| Oct 9, 2008 @ 1:16 PM |
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JOY555
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I have a cat who has recently started trying to lick my ashtray  Whenever I leave the room, I have to hide my ashtray to keep it away from the cat. What would make a cat do that 
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| Oct 9, 2008 @ 1:18 PM |
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LipGlossQueen9
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Cats do weird shit
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| Oct 9, 2008 @ 1:20 PM |
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painter007
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I agree with Lip cats do weird stuff...but whats even grosser is when your dog starts eating the cat poop......ick ick....I wonder if my dog farts if he will blow a smoke ring out his azzzzzzzzzzzzz. 
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| Oct 9, 2008 @ 1:21 PM |
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MUDSHARK
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My guess would be that it has something to do with your cat's superior sense of smell. Either that or the cat is trying to imprint its scent on the object although this is usually accomplished by rubbing the side of its face on an object.
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| Oct 9, 2008 @ 1:27 PM |
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JOY555
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I would quote but i cant seem to get it to work 
Painter007- I know what you mean, my mom used to have a dog who did that, very gross.
MUDSHARK- I see what you mean but even as a smoker, I can't even stand the smell of an ashtray, I just don't know why she is trying to lick it. With regard to imprinting its scent on it, thank God the cat is fixed 
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| Oct 9, 2008 @ 1:42 PM |
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LipGlossQueen9
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My idiot ragdoll cat likes to smell her own throw-up. 
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| Oct 9, 2008 @ 1:54 PM |
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redhairNfreckles
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Maybe she is lacking something in her diet to want to eat ashes. Sometimes even pregnant women will eat dirt because of needing the mineral content. It's almost like an obsession and until eating some mud or clay to satisfy that need, the woman will be quite unsettled. Just a thought....
Mineral composition of cigarette ashes is well studied in the literature, but no reports are available about the magnetic fraction. Our study presents an investigation of the basic magnetic characteristics of ashes from several commercially available cigarette brands and a wood ash. Magnetic susceptibility, which is a concentration-dependent parameter in case of uniform mineralogy, shows that cigarette ashes contain relatively high amount of magnetic iron minerals, similar to that in wood ash from our study and other literature data. Magnetization data suggest that cigarette ashes contain some 0.1 wt% or lower quantity of magnetite, depending on the brand. Analyses of magnetic mineralogy imply that the main magnetic minerals in ashes from higher quality cigarette brands are magnetite and iron carbide cementite, while in ashes from lower quality brands without additives magnetic minerals are pure and substituted with foreign ions magnetite. Magnetic grain-size analysis shows that cigarette ashes contain significant amount of very fine, nano-meter sized magnetic particles, as well as coarser (up to several microns), magnetically stable grains. Thus, the magnetic study of cigarette ashes proved that these plant ashes possess non-negligible magnetic properties. The results could serve for better elucidation of mineralogy of cigarette ashes as a whole, as well as for future investigation on the presence of magnetic ultra fine particles in cigarette smoke, which may be inhaled in lungs during smoking. Here I found this on a website.....
Painter, must be....and that scrumptous Mississippi Mud Cake!!!! 
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| Oct 9, 2008 @ 1:56 PM |
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painter007
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Is that the way "MUD PIE" got its name? 
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| Oct 9, 2008 @ 1:57 PM |
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JOY555
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redhairnfreckles- I have thought of this too. The cat has not done this before and only started yesterday. I have always fed her the same thing. Is there any way I can find out what she is lacking to make her do this?
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| Oct 9, 2008 @ 2:03 PM |
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redhairNfreckles
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Joy, you might want to try to put her on the most expensive cat food that you can afford for awhile, just to see if the behavior stops. I alway thought Iams was a good brand to use. The higher end brands seem to have more of the correct blends of protein, minerals, etc. all for better health for our pets. I admit though, because of expense, I will feed them expensive stuff (dogs and cats both) for two or three bags, then switch back to the medium priced kind. I never, ever buy the cheapest!
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| Oct 9, 2008 @ 2:09 PM |
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geocentre
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Try putting a dash of tobassco sauce around the rim of the ash tray. Cats hate that stuff.
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| Oct 9, 2008 @ 2:11 PM |
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JOY555
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thanks for the info redhairnfreckles 
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| Oct 9, 2008 @ 2:13 PM |
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redhairNfreckles
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 Joy, good luck!
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| Oct 9, 2008 @ 2:22 PM |
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Jalon
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Quit smoking.  
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| Oct 9, 2008 @ 2:24 PM |
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JOY555
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But if I didn't smoke then I would have never known my poor cat was missing something vital from her diet  My smoking saved her
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| Oct 9, 2008 @ 3:14 PM |
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Jalon
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I enjoy your amazing powers of reasoning. It just goes to show that we can justify nearly anything!
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| Oct 9, 2008 @ 3:15 PM |
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Heaveninawildflower
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whats even grosser is when your dog starts eating the cat poop......ick ick....
I put a smaller doggy door going out to the area where the litter boxes are, cause the dogs obviously believed they were treat dispensers.
 No doggy kisses for me!!
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| Oct 9, 2008 @ 4:09 PM |
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JOY555
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We had a dog who did that and we knew when it happened cause the dog would have cat litter around their mouth 
Never trust anything that can lick their own butthole 
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| Oct 9, 2008 @ 4:17 PM |
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geocentre
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That's why I quit dating that contortionist.
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| Oct 9, 2008 @ 4:18 PM |
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painter007
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You women are a hoot........ butthole smackers and doggie kisses...........................
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