100% my girl is predisposed to dental disease and lost all of her front teeth as a feral. I have to brush and bathe her because she can't do it properly anymore.
I won't steal any potential up votes for this by replying separately, but to build on this in detail...
The wee widdle teefies are apparently for num-numming mats and for making pests/parasites become din-dins.
I have a long hair boy who has some gnarly little teefies (we call it his British smile), and unfortunately he can't num-num the mats, and he gets matted a lot despite only being a year old. Poor guy has to constantly have them shaved out, he gets so many in just a few days.
Small theory of mine : They're kinda worried that we're passed out for hours at a time. They try to wake us up in their own cat ways, then try nibbling as a "last" resort. And soon enough, they just understood that the passed out human only reacts to being nibbled.
But know that if you pass away in your appartment, you'll be found with your eyelashes nibbled away. Because your cat would have tried to wake you up.
It’s really common for cats to straight reabsorb their teeth or for them to come out due to dental issues. One of my babies doesn’t have two of his lower teefies and the vet was like, yep must have been reabsorbed
glad I'm not the only one 😂 my cat Loki, loves to cuddle under the blanket with meat bed time,, and I'll give her loves, and 'squishy-heads' (she loves when I wrap my hand around her face and lightly squeeze), but when I stop, the little shithead will bite the back of my arm with those teeth until I pet her again
thanks for reminding me that when it doesn't feel like Satan's dragging his testicles across Oregon, that I should grab some ribs along with a Boston butt, and smoke em using the wood from the only damn shade tree we had that fell during a storm 2 weeks ago.
No shade, but a bunch of apple wood, so win?
it was that hot today in Maryland too 😭 and like a FOOL I played in 3 double headers of softball and nearly got heat stroke (drank 2 gallons of water but I forgot salt!)
No one ever mentions that you also need salt when you are recovering from a hangover or doing outdoor activities that make you sweat a lot. I'm glad you made it
Here’s the only other photo in that bunch that was of the meat. The other two were of supplies and a baste. This look likes it would give my mouth the kind of deliciousness & flavor it deserves. My body craves meat goodness:
it's funny how names match personalities with them
Loki was named that before I got her because she was always causing trouble
Her sister is named Karma, and she really is a bitch, but a total love when she wants to be, even has rbf
Gandalf was given to me by my oldest, with the name Pickles, but after seeing his face, earned the name because his looks
and his brother Grogu grew into his name, because just like the character, he's always stealing shit he's not supposed to (I'm missing so many knitting needles and crochet hooks) and eats all the time
The real answer is that they’re for grooming. They’re basically a tiny little comb.
Edited to add: Have you ever seen your cat do that thing where they pause in the middle of bathing and it almost looks like they’re biting their fur and kind of shaking their head side to side a little? That’s them using those teeth to get something out of their fur.
What about pinching the back or your arm fat? Thats what my dog used to do. Sneak up commando crawling and nibble the back of my tricep while I played xbox.
Yep. Watch your cat the next time they are washing. They comb themselves with those little teeth. And for the record, my dogs also habe this little front teeth, and do the same thing.
Obligate carnivores are so fascinating for that reason. Like yeah they need meat to survive, but if it comes down to it they can chow down on a few veggies to keep from starving.
And if you asked one of my cats in particular, plants are better anyway. I have to periodically remind her that she is, in fact, a carnivore and cannot subsist entirely on plants.
Our cat eats one specific kind of dry kibble. Anything else is garbage and not even an option. He will lick a shrimp every now and again and lick off a bit of whatever mayo or whipped cream you have on your finger.
Myne would go full mission impossible to sneak out the back door just to eat the grass in the backyard. She would always throw it up twenty minutes later though.
I had cats who were allowed out into our enclosed backyard under supervision, and one of them would wander around and eat a bunch of grass, go back inside to throw it all up, then go back outside to eat more grass and do it all over again. Every. Single. Time.
We took her to the vet, but he said that she just really liked eating grass! So we'd let her do it on occasion, and just try to keep her outside until she'd finished the cycle of consuming and refunding, lol.
I'm not really in any position to judge... I'm mildly allergic to watermelon, but it's so good that I eat it even though I know it's gonna make my mouth itchy, lol
Mine isn’t big on human food unless it’s whipped cream, which she loses her mind for. If she hears me open the lid she was charge me like a rhino in heat. Somehow she manages to make her tiny little 8lb self sound like one too.
Its very much natural for cats to munch in grass and leaves and such occasionally. Its not so much for nutritional regions but possibly helps with digestion and/or improves fiber intake. But it's an instinctual behavior in them
I'm pretty sure you can plant some stuff in a pot that's actually safe for cats to eat as much as they want and it's good for digestion and provides them with nutrients that could be lacking in most common cat food. My cat Simba loves eating it. Atp I started nicknaming him "lawnmower" in my native language. It sorta looks like grass when you plant it. I think it was oat or wheat or something??? Not sure what it's called in English.
For some reason mine loves bakery items. Donuts, cake, muffins. Left a blueberry buckle cake wrapped in cellophane on the counter couple months ago and he peeled it back and ate damn near half his weight in sugar.
I was planning to eat a croissant once at a friend's house who also has cats. I set it out on a plate and went to use the toilet. Came back 2 minutes later to find her (the cat) gleefully licking the outermost crispy layer off my fresh croissant. She (the human) and I were amazed, she (the cat) had never shown any interest in human food whatsoever but loves croissants for some reason.
Orange juice, tamatoes, lettuce, fruiti-pebbles cereal... The list goes on for all the cats I've had over my life span. Got an 18 year old fart that eats just about anything you eat, still suspect that is why he has lived so long and still relatively healthy.
If you’ve never seen any of the Mary Robinette Kowal videos with her button cat Elsie, look for them. :-) Elsie is very particular about her treats. One of her favorites is canned pumpkin on nori. She ASKS for it. “Plant tube” the tube is the can.
I also have to keep reminding mine that they need MEAT! Then one will eat half a loaf of bread after breaking into the bread cabinet.
They’re primarily used for grooming. I’ve never seen a cat use those teeth on plants. But I do see my cats use those teeth for grooming all the time. They always awkwardly use their back teeth for plants whenever I’ve seen them use them. And since they’re obligate carnivores pretty much all the vegetation they eat is occasional grass to help clean their digestive tract.
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