Chomp chomp

[owlmoose]

So Tori has taken to eating T's shoelaces.

I've never seen anything quite like it.




Not on any of the other shoes, just the athletic shoes. I don't know whether she's actually eating the shoelace bits or just gnawing through them, although I did find one shoelace end on the floor this morning. Something to worry about? Any way to stop it, other than storing the shoes out of her reach? It's not like they don't have enough toys, or that they don't like them. More fiber in her diet? Hmm.

She also gnawed through the wire on the Christmas lights that we'd had hanging off the mezzanine (while they were off, fortunately). I knew my instincts were right, that they weren't ready for a tree yet. Maybe in a few years.

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String bad!

[i-iambe.livejournal.com]

Fortunately it's a short piece, but watch the string consumption very carefully. It can get caught up in their system and knot up places that shouldn't be knotted.

Yesterday I saw something hanging off Ed's face. I grabbed it and it turned out to be a thread running to a spool that had fallen on the floor. I pulled slowly and about ten feet of blue thread came out of my cat. The front, thank goodness. But it terrified me. I knew that she liked to chew up ponytail bands, but she always chewed them off in small pieces. I'd find a short wet black wormy looking thing on the floor and it would turn out to be the remains of a ponytail band. Ick.

Anyway, now that you know it's an issue for her, be very careful about any kind of string near her. Some cats don't have any interest in string. Quito doesn't care at all, but some cats like Ed get very into it and you have to watch out for rubber bands, tinsel, newspaper string, ribbons, threads...

Re: String bad!

[plantgirl.livejournal.com]

My sister's cat was desperately attracted to ribbon, particularly the thin ones you can curl, and would eat feet & feet of it whenever he could get ahold of it. To no good end, I tell you. Very messy.

My cats would play with string, but were never into eating it.

Re: String bad!

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know about the dangers of string and ribbon, and we try to keep them away from the cats as much as possible. The funny thing about this is that it's new, and sudden. I mean, she's lived with T's tennis shoes for over a year, why start destroying them now? Weird cats and their weird phases.