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My 7-yr old boy loves to chew on almost anything that is plastic - bubble wrap, Zip-lock bags, envelopes. (He doesn't chew on plastic grocery bags and as we have no plastic toys, he doesn't chew on them.)
Obviously I don't think this is good for him and discourage the behavior whenever I see him munching. But it does cause me to wonder if he's missing something from his diet which the pastic is statifying. (His sister doesn't do this; they eat the same food.)
Yes one of our cats used to do this and most like the tin ice-cicles we used to have on chritsmas trees, problem was they ate those and the results wasn't pretty. Imagine the toilet paper trail stuck to the shoe leaving the bathroom and you get the idea.
I have a 12 y.o. male cat who loves to perforate thin plastic things, especially plastic bags and bubble wrap. He just chomps on them with his teeth, rather than biting any off and eating it. It's the process of making the holes that seems to really interest him (much to my chagrin). I've found plastic bags around the house that have been so perfed that they looked like a sieve.
I also have 2 other cats, one of whom is his littermate, and neither of them has any interest in perfing plastic. I just accept it as one of his idiosyncrasies.
Each of our cats likes a different thing. One likes the milk rings from new jugs, one likes cardboard boxes (rubs, chews and sleeps in), one likes feathers on a stick (keeps it in his food bowl for safety), one likes paper wadded up for the sound it made, etc. They usually did not share a toy or a like.
We had a cat (RIP) that liked to lick plastic grocery bags. No idea why, other than he was exceedingly eccentric!
We have a cat who absolutely goes crazy licking the plastic grocery bags. He acts like it's the best thing in the world.
Our other cat just likes to eat shoestrings. You never want to leave a pair of shoes out at night unless you don't need the laces in the morning.
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