Cat and and emery board

[chi-chi66]

Whenever I start to file my nails with an emery board, my cat jumps up and starts to wash (lick) it, she just hogs it. Can anyone enlighten me, is it the smell, roughness??

Also when I have put bleach down outside, when it has dried she smells then rubs her head and completely loves rolling there..again why? what is in the smell?? anyone any idea's?

[Kathyan]

Our cat does the same with the emery board but I don't know why! Stange on with the bleach though!

[Kathyan]

That should read strange one with the bleach! I have a dyslexic keyboard today!

[daffy654]

The cat is probably trying to re- scent the bleached area by rubbing the scent glands on it.

[chi-chi66]

thanks for the answers.....I know the bleach one is weird but she loves it purring all the time! Is it old age!! she's going on 18. haha

[smurfchops]

My cat loves the emery board too ...

[daffy654]

One of the cats I used to have had a thing for matchboxes, she would lick the sandpaper bit but only after it had been used to strike the matches. We thought it was something to do with the sulphur in the match heads.

[nungate]

Two of my cats are wild for emery boards, the belach thing is a new one on me.

[tiggerblue10]

My cats like the emery board as well. Might be the smell as it slightly burny when you're filing.

Not sure about the bleach. I don't use it as it makes me feel sick.

[nungate]

oops! balach? Make that bleach

[rowanwitch]

Snoopy ran off with every emeryboard he could find heaven knows where he hid them

[boxtops]

I'll have to try that one with the emery boards - No 1 Son could do with getting his claws filed :-)

[Purple_Popple]

Bleach contains ammonia, hence it resembles cat pee ! That is why never use bleach solution to wash up a pet accident it only makes them wee there more lol.

[pastafreak]

Is that why Caspar keeps 'missing' the litter tray??

*pasta holds nose*

[Purple_Popple]

As for the emery board, it perhaps contains minerals a cat likes similar to a salt lick that other animals enjoy.

[nungate]

changing the subject a little from emery boards, one of my cats has a fascination for cotton buds. As soon as he sees one he grabs it (whether or not it's been used) and charges off around the house with it dangling like a cigarette. Do you think it was possible he might have been a smoker in a previous exixtence?

[mccfluffy]

Murph likes them as well she lets me file her claws :-)

[vegasmad]

nungate, one of mine loves cotton buds too, he gets very kittenish when he gets hold of one.

[Mosaic]

All my cats have loved emery boards - they seem to find them both delicious to lick and irresistible to scratch.
I was told bleach smells to them like boy cat pee - the girl cats go all inviting, rolling about on their backs - the boy cat tried to pee over it.

[rowanwitch]

runner beans and french beans used to fascinate one of my late cates and Pollen had a thing for drinking straws