I go in my closet and in one of my shoes were:
2 plastic jingly balls, one of his fuzzy mice, and one of those little white caps that go over the mounting hardware on the toilet.
Is my cat weird?
2007-10-31 03:52:40 · 21 answers · asked by Buckwheat 3 in Pets ➔ Cats
Your cat's being a cat. They will bring their prey back to their home in the wild to stash it. Your cat has successfully hunted and killed those jingly balls and fuzzy mice (and the white cap), and now it is stashing them against future need. :)
2007-10-31 03:56:03 · answer #1 · answered by gilgamesh 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
No. In the wild, your cat would do his best to camouflage any food he's hunted and caught to keep other predators away. He's hiding the toys in your shoe as it is a scent he is familiar with. In other words you are part of what would be a pride in the wild.
He's just acting on his feline instincts.
2007-10-31 10:58:02 · answer #2 · answered by sleepingliv 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Cats are definitely strange creatures. For some reason my cats feel the need to drag my dirty clothes out of the hamper so they can drag them into their litter box. They also don't like to eat their food normally. They MUST pick out a piece at a time so they can bat it around first.
2007-10-31 11:13:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I used to go to put on my shoes only to find a little mouse stuffed way down into the toe. Damn it! I would always exclaim. It was very funny. I don't know why he stopped doing that, but I haven't seen it in a while. It's just love.
2007-10-31 11:31:06 · answer #4 · answered by Flatpaw 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. He loves you enough to give you all the things that he has "hunted". He puts them in your shoe because your smell is concentrated in your shoe, and therefore must be a very close part of you, and therefor a good place to leave these offerings.
You should be glad that your cat is an indoor cat. Cats that are allowed to hunt birds and such leave rather more gruesome offerings.
2007-10-31 10:57:40 · answer #5 · answered by Wally M 4 · 10⤊ 0⤋
your cat is not weird my cat does the same thing i read that if you treat your cat good and for example he is an outdoor cat he will bring u back a dead mouse for the appreciation except in your situation he is putting it in your shoe its just a little way of thanking you
2007-10-31 11:02:36 · answer #6 · answered by sk8ter_gurl_157 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LOL my cats LOVE to hide their toys...the shoes are the best place they do, though, they usually end up under the fridge or somewhere equally inaccessible...my one carries all the furry mouse ones to her "den" (a little cubby in the climbing post we got her).
Yes, your cat IS weird...but aren't they all? :P
2007-10-31 11:03:54 · answer #7 · answered by rivendellrose2005 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
your shoe smells like you. Cats are very scent orientated.
That and it is fun to try to get a toy out of a shoe..
2007-10-31 10:56:49 · answer #8 · answered by Connie S 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I think your kitty is very tidy and you don't have to buy a toy box or step on those squishy things in the dark.
2007-10-31 12:11:22 · answer #9 · answered by old cat lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you are lucky it is only toys one of my sister's kitten was sick in her sons school shoe. my own cats hide toys and my bobins of threads (only out when doing needlework) in my shoes or they make shoes or slippers into prey lol. they are so cute they just think they are doing us a kindness with their 'prey' or telling us what they think off us when it is something more yucky.
2007-10-31 12:08:37 · answer #10 · answered by kath 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋