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carlyhippy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 03:03 PM
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What is the strangest food your kitteh loves??
My cats are obsessed with green olives. First they roll all over them, then they eat them. My Maine Coon loves banana nut bread haha.
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mycatfred Donating Member (89 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 03:07 PM
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1. Fred
Likes oatmeal and rice. He hates all other human food, even fish.
My cat Thomas likes everything.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 03:08 PM
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2. Popcorn but occasionally I get green olive juice on my hands
when I'm making a salad and my cats go nuts over the smell on my hands...
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 04:39 PM
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3. wow two green olive freakazoids!
I'll have to check that out next time I have some green olives around. Mama kitty likes a bite of pizza crust but really goes for corn chips. I suppose they are the closest to crappy cat and dog food, which I am sure she would prefer to the overpriced or homemade food she gets. Ungrateful b****
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 04:42 PM
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4. Nearly every cat I've known liked blueberry muffins. I know a cat that eats mango. nt
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IcyPeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 04:48 PM
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5. corn (fresh off the cob)
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Sky Masterson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 04:49 PM
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6. My Obie loves a Pringle

He can hear me open a can from any room in the house. :)
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 05:08 PM
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7. Does earwax count as a food?
Edited on Fri May-07-10 05:08 PM by sakabatou
Seriously. My cat will lick used q-tips.
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 01:53 PM
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35. One here too
I can't leave them lying around--she'll nom on them down to the stick. Eww. x(
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 02:08 PM
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38. Both of mine, too.
Also, two departed cats.
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nickinSTL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 05:14 PM
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8. my cat went nuts over green olive juice
after emptying a jar of them once, we poured the liquid in the sink, and the cat rolled around in it.

Weird cat.

Not sure how weird this really is, being as it's cheese, but he loved the dried out bits from the top of a can of Easy Cheese.
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 06:58 PM
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9. I had a cat once that loved green olives and
angel food cake...not together.

The cats I have now are strange in that they don't like people food at all. When they were younger they would eat a little bit of chicken or ham, but now neither one of them will.

One of them really doesn't even like wet cat food. I give it to her when I give it to the other one, sometimes she'll eat it but most of the time she won't. She rarely eats their salmon treats either. :shrug:
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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 06:59 PM
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10. Hummus!
My cats go NUTS for hummus. They act like it's catnip or something.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 08:02 PM
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11. brussel sprouts
she loves them. No butter. One of my previous cats loved them too, and lived to a ripe old age (21)

This cat loves beets from the garden, but as toys. Seems small beets with a bit of stem attached and long, mouse-tail-like root make very satisfying toys. She will steal a couple small beets from my harvest basket when I pull them up in fall.
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minnesota_liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 08:05 PM
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12. Lima Beans
Offered a few to one of the cats and was surprised that he seemed to like them.
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 08:07 PM
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13. One of my cats loved whole wheat bread
I don't know how strange that is, but most have my cats have liked chicken and shunned all non-meat foods except their cat food. One of my cats, though, had a great liking for bits of whole wheat bread. She wouldn't touch white bread.
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Walk away Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 08:07 PM
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14. I have a Kitteh Klient who loves cantaloupe.
It is katnip and greenie treats rolled into one!
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 10:29 PM
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21. I had one that went ape-shit for cantaloupe rind & *anything* mint
she was so obnoxious about the rinds, I had to take them directly to the outside trash to keep the monster from knocking over the kitchen garbage can. If she got a hold of one, I learned the hard way not to try to take it from her. :eyes:

dg
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 10:33 PM
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24. I had a cat who ate canteloupe and honeydew melon
My sister was making a fruit salad and the cat was getting under foot. She tossed down a piece of melon, figuring the cat would sniff it and walk off.

Nope.

"NomNomNom....meow?"
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Sebastian Doyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 01:31 AM
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29. My cat Sylvester used to dig through the compost looking for melon "guts" and seeds
Once we figured out that's what he was looking for, we just left it out for him, so he didn't have to dig through all the crap to get to it.

Of course we also had melon plants growing in the oddest places. Never really amounted to anything in this climate, but apparently the seeds survive a kitteh's intestinal tract. :rofl:
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Walk away Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 11:59 AM
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32. That would have made for some interesting provenance at the farmers market.
"Heirloom Kitty Melons" $3 per LB.
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 02:34 PM
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40. So, my kitty isn't quite the weirdo I thought she was
Well, she's still a weirdo, but apparently not in the melon department. I can't believe how many other cats here love it. My younger cat ADORES cantaloupe and honeydew melons. She won't even wait and let me cut it up for her. She just gets right in there and tries to eat it while I'm preparing it for her.
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 02:42 PM
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42. Beano
Both tablet and liquid form. My old man loved will go through the shrink wrap to get at it. I could never leave a vial of the stuff on the table, as I would later find what was left of it on the floor with a bunch of puncture marks. I switched to tablet form, hoping he'd leave alone, but he managed to open up the bottle and eat the Beano tables. He also likes beans, winter squash and pumpkin. Had I known he likes those things, I would have named him "Squanto". ;-) He is losing interest in the beans, but he still will eat pumpkin or winter squash if presented to him.
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Walk away Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 03:33 PM
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45. My dog Robbie adores papaya and watermelon.
He survived on the streets so I am sure his refined taste was developed at Cafe Rubbermaid.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 08:12 PM
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15. My scrawny Bella likes to chew on my hair.
She waits until I'm asleep and then she scoops some up and chews on it.

So far, I haven't found a way to convince her that hair is not a between mean snack.
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MikeW Donating Member (554 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 08:13 PM
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16. spaghetti with the sauce
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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 10:32 PM
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23. Be careful. Tomatoes and tomato sauce are poisonous to cats.
Tomatoes contain solanine, a poisonous alkaloid. It takes a LOT of it to make a human sick, but it doesn't take much at all to make a cat sick.
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MikeW Donating Member (554 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 12:16 PM
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34. THANKS FOR THE INFO
he only eats a little and most of the sauce is off of it.

I just found it weird ... hes almost exclusively a fish cat ... doesnt care for chicken turkey or beef.

Loves pasta even plain though.
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nolabear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 08:18 PM
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17. Bunny (cat--grey, fluffy, no tail) goes mad for peaches, plums, mangoes
and most stone fruit. You can see the pure pleasure on her face when she eats it.
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KaryninMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 08:20 PM
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18. Veggie burgers, soy cheese and whole wheat wraps and curry spices
My cat eats a lot of the food I eat actually. I come home from work, give her her food, she takes a few bites and then waits to see what I'm having. Then after she has a few nibbles, she goes back to her food.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 09:54 PM
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19. My kitten (5 years old) tried to eat a donut the other night.
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Walk away Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 12:03 PM
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33. I was once eating a donut and my friends cat (Wellie) jumped into my lap and took...
a bite off of the the other side of it while I was taking a bite! I later found out that he would do anything for bakery products. Makes you wonder where he lived before he found his forever home.
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 09:59 PM
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20. Various cats of my acquaintance have enjoyed green olives, popcorn,
cantaloupe, corn husks, and bread (one of them used to tear open the plastic bag and gnaw random holes all along the entire loaf).
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 10:30 PM
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22. I knew someone who had a cat that LOVED lettuce..
I had a cat once that loved popcorn,he would eat it for as long as you'll feed it to him. Kernel by kernel.
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 10:35 PM
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25. Cheese Doodles
The late, great Tiger would munch away on cheese puffs.
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 10:39 PM
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26. watermelon juice, avocado, cheesy popcorn
That's my Keiko the orange marmalade tabby.

He also loves bites of buttery toast.
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Lil Missy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-10 10:47 PM
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27. squirt cheese
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 01:26 AM
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28. My family used to have a Siamese that loved cream corn.
Inexplicable
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dmr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 01:45 AM
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30. I had a cat who devoured Oreos
She'd do anything to get an Oreo. She'd lick and lick and lick till it was completely gone. She even knew when a new bag of Oreos was in the shopping bag when coming home from the grocery store. How she knew? I don't know.

I had another cat, years ago, who'd lap up my orange juice. If I drank OJ, I had to hold the glass in my hand, otherwise she'd dip her head in, or spill it, just to get at it.

My nephew's cat loves olives too. I forget what it is, but there's something about olives that cats love.
:hi:
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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 02:38 AM
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31. Is it "kitty-corner"...
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...or is it "catty-corner"?
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Slob.
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 01:56 PM
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36. Grease
Maybe that's not so unusual...but Clover the neurotic pisspot will sit at your feet and stare at you till you put down the plate that's had pizza on it. She'll lick every spot of grease off it. She also likes pork chops--if you leave a small bite for her she'll gnaw on it forever till she gets it down. But she especially goes nuts for tuna with mayonnaise. What's not to like? Fish AND grease together!

Our dear departed Dilbert used to mooch tortilla chips. I think he liked the salt.

Jasmine doesn't seem too interested in hoomin food, but she'll beg and beg and beg and beg to be taken out so she can eat grass. She never gets tired of that.
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 02:03 PM
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37. Missy, the gray and white kitty in my sig line, loves beer.
Only cat I ever heard of that wouldn't make a face at the smell, let alone try to drink some.

You have to watch your bottle, or she'll knock it over and drink the spill.
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kedrys Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 02:14 PM
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39. Evie has a freakish sweet tooth
She loves madelaines, strawberry yogurt, and breakfast bars. Since I recently found out that no cat on earth, no matter how big or small, can taste sweet because of the absence of the requisite gene, I've been :scared: more than somewhat.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 02:35 PM
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41. My current cat eats kibbles only, but my older cat loved yogurt, peanut butter and Sprite.
Go figure. :)
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 02:44 PM
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43. Fortunately, my older kitty likes yogurt, too.
It's what the vet prescribes when he has intestinal issues. A couple of tablespoons per day, and it clears it right up.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 02:48 PM
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44. See, I never knew it was good for him.
I just thought that, like me, he liked fruit at the bottom! :)
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pink-o Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 08:57 PM
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46. Salsa.
The first time I caught her lapping it off my plate I freaked out and 2 hours later locked her close to her litterbox, figuring Montezuma's isn't specific to homo sapiens. But it never affected her--she loves nachos, salsa and guac. Must be one of them gol-darned illegal gatos, eh?
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yankeepants Donating Member (602 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 09:19 PM
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47. Roy Lee has to have his whipped cream
Won't have non-dairy or fat free. It has to be full bodied whip and he will only eat it facing west. Not kidding if I put it down behind him (east) he won't eat it until I put it in front of him facing west.

Which one of us is demented?
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haf216 Donating Member (911 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 09:47 PM
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48. One of my fur babies loves,
tomatoes, pineapple and cantaloupe.
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