Quite a large number of cats spill water out of their bowls, but not every cat who spills water out of his or her bowl does it in the same way. Some cats have the habit of tipping and/or knocking over their entire water dishes, but many other cats splash and spill water in different ways. Some cats play in their water, getting the floor wet without …
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Why Do Cats Bite Their Nails? Why Does Mine Chew & Pull at Her Claws?
Let me start off by saying that some nail biting in cats is very normal, healthy feline behaviour. It may sound like a peculiar thing to say, but just because you see your cat pulling at his or her claws gently with teeth once in a blue moon, does not mean you necessarily have any cause for alarm. I'll get into why in the body of this …
Why Does My Cat Lick My Hand & Fingers so Much? What’s It Mean?
I've written about why some cats bite, then lick you before, but I do feel the act of licking by itself is quite a bit different from biting then licking your hands and fingers. My newly adopted furbaby, Bjorn - a stray cat who just wouldn't leave our property - is obsessed with licking. We learned this fact about him quite early on, ages before we …
Why Do Cats Like String? What Makes It Fun to Watch & Play With?
I'm going to cut to the chase here and let you know: there don't seem to be a lot of reputable sources online discussing exactly why our feline friends like to chase and hunt string. There's absolutely no way anyone could deny the attraction cats have to yarn and other string-like objects; at the same time, when it comes to explaining why, the …
Do Your Cats Sleep at the Foot of the Bed? Mine Do! Why? 7 Theories
There are a lot of behaviours cats seem to like to do across the board. These behaviours often seem like the type of thing just one especially quirky cat might like to do, but the more you exchange stories with other cat owners, or adopt in new cats to your household, the more these behaviours reveal themselves to be things many cats typically …
My Cat Licks Soap; Does Yours? Theories Why & Preventing Soap Ingestion
So my new cat, Bjorn, a stray/feral cat from our neighbourhood who we took in end of January, developed something of a taste for soap last week. For those of you who aren't here because your cat's done the same - yup, you imagined right, my cat likes licking bars of soap and all things related. How did I discover this? Let's jump into the …
“Why Does My Cat Bite My Feet?” Explaining Foot, Leg, Ankle & Toe Chomps
When it comes to cats biting and chewing fingers, there are quite a lot of reasons that do a good job explaining away this common feline behaviour. The same is technically true of why cats bite feet - they do it for a variety of reasons - but to me there's a massive difference in terms of explaining away why cats chomp on fingers versus why cats …