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Ok so now that i've established the reasons for why my "dancing cat" "dances"
I want to find out if he's alone in what he chooses to snack on. I've noticed that he *loves* to eat rubber bands!!! (and hair bands for that matter as he will purposely knock down my wooden hair band box off my dresser to get at its contents!!!) I've also noticed that he loves gift wrapping string, as well as string and yarn in general!!! The newest trend in his odd snacking behavior was just found out recently.
Yesterday he found a cassette tape and started pulling out its contents,when I walked into the room where he was partaking in his little undercover binge, I found him smelling it and about to take a little taste of the tape's contents!! Naturally I yelled NO! startled, he stepped aside, and I placed it somewhere completely out of his reach. All well and good...or so I thought!!!!
This morning when he came into my room to say "good morning," like usual I noticed something sticking out of his...well his lower end
It looked brown and thin and so i automatically diagnosed him as having tapeworms!!! So I picked him up and ran over to my mother's room where I shared my diagnosis. It turns out that I would be a VERY bad veternarian, as the thin, flat, brown thing that was protruding from his lower end was in fact part of a tape!!!!!!! I was so angered at him, but at the same time found it funny as it was as if he was saying "Ha! I got to my snack after all! With or without your approval!" What can I say? He's got personality...enough to drive me crazy!!
Of course I couldn't leave him like that so I stuck on a pair of latex gloves (I have them accessible and ready as I am an ex-medical/current dental student
) and, with a little trouble, pulled it out and sure enough it was tape!!!!
I feel that somehow my cat is a garbage collector!!!! He eats anything and everything...even cockroaches and moths (which he meows for me to spot for him and if the cockroach/moth happens to crawl/fly up a wall, I am expected to carry him up to it and follow it for hours carrying him until he catches and eats it!!!). So my question to all of you cat owners and lovers this time is...is my cat wacko or is his choice of snack normal for catkind?
Please keep in mind that I try to keep all these things out of his reach, but somehow his curiousity gets the better of him and he finds a way to get to them...hopefully curiousity won't kill him like the age-old adage "curiousity killed the cat!!!"
Yesterday he found a cassette tape and started pulling out its contents,when I walked into the room where he was partaking in his little undercover binge, I found him smelling it and about to take a little taste of the tape's contents!! Naturally I yelled NO! startled, he stepped aside, and I placed it somewhere completely out of his reach. All well and good...or so I thought!!!!
This morning when he came into my room to say "good morning," like usual I noticed something sticking out of his...well his lower end
Of course I couldn't leave him like that so I stuck on a pair of latex gloves (I have them accessible and ready as I am an ex-medical/current dental student
I feel that somehow my cat is a garbage collector!!!! He eats anything and everything...even cockroaches and moths (which he meows for me to spot for him and if the cockroach/moth happens to crawl/fly up a wall, I am expected to carry him up to it and follow it for hours carrying him until he catches and eats it!!!). So my question to all of you cat owners and lovers this time is...is my cat wacko or is his choice of snack normal for catkind?
Please keep in mind that I try to keep all these things out of his reach, but somehow his curiousity gets the better of him and he finds a way to get to them...hopefully curiousity won't kill him like the age-old adage "curiousity killed the cat!!!"