Why Does My Young Cat Do This?

[Brandi]

Once Bo came ripping through the cat door meowing like crazy. He came running over to me with a piece of plastic bag in his mouth. It was so strange. Well he did it again. Ok well I was out in our yard and noticed a piece of the same plastic bag near our ivy wall. Well it turned out there was a nest of rat's in there!. It was like he was telling me. Turned out my other cat took care of the infestation (yuck). But how funny!

[malkin]

Try a pack of foam golf ball sized balls. She might love to chase them and carry them.

[SlowButSteady]

One of my cats was kinky for the potscrubber that I kept by the sink. She would get it and do the playing with prey act.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

My new cat brings us little sponge-foam cat toy balls, and also rubber bands. She drops them near us or on the bed for us and we are supposed to throw them for her. Then she brings them back for another throw.
maybe your kitty is trying to teach you to play fetch!
Here is our kitty with her sponge-ball.... http://youtu.be/WoHLcs0qiGg

[Possegal]

All the cats in my family love the 'puffs' toys. http://www.carealotpets.com/products...__720521b.aspx Mine have stripped out the glittery part and are still having a blast. I think the one may have a soccer tryout coming up, so she's in serious training!

[indysteel]

All the cats in my family love the 'puffs' toys. http://www.carealotpets.com/products...__720521b.aspx Mine have stripped out the glittery part and are still having a blast. I think the one may have a soccer tryout coming up, so she's in serious training!

My Henry cat loves those things!! We call them sparklie ballies or brains depending on what state they're in. I have those stupid sparkles all over the house, no matter how much I clean. We bought one brand of them for Christmas a couple of years ago, and he went nuts. Unfortunately, he also managed to lose all of them. God knows where. I've also never been able to find that particular brand again, and he's not as crazy about their replacement for some reason.

[marni]

our little miss ike loves the rings that come off of milk jugs. Periodically I take a yard stick and sweep under the victorian organ in the dining room, and the welsh cupboard in the bed room and retrieve 4-6 dozen, which are then stored in the bathroom and kitchen and thrown and retrieved and chased until I have to do the yard stick sweep again.

My old cat Pellinore used to love to chase wadded up wrappers off of balls of yarn that I was knitting and or crocheting with, Unfortunately he only like Pinguin brand ( dutch) yarn so we had to save up any stash we could find. We actually had friends who were sending us the yarn wrappers after we moved back to the US.

God bless their little fixations.

marni

[zoom-zoom]

Sheba is so smart! What a fun cat...that's exactly what our Gus used to do.

[bmccasland]

Squirrel, my cat's favorite toy has been loved to death. It had a velcro closure in the belly so I could fill the body with cat-mint. Calypso would carry Squirrel around, toss it up, "kill" it, have it near her, carry it somewhere else in the house to play.

Then Chloe came into the house, and there were some spats over Squirrel. It was in a sad state when I found it last night, there's no repairing dearly departed Squirrel. Guess I'll have to buy two now. Although a leather "mouse" is getting some attention.

I wish I got a photo of Calypso carrying Squirrel. Found it amusing that she'd carry it around, play with it, loose interest, then later find it somewhere, pick it up .....

[Ssydeying]

She is really cute, I agree with that it's just her little quirky nature.

[spokewench]

For a couple of months, I had a suspicion that another cat was sneaking in the house and eating Jag's dry food. And, lo and behold, I came home yesterday from playing tennis and I was home for a bit; fed Jag his wet food, took a shower, etc. and finally was getting ready to sit down to eat my soup and boom, I hear this incredible growling and hissing and commotion coming from the back bedroom (All Jag, he is really loud when he is mad).

I went back there thinking he had a mouse cause he growls loud when he catches a mouse and there under the bed hiding is another black kitty. I've seen this lady cat a few times in the last few days outside our house. I took Jag into another room and she let herself out but not before she lost her collar. Her name is Samantha. I called the number on the collar to tell her owner that I have her collar, but no call back yet.

I sure hope she is not a stray or lost! She is not friendly and runs like heck when you get near her.

[Velocivixen]

I typically find both sponges out of the sink in the mornings. I don't mind, just have never had a cat who enjoyed sponges. I've never actually seen them carrying it around. Just find them on the floor.