if you were eating while you were playing he may have smelled food on the diceOriginally Posted by zak&rocky
So tonight my husband and I were playing Yahtzee and we have an extra dice sitting in the box. Rocky, my almost 2 year old, vision impaired cat comes up on the table to watch. Next thing you know he has the dice in his mouth, tries to bite it a few times and spits it out. *sigh* I can no longer defend him against my husband when he says this cat isn't that bright. He has never put anything IN his mouth before besides toys, food and maybe one of those milk thingys. He is even suspicious of food before he eats- sniffs it carefully.
Any ideas about this one? I don't keep anything out in my house that I know he will eat, but now I'm worried that he may do something real dumb. He has always been a bit orally fixated- he's a licker, and sometimes he will chew on lampshades. He also occ will bite at pens that are sticking up in a holder.
I wish I could just think that he was trying to get in on the game the only way he knew how!
Yes, exactly. Remember, cats have a scent gland in their mouths too, which is part of the reason why they use their mouths to check out unfamiliar things. You also may notice your cats mouth open a little when sniffing something. Same thing. My little girl Cleo picks up dice when we play Backgammon. She just thinks the dice are toys. After all, she is just being a kitty.Originally Posted by KitEKats4Eva!
Well, if he is vision impaired it's probably the only way he can work out what stuff is. It's the same as little babies - they put everything in their mouths, it's their way of learning. So I would think that your little boy put the dice in his mouth to find out what they were - if he could eat them or not, if they were toys etc...
So now you DO have a defence against your husband! He's not dumb - he's just utilising his other senses because he can't see too well
WOW!!! I was affraid that something was wrong with Blaze.
