Have you ever had a pet that had emotional issues, or made very strange associations?

We always kept Smokie’s cat food up on a tall dresser in the laundry room to keep the dogs out of it. She’d jump on the washer, then onto the dresser. Then Smokie Cat got very old, 17, and was having trouble jumping that high so we moved her food to a much shorter dresser in the bathroom.

We got Milo several months ago. The only place he knew of to get food was in the bathroom. Somehow that crazy cat associated getting petted with eating and with people going to the bathroom. You’d go in the bathroom and Milo would come flying in from wherever he was. While you were preparing to sit down he’d jump up on the dresser and grab a mouthful of food, by which time you would be sitting down, then he’d jump down and start rubbing on your legs and reaching up your legs wanting to be scratched. Then he’d suddenly break away, jump up on the dresser and grab more food, then jump down and start rubbing on you again. He’d do that 3 or 4 times. He got FAT.

Then Smokers died. :( We moved the food back into the utility room….and Milo was devastated and confused. We had wrecked his lovins routine! He actually lost a BUNCH of weight very quickly.

Then he discovered something to replace the food part of his routine…toilet paper. He still takes his quickie breaks from getting petted…and munches on toilet paper. He literally chews it up and swallows it!

It is crazy….but very interesting in a way. Thankfully toilet paper doesn’t have many calories so he hasn’t gotten fat again.

I can’t seem to locate my pictures of Smokie….I’ve got some, just don’t know where.