Why has my cat started to carry her food in her mouth from the bowl into the...

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...lounge to eat it? Her bowl is in the other room at the end of the hall. I have two Ragdolls who play with and gel along with each other and the cat in question is my younger girl. There have been no changes or stresses in the house or to the cats.
 
Its proberly cold where you have the dish and your cat is more comfortable where she brings the food to eat it
 
well, sometimes cat behavior does change. they get moody like us. maybe she just wants her privacy. maybe one cat will start picking on the other, oh so subtly, just because...
 
You might want to move their food bowls to the lounge or another place in the house. My cat had the same problem but she would whine until we went to the pantery/storage room to be there while she eats. Btw, i'm jealous! Ragdolls are sooo beautiful with deeeeep blue eyes!
 
This is really a natural inborn kickback to their wild days. They make the kill and then take it to a safe place to eat it. Dogs will sometimes do it too - especially if they get something really good to eat.

You say the other 2 get along well. Does she? She may feel left out - hence protect her food.
 
I don't know the reason why, but my oldest male cat does this sometimes. We have 5 cats total, but he did it even when he was by himself before we got the others. He'll do this for a few days, then not do it again for months. What's really yucky is when he picks up clumps of his wet food (he likes the pate' type) and eats it on the carpet!!
 
What Daisy said.

The only time my cats do this is when I give them chicken necks. Normally they just eat soft food and that would be difficult to carry around. Sometimes they'll take it out of the bowl though.

But with the necks, they'll sometimes carry it into another room. Eating them requires concentration and I think Sophie (the one who mainly does this) feels the need to get away from Poppy who would steal her food if she could.
 
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