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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / April 2005Cat covering food dish
Don't know if this happens with anyone else's cat. With the wet food, my cat will usually try to cover the dish with anything on the ground such as , plastic wrap, junk mail, and empty carton, etc. Recently, she has aslo done that with the dry food. This evening, she covered both dishes with saran wrap that used to be on the ground next to the garbage can. Once, she completely covered the dish with an empty orange juice carton!!!! She covers th dishes with a digging motion with one paw. Ididn't know housecats buried their food. My cat spent her kitenhood in the city streets, so I wonder if that was a habit of hers to protect a limited food supply. She gets fed plenty now!!! > Don't know if this happens with anyone else's cat. With the wet food, > my cat will usually try to cover the dish with anything on the ground [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > streets, so I wonder if that was a habit of hers to protect a limited > food supply. She gets fed plenty now!!! Well, all my cats do that, and two have never been outside. I think it's an instinctual thing. Of course, that's a new theory (as of right now), since I used to think it was because of having more than one cat, so... Smokie Darling (Annie) You're a good cat father to your stray furry master. I've heard of worse and wierder food habits than hers. >> Don't know if this happens with anyone else's cat. With the wet food, >> my cat will usually try to cover the dish with anything on the ground [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Smokie Darling (Annie) > > Don't know if this happens with anyone else's cat. With the wet food, > > my cat will usually try to cover the dish with anything on the ground [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Smokie Darling (Annie) It is instinctive. When I had one cat, she did it. Now only Cheeky does, of my current two. It is so insulting when one slaves over a hot can opener to have them try to cover it like it is poo! :) > Don't know if this happens with anyone else's cat. With the wet food, > my cat will usually try to cover the dish with anything on the ground [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > streets, so I wonder if that was a habit of hers to protect a limited > food supply. She gets fed plenty now!!! Harri Roadcat does this too, but only with good stuff that she doesn't want to eat all at one sitting. She doesn't do this with her dry food, but when I put down wet food or the times I give her a little bit of milk, she'll enjoy just a little bit of it then will try to scrape a bag or something over the rest. I usually help her out a bit by putting the dish inside a plastic grocery bag. >> Don't know if this happens with anyone else's cat. With the wet food, >> my cat will usually try to cover the dish with anything on the ground >> > Harri Roadcat does this too, but only with good stuff Indeed, Persia does this with the "good stuff" (gooshy food) when she doesn't eat all of it at once. I have her dish on an old table mat by the kitchen and she covers the dish with one corner of it. Jill > Indeed, Persia does this with the "good stuff" (gooshy food) > when she doesn't eat all of it at once. I have her dish on an > old table mat by the kitchen and she covers the dish with one > corner of it. Ugh!! Rhett tries to cover the Drinkwell with the rug on the kitchen floor that it sits on. Then the water runs all over the floor!!  SignatureCheryl "The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath." - W.C. Fields My its good to have a laugh now and again instead of crying over the sad stories, Wilson has never covered his food but since he is a nibbler I often cover it so it wont dry out{wet food} the first time I did it, I found he quite easily *un*covered it all by himself Jean. > > Don't know if this happens with anyone else's cat. With the wet food, > > my cat will usually try to cover the dish with anything on the ground [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > or something over the rest. I usually help her out a bit by putting the > dish inside a plastic grocery bag. > Don't know if this happens with anyone else's cat. With the wet food, > my cat will usually try to cover the dish with anything on the ground [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > streets, so I wonder if that was a habit of hers to protect a limited > food supply. She gets fed plenty now!!! Well I got duds. My two don't do this. Can I get a refund? I believe it's instinct to protect what's left of their food so others don't smell it. Bob <SNIP> > Well I got duds. My two don't do this. Can I get a refund? > I believe it's instinct to protect what's left of their food so others > don't smell it. > > Bob I seem to have duds too. Then again, I've gone from free feeding to measured ammounts twice a day, so there's rarely any leftovers to cover up. SignatureMathew Butler to 2 kittens: Chablis & Muscat En Vino Veritas > Don't know if this happens with anyone else's cat. With the wet food, > my cat will usually try to cover the dish with anything on the ground [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > streets, so I wonder if that was a habit of hers to protect a limited > food supply. She gets fed plenty now!!! Mine do that, but I thought it was just a snide comment on the quality of the food! ;> Hugs, CatNipped Hi, Rexie's done that since he was about five months. The vet says it's because he has so much feral in him. She'd never seen so much in a Siamese before, but he does it all the time. What gets me, is that altho he doesn't eat 'hoomin' food (except for peas), he'll cover anything we happen to leave. If he jumps up to the counter when I'm eating, (don't freak, it doesn't bother me) he won't do it to my plate, but if I stand up like I'm leaving, he will. If I have my soda near my puter and he jumps up, he does it around the soda (I'm watchful when he does it around liquids). It's almost as if he doesn't consider it HIS food, but knows it's some kind of food. He also does it to his water dish at times. Also, his bowl sits on a placemat and I'll find the placemat kind of folded up over the bowl! Crazy! SignatureShirley B. Reply to: twobutlers@excite.com PIX OF REXIE: http://cards.webshots.com/cp-97658792-LQFd-album/255873683SwWQZJ AND OUR HOMEPAGE: http://jumi-shirley-butler.com > Don't know if this happens with anyone else's cat. With the wet food, > my cat will usually try to cover the dish with anything on the ground [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > streets, so I wonder if that was a habit of hers to protect a limited > food supply. She gets fed plenty now!!! > Hi, Rexie's done that since he was about five months. The vet says it's > because he has so much feral in him. She'd never seen so much in a Siamese [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Crazy! I think it is instinctual in cats to bury *anything* that has an odor that might attract other predators or scavengers to their territory. Hugs, CatNipped >> Don't know if this happens with anyone else's cat. With the wet food, >> my cat will usually try to cover the dish with anything on the ground [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >> streets, so I wonder if that was a habit of hers to protect a limited >> food supply. She gets fed plenty now!!! I wont freak because it doesn't bother me either, my kids go mad if any of my cats jump up on the bench, or the table when I'm eating but Henri loved my nutragrain and often shared it with me, {when the the kids weren't around} Wilson will always have a share of my ice-cream on a stick, and yet I wouldn't dream of sharing such things with people. Jean.P. > > Hi, Rexie's done that since he was about five months. The vet says it's > > because he has so much feral in him. She'd never seen so much in a Siamese [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > >> streets, so I wonder if that was a habit of hers to protect a limited > >> food supply. She gets fed plenty now!!! > Hi, Rexie's done that since he was about five months. The vet says it's > because he has so much feral in him. She'd never seen so much in a Siamese > before, but he does it all the time. Rexie is beautiful, I saw your photos in another group. He looked like a pure-bred cat to me. How did you get him? > Hi, Rexie's done that since he was about five months. The vet says it's > because he has so much feral in him. She'd never seen so much in a Siamese > before, but he does it all the time. Ours dont' do this at all. However, three of the four like to fish vittles out of the bowl with a paw and eat them off the floor. Smokey, the feral, I suspect is too used to devouring everything he saw and/or opening hte dumpster for seconds. He's the only one who doesn't fish with his food--he just stuffs it in his face. --Fil >> Hi, Rexie's done that since he was about five months. The vet says it's >> because he has so much feral in him. She'd never seen so much in a Siamese [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >saw and/or opening hte dumpster for seconds. He's the only one who >doesn't fish with his food--he just stuffs it in his face. Unfortunately, Cinders likes to drop some of her dry food into her water bowl, which means that her water is usually a bit murky by the time I get home from work. I am going to have to put her water bowl farther away from her food dish. SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria > Unfortunately, Cinders likes to drop some of her dry food into her > water bowl, which means that her water is usually a bit murky by the > time I get home from work. I am going to have to put her water bowl > farther away from her food dish. We just clean it out every day, and have two water bowls. OUr guys always do this. --FIl > > Unfortunately, Cinders likes to drop some of her dry food into her > > water bowl, which means that her water is usually a bit murky by the > > time I get home from work. I am going to have to put her water bowl > > farther away from her food dish. > > We just clean it out every day, and have two water bowls. OUr guys always do this. Every morning my girls get the water dishes washed with hot soapy water and filled with cold filtered water. There are three dishes, and they wait for the one in the kitchen to be filled and take turns drinking while I make my coffee and dish out their canned food. They definitely drink more water now that they get the cold filtered water. John F. Eldredge <john@jfeldredge.com> had some very interesting things to say about Re: Cat covering food dish: >Unfortunately, Cinders likes to drop some of her dry food into her >water bowl, which means that her water is usually a bit murky by the >time I get home from work. I am going to have to put her water bowl >farther away from her food dish. Felix does that too. 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 > John F. Eldredge <john@jfeldredge.com> had some very interesting > things to say about Re: Cat covering food dish: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Felix does that too. I think it drops in there off of their little mouths. > Ours dont' do this at all. However, three of the four like to fish > vittles out of the bowl with a paw and eat them off the floor. > Smokey, the feral, I suspect is too used to devouring everything he > saw and/or opening hte dumpster for seconds. He's the only one who > doesn't fish with his food--he just stuffs it in his face. Nikki fishes for food, too. If she's not terribly hungry, or the food isn't her favourite flavour, she will fish out a bit of food on a claw, then shake her paw vigorously so the piece of food flies away, and then she rushes after it. It makes the food mor einteresting when you get to hunt it down, you know. ;o) I just need to wash all the cat food off the walls. SignatureMarina, Frank, Nikki, and introducing: Mere! 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 On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:35:20 -0700, "Shirley B." >What gets me, is that altho he doesn't eat 'hoomin' food (except for peas), >he'll cover anything we happen to leave. If he jumps up to the counter when [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >around liquids). It's almost as if he doesn't consider it HIS food, but >knows it's some kind of food. He also does it to his water dish at times. ROFLMAO!!!!!! Mine also will attempt to cover my food or drink whenever she jumps on the table. That is a little better than what she used to do, which is attack my food and paw at it. She used to dip her paws into my food and then lick her paw to sample my meal. > Don't know if this happens with anyone else's cat. With the wet food, > my cat will usually try to cover the dish with anything on the ground [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > streets, so I wonder if that was a habit of hers to protect a limited > food supply. She gets fed plenty now!!! I've seen this behavior from time to time. I always took it to mean, "this food tastes like poop" and that the cat was sending me a message about his opinion of the food. > Don't know if this happens with anyone else's cat. With the wet > food, my cat will usually try to cover the dish with anything on [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > the city streets, so I wonder if that was a habit of hers to > protect a limited food supply. She gets fed plenty now!!! Shamrock covers his leftovers with imaginary items! He digs at the floor and makes the motions like he's covering. :) SignatureCheryl "The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath." - W.C. Fields >> Don't know if this happens with anyone else's cat. With the wet >> food, my cat will usually try to cover the dish with anything on [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Shamrock covers his leftovers with imaginary items! He digs at the > floor and makes the motions like he's covering. :) How do you KNOW they are imaginary? Maybe you just can't see them ;) Jill Mischief doesn't really do it, but Imp will cover it ad naseum I have learned to not leave clothes lying on the floor in the vicinity of the food/water dish. I have come home to a t-shirt that reeks of cat food and a pair of shorts that are soaking wet Kristi > Mischief doesn't really do it, but Imp will cover it ad naseum > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Kristi Persia covers up if she barfs up a hairball (or just barfs). I came home from work one day to find a t-shirt in the middle of the bedroom floor. I'm a slob but I knew that wasn't there when I left in the morning. I picked it up - oh, gross! She'd pulled it out of the laundry basket and dragged it over to cover her "mess", hoping I wouldn't notice. Jill oh yeah, Mischief has been notorious for this too not for hairballs but for when she throws up her food after scarfiing it down too fast She did it once on my bed too. eeeewwwww Kristi >Don't know if this happens with anyone else's cat. With the wet food, >my cat will usually try to cover the dish with anything on the ground [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >streets, so I wonder if that was a habit of hers to protect a limited >food supply. She gets fed plenty now!!! Scout and Silver will make 'burying' motions at the plate or bowl when they're finished eating, or if they don't like what they see there... I thought that was a reflection on the quality (or otherwise) of the food offering! They tend to look disgusted when they do it, like they think it belongs in the litterbox :) The one time I've given them wet food they licked the gravy off and then 'buried' the rest! ~Karen aka Kajikit Crafts, cats, and chocolate - the three essentials of life http://www.kajikitscorner.com *remove 'nospam' to reply
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