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| 271.1 | My cat prefers bar soap | VIA::COLBURN | | Fri May 08 1992 13:23 | 27 |
| Kate, and I thought I was the only one with a weird cat!
My female cat "Money" eats soap too...only she likes bar soap best.
Don't know how long she's been doing this, since we just caught
her at it a few months ago and now we are very careful not to
leave any soap out where she can get at it. Everything's now
keep way up high in the shower and I keep the pump soap dispenser
as clean as possible.
Can you imagine what guests must think when they come and use our
bathroom and can't find any soap on the counter to wash their
hands afterwards?? hee hee
What makes these cats do this? Is it the perfumed scent that they
like? Or something lacking in their diets?
Anyone out there know?
Or are they just weirdos? My other two are fine around soap.
It can't be good for them or am I wrong?
Puzzled Mom
Robin (Mommy to Smudge, Bosco and weirdo cat Funny Money
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| 271.2 | | CIVIC::FAHEL | Amalthea Celebras/Silver Unicorn | Mon May 11 1992 06:40 | 12 |
| Lately it has been fun trying to do the dishes...Alex likes Dawn!
Sure, Dawn may take grease out of my way, but puts Alex IN my way!
One time I had bought my hub some milk scented bubble bath, and after
letting the water out of the tub, before rinsing the bubbles out, Tiki
jumped in the bubbles and started to munch away! He was positively
COATED with bubbles!
Rico, always the "different" one, wants nothing to do with soap of any
kind.
K.C.
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| 271.3 | My cat likes soap too!!!! | VNABRW::WILLIMEK_E | | Mon May 11 1992 08:11 | 8 |
| Hi, just checkin' in. I'm Elke from Austria, and yes, my cat Moritz
does that too. Anybody out there, who knows why our little weirdos
do such things like licking on soaps? (Moritz prefers the bar though)
BTW: I like this conference, gave me some good hints how to treat my
little monster and I shed some tears when reading your stories!
Elke
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| 271.4 | | DSSDEV::TPMARY::TAMIR | DECforms Roadie | Mon May 11 1992 10:53 | 11 |
| Hello to Vienna! My Mikey likes to lick bars of soap. I've switched to
liquid in pump bottles and he'll lick the tip of them to get what little
might be left. It can't be good for them, but then neither are the bugs
they eat.
If we could understand why our little weirdos do anything, Elke, we'd
all be retiring very wealthy!!
Welcome to Feline....
Mary
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| 271.5 | well, bugs aren't BAD for them... | FORTSC::WILDE | why am I not yet a dragon? | Mon May 11 1992 12:50 | 22 |
| >>> <<< Note 271.4 by DSSDEV::TPMARY::TAMIR "DECforms Roadie" >>>
> It can't be good for them, but then neither are the bugs
>they eat.
Mary,
truth be told, the average bug is full of protein, a good load of minerals,
and, when properly selected, a nice level of fat. Of course, they are also
bugs which pretty much limits my interest in them. However, as Dilly and
The Flash can attest, they are quite yummy and have a nice crunch. Great
for light, healthy nibbling.
Soap, on the other hand, has some rather noxious chemicals and eating it
should be discouraged.
I'm just a bundle of useless info today,
D
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| 271.6 | Why ask why? | VMSMKT::THOMPSON | Kate Comiskey Thompson | Mon May 11 1992 13:41 | 8 |
| You've all confirmed my theory -- Cats eat soap because cats is cats.
Now if I could just keep my little calico scrubbing bubble out of
the bathtub. Maybe she's trying to tell me I don't keep it clean
enough?
Kate
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| 271.7 | | AYRPLN::TAYLOR | FREE HUGS! 1st come, 1st serve .. | Mon May 11 1992 13:59 | 9 |
| Kyra "accidentally" ate some dawn once. I was giving her a bath in the
kitchen sink. She was NOT happy with me and decided to start knocking over
anything she could reach. She tried to knock over the Dawn bottle by
biting the top of it! She got dawn all through her mouth! She kept
crying. She looked at me and cried and a BIG BUBBLE came out of her mouth!
It was SO funny to see!!
Holly
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| 271.8 | | XCUSME::KENDRICK | | Tue Jun 02 1992 12:05 | 3 |
| Many commercial soaps use animal fat as a fixative. Could be that's
what they're going for.
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| 271.9 | Tub Antics | LEASH::KLEMANS | | Tue Jun 02 1992 17:28 | 13 |
| Tasha, my late cat, loved to lick the tub clean after I took a shower.
Sometimes she couldn't wait until I finished and would jump right in
with me! She would also bite the bubles when I took a buble bath.
Nocha, my black angora, won't have anything to do with it.
I love cats, they can be so intertaining!
M.K.
p.s. She never drank enough to make me worry about the soap in the
in the water.
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| 271.10 | This black cat is an Ivory boy | PROSE::GOGOLIN | | Fri Jul 17 1992 07:59 | 17 |
| I was real busy at work when this note was last active, so I'm just
getting to add my 2 cents now.
Jumper likes to lick bars of soap, too. I only buy Ivory, except for
some special soap for my face, which I keep above the bathtub. I've
had to remove the soap bars from the sinks and replace them with pump
dispensers. I have to remember to keep the soap bars in the tub up on
the ledge out of Jumper's reach.
I use bar soap when I wash the dishes, and I keep it in the dishwasher
(which is used for storage, not washing dishes). As soon as I take the
soap dish out and put it on the side of the sink, Jumper comes running,
hops up on the counter, and dives at the soap dish. He must be able to
smell it, or maybe he's just tuned to the sound of the soap dish landing.
He's there every time!
Linda
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