Licking Coal

My male cat who is a year and a half has recently started licking the coal bucket. Does anyone know if this means he is lacking in something. My other male cat doesn't do this.

What do you feed him?

Welcome to the site! I would take away the coal bucket because licking coal is bad for cats and could cause upset stomach and other possible ailments. I honestly do not know what a coal bucket is but would still suggest using another type of bowl. Secondly I along with Willowy wonder what you are feeding your cat.

Please remove that bucket from view of the cat as that coal is highly toxic!!!

normal cat food, mixture of wet and dry.

What brands of food?

I don't know what kind of coal you mean. . .but wood charcoal is often ingested for detoxing purposes, some brands of pet foods even have it included. So he may have an upset stomach :dk:. I would remove it if he keeps doing it, though. And if it's anthracite heating coal, yeah, that stuff is toxic so especially remove it if he's licking that.