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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / March 2004Plays with food
If I leave my kitten's food bowl down (she's 4 months old) she'll paw at it to play, but then my whole kitchen floor will end up covered in her food! I can't seem to get her to stop without putting her food bowl on the counter. Is there another way I can get her to stop without having to pick up her food? >From: danerbug@nycap.rr.com (Dana) >If I leave my kitten's food bowl down (she's 4 months old) she'll paw >at it to play, but then my whole kitchen floor will end up covered in >her food! I can't seem to get her to stop without putting her food >bowl on the counter. Is there another way I can get her to stop >without having to pick up her food? Have you tried feeding her off a flat plate? Maybe she doesn't like eating out of a bowl? The other thing you could do is lay some newspapers on the floor underneath her dish. I have to do this with my cats because they're very messy eaters. 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 >>From: danerbug@nycap.rr.com (Dana) > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > underneath her dish. I have to do this with my cats because they're very messy > eaters. Newspapers? Moist food item lands on newspaper soaking up some of the ink, pet consumes food item including the ink soaked up from newspaper.  Signature"Its the bugs that keep it running." -Joe Canuck >From: Joe Canuck Joe_Canuck@Canada.ca >>>From: danerbug@nycap.rr.com (Dana) >> [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >Moist food item lands on newspaper soaking up some of the ink, pet >consumes food item including the ink soaked up from newspaper. Except once it lands on the newspaper, it stays there. My cats are wasteful little beasties :) 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 >>Newspapers? >> >>Moist food item lands on newspaper soaking up some of the ink, pet >>consumes food item including the ink soaked up from newspaper. >Except once it lands on the newspaper, it stays there. My cats are wasteful >little beasties :) I don't know of any newspapers that use anything but soy inks these days, which are completely harmless. Even the older inks were perfectly safe. If newspaper ink were even the slightest bit toxic there would be eleventy-seven government agencies regulating and banning them. -- Bogus e-mail address, but I read this newsgroup regularly, so reply here. >From: Marek Williams abc@example.com >>>Newspapers? >>> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >there would be eleventy-seven government agencies regulating and >banning them. Thanks, Marek. This is good to know. 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 > If I leave my kitten's food bowl down (she's 4 months old) she'll paw > at it to play, but then my whole kitchen floor will end up covered in > her food! I can't seem to get her to stop without putting her food > bowl on the counter. Is there another way I can get her to stop > without having to pick up her food? Yes, leave the food on the floor until your cat eats it. :-) Your cat has discovered another source of amusement, playing floor hockey with kibble. Perhaps you could limit the amount of kibble put down each time and not refill until it is all gone. The other option is to place a tray with raised edges under the food bowl... something like one of those boot trays that keeps the water dripping off all in one place (familiar to those of us living in the snowbelt ;-) ). This makes playing shuffleboard with the kibble a whole lot more challenging. Signature"Its the bugs that keep it running." -Joe Canuck > If I leave my kitten's food bowl down (she's 4 months old) she'll paw > at it to play, but then my whole kitchen floor will end up covered in > her food! I can't seem to get her to stop without putting her food > bowl on the counter. Is there another way I can get her to stop > without having to pick up her food? Reduce feeding times. Then, she'll really be hungry and be ready to eat instead of play. Iben G.
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