Strange Behavior

My cats growing up would do that. She probably likes the heat from the bulb.

My dog sits right next to the fireplace until he's so hot he's about to burst into flames.

My mum's cat sometimes goes right up to the gas fire (it's one of those ones with fake coal and flames behind a glass screen) and puts his nose so close to the glass that we have to shoo him away before he's burned. He's nearly ten years old, and it doesn't matter if it's hot, cold or indifferent. Mum has bought him every cat toy on the market, spend an absolute fortune, and his favourite thing to play with is a manky old shoelace from one of dad's work boots.

The female cat Mum has likes to lick plastic carrier bags and sticks her head inside shoes.

I think cats just are weird.

Cats like light. My cat loves to nap in a sunbeam. To your cat, that lamp may be the equivalent of sunlight. Or, perhaps even better.

My cat is weird. She likes to eat photographs. Does anyone else's cat do that?

Cats are just silly in general. Mine bites my fingers while I type. Gotta love 'em!

Cats' olfactory bulbs in their brain are huge compared to ours. One cat eats olives. Another licks cardboard and photos (pre-digital days) One likes the styrofoam - wow - I have to keep him away or fibreglass forms in the stomach or something bad.

The best one I think was 'Church' who licks the Bengay off my neck and licks the comet from the shower floor while cleaning. Scary cat my uncle Church. He liked you - or he didn't. Period.

Yes, cats are just a little different.

Of all the species of animals on this globe, the one with the strangest behaviors (when viewed by another species) would have to be humans. Classic examples start when we slide out of bed in the morning, and go on non-stop until we crawl back in the evening.

Devil Ledbetter said:

Cats like light. My cat loves to nap in a sunbeam. To your cat, that lamp may be the equivalent of sunlight. Or, perhaps even better.

My cat is weird. She likes to eat photographs. Does anyone else's cat do that?

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One cat I had ate magazines. That's about the nearest I can think of.

My friend's cat used to regularly put its head in her shoes and give them a thorough sniffing. Once a boyfriend was over, saw this little ritual, and called the kitty over to sniff his shoes too. Kitty stuck her head in his shoe and barfed.

JessRamage said:

One cat I had ate magazines. That's about the nearest I can think of.

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One of mine likes to chew plastic bags. The other one likes to lick dripping faucets. They both like to sniff shoes.

Yes, cats are weird.

JessRamage said:

One cat I had ate magazines. That's about the nearest I can think of.

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One of my cats gnaws on plastic bags. He'll get a mouthful of it and just gnaw...he doesn't eat it, he just chews it. (Yes, we take it away whenever we catch him)

I have 3 female cats and 2 male cats...the two males have a rather intimate relationship. Yes, THAT kind of intimate.

They hunt palmetto bugs as a pack, and actually manage to catch them sometimes...then fight over who gets to eat it.

One of them sniffed my hedgehog (Fluffy), became irate when a spine went into her nose, and promptly swatted Fluffy with her paw...thus resulting in a paw full of spines. She drew back to swat him again, and I separated them...she's a slow learner, and I didn't need Fluffy getting traumatized in the process.

One of my cats completely ignores the presence of our television except under two specific circumstances:

1. The bouncing DVD screensaver. She HAS to attack it.
2. We're watching a porno. Again, she HAS to attack it.

I could go on, but you get the idea. They're WEIRD.

It's natural. Light attracts us all, afterall we are made of it.

All three of my cats sniff our shoes, can't understand why. My one cat isn't that smart...looking for heat I'm guessing he was sitting next to a candle, and he didn't even realize that his fur was starting to burn.
Another cat is constantly scratching everything (thankfully he's declawed) it's very annoying.

Another thing my cat does is headbutts us in the middle of the night, it's super annoying.