Weird stuff your cat likes to eat.

[sakabatou]

Mine: earwax (yuck).

[Roon]

1. Barney does NOT like human food, he will only eat catfood.

Daniel will eat ANYTHING that I am eating and is always scoping me out to see if I am eating something.

[blogslut]

2. The Meanest Cat in the World

...is nuts for mentholated/camphorated stuff. She tries to eat it when I apply mentholated/camphorated cremes and topicals to my bug bites and stuff. She gets wild like a cat gets with catnip.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. She doesn't eat it, but Pickles loves to huff my bra band after I have worn it.

[MiddleFingerMom]

15. WHO THE HELL ARE YOU CALLING "PICKLES"?!?!?!?!? n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

20. LOL My girl cat. Her brother is Pretzel. :^)

[Skittles]

58. you want I should kick some bra-huffing feline ass, GreenPartyVoter?

LEMME AT HER

[david13]

4. My new little one is starting to eat chunks of fur that have fallen

off the older long hair. Now I'm going to have to vacuum. She wont like that.
dc

[applegrove]

5. I had a cat when I was a kid who would eat christmas tree tinsel. Then a few days later it would

come out the other end. Yuk!

[david13]

13. My cat will still do that with dental floss. I have to keep it up where

he can't get it.
dc

[gvstn]

6. Let's see

Plastic is one of his favorites. Chewing up plastic bags and then throwing them up later. I don't know why the fascination but I know he never learns.

He loves black olives.
He loves malt balls.
And he loves peppermint. His favorite is white chocolate with peppermint bits. And the peppermint we use is strong. The flavor lasts at least 20 minutes after eating.

[GoCubsGo]

45. Not surprising that he loves malt balls

It seems many cats love malt. I guess that's why they use malt extract as a base for hairball remedy and supplement pastes. I had one who went nuts over it. Hairball remedy was her most favorite treat on the planet--except for when I was home-brewing. She got to lick the residue from the bags of malt extract that I used.

[gvstn]

47. That's interesting

Maybe, I'll get him hairball treatment since that would be way healthier.

[Glassunion]

7. My soul.

[MiddleFingerMom]

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[Kali]

21. send that to scooter

and Ima stealing it too

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Cantaloupe, corn on the cob, green olives, pizza, ham, strawberry yogurt.

[carlyhippy]

9. green olives

Carly

[david13]

12. My big cat will eat olives. Just something about the smell that

attracts him.
Funny to see it tho'.
dc

[annonymous]

49. One of my three cats goes nuts for green olives

He will also eat cantalope and corn. This particular cat also has one really disgusting habit. He will eat his own vomit.

[Archae]

10. My freshly-showered arms, ankles, and feet.

Every time I take a shower, Lucky bites my feet, and Charlotte will either chew on my ankles, or if she jumps up on my lap, my arms.

[amyrose2712]

55. I've got one of those. Waits on the toilet ...

tries to climb up me while I am toweling off.

[madinmaryland]

11. Cinnamon toast crumbs.

[Bonobo]

14. Cantelope but not other melons,broccoli. nt

[GoCubsGo]

16. I have one who will eat cantaloupe and honeydew melons...

...but not watermelon. Oh, and she's another who enjoys earwax. I think they all do. Must be some sort of manna on their home planet.

[SoxFan]

34. I had a cat who would eat melon

Canteloupe and honeydew were her favorites.

It all started when my sister was making a fruit salad, and the cat was getting under foot. She gave the critter a piece of melon, figuring she;'d sniff it, realize it was never a bird or a fish, and wander off.

Nope.

NomNomNomNom!

[GoCubsGo]

17. Earwax, and...

Beans, winter squash and pumpkin. Had I known that, I would have named him "Squanto". He also loves Beano, which is kind of fitting.

[murielm99]

30. My cat eats pumpkin, too. It is so strange.

She also likes tomato sauce, or anything with a tomato base, like lasagna and spaghetti sauce.

[GoCubsGo]

44. I had one who loved Italian food, too

Had I know she was such a lasagna fan, I would have named her "Garfielda". :-)

[gvstn]

19. 3 people's cats like to eat earwax?

How did we find this out?

[Kali]

22. hopefully from the eaten q-tips

out of the bathroom trash

otherwise I really don't want to know

[GoCubsGo]

43. Yep, and it's way more than 3 cats.

At least six from my immediate family, as well as several belonging to friends have shown a taste for this particular, um, delicacy.

[Kali]

23. crinkly plastic

nothing else wierd, really but she is funny that she will absolutely obsess until you give her a tiny bite of bacon, or pizza, or other meat you are cooking/eating. She will only eat a small nibble but she HAS to have that.

[Bonobo]

24. My cat eats a mouse's head, but not the body. Why?

I would have thought it would be the opposite...

[gvstn]

28. Mine is the opposite...body not head

Except the time I tried to save the mouse then it was SLURP...he swallowed the whole thing in one gulp.

[Contrary1]

25. Pretty much everything...even Jello.

Not crazy about grapes, but will play around with them. I find raisins behind the couch.

[Bertha Venation]

32. "I find raisins behind the couch"

:rofl:

[cherish44]

26. my kitty Elmer lurrrrrves pizza

he is a pest-o-rama whenever we bring a pizza home. Such a little beggar!

[SoxFan]

35. Brianna is like that, too

She literally climbs up on me if we;re on the living room floor having pizza and watching a movie. I think she likes the cheese.

[backwoodsbob]

27. squirell

[The Midway Rebel]

29. The godamn Spider Plant

No other house plants, just the Spider plant. Nom, nom, nom, nom, nom.

In the spring, he screams bloody murder at the back door until I bring hm a fist full of cat bud from the herb garden. He rolls in the catnip and eats it.

[Roon]

31. We used to have a catnip patch in our garden

and one of our cats would start rolling around in it and ATTACK anyone that dared walked by! Fresh catnip made him mean!

[dgibby]

33. Oatmeal Raisin Cookies,

which he stalks, attacks, tortures, then devours, all the while growling and attacking anyone who gets too close to his "kill"!

[SoxFan]

36. French Fries

Brianna has a fondness for Five Guys french fries.

Pippy basically sticks with her cat fuds and the occasional bite of fish or poultry. She's really a "beer and pretzels" cat, with simple, straightforward tastes!

[kedrys]

37. Evie has a freakish sweet tooth, reported here previously

She likes breakfast bars, croissants, and cake. After her (expensive) pancreatitis last month, she's barred from those.

Socrates eats anything he finds on the floor :eyes:, and strawberry yogurt. Plato likes corn chips. Quark and Neutrino seems pretty vanilla in their food tastes, but will occasionally try to snag some breakfast rolls, especially if there's butter involved.

Understand that they are not willfully fed those - they come and poach when those foods are present. They eat cat food - 20 times a day, :rofl:, but cat food nonetheless.

Their dad, Imhotep, god rest him, got more aggressive in his begging the more roasted chicken you gave him. With huge hands and a massive head, he was well-equipped for the poaching thing. :)

[gvstn]

38. It is strange

I have read cats have very few taste buds for recognizing sweets. And two kinds of candy are one of the few things he begs for. I can understand malt balls because they may have yeast or something like his dry food or fresh rolls which he will attack if left on the counter. But peppermint bark? The peppermint is crunchy but he eats the white chocolate as well.

He only gets a tiny piece for a day or two then I put it away for when he is not around because cats seem to be prone to diabetes and tooth decay. And unfiltered fluoridated water for a week is the price he pays for his treats.

[rug]

39. Mine too. I'm always giving him a reverse wet willy.

[MiddleFingerMom]

40. BE VERY VERY CAREFUL ABOUT CHOCOLATE AND PETS!!!!

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Chocolate has a compound that is toxic to either (although you have to get
down to the bottom of this article to see mention of cats - only because
cats don't normally scarf it up at a rate of 300 fucking metric tons per
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After learning this, I didn't even give NoName little FLECKS of chocolate.
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http://www.pets.ca/pettips/tips-20.htm
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[gvstn]

41. Hey thanks!

I knew chocolate was bad for dogs but thought cats were ok with it.

I don't give my cat much, maybe a few bites per month in the winter, as I don't keep that kind of thing around the house. I will seriously consider just saying no from now on. I wasn't worried about the white chocolate (except for tooth decay) and that seems to be borne out by the article but the malt balls seem a real no-no. No loss for me I think I have had only 3 movie theatre size boxes of malt balls in the last five years. I just found it funny that they were one of the few things he actually actively pestered me for. I've actually looked for just the puffed malt balls without the chocolate coating but didn't find them in the stores.

Thanks again for the link it was very informative.

[MiddleFingerMom]

42. You're welcome... and there are yoghurt malt balls in many bulk food sections. n/t

[Moondog]

46. Unsalted dry roasted peanuts. n/t

[pink-o]

48. Hot salsa..

I mean MUY CALIENTE salsa, cuz that's how I like it. One time, I left my veggie huevos rancheros loaded with the stuff when I went to the kitchen for more wine. I come back, and there's Kitty slurping up the habenero like there's no tomorrow! I freaked out, thinking I'd have to put a diaper on her, but she was just fine.

Also, she stole a homemade french fry from my plate one time. She came back begging for more. I thought they were supposed to be carnivores!

[Arkansas Granny]

50. I had an old cat once who didn't eat strange things, but she loved to bite the

leaves of my succulent plants, especially the aloe vera. Since she never ingested any of the plant material I came to the conclusion that she just liked the feel of it, kind of like popping bubble wrap.

[MilesColtrane]

51. Used to have a Siamese who would go nuts for creamed corn.

[LynneSin]

52. Abbott loves to lick on plastic things like plastic flowers or plastic bags

:puke:

[Withywindle]

56. Madimi does that too.

She doesn't eat it, but if she gets inside a plastic bag, she can happily lick the inside of it ALL DAY.


She does eat bugs. I'll never have to worry about calling in an exterminator. Really fat, meaty houseflies are her favorites. :9

[KamaAina]

53. Broccoli; fried chicken

two different cats. Winston the broccoli-eater wasn't mine, but was a close friend. Also, he weighed well over 30 lbs. Go figure. As for Kwan Yin and her fried chicken jones, we used to say it was "paw-lickin' good"!

[Withywindle]

57. When my ex and I moved out from our old place

we found the couches full of years' worth of completely picked-clean, immaculate chicken bones. We had two little trash bandits - we thought we were good about keeping the bones out of reach. Guess we weren't!

[Ikonoklast]

54. Beer; or to be specific, craft-brewed IPA's.

The gray-and-white in my sigline, Missy, will jump in your lap as soon as she sees you have a bottle, and when you're not looking, she will lick whatever she can get from the neck.

I know alcohol is a no-no for kitties, but all she ever gets is the flavor of it, but she's intent on getting her licks in.

She won't drink any poured in a glass, only ales still in the bottles.

Weird.