I have two cats. They always get dry cat food but 3 times a day I'll give them a little canned. They love that and after they eat it both of them will move their paw in a motion as if a dog was burrying it's bone. It's funny. Sometimes theyll totally push the plate away while doing it. But they keep making the motion as if theyre burrying it or like when they burry their junkies in the litter box. It's weird. They don't do it all the time but very often. They just brush the tile floor, all around the paper plate, but barely hitting it..
2006-06-26 19:27:55 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Cats
hey to the bugszini guy, one of my cats is named Zoey too!!! how funny!!
2006-06-26 20:01:43 · update #1
They cover it so that other animals will not find it and they can eat it later.
2006-06-27 03:26:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cats in the wild will bury any food they do not finish or wish to save for later. Unlike a dog that will eat and eat until it bursts, a cat will save its food for another time.
I would mention watch feeding your cats too much. Sounds like a bowl of dry out all day and a can split up 3 times a day might be a bit much. I use to feed mine about the same amounts and mine did the same bury trick on the kitchen floor. I then realized I was feeding them too much and they wanted to bury the remainder of the food. Now my two cats get 1 cup of dry split between the two of them per day. One scoop in the morning and that is it. It has stopped the kitchen floor burring attempts.
2006-06-27 02:50:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My neighbors cat started burying his food after I buried a bird he brought me one morning. I did not know he was watching me. He just walked over and sniffed the ground. when home and digs his dry food out of the bowl (when done eating) and slides it under the throw rug! The neighbor is not happy, but the cat always has a snack and does not beg for food. So whats the harm? Like the ant and the grasshopper story.
2006-06-27 02:41:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cats evolved in desert climates and thus had to bury food, feces etc. in case they were short on water and needed the moistness in the future. It's no different than humans closing their eyes as they sneeze, it's an involuntary behaviour. However, animals show these habits more often because they lack developed frontal lobes which enable them to overide certain larger-scale involuntary behaviours.
2006-06-27 02:31:56 · answer #4 · answered by Keith 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe because the may not ne hungry and try to save the food for later on I would cut down on the food to break feast and dinner shcould be enough the are very small compared to us. So if you cut down on food the may be more willing to eat what found was given to them
2006-06-27 02:33:58 · answer #5 · answered by Steffi C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cats do this with unwanted things (same as in the litter box). They obviously don't like it or have had enough and want it gone. My own cat has done this to my dinner plate...LOL.
2006-06-27 02:30:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that there are drugs in the food and your cats are stoned afterwards and they don't really know what they are doing.
2006-06-27 02:31:42 · answer #7 · answered by steven 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mine does that when he doesn't like the food, like he eats it because he must but he can't stand the smell.
2006-06-27 06:37:11 · answer #8 · answered by cpinatsi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're not burying it. They're marking it as "theirs." My cat marks the water dish, which is hilarious to watch.
2006-06-27 02:32:06 · answer #9 · answered by Chris 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they r clean, cats r clean animals, thts lik askin after u take dump y do u flush the toilet?
2006-06-27 02:29:35 · answer #10 · answered by paigeness a 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋