My SO and I have been puzzling over this one for years now.  We have three
DSHs, two of whom are littermates.  The third one is an unusual cat in many
ways,  just one of which is that she eats with her paws:  She puts her paw
on a piece of kibble, mashes on it until it is wedged between her paw-pads,
then brings the paw to her mouth and eats the piece of kibble.  She also
eats normally, with her head in the bowl, but she seems to enjoy eating (and
drinking) with her paws as well.

Now we've seen her eat with her paws a million times, but we've never
actually seen her doing the behavior that really mystifies us.  Often, when
we come into the kitchen, we'll find a couple of pieces of kibble in a
handle of her bowl.  It's a standard, plastic pet bowl, that looks kind of
like this:  http://www.petguys.com/-029695230550.html except that it has
some slots molded into opposite sides of the plastic bowl that serve as
handles.  So, in order to get the kibble into the handle, the cat has to
somehow get the piece of kibble out of her bowl then *insert* it into this
little 3/4 inch slot on the *side* of the bowl.  We don't know how she does
this, much less why.  We don't know if she's doing it with her paws, like
she does when she eats, or with her mouth, or what.

My SO just found a record *four* pieces of kibble in the handle of this
particular cat's bowl, and I figured it was about time to ask you folks,
after all these years of being mystified by this behavior.  Any thoughts?
Ever seen a cat do this?

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