Cats' odd tastes - just for fun

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bevs2251 — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 01:37:25 GMT

Had a cat years ago that liked cabanossi and pepperoni from pizza toppings. She also broke into a bag of cat food next to her cage at the clinic - surrendered at 1 year of age, I adopted her.

Current cat has taken to checking out whatever I have next to me on the table beside the couch. Have found her drinking my milk from the cereal bowl as well as from my glass. She also likes Greek Yoghurt, cheese, tuna but won't eat her kitty arthritis treats !

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Miriam Lodewyks — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 17:34:02 GMT

Mine goes nuts for coconut and popcorn. Not a fan of the citrus though.

And WHAT! do they put in Dreamies?!!!

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Kara Gibson — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 02:02:43 GMT

My cat will eat literally anything except citrus fruits. He's been known to grab crisps, peas, lettuce (he loves all types of lettuce), avocado, sweetcorn, mango, you name it he eats it!

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Ceri Gruffudd Jones — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 21:00:15 GMT

I had a client once who could only ever administer medication to her cat if it was mixed with gooseberry fool.

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Sarah Keir — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 19:21:20 GMT

[quote user="Arlo Guthrie"]

[quote user="Sarah Keir"]My cat ate the Credelio cat pill at the weekend - vanilla yeast flavour![/quote]

And if I can ask, how much did Elanco bung you for that plug, Sarah Keir

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Nothing, but now you mention it.... But I did think it very strange that a cat would eat vanilla flavoured product when humans like it because of happy memories of sweet treats!

Dreamies = cat crack! They should market them as pill giving devices!

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Utlendigur — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:45:58 GMT

My old cat used to go mad for pesto. Current one likes anything (once anyway - even ate iceberg lettuce a few days ago) but seems particularly fond of fruitcake or granola biscuits.

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bob lehner — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 16:30:15 GMT

Kiwi fruit, cucumber, pickled gherkins, mango chutney, tabasco sauce, black pepper corns .....oh no, i'm getting confused - that was my own dinner last night.

(But cats do like tinned sweetcorn)

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Lesley Strong — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 16:15:15 GMT

Treacle toffee, Croissants,Polo mints, Strawberry mousse, All cheeses.

And off course sneaking into the kitchen and eating a head sized hole in the side of the Xmas turkey pulling out the giblet bag thru the hole and eating all of that( later vomited all over the living room floor)

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Arlo Guthrie — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 15:23:42 GMT

[quote user="Sarah Keir"]My cat ate the Credelio cat pill at the weekend - vanilla yeast flavour![/quote]

And if I can ask, how much did Elanco bung you for that plug, Sarah Keir

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Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 15:13:45 GMT

Those pink wafer things out of the Christmas assorted biscuit boxes. He would prowl around the box, carefully select his choice (which was generally in the middle) and hook it out with a single claw.

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Julian Earl — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 10:25:33 GMT

Peas, sweetcorn nd curry? Wow, Your cats are definitely weird. and not just mine then . I hope that you all read my letter in the Vet. Record back in 2016 about how we used to find half-eaten cherry tomatoes around our kitchen-floor? Puzzling until we saw our kitten fish them out of the salad bowl, chase them as they "bobbled" across the floor, then he caught them, killed them and ate them. Not sure how and why he scooped them out of the salad bowl the first instance!

He later moved onto mice, birds and a 45cm-long stoat but at least the tomatoes can now sleep more easily!

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Bob Russell — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 09:03:53 GMT

Curry - the hotter the better!

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Julie Innes — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 09:01:26 GMT

I forgot about my very first cat, who would eat virtually anything! He would, as we say up here, get a piece at anyone's door. He once attempted curried cauliflower (as I discovered when I went to clean it up!) and apparently went to the kebab shop every Friday night, where he was a local celebrity and everyone gave him bits of kebab, meanwhile I was spending a fortune on obesity control and couldn't understand why it wasn't working! We lived above the surgery and he and the surgery cat used to get together to break into bags of food- canine k/d, I/d , didn't matter

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Sarah Gowen — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 21:34:38 GMT

I had a cat who was obsessed with peas and sweetcorn. He would even do tricks for them and rocket across the room after a pea if you threw one.

One of my current lot doesn't have particularly odd tastes but will go to impressive lengths for normal food- he's learned to open the fridge and has chewed through the plastic to open a sealed packet of Dreamies in the past.

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Julian Earl — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 21:06:28 GMT

It looks like this subject could go on for a while!! We had a cat, Jerry, who adopted us and he used to be the yard-cat at the farm next door. He was not feral temperament at all I but extremely docile and slept on our bed regularly. He used to be fed bits of sandwich by the farm-workers and ate anything. On one occasion he sat I front of our log fire and devoured a whole custard tart, pastry and all! I laughed at him because he then lay flat out on his side in front of said fire and his stomach was swollen and bulging like he had swallowed a tennis ball!

My proudest moment with him was when my wife's friend came round with her Jack Russell and the dog was about to come in through the patio doors from the garden at the same moment Jerry decided to go out. They both froze and at a distance of a few inches eyeballed each other before the Jack Russell turned tail and fled. I was very proud that Jerry had faced down a terrier. But probably after years of living outside here, a JRT was no threat to a cat who had probably coped with foxes and badgers while roaming free from the farm for years! Jerry, the coolest cat in this valley!

Sorry, that's a bit of a tangent on eating habits but his lifestyle was pertinent to Jerry's appetites .

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Sarah Keir — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 20:40:46 GMT

My cat ate the Credelio cat pill at the weekend - vanilla yeast flavour!

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Louise6732 — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 20:22:15 GMT

My old cat used to love sweet things - fudge, jam, cake! Louise

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Jill Butterworth — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 19:48:26 GMT

I had a cat that loved pizza. He even brought a slice in through the cat flap once, which he must have stolen from a neighbour!

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Julie Innes — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:31:40 GMT

My cat has a rubber fetish! He has chewed the rubber strap of my crocs to bits! Our old surgery cat had a penchant for shiny things, meaning we couldn't have tinsel at Christmas, or we ended up with festive vomit everywhere . He was also curry- daft, and also loved mayonnaise! I used to get him chicken tikka sandwich filler from the deli as a treat!