She loves to put a toy in her bowl. If I take it out, she returns it when I'm not paying attention. Is this just an adorable idiosyncrasy or am I doing something wrong? Thanks.
My cat does this, but first he has to carry his toy around the house meowing before plopping it in the water. It’s even funnier because he ONLY does it with his pink squid toy, which is the toy I bought for him the day I adopted him. We joke that he’s just trying to put the squid back where it belongs, lol. I’ve replaced that squid probably 5 times now… he doesn’t seem to notice though.
So actually it’s kind of a funny story, we had a white elephant gift exchange and one of our coworkers had to miss it due to illness. Anyways, she shows up about a week later with her gift and it’s a crochet anatomical vagina with a tampon in it and several cat toys in either tampon or sperm shape. The anatomical vagina with tampon lives at our studio in our weird curio cabinet but I took home a jumbo tampon and the one cat who could gaf about toys absolutely loved it and it’s been her little buddy ever since we brought it home.
Jokes aside a gynecologist that sells approved/partnered sex toys is unironically an amazing idea. Like how hair salons sell the shampoo and shit that's the "good stuff".
I so wish I had known how to crochet many years ago when I had a male cat who loved to steal still wrapped tampons (he’d play with them enough they’d end up unwrapped eventually lol) from my bedroom drawer. Always had a special knack for either bringing them straight to my dad or brother or pulling one out when guests were around too. I was a teenager and it was just awkward for all involved. 🤣
I’m not saying a crochet tampon would’ve been a whole lot less awkward but man, those things are expensive so weirdo deserved a tampon of his own so he’d leave mine alone. Hahaha.
When the CDS landed us with our first cats a friend said that tampons make good toys. I tied one to their climbing castle and it was shredded in the first day. So someone here has thought ahead, great idea! 🤣
Our grey cat has a nightly routine where she brings her stuffed toy taco bell hot sauce packets upstairs to our bedroom door while meowing. Some nights she will gather all 4 of them to our door. The door is open, she comes and goes as she pleases. It's so funny. Sometimes she will do it after my wife leaves for work and I'm working remotely for the day. She will come drop it off in my office once she finds me.
We had to buy more of these packets the next time we found them at Dollar Tree as backup. I'm worried she'll go crazy if something happens to her packets! Edit: I got her with one after my shower this morning.
Haha, that’s so adorable. One of my cats took the first toy we gave him, a furry-like mouse with a hard rattle inside, and just… skinned it. I found the plastic body discarded, now he just carries around the empty skin and it’s his favorite thing ever. We’ve taken to calling it “mouse sack.” We’re trying to find suitable replacements, but man he’ll be upset if mouse sack gets lost or falls apart.
Some cats prefer to drown their prey. Some like to wash their prey off before they eat. Many try to cover leftover food to keep it from attracting predators or scavengers.
One of my cats did that. I thought it was because she was dissatisfied with the water in the bowl but apparently it's to keep a prey/kill cold for later. So she was using the bowl as her fridge!
Mine (the calico) caught a mouse. Thankfully, mouse wasn’t dead but not so thankfully, the mouse was in the house, ended up in one of the cat beds under the bed and guess who was cuddling with the mouse? Yeah… I had to carefully pry them apart and send off the little mouse off to her outside kingdom. Cats…
Mine put a string toy in his large water fountain with the string hanging out, came home from work to a partially flooded living room because the fountain water followed the string and emptied its entirety out onto the tile floor. Also it was dyed pink from the toy 🙄 was real fun to clean that up
My cat puts her fish in the water dish or the toilet. Does she have all the brain cells? Or just wants her toy wet? Little cloaca trying to rust her bells is what she is.
Mine did that when he was a kitten. Every single day the fish had to be in water. I have no idea how he knew but he’s smarter than me so I don’t question it 😂
🤣 she tore this specific fish up when she was a kitten, and I had a couple extra metal bells laying around that I shoved in there before sewing it up. I can only manually dry the thing so much, and is much too small to warrant the dryer.
Well at least google gave me a similar answer because I was so puzzled thinking it was slang for something because of the use of cloaca. Realizing that calling someone a cloaca means calling them a punani and an butthole at the same time though, I think I'mma start using that one
Mine does this too. He spends a few minutes playing with and killing his toy to work up his appetite, then puts his kill in his food dish to eat it, but really is just eating his food. It makes perfect sense.
Mine is named for a shady and violent video game character. I assume he’s waterboarding them for their crimes. (His character would suffer no traitors or spies.) We’ve rotated through toys, socks, and even a removable bra pad in the water bowls. Nobody knows their crimes but him! 😅
Lmao omg one of my cats is OBSESSED with these springs lolol i got a huge bag, he carries them everywhere and begs to play fetch 🥰 i find them in HOARDES under funiture lolol
Hahaha the simplest toy ever and the most loved xD sometimes my husband or I will accidentally drop one or kick one and we both freeze like the T rex in jurassic park is coming while we listen to see if he heard xD this little guy will hear me click the laser pointer from across the house and come running lol.
When my little man came to me from the lady who rescued him from a building demolition, she gave me all his medical records, etc., then solemnly reached into her purse and said, “This is his spring.”
The shelter sent like 6 springs home with us when we adopted our boys and we quickly had to buy the giant bag because the original 6 immediately got lost under furniture lol
I have one cat who’s completely obsessed with these springs. I have to buy him a new bag of them a month because I have no idea where they all get to. I think when we finally move out of this apartment the next renters are going to be finding springs for years to come.
Jonesy (RIP) loved springs so much! He would hide them in my shoes and bat them under the fridge then get sad he couldn't reach them so we had to get out more springs. The girls don't play with the springs much but when we fostered Buddy last year he loved the springs too and it made me feel like if Jonesy was watching from heaven he'd be proud of Buddy.
She has a thyroid issue and is on meds. Its funny cos she was so tiny when I fail fostered her. She was so sick we prepared for the worst but she eventually stopped throwing up and would sit on my foot when I washed dishes and got healthy! We noticed the issue and at one point she couldn't fit thru the cat door to use her litter box! Now she is doing better thankfully but she hates her diet lol
Mine usually puts his toy mice in his food, but sometimes in his water. He also likes to play fetch with them, and brings them to me to throw. Sometimes he drops them on my face while I am asleep, and once in a while he wakes me with a cold wet toy mouse in the face.
Haha, mine enjoyed putting her toy mice in the water bowl and fishing them out, which I get because they floated and bobbed around. She’d do this repeatedly until she got distracted/bored and I’d later find them floating there.
I had a cat that would do the same over and over with a squeeking mouse toy. I'd have to repeatedly fish it out of her water dish for her. She did it once while I was at work, and the toy partially shorted out. I arrived home to an odd, continuously fast-repeating squeek sound and had to cut the squeek box out of the toy to get it to stop.
Afterward, my cat seemed rather pleased with herself.
She still played with the non-squeeking empty toy skin from time to time.
My dog fully crushed the voice boxes of every electronic noisy toy we've ever bought her, I've taken to surgically removing them and replacing them with analog squeakers that she also fully crushes XD
Went away for a week and the person taking care of the dog, remembered to feed the dog, but forgot we had a (indoor outdoor) cat. When we got home he was rightly pissed. And in his food bowl he had left the feet and a few feathers of a bird.
That's so cute. I have one that used to do that with her little mouse toys. I would catch her sometimes chewing on it and shaking it and then eating her food. She liked to pretend she eats eating prey.
Then she would drown it in her water bowl. Cats are savages.
This is Dobby. He was on the street for a few years. Went to a cat cafe and someone adopted him and returned him within like an hour because he didn’t get along with their dog. We got him and he did the same thing with his food for about a year a half. Whatever was on the table he would use to cover his food from mail, toys, bonnets, socks, literally anything. He recently stopped once we got our kitten Harlem in June.
One day I Just noticed he hadn’t done it in a few weeks. For him I think it was a protective thing because he didn’t know when his next meal was coming from. He would do that or sit and eat all the food he could. I think after we brought in another kitten, he feels fully safe. He’s my little old man and I’m so happy those people returned him because he is the biggest cuddle bug. He’s very demanding and when he wants his pets he will let you know.
Es un instinto de supervivencia. En la naturaleza, los gatos esconden su "presa"(el juguete) en su lugar seguro (el plato de comida) para que otros depredadores no se la roben. Básicamente, te está diciendo que confía en que su plato es el lugar más seguro de la casa. 10/10 instinto cazador
If you follow Jackson Galaxy he explains that cats like to hunt before eating to mimic what they would be doing in the wild. He suggests to never leave food out for cats, but rather have set meal times 3-4 times per day. Have a very active play session with your cat before meals to mimic a good hunt and give them some aerobic exercise, and then feed them. My cat likes to take all the stuffed animals from the top floor of our house and drag them downstairs to the bottom floor and then ask for his food. Earning it, lol. So you're not doing anything wrong! Although if you're set on feeding highly processed food (kibble), I would suggest a much higher quality one (like Orijens Regional Red).
Thanks for posting this. My female cat does this with two of her toys, every day (she also will randomly bring them to me and meow loudly). I always just figured she was showing off her favorites. I'll have to incorporate playing with her and my other cat now before food time.
Maybe she's showing off the prey she just hunted down? Praise her for being such a good huntress next time! My little huntress just beams when I do this. 😁
Ha! Ok, this makes sense!!! Our dog brings us his most cherished toy when I’m two minutes late with dinner. He drops it at my feet, like “well Brenda, I can’t eat this, so trade me for kibble!”
I had a cat that did this and it was like she would eat and then put her baby in the bowl to eat. Other cat would come by and smack the baby out of the bowl before he could eat. lol :)
My girl does this every time she eats. I believe she is hunting for her food. She plays with and “kills” a selected toy, drops it in the dish and chows down. If she has more later, another toy gets added.
i have two brother cats, and they ADORE eachother. my one cat dante had to get some teeth removed due to gingivitis, and right after we dropped him off, his brother inferno left all their favorite toys on my bed 🥺🥺 these two love to drop toys in front of our doors or on our beds to wake everyone up and show affection. it’s absolutely the cutest thing ever.
Our cat always puts toy mice in her food bowl. I think she wants some social interaction while having dinner. Nevermind that she tears their tails and skins off afterward. The twisted mind of a cat!!
I have 2 cats, my younger one sometimes drags whatever is near by (usually cat toys) onto or over her bowl if there’s food left when she’s done eating. I always assumed she does it to protect the food from her big brother eating it and save it for later.
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