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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / January 2005Isabella is doing the craziest thing.
I have never seen a cat or any animal for that fact do this. I was feeding the ladies when we got home from the vet with Isabella.I did not let anyone eat this morning out of fairness for Isabella and her vet appointment. So I was giving them there breakfast of dry crucnchies and also a side of canned food for a treat for being so good and I noticed Isabella eats in a funny way. Now Sasha will eat her food anywere out the bowl, on the floor off your plate it dosent matter, Pheniox always paws food out onto her placemat to eat. Isabella on the other hand is scooping her food into her paw and eating it right out of her foot. Some of it falls on the floor she ignores that and goes back for more. She is doing this with the soft food as well. The hubby says maybe we could teach her to use a fork. Any of yalls animals eat i n a strange way? > Any of yalls animals eat i n a strange way? Oscar doesn't eat strangely, but as a kitten she would usually drink water by pawing it and then licking her paw. It was the cutest thing! She almost never does this anymore, but she does sometimes "dig" all around the sides of her water bowl for quite a time before actually drinking. Not sure what's up with that.  Signaturemonique, roommate of Oscar the (female) grouch ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eros was adopted! Eros has a home now! *cheer!* >>Any of yalls animals eat i n a strange way? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > the sides of her water bowl for quite a time before actually drinking. Not > sure what's up with that. Mine do that, too. I've read somewhere that cats don't like to drink still water, because they can't see where the surface of the water is. So they upset the surface, either by sticking a paw in or by nudging the water dish. Nikki is so funny, she streeeeetches her paw half-way around the bowl and digs at it from the opposite side. Frank usually puts a paw in the water, then starts to drink from the dish. SignatureMarina, Frank and Nikki marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki >> Any of yalls animals eat i n a strange way? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > around the sides of her water bowl for quite a time before actually > drinking. Not sure what's up with that. My cat Moire' would always "drink" her water off her paw too. BUT, I always have to have a separate glass for my cats; they won't drink from a bowl. kili >She is doing this with the soft food as well. The hubby says maybe we >could teach her to use a fork. Any of yalls animals eat i >n a strange way? Oh, yeah!!! Hobo eats kibble from a bowl in a normal way but he has to be lying down. And he *must* be stroked while he eats! He will patiently wait, even as much as 10-15 minutes, until someone is free to come pet him while he dines. Won't touch a bite until he has someone squatted down beside him, stroking away. He gets his moist special-diet food twice a day. And it *must* be in a saucer, not a bowl. And the food *must* be fluffed up into a "pyramid" shape. When the food gets "flattened out" he quits eating until it's re-fluffed into the proper shape. If his tongue scoots the food to another side of the saucer, he waits until we give it quarter- or half-turns to place the food back under his nose! He ain't spoiled in the least!!! Jeanne Oh no he is definalty not spoiled? LOL Sounds like he has he meowmie trained very well. > Oh no he is definalty not spoiled? LOL Sounds like he has he meowmie trained very well. > > -- > Message posted via http://www.catkb.com I think he's playing games to see just how far he can push his Hoomins. =o) Or else, he's an extremely clever cat who remembers what it was like to be worshipped as a god in Ancient Egypt, hence the pyramid-shaped food. LOL!! Of course, he probably thinks you already DO worship him as a god. Melissa > Oh no he is definalty not spoiled? LOL Sounds like he has he > meowmie trained very well. There is no such thing as a spoiled cat. Just a properly trained hoomin. SignatureSnoopy Jeanne, you are a pillar among catslaves! Christine > >She is doing this with the soft food as well. The hubby says maybe we > >could teach her to use a fork. Any of yalls animals eat i [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Jeanne jbhajos@earthlunk.not (JBHajos) had some very interesting things to say about Re: Isabella is doing the craziest thing.: > Oh, yeah!!! Hobo eats kibble from a bowl in a normal way but he >has to be lying down. And he *must* be stroked while he eats! He [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >half-turns to place the food back under his nose! He ain't spoiled >in the least!!! Felix is a social eater, but usually keeps chomping on his own once Meowmie gets him going [and does not always require human intervention to start eating]. He gets VERY upset if he can see the bottom of his dish through the kibble [he does fine with free-feeding], and will come get me and lead me to his dish to remedy the matter [and it only seems to count if I'm the one who does it]. Signature"The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding. :-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL >jbhajos@earthlunk.not (JBHajos) had some very interesting things to >say about Re: Isabella is doing the craziest thing.: [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >come get me and lead me to his dish to remedy the matter [and it only >seems to count if I'm the one who does it]. Of course-- the sight of the bottom of the bowl. That is how Stinky knows he is starving. ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com >>She is doing this with the soft food as well. The hubby says maybe we >>could teach her to use a fork. Any of yalls animals eat i [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Jeanne Thanks, Jean. I don't feel so enslaved now. Smokey insists that his food be piled up into a cone/pyramid (at least he's not too picky about geometric solids -- yet). If we just mush it up in the pan, he looks at it and then yowls at us to finish his dinner service properly. Sam >Thanks, Jean. I don't feel so enslaved now. Smokey insists that his food >be piled up into a cone/pyramid (at least he's not too picky about geometric >solids -- yet). If we just mush it up in the pan, he looks at it and then >yowls at us to finish his dinner service properly. Love it!! Hobo is happy to know he has a kindred spirit! Actually, when I think about it, it seems there is some method in his madness. He doesn't like to *lick* food, he prefers to *bite* into it. When it's piled up with a nice bite-able point on top, he gets a good grip on it and can easily chomp away till it gets too flat. Thanks for sharing! Jeanne > Isabella on the other hand is scooping her food into her paw and eating it right out of her foot. Some of it falls on the floor she ignores that and goes back for more. > She is doing this with the soft food as well. The hubby says maybe we > could teach her to use a fork. Any of yalls animals eat i > n a strange way? Awww, that's so cute. Merlin drinks water that way, upon occasion. I think it's very civilized. Pam S. > I have never seen a cat or any animal for that fact do this. > I was feeding the ladies when we got home from the vet with [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > could teach her to use a fork. Any of yalls animals eat i > n a strange way? Nikki does the same, she often eats 'with her fingers', as I call it. She's always done it. It's worse when she's not very hungry or doesn't like the food very much. Then she will pick up a piece of food on a claw, shake the paw vigorously so the piece of food flies away, and then she will chase it down and eat it. My cats eat canned food, so you can imagine how messy this gets. I have little spots of cat food on the walls and floor all around the cats' food place, and they are very hard to shift. SignatureMarina, Frank and Nikki marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki My Pheniox is a picky eater, so if she gets something in her mouth she dosent like she will spit it out were ever she is. Imagine waking in the middle of the night to step in half chewed cat food. YUM, well at least Sasha thinks its good. > I have never seen a cat or any animal for that fact do this. > I was feeding the ladies when we got home from the vet with [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > could teach her to use a fork. Any of yalls animals eat i > n a strange way? Mariah did this the other day. I was watching her eat and she ate everything she could get to then dipped her paw into the food that had scooted into the corner and ate pieces off her paw. It was so cute. Then she drank her water off her paw as well. She'd dip her paw into the water and then lick her paw. Silly cat. Julie and Mariah |
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