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Check behind your oven to find your cat's toy stash!

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Check behind your oven to find your cat's stash!. Screenshot. Cats play with human objects. If it is one the floor it's game. You don't really need to buy toys as they are all around you all the time. They almost invariably push the objects under furniture and OVENS! Why do they do this? To make play more interesting. To make it more realistic. They seem to be creating a typical scenario when a mouse hides under an object. The cat then pokes and prods under the oven to try and get it out. That's feline fun!! And so we come to the video of the owner of a stunning ginger tabby pulling out their oven from the wall for the first time in a long time. It has to be said that it is quite clean behind it 😎 but it is littered with cat toys! What are they? No idea. They look like hair curlers or something like that. Any small plastic item is a good cat toy to poke and prod. To transform into a mouse to be killed. Their cat innocently meanders onto the scene of the 'crime...

Cat loves carrying baby potatoes in his mouth. Why?

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There is only one reason why this energetic and loving cat is almost obsessed with carrying baby potatoes in their mouth and that is they are conflating a domestic cat's instinctive desire to hunt and their desire to play which is play-hunting.  Domestic cats who are prevented from hunting have to kill time rather than animals 👍😢- MikeB So, this cat who carries baby potatoes in his mouth is play-hunting. If you watch the entire video, you will see that they push the baby potatoes around as if they were home-made cat toys which in fact they are. And when he's done, he picks the potato up in his mouth and carries it to a different location and then drops it and perhaps prods it around the room. He is carrying a prey animal in his mouth and then when he drops it, he is pushing that 'prey animal' around in exactly the same way you see domestic cats pushing mice around when they are dead or half dead. Social media interprets the behavior as strange but there is actually no...

The sheer destructive force of some domestic cats

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The sheer destructive force of some domestic cats is not deliberate or malicious but entirely accidental! They live in human homes where their natural activities can cause destruction. It is the humans' fault. That's their argument and it is a good one. This is all about 'no fault activity'.  When you are such a good athlete and so active you are bound to break something in the human home. And if you are denied the pleasure of hunting prey and killing it, you are bound to destroy the toilet roll out of sheer entertainment. And when you are massive inquisitive you are bound to rip all the clothes from a drawer (particularly if you have a huge sense of smell and the clothes smell interesting). Aren't I clever? Screenshot.

Kitten plays peekaboo in cute video

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Playing peekaboo, in a cute kitten video which is in line with the objectives of this website which is owned and run by Valley Girl! Well, it was :) . This is a cute little video which may well disappear fairly quickly. The lifespan of videos on the internet is not awful long. If this one has gone wrong, please accept my apologies. This cute kitten is enjoying the play session. 

Bored cat plays with food bowl (video)

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 This is a funny cat video from the TikTok website. The video is on a loop which gives the impression that this cat is endlessly playing with his stainless steel food bowl in a sign of sheer desperation. However, I'm sure that he plays with it for quite a short time. The rattling of it and the static nature of the cat all adds up to make the video slightly strange and amusing. But perhaps there is a serious side to this feline behaviour. I can't help but think that this chap is bored. Bored to tears with a dull life. Note: Videos such as this one inevitably stop working over time. If that has happened I'm sorry. @tiktokcats How many times did he move the food bowl? 😹😻 ♬ original sound - Cats 🐱😍 Or, perhaps, this is his way of asking for food. Maybe it's been trained into him that he requests food by rattling his food bowl a bit like Oliver Twist! Actually, I don't think Oliver Twist did rattle his food bowl but he did offer it up in a polite request. Bore...