Strange cat behavior

Our cat Riley exhibits some strange cat Behavior at times. When she is given a new toy mousy, she will bat the mouse around for a short time.

But then she starts to chew on the tail until it is completely removed from the mousy. She then swallows it. We will find it a few days later, in the litter box.

This weird cat behavior kind of boggles my mind. We are not sure why she eats just the tail off of the toy mouse. She will only do this if it is a high quality leather mouse tail. She will not eat the tail off of any cheap or string tailed mousy toy.

This is not an isolated incident. She performs this surgery, every time she is giving a new mousy. Our other cat Thomas is not interested at all in mouses (he likes Bouncy Balls)!

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Strange cat behaviors

He said that he had not seen this cat behavior before, but that it may be a yearning for Riley to have roughage in her diet.

Using our new home cooked cat food recipe book (available for free below or on the left side navigation bar), we have provided Riley, with some roughage with her favorite recipe in the book called the cat salad.

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Our first response on this strange cat behavior.

Comment Box: Dear Mark and Cindi...My husband and I also have a feline friend (Poe) who used to chew the leather tails off of his toy mice.

I use the past tense because we no longer buy them for him for two reasons: we didn't think this was terribly healthy for his "innards" and "toy mice" was becoming an individual category in our budget!! LOL

The funny part is that once he ate the tails he would lose interest and come to us and cry for another, AND if we removed the tails before giving them to him he would sit at our feet and cry louder!

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