# Why does my kitty do this? (Strange eating behavior)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-kitty-do-this-strange-eating-behavior/533078>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 19, 2010, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-kitty-do-this-strange-eating-behavior/533078 "2010-03-19T23:11:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-kitty-do-this-strange-eating-behavior/533078/21 "2010-03-22T17:16:52Z")

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> [@Aspidistra](#):
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> You know the cat haiku, don’t you?
> 
> Wanna go outside.  
> Oh no! Help! I got outside!  
> Let me back inside.

😃

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**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-kitty-do-this-strange-eating-behavior/533078/22 "2010-03-22T19:02:20Z")

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> [@Magiver](#):
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> I had a cat that would pick the food up and drop it in the water dish. Do you know what dry cat food smells like sitting in water? I had to move the water dish to the upstairs bathroom.

Our one cat eats moist food by picking up pieces in her paw and eating the piece. I’ve offered her utensils but she has declined.

She also makes soup by carrying a piece over to the water bowl (which is 2 feet away) and dropping it in. What can I say, she’s a cook!

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**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-kitty-do-this-strange-eating-behavior/533078/23 "2010-03-22T22:02:34Z")

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> [@Icarus](#):
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> Our one cat eats moist food by picking up pieces in her paw and eating the piece. I’ve offered her utensils but she has declined.
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> She also makes soup by carrying a piece over to the water bowl (which is 2 feet away) and dropping it in. What can I say, she’s a cook!

Perhaps you should leave her a dish of chicken stock, too? ;)😃

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**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-kitty-do-this-strange-eating-behavior/533078/24 "2010-03-22T23:16:14Z")

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> [@norinew](#):
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> I have no trouble believing this! He also will stand at the door to our backyard, as if begging to go out; then, when I open the door to _let_ him out, he’ll just stand there for a moment or two, looking imperiously at me. Lather, rinse, repeat, until I get to a point where I say “No, I will _not_ do the ‘stupid hoomin trick’ of opening the door for you when you don’t really want me to!” 😉

I’m no dog therapist or anything, but I think I could cure that habit. Every time he does that, he goes outside and stays there for about an hour, whether he wants to or not. Eventually, he should quit doing it for sport.

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