My Cat Just Finished Licking All My Fried Chicken Scraps

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What's that about?

In the past week she has also eaten:

A full piece of french toast we left out not thinking she would touch.

The top of a blueberry muffin.

A full piece of bread that I was going to use to make a sandwich in the morning, but left out to run to the bathroom for like 3 minutes, came back, and I was one slice short.

Insanity.

[Fiona]

1. good lord

feed that cat! obviously she's starving!

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2. We feed her tons!

[XemaSab]

3. Fried chicken!

The horror! The horror!

I thought this was a progressive message board...

:D

[BrklynLiberal]

4. There is absolutely no logic to what cats will eat.

[Lisa]

5. some cats have a "thing" for carbohydrates

We used to have one at work who craved crackers and popcorn.

At first, I wondered whether your cat was attracted to butter and oils (e.g. in the muffin) -- but if the bread was unbuttered, maybe it's the carbs!

The french toast is quite possible -- a lot of cats like eggs.

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7. She LOVES crackers and popcorn...

like almost anything. Cheez-Its, Cheetos, Potato Chips, the list goes on.

[TlalocW]

6. She's probably been doing Atkins

And this is her skip week or something.

TlalocW

[Madrone]

8. Watch those carbs! Seriously!

I just found out my kitty has diabetes - if yours hasn't started eating this stuff because it's getting diabetes it can GET it from eating these kinds of foods.

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9. Oh no.

How do you deal with kitties with diabetes? I mean, what kind of care do they requires? So sorry about your kitty btw. :hug:

[yellowdogintexas]

10. I had a cat once that would steal bread every chance he got

If I left a loaf of bread unprotected on the counter, he would plow right through the wrapper, straight down the middle of the loaf, leaving this big groove about an inch deep by about an inch and 1/2 wide.

of course he also stole tomatoes from the garden.

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11. the Tomato Stealing Kitty.

That's something I would like to see. :)

[Lisa]

15. how about "Mango Cat"?

My co-worker was on an development project in Thailand when she found a stray kitten stealing food from their compost pile. I suppose his mainly-vegetarian diet was out of necessity -- there was literally nothing else for him to eat, except for insects and the occasional rodent or bird! She adopted him and managed to get the permits to import him to Canada after her workterm ended. Even when he was well-fed, he maintained a liking for fruit (especially mangoes and very ripe pineapple). He would eat North American fruits like cherries and canteloupe too, but preferred the tropical stuff.

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16. Animals will find the most amazing ways to survive.

:)

[nytemare]

12. Wow. An omnivorous cat.

The cat I had was pure carnivore. No accounting for kitty taste, I suppose!

[sasquatch]

13. I had a tuxedo cat that would eat whole tomatos

His white spotted face would be red from the tomato.

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14. I never knew so many cats liked tomatoes!

Crazy.