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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / December 2003Scraping floor next to water bowl.
One of our two 9-month old kitties will quite often scrape the floor next to the water bowl. This is almost a digging action, scraping away from the bowl. My best guess is that this is some kind of instinctual action, like digging for buried water, but I haven't heard of this kind of behavior in all of the cat books that I have read. Has anyone else seen this kind of thing? -- fred > One of our two 9-month old kitties will quite often scrape the floor next > to the water bowl. This is almost a digging action, scraping away from the [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > -- > fred Some do it, some don't. No one *really* knows why. Karen One of my cats often does the same thing, as if he is covering his food up. The floor is vinyl, but he pretends there is dirt there. I've noticed that it is often when he isn't hungry, but wants to come back later. > > One of our two 9-month old kitties will quite often scrape the floor next > > to the water bowl. This is almost a digging action, scraping away from the [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Karen >From: "James Collins" jameszxzxzx@sbcglobal.net >One of my cats often does the same thing, as if he is covering his food up. >The floor is vinyl, but he pretends there is dirt there. >I've noticed that it is often when he isn't hungry, but wants to come back >later. Both of my cats do this too. But they will do even when their food is gone. My understanding is that they will "bury" their food/scent so other predators cannot track them. Some days I think my cats are digging to China :) Lauren ________ See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html Declawing Info: http://www.wholecat.com/articles/claws.htm I haven't seen this behavior for a while but it always went along with the cats telling me they didn't like their food. They wouldn't eat and made the burying motion. Then I would have to give them something else to eat. Now they just sit there if they don't like something and they get the message across that way. -- Barb I can only please one person a day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow doesn't look good either. circa Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:36:53 -0600, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav, Barb (bguzzino@suffolk.lib.ny.us) said, > I haven't seen this behavior for a while but it always went along with the > cats telling me they didn't like their food. They wouldn't eat and made the > burying motion. Then I would have to give them something else to eat. Now > they just sit there if they don't like something and they get the message > across that way. Mine do it if they like their food. They do it if they don't like their food. They do it if I give them fresh water. They do it if I've not yet given them fresh water. They do it when they smell the food. They do it when they don't smell the food. I think my cats just like "burying" their stuff. ;-) Laura  SignatureI am Dyslexia of Borg, Your a.s will be laminated. Large cats in the wild bury their food to protect it from other predators - just like they bury their spoor to avoid other predators. > I haven't seen this behavior for a while but it always went along with the > cats telling me they didn't like their food. They wouldn't eat and made the > burying motion. Then I would have to give them something else to eat. Same thing with my cat. He thinks it stinks and its gotta be buried. He never does that when he is happy with his food. Maybe the OP's water has strong smells of chlorine or whatever else that may repulse the cat. Elaine Now > they just sit there if they don't like something and they get the message > across that way. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Today is not your day. > Tomorrow doesn't look good either. >One of our two 9-month old kitties will quite often scrape the floor next >to the water bowl. This is almost a digging action, scraping away from the >bowl. My best guess is that this is some kind of instinctual action, like >digging for buried water, but I haven't heard of this kind of behavior in >all of the cat books that I have read. Has anyone else seen this kind of >thing? Mine do it too. They used to turn over the food bowls which, since I'm using wet food, makes quite the mess. So, I got heavy metal food bowls that flare out at the bottom and are very tough to turn over. They now drag the bathmats over the bowls. And those are pretty heavy. Now I just leave a few washclothes on the floor and they suffice. > >One of our two 9-month old kitties will quite often scrape the floor next > >to the water bowl. This is almost a digging action, scraping away from the [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > drag the bathmats over the bowls. And those are pretty heavy. Now I > just leave a few washclothes on the floor and they suffice. Zoe used to try that with her water bowl and that too would make quite a mess. She would lift up the edge of the matt her bowls were over to do this. It was only with the water bowl too. A month before she went to the Bridge she finally after nearly five years managed to turn her water bowl completely over. Her life's work had been accomplished. Stacey >From: "Stacey" poppinjay@earthlink.net >A month before she went to the Bridge she finally after nearly five years >managed to turn her water bowl completely over. Her life's work had been >accomplished. LOL :) ________ See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html Declawing Info: http://www.wholecat.com/articles/claws.htm >One of our two 9-month old kitties will quite often scrape the floor next >to the water bowl. This is almost a digging action, scraping away from the >bowl. My best guess is that this is some kind of instinctual action, like >digging for buried water, but I haven't heard of this kind of behavior in >all of the cat books that I have read. Has anyone else seen this kind of >thing? Thanks for all the replies. However, most (if not all) of them refer to a burying action, scraping on the floor *towards* the food bowl after eating. This is *NOT* what I'm talking about. (I have seen cats doing this but this is not what my cat is doing) What my cat is doing is a digging action *away* from the water bowl. As for the possibility that she doesn't like the smell or chlorine in the water, I don't think so. It is a Drinkwell fountain which this cat loves so much she almost plays in it. SignatureFred circa Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:58:24 -0500, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav, fred.bloggs@example.com (fred.bloggs@example.com) said, > What my cat is doing is a digging action *away* from the water bowl. And it's still the same instinct. My cats do the same thing. It's a completely normal behavior and doesn't necessarily have any significance whatsoever. Laura SignatureI am Dyslexia of Borg, Your a.s will be laminated. >> One of our two 9-month old kitties will quite often scrape the floor next >> to the water bowl. This is almost a digging action, scraping away from the [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > water, I don't think so. It is a Drinkwell fountain which this cat loves so > much she almost plays in it. No, I had a neighbor cat that would visit that did this. It was some kind of preparation ritual to drinking for him. Odd, but it was "his way". Karen |
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