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Domestic cat flicking leg after eating

Why do cats sometimes flick one hind paw after eating?

We are referring to domestic cats. Perhaps wild cats do it as well. Some of them probably do and one species definitely does: the African wildcat, the ancestor of the domestic cat. I have just this minute watched my cat eat some dry cat food and immediately after eating he flicked or briefly shook his …

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Cat drags dry food pellets from their bowl and eats them outside their bowl

Why do some domestic cats grab food from their bowl and eat it off the floor?

If you read up on what appears to be slightly strange feline behaviour you will probably find different answers. They are all speculative because we don’t know for sure why domestic cats sometimes grab a piece of food from a bowl in their jaws and then deposit that food in the area around the food …

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