [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > > Kristi You are telling me I just moved a bookcase to get Ka' Shay from behind it the one place she can get in as a kitten she found. When I moved it what do I find all the plastic potato bags chips pins. We have been looking for them about 20 of them hid back there. Little devils > You are telling me I just moved a bookcase to get Ka' Shay from behind it > the one place she can get in as a kitten she found. > When I moved it what do I find all the plastic potato bags chips pins. > We have been looking for them about 20 of them hid back there. Little > devils Yeah, when the roomie moves out and i really start cleaning i know i'm going to find all the mousies and balls that have disappeared >> You are telling me I just moved a bookcase to get Ka' Shay from behind it >> the one place she can get in as a kitten she found. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >Yeah, when the roomie moves out and i really start cleaning i know i'm >going to find all the mousies and balls that have disappeared When I finally move out of here I should find about a million soda bottle caps. a couple hundred bic lighters, a money clip (hopefully still with around $30 dollars in it) and the two of those little pocket flashlights I used to use for things Spot tested gravity with and then "put away". Now when something goes missing I bring in the big mac flashlight from the truck - I may not find any more than with the little ones, but at least it hasn't disappeared like they did.  SignatureSteve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Spot with loving memories of Rocky (RB) stouchst@JUNKsirinet.net [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html My cat Grace stole my car keys and I never found them. Even when I moved house, they never appeared. I suspect she stuffed them in the sofa which I ended up giving away. I found the cat toys she lost, as most of these ended up under the fridge. My other cat Jewel is very fond of covering her food, especially with grass. Needless to say they don't get fed on the lawn. If there is nothing around to cover her food, she often scratches aimlessly at the wall or the floor. I suspect she's just a tad neurotic. However in other areas she's a laid back, slightly spaced out cat. It's cute though and makes me laugh. Dewi. > My other cat Jewel is very fond of covering her food, especially with > grass. Needless to say they don't get fed on the lawn. If there is > nothing around to cover her food, she often scratches aimlessly at the > wall or the floor. I suspect she's just a tad neurotic. However in > other areas she's a laid back, slightly spaced out cat. It's cute > though and makes me laugh. Big cats in the wild do this. They eat as much as they can of their kill, and then cover it with leaves or whatever's handy, so they can come back to it later and finish eating it. So Jewel is probably done for the moment, but is planning to come back later to have the rest, and in the meantime, she doesn't want anyone else to find it and eat it. Joyce > Imp is very notorius at burying things. Anyone else have a cat that > buies things? I mean to excess? [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > > Kristi Amigo used to drag whatever article of clothing he could find over unfinished food, or hairballs. > Imp is very notorius at burying things. Anyone else have a cat that > buies things? I mean to excess? [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > used litter box liners, i would find the edges folded inward, wrapping > the whole thing in a nice package. When Caliban has deposited something extra smelly in the litterbox, he stands over it and scratches *in the air* with a disgusted look on his face, as if saying, 'this is so gross that I can't bear to touch even the sand around it.' > But that's not as bad as covering up his food or water. > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > All covering up the food dish so NO ONE will find it. Imp isn't > exactly the smartest cat, ya think? Caliban covers his food up, too. Sort of funny when you know that Miranda wouldn't touch cat food with a ten-foot pole. > Oh, and I've found shirts, socks and towels in the water dish and water > fountain too, and yes they are sopping wet....... Nikki used to throw her toys into the water dish. She would also put her fish in the water whenever I gave the cats herring for dinner. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki > Nikki used to throw her toys into the water dish. She would also put > her fish in the water whenever I gave the cats herring for dinner. Grant did that. I thought he was putting his puffy ball in the food or water bowl for safe keeping and then I finally saw him one day, playing and playing and carrying it around and then he would see the water dish or food dish and decide "Oh! Food!" or "Oh! Water!" and just drop the ball in to take a drink or eat and forget about it. Silly boy. He was so cute :D > Imp is very notorius at burying things. Anyone else have a cat that > buies things? I mean to excess? [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > after several scrapes at the carpet he's satisfied enough and leaves. > But things nearby tend to end up in the food dish. (slightly snipped) Tyrone's like that. Anything that's on a bed, couch, floor, coffee table is his and his alone to destroy and conquer. His little "burying" spot is under the kitchen table. He tries to drag the food bowl there, the water dish (I fixed the water dish problem by setting up a glass on the coffee table), plastic bags, paper bags, receipts, bills, letters, anything and everything that can be dragged ends up under the kitchen table. He's even batted magazines under there! Sounds like we have twin souls. :~) kili We have a plastic bag in the pantry with about 50 of those little fur mice in it. Every morning I give Tank one and he plays soccer with it, bat bat bat bat and SCORE under the refrigerator. And then he cries and tries and tries to get it out but his legs just aren't long enough. When he figures out he can't get it he lets himself into the pantry and sits in front of the bag and cries. Early on I would fall for this and give him another mouse (after mouse after mouse) but now he only gets one per morning. Every once in a while we take a long stick and clean out under the refrigerator and put them back in the bag. >I'll admit that i'm a slob and there are a ton of things on the floor. >But if they are in the vicinity of Imp's food or water dish....... [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >Things i've found 'covering up' his stash: (snip list) >All covering up the food dish so NO ONE will find it. Imp isn't >exactly the smartest cat, ya think? Scouty does that too... when she's finished with her food she'll methodically scratch all the way around the bowl, and if there's anything on the floor within paws reach it ends up underneath the bowl... when I pick the food bowl up and take it away there's a little circle of debris left on the floor! And if there's nothing on the floor, she'll STILL scratch at the tiles just on general principles :P |
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