Weird things your pets eat?

[WillParkinson]

Cider, my cat, loves mushrooms. If I drain a can of them he sits on the sink and hopes I'll turn away.

Misty, my baby dawg, loves bananas. If you're eating it she MUST have a bite. Just a little one. PLEEEASE?

[WannaBeGrumpy]

1. Merlin likes to chew on my Dad's crunchy socks....

blech!

[deadparrot]

2. My kitty loves Cheez-Its.

:)

[sg_]

3. cow dung

:puke:

[Cobalt Violet]

4. Freckles , one of my cats loves...

Soy Crisps, soy nuts, cantaloupe, and waffles.

[barb162]

31. that's kinda strange but more power to her

[Ohio Joe]

5. My cat loves

McDonalds french fries.

[calico1]

6. My dog Aja loves most fruits and veggies.

Maybe not "weird" to most people but she is the first dog I have owned that likes this stuff. He favorites are broccoli, green beans, zucchini, summer squash. And she likes apples as long as they are not Granny Smith's or any other tart variety. :-)

I had a German Shepard years ago that loved olives. She would spit out the pit too!

[fizzgig]

7. i have a cat that likes pickles

and then there's my fat little girl, she wants to eat anything just about anything that i am eating

[ganeshji]

8. damn near anything

One cat eats blueberries and tomatoes, the other has licked or eaten toilet paper, foil wrappers, dental floss, and one of those ant motels things (not all of it). They are weird.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

9. Well, canned mushrooms is a weird thing for people to eat, too.

My cat Ginsberg eats anything I'll eat though, right down to salad and tofu.

[pdx_prog]

10. You mean besides shit?

lol....

[driver8]

29. Ha Ha ...you beat me to it!

When I was a kid we had a shepard mix who absolutely loved to eat shit. Dog, cow, cat, horse...he didn't care.

The bad thing was, he also liked "to give kisses."

[undeterred]

11. A figurine from "Where the Wild Things Are"

I'm trying to replace it.

[dajoki]

12. Our cat loves...

cantelope and all melons.:shrug:

[radwriter0555]

13. my underwear.

Just nailed the bitch having chewed through yet ANOTHER pair.

My own fault, I DO know better than to leave them around.

[NewWaveChick1981]

14. I had a dachsund named Fred when I was growing up, and he

loved to eat crayons. Fortunately, they were the non-toxic kind, but let me just say that one Christmas, he ate a green one and a red one and left Santa a colorful present in the back yard. :rofl:

[Mutley]

26. Wrong spot, sorry.

:blush:

[marzipanni]

35. LOL- We took care of my cousin's dogs

and her black lab has "pica" (he eats weird stuff). He found a small bag of crayons when we were out of the house. The next day we discovered a technicolor dog doo in the back yard. :rofl:

[SlavesandBulldozers]

15. the arm rest of my couch.

which he's now doing 4 hours of solitary for.

when he saw that i saw the hole in the couch, he instantly flipped over into his cutest posture possible. that little bastard has me all figured out.

[belladonna]

16. Molly, my cat, has a thing for meatballs

But only when my SO makes them... should I feel insulted? :shrug:

[youthere]

17. We had a black lab that ate the linoleum off the laundry room floor...

had some interesting decoations in the yard after that one. I have a dachsund right now that will eat ANYTHING that drops to the floor..money, paperclips, twist ties, crayons...you name it. And what she can't actually eat she chews up. I swear to God I even found a lego in the yard surrounded by..well, you know.

[scarlet_owl]

18. My cat Nico will eat pretty much anything.

She especially loves potato chips.

[SoyCat]

19. Tiger loves the shrimp out of Pad Thai--spicy hot Pad Thai. He's not the

first cat I've had that liked hot foods, either. Another cat I had years ago adored jalapenos as well as a whole list of other interesting foods.

I had a schnauzer who loved corn on the cob, sweet potatoes, cornbread, whole wheat bread, and okra.

[BarenakedLady]

20. My dog Ben

(Golden Retriever) will eat anything that is within reach. I mean anything.

[av8rdave]

21. A friend of mine once had a doberman puppy that they rushed to

the vet with a very distended and hard stomach. Initially, the vet suspected Parvo. As it turns out, my friend was having a swimming pool built at the time. The dog had consumed a considerable amount of gunite, which hardened in his stomach.

$700 of surgery later (this was the early 80s) the dog recovered.

[unsavedtrash]

22. pine cones and other pieces of "yard."

She knows when I see her eating in the yard that I'm coming to take it away so she gobbles it down.

[kedrys]

23. Breakfast.

Evie goes gonzo for strawberry and raspberry breakfast bars, as well as Kashi Strawberry Fields cereal. Plato likes to lick the plate when I have eggs. I usually use butter, so that's not that surprising :). Neutrino likes plain croissants. Her brother Quark licks the salt off tostadas.

[EFerrari]

24. My lovebird George loved saurkraut.

:)

[VeggieTart]

25. My little furbaby?

She likes to steal crackers (I posted a pic in the kittens picture thread). She likes to lick the salt from tortilla chips. She sometimes likes to lick the bowl after I've eaten soy ice cream. One time, my boyfriend was over, eating cereal and soy milk on the sofa, and she started lapping the soy milk. She especially loves to try to steal food from my BF because she knows I won't put up with it. I think she like the taste of Earth Balance margarine because she'll sometimes eat bits of potato with it.

[Mutley]

27. Anything

Honestly, the only thing I've ever seen her turn her nose up at was celery.

She Loves tomatoes, which is great because she can have mine. I hate 'em.

You wouldn't believe the things she has eaten, and survived. :o

[Taverner]

28. Tigger used to be a big fan of Mierde d'Chat

Dog Breath + Cat Poop = All that is unholy

[WillParkinson]

44. You mean like this?

And, naturally, after they EAT it they have to kiss you to SHARE!

[barb162]

30. Wjhat's weird is when they won't touch a certain flavor of cat food

one day and then two weeks later they eat it like it's the best thing in the world

[conscious evolution]

32. My parents dog

wondered why the cat buried snacks in sand

[Redstone]

33. My son's cat eats the Zebra grass in the front yard. That stuff cuts

the hell out of your arms if you handle it in short sleeves.

Maybe he's just flossing with it?

Redstone

[haf216]

34. My baby Pooh (a cat ) loves

tomatoes, bell peppers, cantaloupe and pineapple. These are they only things she begs for. I can be cutting up meat and she is no where to be found, but the second I get the tomatoes out she right there demanding that I give here a piece.

[barb162]

36. she likes to lick potato chips. She doesn't eat them

[BlueJazz]

37. If I leave my Sax reeds around, the Rabbits eat them. ,

But they're so damn cute they can get away with anything..

[MiniMandaRuth]

38. Our oldest cat of fifteen years

loves cantaloupe. Maybe that's why she's lived so long...

[NorthernSpy]

39. my cat likes to eat fruitcake

Every Christmas, he wants chunks of fruitcake. You wouldn't think a cat would ever eat that, but he does.

Also, he likes anything with tomato sauce or olive oil.


The cat I had as a kid loved chickpeas, avocados, and sweet potatoes.

[Fuzz]

40. Soap, my black lab loves it.

Tries to sneak into the bathroom, jump in the tub and snag a bar of it whenever she can.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

41. Corn husks and green olives.

This guy, the late great Big Orange Charles, would beg for corn husks whenever we shucked fresh sweet corn. He'd just munch them up. He also liked green olives (in fact, all my cats have enjoyed them), and would tear the plastic bags off loaves of bread and chew hunks out of them (the bread, not the plastic).


RIP - Charles, 1974-1995

[lavenderdiva]

42. Just as a warning, please do not let your animals eat grapes or raisins

Dogs and cats cannot digest these, and somehow they will have kidney failure. We did not know this, and our sweet Emma loved eating grapes. She died about 6 months ago from acute kidney failure. I would never want anyone else to go through what we did....

[NorthernSpy]

43. ... or significant quantities of raw or powdered onion or garlic

Cats and dogs who consume large-ish amounts of onions and garlic may develop hemolytic anemia as a result. That's when the red blood cells start to burst and die prematurely, resulting in a shortage of blood cells capable of transporting oxygen throughout the body. Small quantities of onions and garlic -- such as the amount used as a flavoring in spaghetti sauce or chili -- are not thought to be harmful to a pet who likes to have a dollop of these foods.

As for grapes and raisins, as little as 3 1/2 ounces of grapes or 1/2 ounce of raisins per 10 pounds of pet may be enough to harm the kidneys. Apparently, no one has figured out why.

I'm sorry about what happened to Emma, Lavenderdiva. Grapes seem like they would be perfectly harmless. Who would ever have imagined that they could hurt an animal?

[Bzzzz]

45. There is nothing...

that I've found that my Min Pin won't eat. :crazy: