Is my kitten right in the head?

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I have had cats all my life, but my current pair of CPL-adopted kittens are genuinely the most destructive pair that I have ever come across! Gorgeous, but my word! They stand and carefully rip the inside of the table cloth to pieces, hang off the lamp shades, and rip any paperwork they can get their paws on.

One behavioural trait surprises me though: M, who is 7 months old, is obsessed with chewing cardboard. She takes tiny bites out of it, carefully spits that bit out, and then repeats, ad nauseam. She isn't bored, as she has her twin sister, plus there are always st least 2 devoted people playing with her all through the day. I don't mind this habit, and have developed ways of containing the mess (!), but just wondered what it was about? She must have all her adult teeth by now?

My bengal is obsessed with wicker. So far he's eaten 2 next lamps, 2 laundry baskets and I've lost count of the numbers of small baskets that we keep hats, shoes and craft stuff in. He likes a cardboard box sometimes too for a good chew but wicker is his thing. It's expensive and very annoying but what can you do, he's my boy and I loves him!

"Mine likes to wander the house howling then cry at himself in the mirror"

I've had days like that myself...

Rubbish I'm going to change his Facebook page to "why my cat is crying"
Today he doesn't want the healthy food, he wants junk and I didn't buy him any

Torties are a law unto themselves.

Our tortie cat loves chewing cardboard and spitting it out. She's chewed and ripped DDs school play scripts in the past. All important papers have to be put away! DCat goes outside and chases us around but does like a good shred at least once a day.

The famous Cheekie was a tortie!

If so my cat is not right in the head either. She has an obsession with shredding things, mainly paper, and it's got her in trouble, recently ripping up ds college application. She's ripped homework too, sadly the cat ate my homework excuse doesn't really wash.

All cats are mad.

one of mine tips boxes on the side and stands mewing with his tail sticking out and his face against the back, he doesn't shut up til I go and turn him round, then he lays down and goes to sleep. Doesn't matter what size box, I've seen him do it in boxes I could crawl in and turn around.

The other one likes to sleep in the dogs food bowl, sometimes he'll flick any biscuits out but often he just sleeps on top of them while the poor dog makes pitiful noises at me til I move the cat.

Neither of them touch the beautiful cat beds I've bought them.

How many litters did Cheekie have? I'm wondering how many she's directly responsible for.

Maybe before Cheekie Torties where docile quiet cats.

We have got a cardboard fiend. Not chewing it though,clawing it and generally destroying it. We have a large cardboard box with a flat pack chest of drawers in,standing in our hallway,ready for when one of us has the time can be arsed to put it together. Every morning without fail,I find a fresh pile of cardboard shreds on the floor. She has got a scratching post,but she won't even look at it.

We have come to the conclusion that our feline is quite clearly one stick short of a bundle.

Dodocat has no interest whatever in cardboard.

She likes to sleep on the living room windowsill with her head resting in a dish containing seashells and vanilla-scented candles.

Our sisters came to us at 4 months too, although the are tabby not tortoiseshell, they too are at least one sandwich short of a picnic. The first target was the potpourri of which I had two large bowls, no smell as that went years ago they were just for decoration. The little darlings would climb onto the coffee table and steal one piece then play/fight with it for a while before going back for the next one.

DH, fed up with coming home to carnage across the lounge tidied the bowl away, but he forgot about the 2nd bowl so couldn't understand why the mess was the same the next night. When I explained he moved the bowl on the sideboard up to the shelf. That didn't work they just climbed onto the shelf (it was funny to watch them work out how to get there). So mean mummy emptied the bowl and put it back on the shelf. The next thing I knew there was a cat sitting in it.

One cat has a pet duck, small thing that was once attached to a stick, she loves it and takes it all around the house. There was a major crisis last week when she took it into DD's bedroom and walked past the floor length mirror, another cat had her mouse! She cried.

Since these 2 joined the household many cardboard boxes have been destroyed, but generally they are fine, it is the spectacles they have chewed or my laptop with the missing keys that are more annoying.

Or is it the complete lack of personal space, I made the mistake of running a conference call with them in the room this week, at one point I was trying to conduct a complicated technical discussion with 1 cat chasing the cursor on my screen and the other one clawing my leg as she wanted to sit on my lap. If only I had had a cardboard box to throw them.

Our Ernie does this. He will shred any paper or cardboard he can, so as you can imagine he loved Christmas

The toilet roll got it...and the Currys catalogue

He wasn't impressed with the pill booklet

This was Christmas....

He is currently running around with the ring pull from a TetraPak...I have to hide them at night or he goes bonkers with them

My cat loves chewing up cardboard like that too. She also likes certain types of wrapping paper to rip up - she had great fun at Christmas!

at WolfieCat being SegwayCat.

One of mine bites off little twigs while climbing trees & spits them out onto the floor. Once she got a piece jammed across her palate between her top teeth & it had to be removed by the vet didn't stop her though

The other is a cardboard-lover

My first cat was a cardboard biter. Every box that passed through the house had little staple holes in the corners from her teeth.

We moved house recently and DaintyCat was in her element. She thought the mountains of boxes were her castles and would snooze on top of a different turret each evening. She's missing them now that we've settled in, and shouts at us a lot.

We have a 5 month old rescue tortie-hand reared. She is a complete and utter nutter.
Chews cardboards all the time and spits bits out everywhere. Favourite toy currently is a small fluffy red pompom, which she carries with her. Also loves the washing machine and likes to sit in my laptop as I try to work. She also thinks the dogs tail is her personal swing toy.

Great pics. Mine loves to chew cardboard boxes too