I Know There’s A Word For This

I found out the other night at dinner that there is a term for cats who eat clothing. So ‘Bert or Jake, I’m not really sure which one does this now, you’ve got “pica“. There’s even been a study at Cornell about it. Basically, what it says is that pica is feline obsessive compulsive disorder. In short, one or both of my boys have OCD. This is disturbing. But at the same time, it’s nice to know that I’m not crazy and my cats aren’t THAT unusual. Still, I might investigate more into this. Especially if it continues. It seems to have slowed down a bit. But that might just be my imagination.

Now that I think about it, in one of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s books called Love & Other Monsters, there’s a character who has pica. She likes to eat dirt. I didn’t realize at the time, that it could be like a common thing. I thought it was just part of his kooky realismo magico world.

This just goes to prove that Jake is a writer cat, and a romantic one at that, suffering like a Marquez character. He is NOT retarded like some people have suggested.