Meet our cat Maui. Most of the time I would swear that there is absolutely nothing going on in his head, but he has some rather strange behaviors that I don't understand.
He likes to lick photographs.
He loves to eat honeydew and cantaloupe, and he goes nuts trying to get my make-up remover. If I sit the jar down without the lid on he will lick it.
He also tries very hard to get the lids off of prescription bottles. He once chewed his way into a pill container and we had to take a take a pill away from him. (Is he a druggy?)
He seems to have this innate ability to know who doesn't want him, and he will desperately try to sit on their lap.
He prefers to drink from a running faucet and will sit in the bathroom sink and wait for someone to turn it on.
His favorite place to sleep at night in on someones head.
He is so domesticated that he doesn't know how to eat anything that is not in "kibble" form. This means that if we give him a scrap of meat, or a piece of fish or melon, and it is too big, all he does is lick it. If we want him to eat it we have to cut it into very small pieces.
Maui is my 19 year old daughter's cat and he seems to know this. She is his favorite human. My daughter lives in Herriman but usually comes home on the weekend. I think Maui knows the routine...she is home for a couple of days and then packs her suitcase and leaves again. Maui has a small green beannie frog that he used to carry around when he was younger. He has not touched it for 6 years. Last week my daughter left in the morning and I left for an hour. When I got home I found Maui sitting in the middle of my bed next to his green frog and one of her beannie cats. He had carried them both up from the basement. What was he thinking? This was obviously a deliberate act...something of his, something of hers, both placed where I would see them with him sitting there claiming responsibility. This is one of the reasons why I would like a class on pet psychology!
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