My cat eats with his paws!

@rosie_123 (6113)
January 30, 2007 11:52am CST
When I feed my 5 cats they all eat normally - apart from Sasha. Instead of eating out of his bowl like the others, he will pick pieces of food up with his paws and eat off them!! It does look cute! Does anyone else have a cat that does this or any other unusual habits?
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@ladyjava (1184)
• Malaysia
30 Jan 07
what a beautiful cat you have there. i have 7 cats all with unusual habits and traits. My Anja sort of flip her food and catch it before it drops to the floor.. pretty cool eh..she also sleep all day.. My other cat, Mufasa, would dip his paws into the drinking bowl and start licking from there.. it looks like he's washing his paw.. the rest of sort of looks on at him and probably wondering.. "are we suppose to drink that now" lol..
@rosie_123 (6113)
30 Jan 07
Awww - your cats sound cute too! And thanks for the compliment to my Sasha - he is the oldest of my 5 cats and definately the "King Cat" in my house! Thanks for your answer.
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@ladyjava (1184)
• Malaysia
4 Feb 07
WoW.. thanks for Best Response... in my house.. good old Mufasa is the KING.. although he's reaching his 13 or was it 15years with us... opps lost count ...heheh
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• United States
5 Feb 07
I have two cats. One is a typical cat in everything and anything. But the other, she is such a sweetheart. She grabes my hand with her paw, and closes it like a hand. Pulls my hand to her heart, and then rests down on it to sleep. She also loves to put her paw into my mouth, to wake me up to feed her. She will not drink from a bowl, only if the water is running from the faucet. When our well broke, and water would not come up, she still refused to drink out of a bowl. She also sticks her mouth into mine to pull out what I am eating if she likes it. I cannot train her not too, as we got her older from a rescue. And, she is just so sweet and cute, I spoil her rotten.
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@rosie_123 (6113)
5 Feb 07
Awww. She sounds so cute. Thanks for sharing.
• Philippines
4 Feb 07
Wow, your cat must be gifted or very intelligent I assume. Why don't you make a video of the cat eating his food with his paws. You can submit in youtube and Im pretty sure many people will watch it.
@rosie_123 (6113)
5 Feb 07
Well I guess I could, but I think he could run away from the camera! LOL! He has been a calendar cat before now though, as he is exceptionally beautiful! Or am I biased!?
@sweetlady10 (3611)
• United States
30 Jan 07
Wow you have 5 cats! Thats kinda cool. My huby like cat a lot. But we don't have any yet. We are planing to have one when we will move from appartment to home. I guess it's really enjoyable to watch Sasha eating with his paws:).
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@rosie_123 (6113)
30 Jan 07
Well I hope your husband can have a cat when you move - they are great companions. Thanks you for your response.
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@mbarryton (1872)
• United States
5 Feb 07
thats really cute lol i have 5 cats myself they really dont have any unusual habits but mayb that one of them (tiger) likes to put his head in one of those Halloween buckets and smacks at the other cats as they go by, he thinks hes hid lol
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@1983tyler (507)
• United States
4 Feb 07
I have a cat that likes to play with his food. He'll take one piece of hard food out of his dish and chase it around the kitchen floor. Luckily, when he is finished playing with it, he eats it. I have 4 cats and I really enjoy their company.
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@minnie_98214 (10557)
• United States
12 Feb 07
my cat does this with her water. He scoops it out of my cup. Makes me mad cause then my nighttime water has hair in it.
@deedles88 (297)
• Australia
5 Feb 07
Ive seen my cat do that too! Normally, she just eats but sometimes when a chunkier bit is stuck to the bowl, she puts her paw in and picks it up then eats it. Its cute to watch, she thinks shes people :P
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@coolcatzz (1587)
• Canada
12 Feb 07
I have never heard of that. How sweet. You should tape it and send it to America's Funniest Videos. That is really unique I'm sure. I actually was going to start a discussion about my cat today because I have some questions. So watch out for it Rosie and give me some input. Thanks.
@jwfarrimond (4473)
12 Feb 07
I did read somewhere that some cats don't like to eat out of a deep bowl because their whiskers touch the side. One of my cats was doing this with her paw, but when I put the food in a low sided dish, she ate normally. Just a thought :)
@yahooguy (508)
• Romania
5 Feb 07
yes my cat does this to the doesn't like to eat fromm the bow he likes to eat with hes paws...so don't be mad at him if thats how he likes to eat:)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
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@ebfh2006 (175)
• United States
4 Feb 07
One of my cats uses her paws too. But not to eat to drink. she will dip her paw in the water and then lick it off. I agree it is cute.
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• Philippines
5 Feb 07
Wow that's really cute.Your cat got some manners ei! I don't really have a cat but probably he kind of immitating humans, you know he observe you guys when eating.I heard from some of my friends with cat sometimes they think that their humans too instead of a cat.