Anyone else have a cat that likes eating something weird?

[Archae]

Erin, my male tabby, loves hard-boiled egg yolks.
I give him about 1/4 of one, and he's happy.

[yellowdogintexas]

1. not currently but several of my prior cats were lovers of corn on the cob

and I had a cat that loved asparagus and green beans.

[Demoiselle]

12. My mom had a SIamese cat crazy for corn on the cob.

...And she didn't have the right kind of teeth to eat it properly, so she left a punctured, half masticated mess. But that didn't matter, she loved the stuff.

[redqueen]

52. One of my kids' cats loves whole kernel corn, and he eats it with his paw.

It's frickin adorable. :)

[TZ]

2. One of my cats LOVES popcorn

As soon as she smells it she's in my face..

[Roon]

3. Me too!

My cat,Radar,loved popcorn.

[hibbing]

46. The late great Fergie did too

Hi,
My dearly departed cat liked popcorn and chips, probably the salt. My current cat seems to be uninterested in any human food, but I never gave her any when she was a kitten.

Peace

[Louisiana1976]

4. I used to have a kitten who ate shoelaces--no comment on how I found out.

:puke: It was rather gross.

[Liberal Veteran]

5. When Mariko was alive, she absolutely loved sauerkraut

Ever single time I ate any, she had to have some.

I thought she was just being nosy the first time, but I gave her a little bit of it and she just gobbled it up.

[rug]

6. My cat Homer

loves ear wax.

[Blue Diadem]

7. The coating on Doritos.

Grandkitty loves to lick the coating off them.

[TommyO]

35. One of my boys licks the orange cheese stuff off of puffed cheese balls (he prefers Utz)

He very diligently cleans all of the cheese stuff off of one cheese ball and he's done.

He's also the one that goes crazy for Ruffles.

[Captain Hilts]

8. Cats like raw eggs too. Bean would eat blueberry muffins. nt

[MorningGlow]

9. Salt

Our dear departed Dilbert used to LOVE getting small pieces of potato chips, but he only licked them--hardly ever ate them.

[XemaSab]

10. Chocolate doughnuts

Koshie used to rip the packaging open to get to them. :)

[Ikonoklast]

11. Our late Turkish Angora, Snowball, loved lettuce.

The crunchier the better.

And Missy, the grey and white kitty in my sigline, loves beer. She is the only cat that I've ever heard of that doesn't recoil at the smell of alcohol, and the bitter taste.

[sakabatou]

13. My cat likes insects

[GoCubsGo]

14. Beans, squash, pumpkin, baked goods, melon...

My handsome boy just loves beans, squash and pumpkin. Had I known that when he was a kitten, I would have named him "Squanto." He also loves Italian food, as did my dearly departed first kitty. My third kitty goes nuts over cantaloupe and honeydew melon.

My deceased cat just adored baked goods. I have numerous stories of her ripping into plastic bags to get at biscuits, flat breads and the like. I once set a pan of muffins on the stove to cool. A while later, I went to take them out of the pan, and she had eaten chunks out of nearly all of them. When Lent would come around she would always share a paczki with me. Not the filling, however--unless it was custard.

[jumptheshadow]

15. Marshmallows

For some reason, every Siamese I've had has gone crazy over marshmallows. They slime them and puncture them in a dozen places and then leave them in a well-used pathway.

[sohndrsmith]

20. Just visualizing a cat eating a marshmallow makes me giggle... hee! n/t

[SoxFan]

16. Feta cheese

I figured it would be too pungent, but Brianna loves the stuff.

[JeffR]

17. Our Siamese eats chips.

Corn chips, tortilla chips, potato chips, Cheetos, take your pick. I've even tried him on some really weird and pretty revolting flavored chips, and he's never met one he wouldn't scarf down. He's always done this, and he's past 20 now. Maybe it's some sort of fountain of youth for cats.

[KansDem]

18. This guy seems to like cactus...

...ouch!

[sohndrsmith]

19. (Had...). He would get "high" on green olives - like catnip only more intense.

It wasn't because of alcohol, because this would happen if he had one straight from the bottle. He''d roll in the juice and just get all crazy and giddy. It was hysterical... I just wish I knew what it was about green olives that did this to him. He LOVED them - (but rarely enjoyed them, because we didn't know what was happening or if it was bad for him. Didn't seem to be he'd recover after every green olive atom was ingested...) I've never had another cat who would show any interest in green olives - quite the opposite.

Man, I loved him - still do. He died years ago when I was in college at the ripe old age of 20.

[TZ]

48. Weird..a couple of times I've had olive juice on my hands

and one of my cats did that...Not all the time but occasionally. Huh.

[Generic Brad]

21. You mean, like my shoes?

My shoes are like catnip to her. She loves to chew on the soles and then act high.

K-Mart must put something nice in their shoes.

[BreweryYardRat]

22. Had a cat years ago that loved cantaloupe, and our recently passed Persian ate plastic.

The family's current two have boringly normal tastes.

Although, come to think of it, the Maine Coon/Silver Tabby mix seems to consider my hands a delicacy...

[tk2kewl]

39. I had cats who like cantelope too.

[madamesilverspurs]

23. Remember this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQi3q-Nf9wA (Sorry, I still don't know how to post videos directly...)

[LeftyMom]

24. Tofurkey deli slices.

My cats will stalk me around the house and try to steal my sandwich. I have to eat standing up when I'm having one or they'll jump on me. They don't even beg a little bit for any other food.

[kedrys]

25. Evie likes breakfast bars

Anything breakfast bar with berries. For years the only way I could eat one of those unmolested was to eat it in the car on my way to work. :rofl:

All of 'em will lick croissants for the buttery salty goodness, but only Evie will actually eat pieces of one.

[havocmom]

26. Do Brussels sprouts count as weird for cat cuisine?

Current cat LOVES them. One of my old cats did too, and she lived to 21.

Current cat is one strong, healthy feline. If she doesn't push her luck with attacking people, she may live as long as the last Brussels sprout eatin' feline.

[distantearlywarning]

27. One of my cats likes popcorn and potato chips

But his favorite human food treat is tortilla chips. He can smell them anywhere in the house and comes running.

Luckily he's a very polite cat and doesn't make a nuisance of himself asking for treats. He just sits quietly next to your chair and makes sweet faces until you give him something. And he's usually satisfied with a few bits of chip. I don't typically condone feeding pets human food, but I figure less than half a tortilla chip or a few popcorn pieces every few weeks won't kill anybody, and it makes him really happy.

And this isn't exactly eating, but this same cat goes absolutely nuts for roses. We can't keep roses on any surface he can reach, because he will bite the heads off and knock them all over the floor and roll on them. He starts vibrating if anyone brings a bouquet in the house, and will jump up on counters and tables (he knows he's not allowed up there) to get at them if you look away for a second while putting them in a vase. It's nuts. I've never seen a cat do anything like that before.

[Critters2]

28. One of mine loves broccoli, another likes marinara.

The third refuses to eat anything but Purina One Healthy Weight. No interest in other cat foods or human foods. He had to stay at the vet for a few days and they were panicked because he wouldn't eat their Science Diet food. So, I dropped off a bag of Purina One and he was fine.

The beagle will eat anything. Absolutely anything.

[Archae]

29. Well, dogs are known for eating anything.

The BLT you left on the kitchen table, half a turkey, the remote... :D

[suninvited]

30. My cat used to go crazy when he would smell tea tree oil

I would mix a couple of tea tree oil drops in my lotion sometimes, and he would go nuts licking me when I had it on. I have no idea why, the other cat wasnt affected by the smell of tea tree oil at all.

[EFerrari]

31. One of mine has taken to teasing a strand of my hair out of my

braid or knot and trying to chew on it. That's weird!

[old mark]

32. Fucking cat food is wierd enough.....nt

[Bertha Venation]

33. Cocoa likes ice cream, especially chocolate. She also likes peanut butter.

My 15-year-old Harry begs for yogurt.

[mikeytherat]

36. One of our cats, Hannah, can HEAR ice cream.

Go into the freezer for anything other than ice cream, and she doesn't move. Touch an ice cream container, and she's suddenly sprinting. She can also detect when ice cream enters the house, especially if it is vanilla.

Normal Hannah:


Give me ice cream NOW Hannah:


mikey_the_rat

[Bertha Venation]

43. I like Hannah.

She's beautiful!

Can hear ice cream :rofl:

[grace0418]

51. I find it interesting how many different animals LOVE peanut butter (my cat does too).

If you go to the zoo, a whole slew of different animals get peanut butter as a treat. It seems like cats, dogs, horses, birds, bears, and more love it.

[Rosie1223]

34. I spilled some parmesan cheese last night

My cat has been licking the kitchen floor since (even after I swept up)

[schmuls]

37. Various cats have liked potato chips, corn on the cob,

pizza and Taco Bell chalupas (just the tortilla part).

[Nuclear Unicorn]

38. My roommate's cat...

...keeps bringing her dead birds it has caught. Showing off its trophies to mama or something, I guess.

What's worse is he leaves them on her chest while she's asleep in bed. I just about jumped out of my skin the first time it happened because she woke-up with a scream. He's done it about 4 times now and--ugh!--she's gotten used to it.

She scolds the damn cat but you know how they are. I keep telling her to keep him inside but she says that wouldn't be fair to a wild animal (he was a stray). I reply it's not fair to the birds or the bed linen.

[fizzgig]

40. i have a few cats who love salty food

crackers, chips, french fries, etc, and they eat it, not just lick off the salt. another cat of ours loves pickles and one of our now long gone cats loved cantaloupe.

[rucky]

41. Backyard Cat has a taste for chipmunks.

I like Backyard Cat. Fucking chipmunks are tearing up my landscaping.

[Ohio Joe]

42. Animal loved McDonald's french fries

Never did eat any other fries... Just the McDonald's ones.

[Arugula Latte]

44. One of ours likes spaghetti, mac n cheese, French toast (with syrup!)

But regular wet cat food? Not so much.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

45. Ben Gay.

My Mom 's cat TC goes crazy when she applies Ben Gay before bed and will fight her to lick it off her skin! :D

My cat Junior loves tortilla chips and pimento (not necessarily together). My cat Grrlie loves to eat the cotton off used Q-Tips. :puke:

And I had one cat, Miss P, who used to scramble to scarf up other cats fresh vomit. :puke:

Let's face it, cats are little furry freaks...

[onlyadream]

47. My old cat, Winky, ate the entre cotton X-mas tree skirt!

He ate anything - he especially liked to eat string and ribbon.

[prole_for_peace]

49. My Molly loves raw cabbage

An the crumbs from fudge toaster pastries. My late great Peggy Sue like cooked grean beans and the top of my fresh baked bread... Grrr

[grace0418]

50. My Frankie loves olives, strawberries, basil, coconut and bread of any kind.

I don't let him have any of those things except I let him lick olive pits if they are large enough for me to hold so he doesn't swallow them.