Does your cat lick plastic?

[Mike Dimmick]

Originally Posted by dogfriend

If you get a white, long haired cat it will be compelled to seek out any article of black clothing or fabric and will curl up and sleep on it. Works with sweatshirts, backpacks, towels; any black cloth.

I don't have cats but my sister does. Black cats naturally seek out light-coloured clothing to sit/sleep on.

She has one long-haired black cat (well, when he deigns to come home) and one black/white mix. Short-haired, but she still manages to get hair all over everything black and white.

[dogfriend]

Originally Posted by Mike Dimmick

Short-haired, but she still manages to get hair all over everything black and white.

We have two black dogs, so we have the whole range covered as well.

But until you have dealt with a Persian cat, you have no idea how invasive this type of cat hair can be. I had a job interview yesterday, and even though I keep my interview suit in a vinyl garment bag, I amused myself while waiting in the lobby by picking fine white cat hair from my pants. I have found cat hair in one of our vehicles that the cat has never been inside. I have found cat hair clinging to the top of door mouldings even though there is no way the cat could have made it up to that location. The stuff is everywhere.

[lorraine]

Originally Posted by qbee42

My cat licks plastic like it's some sort of an addiction: plastic bags, plastic bottles, packaging material. What's that all about? She has done it since she was little, so it's not a new thing.

This brings up two questions:

1) Do other cats like to lick plastic?

2) What do you think they get from it? Flavor? Texture? Chemicals?

Tom

My two cats do not lick plastic, but they love plastic bags. They chew them, play with them and even like to hide in them. I think it may be the crinkely noise that attracts them.

[Grateful11]

We have an old vinyl footstool that one of our cats loves to lick.

[Dipena]

Yes, he does.

But I have a greater concern. I am sure my cat has become a zombie. He usually wakes me up in the morning purring and sometimes walking around my head.

For the last few weeks, though, he has woken me up several times biting my scalp. At first I thought he was trying to eat my hair, but now I'm sure that he is trying to pierce my skin and eat my brains.

He's 15, he's not a kitten. I don't know what to do with a zombie cat. It doesn't seem like anything my vet could handle.

[KK6PD]

Originally Posted by jayman

Mine have never licked plastic. However, the older one will hop up onto the bed and knead the hell out of the wool top cover, all while purring loudly

Why Jayman, that's actually a VERY good thing. It shows that the cat really trusts you. It begins as kittens pushing on the mothers teats getting the milk to flow.
She now relates to you as her "Mom" someone they trust implicitly!!!

All of our cats do this. Its not something that just happens, after the cat, kitten begins to trust you, then it starts... they push, push, and plop down on the plumped up area!! Nap time!

Congratuations. you have joined the "Kitty Pillow Brigade"

[Dipena]

Originally Posted by KK6PD

Why Jayman, that's actually a VERY good thing. It shows that the cat really trusts you. It begins as kittens pushing on the mothers teats getting the milk to flow.
She now relates to you as her "Mom" someone they trust implicitly!!!

All of our cats do this. Its not something that just happens, after the cat, kitten begins to trust you, then it starts... they push, push, and plop down on the plumped up area!! Nap time!

Congratuations. you have joined the "Kitty Pillow Brigade"

Sometimes it just means you are getting fat.

[bevspark]

Originally Posted by dogfriend

I had a job interview yesterday, and even though I keep my interview suit in a vinyl garment bag

Hope all goes well with the job dogfriend.

[jayman]

Originally Posted by Dipena

I'm sure that he is trying to pierce my skin and eat my brains.

That would be my first guess too. Better wear a construction helmet while in bed

Originally Posted by KK6PD

Why Jayman, that's actually a VERY good thing. It shows that the cat really trusts you.

He's 11 and it took about a year in the home before he started doing that. So he was about 2 years old when he started that behavior, but he was also from a very abusive background and was a Humane rescue

The younger orange cat did that behavior from the first day I found him

Originally Posted by Dipena

Sometimes it just means you are getting fat.

I have no doubt about it. I prefer the term "big as a house" though

[brick]

One of mine will readily chew on it. She doesn't eat it, fortunately, but I think she likes the crinkly sound of "crisp" bags like the kind you get from the grocery store. She always runs into the closet ahead of me to play with my suit bags.