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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2014 3:47:37 GMT
DS and I were working on a project today and had a bunch of old craft stuff out on the floor in my office. We thought we were watching the cat pretty well and keeping her out of stuff. A few minutes later, she walked back into the office and dropped a pom pom out of her mouth.
Immediately, we kicked her out of the office and picked everything up and got it all bagged up to keep her nosey face out of it.
She WILL NOT LEAVE IT ALONE. Everything sealed in baggies. Many things even double bagged.
SHE WILL NOT STOP.
It's like a toddler that I'm trying to distract.
You'd never know that this is the same cat that at about age 2 decided to tear down an art project one of the kids made at Christmastime and consumed 3 ft. of yarn that required surgical removal. (the cost was about $2,000)
When I go to bed, I'm going to make sure and close the door to the office because frankly, I don't trust that she's not going to tear the bags open. |
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Post by MaryC on Jul 23, 2014 4:10:08 GMT
Hate to tell you but our cat loves plastic so putting stuff in baggies is like spraying it with catnip. If your cat is the same way the baggies will not help. Do you have cardboard boxes or a plastic tote?
We have to put our bread in a plastic tote because if it's left anywhere the cat can get to it she will eat the bag the bread is in.
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Post by Sassy Sabrina SWZ on Jul 23, 2014 13:18:59 GMT
What is it about plastic bags that's so attractive? My cat will nibble on plastic bags, too. Sometimes, it's one that came into the house with some kind of produce in it, so it probably has a residual smell that she can detect--at least, in that case, it's understandable. But sometimes, it's a bag of food scraps and garbage. Ewww!
And if she's not nibbling on it, she'll make it into a temporary bed. She does the same thing with paper: if there's a sheet of paper on an otherwise bare table, that's the spot she'll choose to lie down on
".... and consumed 3 ft. of yarn that required surgical removal. (the cost was about $2,000)"
We once took in a stray cat who was already pregnant. A few days after she came into our home, she found a miniature yoyo that my 5-year-old DD had been given as a party favor at a birthday party, and she consumed the string! The vet held off on operating to remove it because of the pregnancy--she would probably have lost the kittens--so I had to check her output in the litter box every day to search for signs that it passed naturally (it eventually did).
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2014 14:24:08 GMT
She likes plastic grocery bags and if there's one on the floor, she is on it like a magnet. (or even a piece of paper on the floor...again...like a magnet)
She's never had a "thing" for Ziploc baggies...until they contain pom poms, googly eyes, feathers and the works.
When I went to bed last night, I did close the office door...to keep her out. |
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