It started off with her chewing plastic bags but now it's out of control. She chews everything with plastic, and it got to a point where I hid all plastic bags which caused her to chew my violin cushion's plastic ends, the labels on cables, even the cables themselves. She found my book which was in a plastic wrapper and started chewing so I threw the wrapper away at which she frantically dived in the bin. She chewed the bag in my wardrobe so I covered it with piles of clothes and pulled her away, just to end up with her running and digging in the clothes and chewing the plastic again. She even tries to chew the plastic screw covers on the arch door which she can hardly reach. She chases people with plastic bags etc. and she won't be held if there's plastic around, she will try to get away like mad and once she does she will atack the plastic. She is a very calm cat usually and loves to be held, I don't get why she is acting this way, please help or explain why..Thank you
i think she just wants to play. maybe you can get her a toy that have crinkly stuff on it that is similar to plastic.
There is a food related ingredient in plastic bags. That's why cats will lick them constantly. Plastic bags, containers, wrap etc. my cat will lick my shopping bags and toilet plastic covers. They just like the taste. It's not a bad thing.
Weird, isn't it. You might try making plastic so distasteful to her she starts to be leery of plastic and will, hopefully, eventually stop. I know my cats hate the smell of perfume and Fabreeze so we spray that on anything we don't want them messing with (you might need to respray daily for a while). Or see if your cat reacts (scrunchy face, backs away) to the smell of lemons or limes or oranges--if so, rub some peels on a plastic bag and leave it lying around so when she jumps on the bag, she'll get a tasteful of yucky citrus flavor. Dab whatever smell she finds nasty on anything plastic you can find in your home (recruit your family to help--you'll be suprised at how much stuff the average household has that is made of plastic). And drench things (maybe your book cover, or cables/cords) in the stuff and leave them for her to find and discover they taste bad now. If all the plastic she finds suddenly tastes bad, she'll start relating the bad taste to plastic and quit. But it might take a while and you're going to have to be on top of this constantly for a while until she learns to leave the plastic alone.
