my cat keeps dragging small stuffed animals around the house

[DisneyPhD]

It is making me crazy. I keep thinking the kids are leaving Bennie babies and small stuffed animals all over the house in the strangest places (hallways, landings, outside doors, beside my bed.)

DH and realized it is the cat that is doing this. He just did it again. He carries it in his mouth and makes the strangest crying noise when he does it. Then drops it.

This is an OLD (13 years) male fixed cat. It has started in the past 6 months or so. It is increasing in frequency. I have abandoned plusies all over my house. I can teach the kids to clean up, but not my cat!

Anyone else with a psycho cat like me? Anyone with some cat insight into this?

 

[Hedy]

Maybe he's finally figured out he's fixed and he's mourning the kittens he never had?

 

[mommasita]

My cat does that a lot...I often find things at the front door when I come home.. I find it funny.

 

[tevagirl]

He's 13. My guess is the plushies are easier to catch than the mice.

 

[MickeysGirl]

My cat has done this ever since she was a kitten. She's now 7. She has a stuffed manatee that is just her size. She will attack it, carry it between her legs like a tiger with a kill and then "cry" to let me know she has made a kill and it is time to eat. It is really adorable until she does it at 3am and I am woken from a deep sleep by the "kitten alarm".

 

[DisneyPhD]

Maybe he's finally figured out he's fixed and he's mourning the kittens he never had?

Yep, DH says he wants to be a mommy. He doesn't like kids much. He actually is a rather old and grumpy cat. My youngest (almost 3) has taken a liking to him and has been giving him a little too much love lately. The poor cat is so attention starved he puts up with it. We have been trying to teach her to be kind, but today I caught her pulling his ears. I can't believe he puts up with it. This cat will corner and scare the pants of my 11 year old nephew and swat at my oldest DD (6) if she runs past him too fast.

 

[DisneyPhD]

My cat has done this ever since she was a kitten. She's now 7. She has a stuffed manatee that is just her size. She will attack it, carry it between her legs like a tiger with a kill and then "cry" to let me know she has made a kill and it is time to eat. It is really adorable until she does it at 3am and I am woken from a deep sleep by the "kitten alarm".

Oh, that is what that cry is. Yep, he does it at 3 am too. We do find it funny that he never minds when we take it away from him. I guess this is his sacrifice.

Holly crap here he comes again! Fresh Bennie baby kill. This time it is Minnie Mouse. Poor Minnie.

 

[DisMN]

Just wait. The next thing he might try to do is nurse the "baby"......ours did.
That was one weird cat but he was good for a LOT of laughs, let me tell ya!

 

[MickeysGirl]

Just be sure to look outside your bedroom door before you walk out in the morning. I've lost count of the number of times I've tripped over the manatee that she's placed right in front of the door as a present for me.

 

[DisneyPhD]

Just be sure to look outside your bedroom door before you walk out in the morning. I've lost count of the number of times I've tripped over the manatee that she's placed right in front of the door as a present for me.

Oh there are always 2 or 3 every morning. I wouldn't mind the toys as much, if it wasn't for the mournful cry. Then there are ones all over the house. Did I mention this strange cat will pee on any thing soft that is left in the basement floor? It is the playroom and laundry room. Not easy to keep the floor clean (plastic and wood toys are safe.) We have to keep that floor cleaned up. Oddly enough he does not carry any stuffed animals down there (that I know of, the kids get in trouble if I find them on the floor down there.)

I was blaming the kids for a while. PICK UP YOUR TOYS our I am going to toss them out.

We have too many stuffed animals around here as it is. He can always find fresh kill.

At least he doesn't hurt them.

He does have a few small toys he likes to bat around, but not these. He just gently carries them in his mouth.

 

[denisem]

Yeah, our female does this with a coupla stuffed toys and makes a deep "yelping" sound when she carries them.

As she's a retired breeder we adopted, we make sick jokes that she's trying to wake up her "dead babies"...but I really think it's more of an inherent hunter mode indoor cats display when proudly bringing "kill" to their "family".

I'm basing this on a former house that had an installed "kitty door" to the garage. ("Great, we can put the litter boxes in the garage!!!") Wasn't long before they discovered the sound of the garage door opener gave them freedom...and they brought ALL sorts "critters" (dead and alive) inside as "gifts"...with the same deep "yelp".

 

[denisem]

Just wait. The next thing he might try to do is nurse the "baby"......ours did.
That was one weird cat but he was good for a LOT of laughs, let me tell ya!

Hey, our neutered male nurses his chenille blanket - but y'all don't want to know what a cotton thermal weave blanket does to him!

 

[minnieandme]

My cat has done this ever since she was a kitten. She's now 7. She has a stuffed manatee that is just her size. She will attack it, carry it between her legs like a tiger with a kill and then "cry" to let me know she has made a kill and it is time to eat. It is really adorable until she does it at 3am and I am woken from a deep sleep by the "kitten alarm".

Yup, my kitty does it too. A few weeks ago I was in my room and I saw her come out of my DS8 room with a stuffed doggy in her mouth. Her bed was in the hallway at the time so she dropped the doggy right on the bed. She usually does this when no one is watching. If I hadn't seen her do that with my own eyes, I would've thought one of my DS put it there.

Just a few minutes ago she made that weird meow sound and came downstairs carrying a dryer sheet in her mouth. I don't even know where she got it from!! She's forever finding a shoe lace or some type of string that she'll carry up and down the steps.

 

[CindyKansas]

Our male cat will be 2 next month and he does the same thing. He has his favorite TY Rat that he carries around and makes a loud cry, steps on the rat and then sits on it. I always tell him "Good Boy". We find that rat everywhere. In fact I'm looking at it right now. One afternoon he came in with a 12" Stuffed Mickey Mouse that was almost bigger than he was.

 

[bobcat]

One of our kittens found a pair of fuzzy earmuffs, have no idea where she dragged them out of, and would carry it around the house and play with it. It was too funny once I realized what was goin on.

 

[gradtchr]

One of my cats has two stuffed animals that are his and have been his since he was 3 weeks old. One is a beanie buddy cat which we gave to him and it was his Mama cat and the other is a teddy bear. He doesn't make noises with them but he does carry them around. There have been so many mornings that I have gotten up and found him sleeping with both of them at the end of our bed. It's hilarious watching him carry them around. Take that back there is an occassional noise when he carries them around but that's because he's growling at one of the other cats who is trying to take it away.

 

[Stimpy]

Crazy cats here too

My one cat used to carry around a rubber tube and leave it as a present for us all the time. It was just a long rubber tube that my father needed for physical therapy on his knee at one time. The cat would be so proud of his gift and would meow like crazy with it. It was really weird and funny. Unfortunately, he's gone now but I still have the tube as a final gift from him.

One of my current cats thinks she's a dog and fetches balls all the time, she steals my daughters toys, especially her Barbie-like Princess dolls...she drags the poor doll around the house by her hair! And she has this "thing" for my DS's stuffed Bear in the Big Blue House...she just goes nuts with it (let's just say we have to remind her she is a "SHE" and was fixed! ). We never know what the heck we will wake up next to on my bed,

 

[freckles and boo]

Falstaff was a fixed male but he used to have a toy named Purple Bear that he had a love/hate relationship with. He would tote it around, sleep with it, and hold it with his front paws while kicking the crap out of it with his back claws. We also occasionally found him having "relations" with poor Purple Bear. He ignored any other toy we put out for him.

 

[CheshireVal]

I had a cat that used to do this. He was a neutered male but always tried to mate with stuffed animals.

I'd try to put them up out of his reach, but he'd climb shelves and get into closets to retrieve his "partners."

 

[Stacerita]

My little dog does this too. The sweetpea needs to keep her bedroom door closed or all of her stuffed animals get tossed all over the house. And unfortunately, sometimes the stuffed animals get a little tore up.