We’ve noticed over the years that cats have this habit of trying to bury things they find distasteful. If it’s not a real [ahem] in an actual litterbox, they’ll scratch around on the rug trying to bury, say, a wad of kleenex that didn’t quite make it into the wastebasket.

Just now Mickie started scratching around the bowl containing Taz’s special kibble.

Then she knocked a piece out of the bowl, sniffed it, and ate it.

And preceded to settle in and eat directly out of the bowl.

That she’d just been trying to bury.