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There was a thread earlier on the subject of why cats try to cover up their food when there is some left, or they don't like it.

Tonight, while I was eating my dinner, Little Big Man came up to investigate. He smelled my dinner, decided he didn't like it, and started to cover up MY dinner! LOL

Napkins, silverware, some papers I was trying to read. All went into my plate.

Why didn't I stop him? Because it was funny as heck and I spoil my guys rotten.
 

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That is so funny
Can't imagine mine doing that - if I'm eating it they want it, period. Whether they actually like it doesn't matter
 

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Covering it up usually means they like it and want to save it for later, not hte otehr way round! So he wanted some of your dinner for himself but was maybe too full to eat it just then?
 

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Originally Posted by jennyranson

Covering it up usually means they like it and want to save it for later, not hte otehr way round! So he wanted some of your dinner for himself but was maybe too full to eat it just then?
He was trying to stop you from eating it!
 

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This is actually instinctual. Some kitties cover their food (or try), because in the wild, leaving their food out in the open could attract potential predators to them. So perhaps he was trying to protect you from being attacked or eaten!!!! That's cute.
 

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Originally Posted by Charmed654321

There was a thread earlier on the subject of why cats try to cover up their food when there is some left, or they don't like it.

Tonight, while I was eating my dinner, Little Big Man came up to investigate. He smelled my dinner, decided he didn't like it, and started to cover up MY dinner! LOL

Napkins, silverware, some papers I was trying to read. All went into my plate.

Why didn't I stop him? Because it was funny as heck and I spoil my guys rotten.
Awww lol! That reminds me of my Trixter a lot. He used to tear up newspapers and put them on top of his plate, he does it even if there isnt anything left! If there is nothing to cover it with, he just pretends to cover it with nothing! The fact that the smell could possibly attract predators makes sense! Cute!
 
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I knew this is why they do this, I just found it funny how he was trying to help me, even though I was still trying to eat! Either he was tring to protect me, as was suggested, or he's just a pita, and I should rename him Felix Unger. He does have some very unique traits, and seems to like certain things certain ways. Even when we play, when he's had enough, he will actually take the toy in his mouth and pull it out of my hand, and take it into the other room until he wants to play again, when he'll bring it back.

I tried holding onto it a few times to see what would happen, but he's adamant. He will pull and pull (not tug of war, just keep pulling, he's stubborn) until I let go and he can put it exactly where he wants it. Maybe I should name him Felix. Or FU. LOL (For Felix Unger, of course).

At least covering my food is better than what Deja Vu does. If I'm eating she HAS to be given a sniff to see if she wants some, or she'll keep pulling my arm (and everything she can get her paws on to pull to the floor that was on the table) until I let her have a sniff. If she doesn't like it, she sneezes on it.

I've lost more dinners that way. Especially egg rolls. She loves to sneeze on egg rolls. Do I learn my lesson? Of course not, they have me well trained.
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They constantly amaze me, the things they come up with to do. I wonder sometimes why, and how they figure these things out!

Little Big Man, though, is very much an enigma to me. He has only been here about maybe 6 weeks. I have a foster who was traumatized that I've been trying to socialize and she would spend most of her time behind the blinds against the sliding door I have in the kitchen that goes out to a wooden deck (with stairs going down). She was meowing for days, and I would meow back to her just to let her know I was there (I'm still working with her, another long story LOL), and she'd answer, which I thought was a great beginning way to communicate. She never never meowed when I was in the room with her though, only when I was elsewhere.

One day I was in the kitchen doing some dishes and I heard her meow, surprising since it was the 1st time in my presence. She meowed again, but I realized it wasn't her; it was coming from outside the sliding door.

On the porch, huddled in the corner, starving and boney, meowing at the top of his lungs, was Little Big Man (only 5 1/2 months, it turned out). I brought out a bowl with a can of food, put it down, and sat down on the other side of the porch to let him eat.

As starved as he was, he wouldn't eat. All he wanted was for me to pick him up, which I did (he eventually ate once I found out he was healthy and fine and took him in). He purred in my arms like an engine. I was in love.

At that momeht, Ellie from the rescue group showed up to bring me things for Snowflake. (the feral). I'm known for my weird timing. LOL Ellie saw me walking out from the corner of the building with this gorgeous cat in my arms, shook her head, and said, "Oh, no, Deb, what did you do?" I said he was on my porch, what could I do? We didn't even have to say anything else. LOL She knew.

I had him checked out by a vet, and tested, and he was in perfect health. Not even an ear mite. Nothing. Just very, very hungry. So I took him in.

I told you that story to tell you this one ...

That was all of about 6 weeks ago. The minute that cat came into my house I knew there was something very special and unique about him. He has an aura that I've never experience in another cat (and I'm up there, and have had quite a few). Some of the things he did were almost eerie. He was only here a couple of days when he was sitting at the doorway to my bedroom, and the fishing rod toy with feathers was laying on the floor next to him. Just to the air really, because I was tired, I said, "I wish you would just bring the toy to me so I could play with you. I'm too tired to get up." He actually picked up the toy and brought it right to me in bed. Things like that happen with him all the time.

I'm not the only one who's noticed how unique he is. I knew I really shoudln't take on another committment to a 3rd cat, but I had this feeling that this was meant to be for some reason that I would eventually discover, but I knew I he had to stay. It was very strange. Of course, everyone I knew gave me the riot act when they heard I adopted another cat. I got all the lectures up the kazoo until they held him.

Every single solitary person, and they didn't know each other, picked him up, looked at me with this look of amazement on their faces, and said, "i'm sorry, you can't get rid of this cat. He's meant to be here."

I'm not kidding either. The other thing people say when they hold him is that he has this amazing ability to calm. One friend had been ill and was in pain, . When she picked him up, looked her directly in the eyes, touched her cheek with his paw, then the top of her head, then just lay on her lap to be pet. She was amazed and said that she actually felt better afterwards.

I'm telling you ... eerie. You can tell he is an old soul. Everyone who meets him says that too. It's just so obvious and just washes over you. He was meant to be here. I can't explain why or how. In fact, I found out after the fact that he had been out there on my porch talking with Snowflake for two days, and never left until I found him. He had to be "sent" somehow.

In fact, I was talking to Ellie today about some of the things he's done and reactions I've had from people, and she said that it sounds like he's a therapy cat. She said cats like him are very rare to find, with not only that gentleness, but that aura of calm that they are capable of giving to people and that washes over you.

We were talking about it, and she is going to contact some people she knows who do that sort of thing, and try to get me and Little Big Man involved with those who bring animals like that to senior citizen homes and to the mentally ill as part of their therapy. He seems to have it all for that, and that may be the reason he was sent to me, because this is something I very much would want to do (I even started an application process to do this before he showed up). Someone else might not have seen it, or been able to do the therapy thing, but I have a situation now where I can.

This may be the reason he was sent here, and I was meant to find him.

Sorry about the story being so long, you just got me thinking about him and the outcome to the therapy thing, which just happened today. If you've actually had the courage to read this far, thank you. lol

The best thing is that there is still the part of him that is a normal, funny, regular, everyday cat that does all the wonderul and annoying things a cat does. You should see the picture I posted of him in the "show me your snotty cat" pictures. LOL I'm so crazy about him.

It just constantly amazes me that he acts (and it feels) like we've been together forever, and it's only been 6 weeks.
 

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Wow. I read the whole thing. It brings tears to my eyes. I know how cats can come into your life like they do - and you are lucky and special to have been chosen by this one. I feel my cat Maggie is like that. Most people love her because she is so "un-cat-like" friendly and people oriented. I got her from the local humane society. I had lost two cats previously (from old age...) over the years and knew I wanted another tiger tabby...so I went to the humane society and looked at all the kittens...held a couple that had the right look, but kept on looking. Our shelter has a large kitten play room. In the play room was a kitten tussling and playing with all other kittens, licking them and playing...I asked to see that one in the get acquainted room. She came into the room, and instead of cowering like the last kitten, jumped into my lap and head butted me, licked my nose and I knew she had chosen me. She's gotten a bit bigger...but still has the very same personality. She is a lover, and I wonder how I ever lived without her. The wierd part is she is reminicent of the two cats that came before her, its like she has a bit of each of them in her...like she knew just what part of each of her sisters and brothers that came before that were so cherished and loved!
Maggie aka Magoo, aka, Magster, Miss Magillacutty etc etc....is a special girl cat to me!
 
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Originally Posted by Maggie's Mom

its like she has a bit of each of them in her...like she knew just what part of each of her sisters and brothers that came before that were so cherished and loved!
Maggie aka Magoo, aka, Magster, Miss Magillacutty etc etc....is a special girl cat to me!
I know exactly what you mean, and this seems to happen to people and cats very often. It's got to be more than coincidence. Even Little Big Man did a few things the first two days that were behaviors very unique to cats I'd had in the past that have gone on the special things, exactly like you said. I took those things as signs because they were unique behaviors. I do believe the love we share with them goes with them, and they send it back to us somehow in the next relationship to let us know they are okay, love us, and that they want us to share that love with another who needs it. I really do believe that. I feel every cat I've adopted after losing one I shared a life with is a testament to that relationship.

And it feels so good when you get that little "message," doesn't it? You know they're still there with you and always will be.

I've been extraordinarily lucky with the cats that have come into my life. They have all been so special, loving, affectionate. So people have asked me at times how to pick a cat since they were so impressed by mine.

I always tell them don't pick a cat, just keep looking at them and meeting them. The cat or kitten that is meant for you is out there, and as soon as it sees you, it will let you know.

Boy, could I tell stories that have come back to me about that! LOL

But that's how I've gotten every cat in my life. When I knew my Fuzz was not going to be around much longer, I decided not to even look for another cat. I decided to leave it to the Cat Gods, as I always had, even though I was terrified of being without any cat at all for the first time in my life (up until just two years before I had always had more than one). Sure enough they did not disappoint.

4 weeks before I ended up having to put Fuzz to sleep, a neighbor rang my bell and said she heard I liked cats, and that there was one she was feeing in her yard, and it very sweet, and she was hoping to find it a home. I went to look. It was Deja Vu, who was VERY pregnant (the lady didn't even know) and one week later she had 5 kittens.

I said goodbye to Fuzz 3 weeks after that, and I'm sure that he was finally able to let go and say goodbye himself because he knew I was going to be well cared for


Boy, I'm depressing both of us. I have to go find some little white kitten cheeks to pinch. LOL
 
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By the way, Maggie's Mom, Little Big Man is also a striped Tabby (although I was told he probably has some abyssinian in him). But he looks striped Tabby!
 
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