Spike88
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My little Cashew cat that came from a home of 61 cats and had some dental and health issues-----
Remember when I said she would take a toy mouse and carry it around the house chattering, crying etc and then would put it in the box and cover it with a blanket and then watch it then she would take it out and look for a place to put it? Well yesterday she found my mouse pad and she did the same thing with it!!!
Has she moved the mouse to a new 2010 mouse ha ha (mouse=mousepad in this age) so she is now in the computer age OR
is this an instinct that she has as female cat who carries its babies as she moves them to other places?
I dont know if she ever had babies as she was spayed when I got her as her owner had all of them spayed or neutered.
She is only a young cat perhaps a year old.
It was really funny to watch and I wish I had a video camera I am sure I could win 10,000.00 on AFV.
Any ideas anyone?
Margie UPS~44
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Pawz4me
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Many years ago I had an unspayed dog who had false pregnancies. What you describe sounds similar, although in a true false pregnancy I believe the animal also has at least some of the physical symptoms that would occur in a real pregnancy. My understanding is that false pregnancies are relatively rare in cats (or at least much less common than in dogs), but that they can occur even in spayed cats if the cat was spayed during a certain phase of its reproductive cycle.
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Hiker3
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I don't know, Margie...but I wish you could get that on video, too!
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AZPops
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May be she’s mad that your spending too much time on the computer like Pops.
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CA POPPY
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My folks had a neutered male cat who carried his "baby" (the head of a toy stuffed monkey) with him everywhere for his entire life, about 17 years. If he couldn't find it, he was just frantic. So much for the issue of having kittens and spaying. 
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janethornburg
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Our youngest cat, Polky Dots, 9 months, will carry her red rings, rings off the milk jug, around with her and she does tend to horde her toys in certain places. I have always thought she was hiding them from the next youngest cat, 3yrs, Fancy. Now Fancy likes to shred paper if she finds it. I wonder if she thinks the mouse pad is paper? They also like to roll up in paper or a blanket and then fight with it like it got them, and they are teaching it a lesson.
I have never considered this anything more than cat behavior, all of our 3 are spayed, were so at young ages 4-6 months. Two of our current cats are rescues but not from a convensional source. Fancy was a barn cat litter and Polky Dot was a friends litter. Her mom is Fancy's full-sister. Our oldest has always been with us as we owned her mom. Took mom to be spayed and she was already preganant. Vet talked us into having the litter. We have had many rescues from rescues in the past but none acted like yours. It sounds really cute though. You could tape it and put a link on here!
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Spike88
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Cashew doesnt like paper but I will try to tape it when we catch her at it again. It is really cute.
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