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You may have read a recent post where I wrote about how my little guy, Ziggy has taken to playing with his little furry mice by carrying them around and growling. Well, now he's stepped up his antics by putting them in the cat food dish and eating around them. Molly is pretty much disinterested - and just ignore the toys (he never lets her at them anyway). But this is really strange to me. We have had no incident of a mouse in the house since several months ago - when Ziggy and Molly hunted and distroyed one (thank God). Could there be something I'm missing. My husband is home more than me and he's assured me that he has not witnessed anything since. But Ziggy acts like he's still playing cat and mouse with the toys. Hmmmmm?

LOL! There is just no telling with cats what they will dream up next. I guess somehow the furry mouse is now equated with dinner and placed in a position of honor in the food bowl. Naturally your cat knows it's going to taste lousy, so he eats around it!
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Smile, it will make them wonder what you are up to!

I have the same problem with my cat from time to time. Not so much anymore but when he was a kitten he would do it all the time. I don't like him doing this because it gets the smell of the food on the toy and then he drags it around the house and makes everything else smell like it. What I did to minimize him doing this is warned him the first couple of times and from there when he continued to do it, I would take that particular toy away for one hour. He started to figure out that if it goes in the food or water dish, then it disappears. So he doesn't do it as much any more because he does not like to lose his toys. Once in a while he does forget, but for the most part he has stopped.

Great idea, and super pic of your kitty! Thanks!