Mancat Monday: The Plasticaholic

Hi everyone, my name is Carmine, and I'm a plasticaholic.  

Ever since the Mom has known me, mes has done something a little strange.  See, when mes was a kitten, the Mom noticed that mes liked to chew on electrical cords.  Even though the Mom was a fairly new cat owner (hers had had Milita for a year before hers gotted mes), hers knew that mes trying to chew on those cords was a bad, bad idea!!  

So the Mom immediately went to researching on how to keep mes from having fun chewing cords.  Hers found this stuffs called "Bitter Apple," and let me tell yous, it sure is nasty!  The Mom ran out and got some and sprayed all the cords in the house with it on a regular basis and mes stopped trying to chew on cords right aways because the spray was so gross!

Don't worry, though, mes found some other fun things to try and eat!  In fact, mes being the kitten mes was then, found lots of cool stuffs to get into and try and nom!!  Mes tried to eat some things called thumb tacks, rubber bands, and my favorite - plastic!

The Mom got into the habit of putting everything that could fit into mes mouth up where mes could not try and nom it.  My favorite remains plastic, so the Mom always takes everything out of the store bags as soon as hers get it in the door and puts the plastic bags where mes cannot get thems.

Mes misses my plastic snacks.  The Mom says it's not good for mes, but they is tasty!  Hers never lets me has any fun.

A note from the Mom: Pica can be a very serious condition.  Please read more about it in the post Pica: When Your Cat Feasts on Fabric.

Thankfully, keeping all of Carmine's temptations away from him, giving him lots of fun toys to play with, and keeping his stress down has worked for us. :)