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Cat Forum / General Topics / July 2005Is it a female thing?
We have 3 male and 2 female cat ranging in age from 9 months to 13 years. I've noticed that after eating the males never scratch around their bowls of food or try to cover it up, but both females do this all the time. Is this common/normal behavior between the sexes? Over the years, all my previous cats were female and they all exhibited this behavior of scratching and covering around their food bowls.  SignatureWayne Boatwright *¿* ____________________________________________ Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974 --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0527-1, 07/07/2005 Tested on: 7/8/2005 5:59:31 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2005 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com My female has never done that. She's the only cat I've owned, so I'm not sure if she's in the minority. I have never seen her exhibit that behavior though. Beth > My female has never done that. She's the only cat I've owned, so I'm > not sure if she's in the minority. I have never seen her exhibit that > behavior though. > > Beth Apparently not sex related then. Thanks... SignatureWayne Boatwright Õ¿Õ¬ ____________________________________________ Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974 : My female has never done that. She's the only cat I've owned, so I'm not : sure if she's in the minority. I have never seen her exhibit that behavior : though. : : Beth Neither my 4 females nor my 7 males have ever done it ... But I'm coming round to believe that females are more attached to their humans than males - even if the cat book says the opposite. Carola >My female has never done that. She's the only cat I've owned, so I'm not >sure if she's in the minority. I have never seen her exhibit that behavior >though. Same experience here. If she yaks, she'll try to cover that up, but she'll give up fairly easily, which is good, otherwise, the carpet would be ruined. >Beth Per Wayne Boatwright: >Over the years, all my previous cats were female and they all exhibited this >behavior of scratching and covering around their food bowls. I've never seen our female do it. Nor have I seen the neighbor's do it (and it's arguable whether the neighbor's lives at the neighbors or in our hours...). Both are spayed. SignaturePeteCresswell > Per Wayne Boatwright: >>Over the years, all my previous cats were female and they all exhibited [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Both are spayed. Both of our remales are also spayed. My mother had two females, both spayed, who also exhibited this behavior. Strange. Apparently not a sex related thing. SignatureWayne Boatwright Õ¿Õ¬ ____________________________________________ Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974 I have two males one female, all fixed. One of the males does that. I don't think it's an editorial on the quality of the food... I think it's related to the "done with that, time to wash" urge. "Scratching to bury" seems to be related to "stop and wash" in one of my cats head. > We have 3 male and 2 female cat ranging in age from 9 months to 13 years. > I've noticed that after eating the males never scratch around their bowls [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > this > behavior of scratching and covering around their food bowls. > I have two males one female, all fixed. > > One of the males does that. I don't think it's an editorial on the > quality of the food... I think it's related to the "done with that, time > to wash" urge. "Scratching to bury" seems to be related to "stop and > wash" in one of my cats head. I guess some neither bury nor wash. :-) SignatureWayne Boatwright Õ¿Õ¬ ____________________________________________ Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974 > I've noticed that after eating the males never scratch around their bowls > of > food or try to cover it up, but both females do this all the time. I've seen both males and females doing this, although I've never, in 20 years of having cats around, been able to figure out WHY they do it. >> I've noticed that after eating the males never scratch around their bowls >> of food or try to cover it up, but both females do this all the time. > > I've seen both males and females doing this, although I've never, in 20 > years of having cats around, been able to figure out WHY they do it. Non-sexist, then. :-) SignatureWayne Boatwright Õ¿Õ¬ ____________________________________________ Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974 I've had cats for almost 60 years and never equated this behaviour with either sex. A few cats do it, some don't. > We have 3 male and 2 female cat ranging in age from 9 months to 13 years. > I've noticed that after eating the males never scratch around their bowls of [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2005 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > I've had cats for almost 60 years and never equated this behaviour with > either sex. A few cats do it, some don't. I'd say that answers my question. Thanks! SignatureWayne Boatwright Õ¿Õ¬ ____________________________________________ Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974 > We have 3 male and 2 female cat ranging in age from 9 months to 13 years. > I've noticed that after eating the males never scratch around their bowls of [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Over the years, all my previous cats were female and they all exhibited this > behavior of scratching and covering around their food bowls. Our older female does it all the time, she will even find some item of clothing that is lying close by and 'bury' the food dish with it. Now the litter box, thats another story !!! BTB >> We have 3 male and 2 female cat ranging in age from 9 months to 13 >> years. I've noticed that after eating the males never scratch around [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Our older female does it all the time, she will even find some item of > clothing that is lying close by and 'bury' the food dish with it. One of ours wads up a cotton bathroom rug around her bowl. > Now the litter box, thats another story !!! Some of ours are better than others. SignatureWayne Boatwright *¿* ____________________________________________ Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974 --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0527-2, 07/08/2005 Tested on: 7/10/2005 10:22:22 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2005 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com |
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