Hi all!
This is just for fun, I apologize if this thread is not in the correct forum sub-section.
I think the title says it all; What is the weirdest thing your cat or cats ever did? And by this I mean it might be a recurrent behavior, or something that happened only once.
My own (or maybe I should say I am owned by him) little weirdo is Meeko. He is sort of very passionate (not to say obsessed) with food. I mean he will try to eat anything. A few weeks ago I had to stop him from eating a big metal staple he found under my bedroom's heater. He also bit my finger to blood more than once when he was younger because he was too excited about a treat I was giving him. He still snaps the air with his jaws when a treat is out of reach.
So, here it is: Long story short, after Happy had his neutering surgery, he ended up cutting his own scrotum with his E-collar. Since he sits to pee in the litter box, we were afraid he would infect his wound because the clumping litter would stick to him and he was unable to groom himself. The vet told us he should use the Yesterday's News paper litter, and we had to separate him from Meeko during the night so he could rest. I kept Happy with me in the bedroom with the paper litter and Meeko had a normal litter box in the living room (I always have 2 litter boxes). Happy wasn't impressed with the litter at all and was actually scared of it. The next morning, when I carefully opened the bedroom door, baby Meeko (4 months old at the time) barged in like crazy.... and proceeded to eat the paper litter like his life depended on it. I think he was under the impression Happy had this huge bowl of new "kibble" and he wanted to try it! Thank god Happy hadn't used the litter box that night!
I called the vet clinic to ask if it would be ok to change back the paper litter to the clumping one if we were careful to check on Happy's wound often because "Well Happy is scared of the litter but Meeko wants to eat the whole litter box"; she asked me to repeat, and then confirmed if I said Meeko was eating it. When I said yes the technician started laughing for 2 minutes straight, told me she never heard that before in 10 years and would ask the vet about his approval for Happy's wound immediately. When she got back on the line, she said while laughing the doctor couldn't believe it either but of course eating large quantities of paper would be bad. Since that day, Meeko is known as the "one eating paper litter" for all the employees and apparently made everyone cry from laughing too hard (including myself)!
I'm sorry if this was a very long post, but I'm still laughing while writing these lines!
This is just for fun, I apologize if this thread is not in the correct forum sub-section.
I think the title says it all; What is the weirdest thing your cat or cats ever did? And by this I mean it might be a recurrent behavior, or something that happened only once.
My own (or maybe I should say I am owned by him) little weirdo is Meeko. He is sort of very passionate (not to say obsessed) with food. I mean he will try to eat anything. A few weeks ago I had to stop him from eating a big metal staple he found under my bedroom's heater. He also bit my finger to blood more than once when he was younger because he was too excited about a treat I was giving him. He still snaps the air with his jaws when a treat is out of reach.
So, here it is: Long story short, after Happy had his neutering surgery, he ended up cutting his own scrotum with his E-collar. Since he sits to pee in the litter box, we were afraid he would infect his wound because the clumping litter would stick to him and he was unable to groom himself. The vet told us he should use the Yesterday's News paper litter, and we had to separate him from Meeko during the night so he could rest. I kept Happy with me in the bedroom with the paper litter and Meeko had a normal litter box in the living room (I always have 2 litter boxes). Happy wasn't impressed with the litter at all and was actually scared of it. The next morning, when I carefully opened the bedroom door, baby Meeko (4 months old at the time) barged in like crazy.... and proceeded to eat the paper litter like his life depended on it. I think he was under the impression Happy had this huge bowl of new "kibble" and he wanted to try it! Thank god Happy hadn't used the litter box that night!
I called the vet clinic to ask if it would be ok to change back the paper litter to the clumping one if we were careful to check on Happy's wound often because "Well Happy is scared of the litter but Meeko wants to eat the whole litter box"; she asked me to repeat, and then confirmed if I said Meeko was eating it. When I said yes the technician started laughing for 2 minutes straight, told me she never heard that before in 10 years and would ask the vet about his approval for Happy's wound immediately. When she got back on the line, she said while laughing the doctor couldn't believe it either but of course eating large quantities of paper would be bad. Since that day, Meeko is known as the "one eating paper litter" for all the employees and apparently made everyone cry from laughing too hard (including myself)!
I'm sorry if this was a very long post, but I'm still laughing while writing these lines!