Toys in food dish, lol

Simmy loves to keep his toy(s) in his food, lol! It is the funniest most adorable thing to see when I get up in the morning. I come out to the kitchen and there's anywhere from 1 to 4 earplugs in his food dish, lol. He LOVES earplugs. Those foam white earplugs? He ADORES them! LOL. I was originially concerned with them being a swallow hazard, but they've always remained intact and he just loves them more than life itself.

He will leave what my fiance and I call a "deposit." Which means he drops an ear plug at our feet, and that is a silent but demanding request for us to flick it as far and as fast across the room as we can so he can go and "fetch" it and bring it back for more. LOL. My cat fetches, lol! How adorable is that?

Anyway, does anyone else's cat store his/her toys in the food dish? Wonder why he does that? LOL. It's like he's showing ownership, lol.

lol finnegan doesnt store his toys there but he likes to knock his mouse toys in his water and get them good an wet to play with them?? its weird.. lol he loves to play fetch too... with nice wet toy mice.... :-o

he's putting his 'prey' where 'prey' should be consumed, the food bowl!

as for the water bowl, my cats do that too! i think its to test the depth or because they are fascinated by water and like to see it ripple when things float.

I read somewhere that in a multi-cat household, a certain cat will place his toys in his food or water bowl to show that is HIS territory!!!

My boy Hammie has been doing this for 3 yrs... he takes his little furry mice, rips the tails off, and then drowns them in the water bowl. I LOVE to come home from work and see how many mice he's beaten & drowned while I was gone!!! Cracks me up.

He's the only one who does it, too. One time my daughter left pipe cleaners out, and Hammie drowned one of those, too.

Originally Posted by maverick_kitten

he's putting his 'prey' where 'prey' should be consumed, the food bowl!

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LMAO!! I love it! Thanks, that makes sense, lol!

Mooch and Noodles do! And today they ehem....'stored' some toys and thier entire towel inside thier litterbox! I have yet to clean it up. But it's really got me wondering if they toys I can't find they burried and I scooped......not sure I wanna know! The toys in the food is the cutest though! I wish they would play fetch with me!

Originally Posted by laureen227

mine don't put toys in food or water dishes, except by accident. however, Pixel does the 'cat fetch' thing - only she'll drop it 3-5 feet away from me, & want me to get it. i refuse to throw it for her unless i can reach it (1 foot away). if she really wants me to throw it, she'll bat it closer to me. when she's tired of playing, she'll stop bringing it closer!

she's my only fetcher!

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Oh, i know, i hate that! He'll bring the "deposit" right to my feet, and it's always so nausiatingly adorable that he knows what he wants to do and knows how to ask for it, and that he's actually saying, "Mommy, can we play this game?" But then he'll drop it JUST out of my reach. Of course, I give in. It doesn't seem to "train" him that he can do that all the time because it's only occassional, but that does drive me crazy, lol.