{"id":151,"date":"2020-12-07T18:56:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T18:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2020-12-10T20:36:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T20:36:44","slug":"why-does-my-cat-bury-their-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/2020\/12\/07\/why-does-my-cat-bury-their-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Does My Cat Bury Their Food?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cat-1136365_1920-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cat-1136365_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cat-1136365_1920-512x341.jpg 512w, https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cat-1136365_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cat-1136365_1920-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cat-1136365_1920-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cat-1136365_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My new kittens will take any piece of paper available to cover up their food. So I wondered, what are these kitties doing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the wild, even big cats will cover up their food. Sometimes they don&#8217;t even manage to cover it, but just mimic putting something over their food. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hiding food helps prevent other animals from taking it away between meals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cats are also hyperaware of their scent and don\u2019t want to let predators know where they have been. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nMy new kittens will take any piece of paper available to cover&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/2020\/12\/07\/why-does-my-cat-bury-their-food\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Why Does My Cat Bury Their Food?&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purrfectpawpages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}