Our cat loves Beanie Babies
KBART95
Please help...Our 9 year old,spayed,Maine Coon,Taylor, is bringing our
daughters' "Beanie Babies" from her bed,downstairs to our living room,
meowing the whole time, then she deposits it in the same spot on an area
rug every time! She does this about 3-4x a day, and we are completley
baffled. We have showered her with love and affection since we adopted her
9 years ago, so it can't be an attention thing.She has never had kittens,
either. Any info would be greatly appreciated!
Kim
V & H SIMMONS
In article <19970929020...@ladder02.news.aol.com>,
kba...@aol.com (KBART95) wrote:
Perhaps she's dropping hints about what Santa might bring her:-)))
Helen S
Sarah Sammis
KBART95 wrote:
>
> Please help...Our 9 year old,spayed,Maine Coon,Taylor, is bringing our
> daughters' "Beanie Babies" from her bed,downstairs to our living room,
> meowing the whole time, then she deposits it in the same spot on an area
> rug every time! She does this about 3-4x a day, and we are completley
> baffled. We have showered her with love and affection since we adopted her
> 9 years ago, so it can't be an attention thing.She has never had kittens,
> either. Any info would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Kim
I think she is hunting and has brought you her kill to show you. Caligula has
stuffed animals of her own (in particular a very dead mouse that she has
played with so much it is barely recognizable) and sometimes when she kills
one, she will deposit it near us. She will put it in a shoe, on the bathmat,
near the dining room table, etc. And oh the howling she does!!!
Sarah
ShenaCat
mazz...@aol.com (Mazzylew) wrote:
>
>I think that you should be grateful that it's Beanie Babies. Peanut likes
>to bring those tiny mole(?) things, Katie brings those and unfortunately :(
>the occassional bird. Trixie has just discovered crickets! She bolts out of
>the house, finds one and brings it back alive so she can play in the safety
>of the kitchen. Unfortunately she's also not very good at it yet and they
>escape....
>
Man, feel lucky. Ash'kena brings in live mice and snakes and birds so he can
chase them around in the safety of the house. The first time this season he
brought in two juvenile mice in the same day, one after the other. They were
so cute. :( But of course we had to praise him for his hunting prowess and
tell him what a good kitty he is. He ate both of them and the next mouse he
brought in about a week later was BIGGER! This one took off like CRAZY and ran
and hid in a desk - I had to take the desk apart and Ash was right there
making me hurry up. :)
So then he chased it into the kitchen and it hid under the hutch (the
cabinet all our glass and stuff is in) and then the other cats came in and
caught on to the fray and our Little One grabbed the mouse and ran off into
the pantry! Ash and Squirt were still thinking it was under the hutch! It was
so funny! I finally herded them all out into the Pantry (their little den) so
the mouse wouldn't get lost in the house, and it got away by sneaking under
the door out into the garage! I hadn't known there was a big enough crack
there! O_o I thought man, all that work they did and it got away. Now that's
not fair.
But Ash dutifully guarded the bushes out in the backyard for the next month
just in case that mouse and snuck back there :) I mean there was this specific
patch of grass that was flattened where he sat every day waiting for something
delectable to come out of hiding...
My mighty hunter cat!
Shena Delian O'Brien
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V & H SIMMONS <FS...@netcomuk.co.uk> wrote:
>
>As a result, when she brings anything "live" I can usually get her to give me
>my "present". This way, I can check it over and release it safely when
>said ating machine is not about.
>
Aww. I don't think it's quite fair to take away their prey all the time,
they worked hard for it. The only time I take things away is when they bring
in a snake, because my mom freaks at the sight of snakes and screams for me to
come and get it out of the house (while alternatively cooing, "What a good
hunter you are," - it's funny!!!).
V & H SIMMONS
In article <19971001053...@ladder02.news.aol.com>,
shen...@aol.com (ShenaCat) wrote:
>mazz...@aol.com (Mazzylew) wrote:
>>
>>I think that you should be grateful that it's Beanie Babies. Peanut likes
>>to bring those tiny mole(?) things, Katie brings those and unfortunately :(
>>the occassional bird. Trixie has just discovered crickets! She bolts out of
>>the house, finds one and brings it back alive so she can play in the safety
>>of the kitchen. Unfortunately she's also not very good at it yet and they
>>escape....
>>
> Man, feel lucky. Ash'kena brings in live mice and snakes and birds so he can
> chase them around in the safety of the house. The first time this season he
> brought in two juvenile mice in the same day, one after the other. They were
> so cute. :( But of course we had to praise him for his hunting prowess and
> tell him what a good kitty he is. He ate both of them and the next mouse he
> brought in about a week later was BIGGER! This one took off like CRAZY and ran
> and hid in a desk - I had to take the desk apart and Ash was right there
> making me hurry up. :)
snipped, not declawed...
>Shena Delian O'Brien
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Hi Shena.
Wafflet has a nickname of the Dark Destroyer... She is lethal when
she attacks the local rodent population.
She regularly brings me a dead shrew - again the praise bit follows
from me on skill of fang and claw (yes the neighbours think I'm nuts
but who cares??)
As a result, when she brings anything "live" I can usually get her to give me
my "present". This way, I can check it over and release it safely when
said ating machine is not about.
I also have a collar on Waffles which has a bell on it, plus her
aluminium National Strays Bureau ID tag. When these two objects clank together,
you can hear her coming from many, many yards away. I think the local rodent
population must be deaf.
Waffles eating habits - Shrews, killed but not touched eating wise.
Mice and Voles - a delicacy, YUK.
As a cat can pick up internal parasites from rodents, I always have
The Waffle wormed (Drontal dual wormer tablets) on a regular basis
and when I can, I remove them from her before she starts her feast.
Kind regards, helen S
Kelt
My kitty, Mister E, does this all of the time with hair scrunchies and socks.
He stalks them, 'kills' then and then brings them to us for praise, yowling
loudly around a mouthful of fabric.. My husband will say "Mister defeated
something again" Mister loves to do this most at about 6:00 am, or in the
evening. It is completely a hunting instinct with him, and he wants lots and
lots of lavish praise and attention, or else he'll go defeat something else.
If you don't want you cat to do this to your daughter's beanie babies
specifically, why don't you get her (the cat, not the daughter) some toys of
her own - soft ones, maybe catnip ones. Put your daughter's toys in a new
spot for a while. And praise the cat when she brings the toy to you.
Dalyn
Melissa
I have a question--is it possible for the cat to get at the beanies
inside of them??
BeanKelly
In article <3432C369...@discover.wright.edu>, Kelt
<s00...@discover.wright.edu> writes:
>My kitty, Mister E, does this all of the time with hair scrunchies and socks.
>He stalks them, 'kills' then and then brings them to us for praise, yowling
>loudly around a mouthful of fabric.. My husband will say "Mister defeated
>something again" Mister loves to do this most at about 6:00 am, or in the
>evening. It is completely a hunting instinct with him, and he wants lots and
>lots of lavish praise and attention, or else he'll go defeat something else.
>
>
My Mom's cat Yogi has the habit of taking the pot-holders, kitchen towels
and every once in a while, the covers of the toaster or mixer and bringing
them up to my parents' bedroom! Go figure...
Ripken still loves her white sock and her feather thingy. We definitely
know when she's "killed" her sock/whatever and she proudly brings it to us,
head held high!
I have pictures of Ripken fetching and of Yogi on my pet pages!
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Sarah Sammis
Melissa wrote:
>
> I have a question--is it possible for the cat to get at the beanies
> inside of them??
If the cat eviccerates them then, yes. But I got the impression from the
original post that the cat was only carrying them downstairs. Keeping the
cat's claws short should lessen the possibility of spilling the beans. Teehee....
Sarah
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