One of my cats does something similar with water. He'll dip his paw in the bowl and then lick the water out of his fur.Smooth Operator said:Also had an old cat that was too fancy to stick his head into a bowl like some philistine, no he would sit at the bowl and pick food up with his claws to eat out of his paw, he look like a real snobby cat doing it. The even more extraordinary thing was that within days the other cats observing him learned to do the same, but you know with less class.