About a month ago, one cat (Moe) in a 2-cat household started to eat his wet food by scooping it out of his dish with his paw and licking it off his paw, with no signs of distress or anything. His brother & housemate doesnâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t do this. The two of them are very much friends, and nobody seems upset, and their food hasnâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t been changed or anything - itâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]s just like Moe decided that this was the way to eat wet food.
The dish itself is a normal cat food bowl just like Caspar's (his brother), and Moe didn't seem to have difficulty eating normally - he just switched...
He eats dry food normally. As a little experiment, I recently repositioned his wet-food dish so he would have to bring his paw over the water dish to get a load of food to his mouth; Moe still insists on using his paw, despite the fact he makes more "wet food soup" than gets food to his mouth. (I moved the dish back where it had been out of sympathy.)
He has always been a cat who likes to carry things around in his mouth, like toys, tissues, etc. But I have never known a cat (and Iâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]ve known lots of cats) to just start eating via paw (I suppose one could train a cat to, but this was totally unprovoked). Anyone else ever heard of a cat doing this?
The dish itself is a normal cat food bowl just like Caspar's (his brother), and Moe didn't seem to have difficulty eating normally - he just switched...
He eats dry food normally. As a little experiment, I recently repositioned his wet-food dish so he would have to bring his paw over the water dish to get a load of food to his mouth; Moe still insists on using his paw, despite the fact he makes more "wet food soup" than gets food to his mouth. (I moved the dish back where it had been out of sympathy.)
He has always been a cat who likes to carry things around in his mouth, like toys, tissues, etc. But I have never known a cat (and Iâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]ve known lots of cats) to just start eating via paw (I suppose one could train a cat to, but this was totally unprovoked). Anyone else ever heard of a cat doing this?