I have eight very curious kitties and one of them seems to have an addiction to toothpaste. All of them like to know what I am doing and eating at all times. I will usually let them have a little taste of whatever I am eating (except chocolate and onions) so when I was brushing my teeth one morning and the cats came pitter-pattering into the bathroom like a herd of elephants, I thought nothing of showing them my toothbrush. Most of the cats just sniffed, shook their heads and walked away. Lizzie Borden and Spelunker tried to fight it but Norman Bates sniffed once and started chewing. Now every time I go into the bathroom he follows me with high hopes of getting some minty goodness. He gets on the sink and tries to grab the toothbrush from me and if I pick him up after brushing, he grabs my face with both paws and tries to lick my lips or burrow into my mouth.
I have never given my cats drugs but now I am thinking they would be better off if I had.
I’ve caught my cat munching on my toothbrush before - not for the minty-goodness, but because she seems to like the way the bristles scrunch! in her mouth. Same reason she chews on (and swallows, if she can) any plasticky thing she can find. One time she ate the entire 10" nylon cord of a soap-bag that had been left on the corner. I know this because I found the chewed-off plastic end of the cord, and the rest of it was nowhere to be found. So I guess my kitty likes the taste of Dial bar soap!
So are only two of your kitties psycho killers, or are there more? Great names!
My Luna chewed on my toothbrush once. It didn’t have toothpaste on it at the time. I think she likes the way the bristles feel in her mouth- she also chews on her slicker brush.
After she chewed on my toothbrush, I got her a kitty toothbrush and kitty toothpaste. She doesn’t seem to mind as much as you’d think a cat would when I brush her teeth.
My cat loves to sniff my breath after I brush my teeth. He will sit on my desk in front of me, with his nose an inch from my lips. And just sit there. And sit here.
Back when I was in middle school we were required to come up with a premise for a science fair…not to actually perform it mere come up with an idea. my idea was to see if cockroaches could live on toothpaste. I didn’t even know if they’d eat toothpaste.
Now, in the three weeks between submittal and the science fair I didn’t even see one cockroach in our apartment! So the question remained unanswered.
Fast forward to last month, with me occupying a condo basically gutted by the hurricanes with exposed walls that will allow any creature to come in and make a home. I got my answer right as I was about to go brush my teeth :::barfie:::
I’ve never seen my cats eat toothpaste, but I have caught my kitten licking my husbands shaving soap (Burt’s Bees brand) and licking my deoderant container :ick:
At first I thought he enjoyed the bristles but he will lick toothpaste off my finger. I also have to run the water continuously and keep him off the vanity or he tries to lick up the toothpaste that I spit in the sink. Yuck.
LVgeogeek, all my cats lick my boyfriends deodorant and they seem to have a thing for perfume and scented lotion.
Yamirskoonir, I only have one more psycho kitty name but all their names are as follows: Bast (the mother), Shadow, Little Bear, Runt-Runt, Spelunker, Norman Bates, Lizzie Borden (she was innocent, dammit), and Hitler.
When I get a digital camera you had better believe that I will be posting tons of pictures.
Anne Neville, where did you find the kitty brushing acoutrements?
Cookie Monster gets very nasally excited just after we’ve brushed our teeth. “Let me smell! Let me smell!” So we breathe on her, and she puts her nose up to our mouths and sniffs… then her entire face contracts like she’s just drunk vinegar, her eyes shut, and she looks like a bulldog licking piss off a nettle. It’s one of those pain/pleasure things for her. She knows she shouldn’t, and it always leads to trouble, but she just can’t help it.
But did your cat carry the family onto a shag rug before chewing it to bits. And later throw the cars of Santa’s choochoo such that the last chewed one was found clinging to the back side of the curtain. Or where that weeble woobled off to.
Our dog did this one wet Christmas, when we brought him in our house. :dubious:
This really has nothing to do with my cat eating toothpaste, but…
My cat Mooka is addicted to Vaseline. He goes into orgasmic fits when I hold the jar in front of him. He eats it like ice cream.
My cat Luka, (whose name only rhymes with Mooka’s by coincidence, as she was my DH’s cat before we even met) loves to eat DH’s socks and my towels. She can spot one of his socks in a pile of mine, and don’t even get me started on how many towels this cat has tormented. She pulls each individual thread out with her little pinky claw and eats,yes eats…the strings, one by one.
When he was younger, my cat developed a fondness for chewing on my SO’s athletic cup. We would come home and find it all the way across the condo, with chew marks all over the foam on the edges. I have always regretted that I never actually got to walk in on the cat as he dragged it down the hall.
