While I was looking for some pictures of cats I found this photo of a cat with a very very very weird toy. Which reminds me. Have you ever found any toys for cats in you’re cat’s food or water bowl? My friend is going crazy over it. Her funny cats are putting everything in the water bowl. I had two tabby cats who used to stash their toys like this, but lucky for me they were putting them in their bed.

Why do our pet cats do it? Well, the way they see it the food area is part of their territory. One that usually doesn’t change very much from day to day, since there’s always water and food waiting for them there. Your pet cats are putting their favorite toys away in a “safe” place. Just like wild cats bring their prey back to a nest to hide it from other predators.

Some cats will put away their toys when they are done playing with them, some just do it when there’s a visitor in the house to “hide” the toy in their safe place. You can try putting your cat’s toys in a small basket near the food area and eventually they will start doing it for them selves. We are training my friends Siamese cats to do this now. Hopefully there’ll be no more wet toys every day over there.

“Anything on the ground is a cat toy. Anything not there yet, will be.”