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I don't mean to bump an old thread and don't usually, but I just had to take my cat to the vet, and unfortunately I lost her, but here is the deal, she tells me.
My cat was eating from her littler box and started to deteriorate in health and I ran her to the vet as fast as I could get her there, this topic came up, as she was doing it too... she had an iron deficiency, from a flea infestation she got from getting out my front door. She started feeling bad and we first thought she had gotten into something.
Turns out the fleas were terrible and they caused her red blood count to drop like a bomb and she was losing iron bad and couldn't make it up so she was looking for iron in her own litter box.
I remembered you had asked about this and I asked her if the same could be said for a dog, if they could have an iron deficiency as well. She said it could be possible and to feed them liver, raw, boiled, higher iron diets and so forth and they should be good as long as it hasn't gotten bad, which yours doesn't seem to have.
She went on to say it could be other problems, or she is just bored or acting out or any number of things, but to be safe, feed her a bit more iron and see if that fixes it, if it does then you know the issue causing it.
Again, sorry for the old bump, I just thought about this when my cat was doing it and asked her about it.
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