my cat always licks plastic bags/plastic folders and sometimes tries to chew them. its funny but im kind of worried whta will happen if she ever digests any plastic
It isn't known for certain why cats find plastic bags attractive to lick. It's possible they like the texture (tongue-feel) or even the sound made while licking. A more likely reason is they like the taste. Some plastic used in shopping bags are made from rendered animal fats, fish oils, gelatine or petroleum jelly and cats are attracted to the residual odour of these. Possibly the bag has been used to carry a food item and the cat is attracted to the residual scent on the plastic. It's best to keep plastic bags out of your cat's reach. Although this behaviour doesn't often progress further than licking, some cats have needed surgery to remove parts of plastic bags from their stomach or intestine. These can be hard to locate as they don't show up on x-rays.
Don't ever let her ingest shopping bags, we had to get my dogs stomach opened and it was awful. Idk cats have weird little kinks. My cat loves my little sisters barbies, but only when they're naked. My cats a perv
Two of my cats do this, too. One day, when at the vet with one of them, I asked the vet why my cats might do this, and he said that the plastic bags (as well as some other types of plastic) contain fish oil, and the cats can sense that.
no longer basically does he lick them, yet he likes to chew on them too. The journey isn't that grand whilst it rather is 3:00 in the morning . the terrific ingredient to do is to confirm you hid the plastic. inform you cat to easily say no! Plus there's a danger that the plastic would properly be ingested and could harm the cat in some way.
