-=> Quoting Dianne Robbins to Lyle Gardiner <=-
 
 LG>    Unfortunatly, one of my cat's is slightly nerotic, he keeps
 LG> stirring up the litter until, I tell him to stop.
 DR> 
 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
 DR> if nothing happened.  Any idea why she does this?  I have tried
 DR> different foods, different feeding times, different locations...  I'm
 DR> thinking of trying a different cat.    Not really, but...she's
 DR> driving me batty with this.  I keep hearing scrape, scrape, scratch,
 DR> scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape...My older cat just looks at me
 DR> like I know what is wrong with Honey.  No clue...
 
My cat does that before she drinks from he water dish, and does it after
eating. Something about covering/uncovering food and water I guess.
 
      Ross Sauer          patch@bbs.sts.net
 
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