Catty Conundrum

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Does anyone out there have a cat with a weird fetish? One of our two babes has a strange fascination with plastic. She'll sniff out a plastic bag a mile off and then, when she digs it out, she'll keep licking it. I often walk into our lounge and find our waste bin which has a plastic bag liner is often on its side and Dusky's sitting beside it looking rather nonchalant as if to say "I didn't do it Mum". But this isn't the first of our cats who had a liking for strange things. Twenty or more years ago I found a little white kitten sitting on his own in our local pet shop. I knew the owners - a couple of brothers - and asked why such a beautiful pure white cat was on his own. The owner said that all his brothers and sisters had gone but, for some reason, nobody wanted the white one. He said that he took it home with him every night so at least it could spend time with his own cats but brought it back each morning in the hope that someone would take him. At the time kittens were sold there for £30 - seems like a lot of money for 20 years ago but the owners wanted to make sure that the kittens all went to good homes. Those who weren't dedicated cat people wouldn't want to spend that much money. The owner said that, as he knew me well, he'd let me take this poor little mite for £20. I got home and discussed it with my partner Adam and Adam, although not keen on taking a second cat (we'd already saved one from an abusive home on our housing estate!) said that it was pretty clear I'd made up my mind that I wanted to take this kitten. So the next day I walked into work carrying my cat basket. I stopped off at the pet shop and told them that I'd pick up the kitten on my way home that night. So, Jules came to live with us and immediately discovered that he had a taste for rubber bands! We used to find that our postman dropped them outside our front door but Jules would always sniff them out and bring them home! So what do your pets have a curious liking for?