While tripping merrily through the mail, Ross Sauer was overheard
 DR> My new kitten does something like that near her food.  After she
 DR> finishes eating she will scrape around the edge of the outside of the
 DR> plate or bowl for several minutes...several minutes...several
 DR> minutes... and this continues until I yell her name a few hundred times
 DR> and ask her if she has lost her freakin' mind.  Then she walks away as
 RS> My cat does that before she drinks from he water dish, and does it
 RS> after eating. Something about covering/uncovering food and water I
 RS> guess. 
Of our three Abbys, two have this same "habit".  I like to think that
they're "fastidious" eaters, and after eating "bury" the left over scraps.
Don
... The 4 catfood groups: Dry, Canned, Natural, Yours.
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