Wierd things your cats eat.

ElleEm

I have always thought that cat's diets were specific to cat food (wet and dry) and that's all.
Since I got my little ones, I've noticed they like a varied diet of strange things (for cats!).
The pair of my cats love cheese- all different types too. Most recently, they have been eating chilli cheese!
The eldest one LOVES eggs, particularly scrambled eggs.
One night, I made spaghetti bolognaise, and later, noticed one of the lads had a smell of it off his breath. He had eaten the leftovers from a bowl on the counter, a half a bowl- including all the pasta.
They also eat sweetcorn.

So, what wierd things do your little kitties eat?

And on a side note, is it bad to feed them these sorts of things?

ToniTuddle

Not sure about the chilli as don't know what family it comes from but I know you aint suppose to give them onions or anything related to the onion family. Or garlic! There may have been onions/garlic in the spag bol?

My cats might sometimes eat a bit of a spud but only if it's covered in some juicy tuna or something.

Zapperzy

My cats so picky with cat food, she'l like one brand one week and the next week she'l turn her nose up at it. But surprisingly she has her 'human' foods she loves, tuna, chicken and ham are hit and miss, sometimes she likes them other times she doesn't.
Cheddar cheese in tiny little pieces she sometimes eats, she goes absolutely mad to get spray cream, if she's upstairs and hears someone opening it she'l dart downstairs.
She loves plain spaghetti (as long as I lick off any sauces that's on it), she thinks they are worms and bats them around the house for ages sometimes getting it stuck up the walls. :rolleyes:
Milk from the end of a cereal bowl, she can't have large quantities of it otherwise she does a projectile vomit but in little amounts she loves it.
Haggen-Diaz cookies & cream ice cream she loves. Expensive taste. :rolleyes:
She once drank cold tea and ate pringles.

When she was a kitten (about 5-6 months old) just after we got her she refused to eat cat food. I had to hand feed her weetabix and custard as they were the only things she'd eat, until a little bit of cat food was put on a dinner plate at the table and she was lifted up to eat it and of course thinking it was human food she scoffed it!

Loopsie

Kai thinks he is a person, im convinced of it and will ate ANYTHING and i really mean anything he sees me eat!!!
I was once eating a bowl of fresh chopped pineapple and got up to answer dorry, came back in and he was chowing down!!!
He loves cheese, absolutely loves ice cream which is a huge once in a blue moon treat and he is never really fed cow dairy products
Pineapple really took the biscuit so to speak !!

Heroditas

Our cats:
Susie eats crisps .... any type of crisps.
I caught Rocky licking the remnants of my coffee this morning. He likes curry too
Annabel is currently going mad for her.... wait for it..... medication! She's on tablets at the moment for cystitis and nearly takes our hands off when we feed her the tablets. Either she knows she needs to take them to make her better or our cat is a junkie!

Zapperzy

Heroditas wrote: »

Our cats:
Susie eats crisps .... any type of crisps.
I caught Rocky licking the remnants of my coffee this morning. He likes curry too
Annabel is currently going mad for her.... wait for it..... medication! She's on tablets at the moment for cystitis and nearly takes our hands off when we feed her the tablets. Either she knows she needs to take them to make her better or our cat is a junkie!

Why can't I have pets like that! :eek: They swear Im trying to murder them when I have to give them worming tablets.

sambuka41

Zapperzy wrote: »

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She once drank cold tea and ate pringles.

My guy is obsessed with pringles, once he hears the lid pop he is climbing in your face and meowing like he's never been fed before!!!!!

Also started drinking my tea!!! Sometimes he'll try drink the milk as i pour it into the cup.

hdowney

hah if only we could all have cats like that!

my last cat Tiny loved chips. he would sit there and wait for you to give them to him.

all my cats like fish obv. and milk, but they don't get that too often.

one of my cats likes sausages - which annoys me!

and then my little kitten will eat any sort of crumb you leave on a plate!

kilburn

My lad loves yoghurts and has a made fetish for supermacs garlic and cheese fries

planetX

I wouldn't give them any of these things, but my cats have stolen pizza, pancakes, baked beans, popcorn, and just found one of them on the counter drinking my vegetable soup:mad:
More naturally one of them is mad on eating bugs - moths, dragonflies, bumblebees, spiders, bluebottles....yumyum!

Lawrence1895

Sausages, Pizza, Beef Curry, Crisps, Prawn crackers...and buns, most likely a donation from a neighbor

letsbehonest

All meats really!
Doesn't like fat tough!
Once, I got sick outside my house and my cat ate my vomit!

Heroditas

Zapperzy wrote: »

Why can't I have pets like that! :eek: They swear Im trying to murder them when I have to give them worming tablets.

I spoke too soon.
She ate her first tablet no problem today bit wouldn't eat the half one.
I pushed it into her wet food, she spat it out and ate around it.
Eventually I had to grind it up and put it in some cat milk and she still managed to lick around some of the larger bits. :rolleyes:

However, to keep on topic, the three of them acted like a pack of hyenas with a Dominos pizza box this evening and Rocky demolished a sizeable portion of a crust.

Limerickgal82

Our Cat Isabelle LOVES Cheese and Mayo !!! In fact whatever is on our plate she will eat She Kinda Rocks !!

letsbehonest

Heroditas wrote: »

I spoke too soon.
She ate her first tablet no problem today bit wouldn't eat the half one.
I pushed it into her wet food, she spat it out and ate around it.
Eventually I had to grind it up and put it in some cat milk and she still managed to lick around some of the larger bits. :rolleyes:
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You could try and getting a spot on wormer from your vet. We found that was the beast thing to do!

Heroditas

letsbehonest wrote: »

You could try and getting a spot on wormer from your vet. We found that was the beast thing to do!

Unfortunately, this is to treat cystitis so we have to use the tablets.

Twee.

I just can't leave JJ alone! We had pizza one night and the empty box was on the table, with the little tub of garlic sauce. I return to the room and he's lapping it up! I took it off him and he followed me to the kitchen as I went to throw it out. Sad cat after that!

I've also found him with his head in my mug of hot chocolate and in the ends of bowls of cereal.

There he is with cereal bowl



He did NOT like ketchup.

Narsil

Our 3 legged boy loves cake! Banana Bread is his favourite, but he loves Madeira Cake,Blondie etc :rolleyes:

Shenshen

We used to have a cat that would go absolutely mad for canned sweetcorn. Canned, though, he wouldn't even look at fresh of frozen.

My cats now, one of them adores cheese, which is quite normal I think, but otherwise she isn't very adventurous. Both my husband and myself are vegetarian, so there tend not to be too many foods around she could be interested in.
She does go for ketchup and mayo on plates of leftover chips, and fried eggs, though.

The other one recently discovered honey, and adores it. Preferably licked right of my slice of toast, goes without saying.
I saw him sniff at some sweet chili sauce on a plate of leftovers the other day, he seemed intrigued... then he cautiously licked it, and I swear you could see the shock of it go right through him, as if he had put his paw on a live wire or something.
He stayed away from if afterwards

poconnor16

My little girl Tibby is a fuss pot - if its not royal canin, she doesn't want to know....

As for Maxi - he's a monster. Some of his weirder tastes have been cauliflower, pizza crusts, omlette, beans, porridge, any type of crisp and more recently a banana.
And he has the worst breath in the world....:D

ktod

I read somewhere that cats aren't meant to have a sweet tooth. Mine do! Cakes, cakes, cakes and more cakes, buns, chocolate, bikkies

dan_d

Mine aren't that unusual....they love anything meat-based that comes from the table (though not sausages funnily enough). Occasionally we'd give them tiny bits of mince/chicken/lamb/pork etc.
They murder ham and roast chicken...love it!
One of them likes natural yoghurt, the other has no interest. Cheese is also a major favourite with them both.
Once in a blue moon, I put a little dab of whipped cream on their noses.....they REALLY like whipped cream!!!
Wouldn't blame them I suppose, their usual diet is Royal Canin nuts, and water! Probably gets a bit boring after a while!!!!

planetX

I tried growing some watermelon plants from seeds on a windowsill - one of the cats ate every trace of them all:mad::mad::mad:

cosmic

Heroditas wrote: »

Susie eats crisps .... any type of crisps.

Our little madam loves crisps too We don't specifically feed them to her but you can't leave a bag unattended if she's in the vicinity!


Also, our JRT drinks tea! Again, if a cup of cool tea is left unattended he drinks it all up!

ElectraX

My cat loved Monster munch If I ever had a bag of them she would jump up beside me and try and stick her nose in the bag. Used to give her a couple just to get some peace:)
She lived to eighteen so can't have done much harm:D

shinikins

I had a cat who loved Polo Mints, no other mint would do! She'd sit there and lick away at one until she licked through it and then very delicately nibble at the edges , it would last ages. The same cat loved Sour Cream and Onion Pringles, lick the coating off first and then nibble the crisp. I also caught her dipping into a glass of wine once! Best cat ever!!

My present kitty loves yoghurt, and as he is a big ball of fur he ends up with it all over his face He has a bit of a thing for cheese too-will try and bat at my hand until i give in and cut a slice for him. And woe betide you if you turn your back on a cup of coffee with him in the same room, it doesn't last to long.

dan_d

shinikins wrote: »

And woe betide you if you turn your back on a cup of coffee with him in the same room, it doesn't last to long.

Cat on caffeine....I can just imagine the carnage!!!:D

Alun

Our two will chance their arm at anything really, if we leave a plate or dish unguarded, but their big passion is CHEESE!!! I swear they can sense a packet of mature cheddar being opened from miles away, even if they're fast asleep at the time. They'll then just sit at your feet staring up at you, meowing at the top of their voices until you give them a tiny piece each.

We used to have a cat that craved cheesy biscuits as well, although she just seemed to lick them and leave a soggy mess on the floor rather than eat them properly.

InquiringMind

I've seen my cat eat my dogs vomit (i did stop him once I spotted him), t'was a while before I let him nuzzle in to me again I tell ya

serenacat

cheese, olive oil, yogurt, sausages, puppy and guinea pig food

IamStupid..Not

My cat eats all sorts, really! Once she ate some pringles that my brother fed her, and I think she liked them! :eek: Didn't quite know what to think about that!
She can be really fussy, and changes her mind about if she likes the brand of food that she's eating. One day she'll eat it and the next she'll pull a face. Well, not really because she can't pull a face but you get me, right? :P
She also likes porridge, carrots, potatoes and she once ate those pringles.

Heroditas

Chillies. :rolleyes:

One of ours robs them from the vegetable basket, plays with them for a while and then chews them. Bizarre.... I wonder if they're naturally immune to the chilli heat.

ABajaninCork

My old boy loved:

• Curry - the hotter, the better!
• Jerk Chicken
• Spaghetti with King Prawns and garlic
• Anything spicy
• Oh - and Madeira cake!!

He was also a ham lover and was VERY picky which ham he'd deign to eat. Loved Denny's and Lidl's. HATED Tesco's own make - used to spit it out!

The Sweeper

Cats are really smell driven so if it smells good to them they'll eat it. Researchers have also shown that cats appear to gravitate towards foods that contain vital amino acids and will naturally self-regulate a balance of carbohydrate, protein and fat if free fed.

My lot aren't big food moochers, but they'll thieve peculiar things.

Turbo Diesel loves the smell of a chocolate wrapper. She won't eat chocolate, but will come running from the other room if she hears a cadbury creme egg being unwrapped - we scrunch the foil in a ball and she bats it around the floor until she loses it under the couch.

Eric will wrap both paws around your wrist to derail a spoonful of weetbix and milk en route from bowl to mouth.

Believe it or not my cats aren't interested in roast chicken.

Frank WILL however (and this drives me mental) climb up on the kitchen counter to lick butter. A block left out of the fridge, in its wrapper, to soften, isn't safe unless a bowl is put over it.

watna

Our boy does have very strange taste.

He loves the following:

Chickpeas
peas
sweetcorn
pasta/noodles
beansprouts
cheese - crazy for it
cakes - especially muffins, if you're holding one in your hand he'll take a bite when you're not looking
any othe human food that looks interesting at the time

His favourite thing in the world is chicken, he's obsessed with it. However, his favourite chicken is spicy chicken. The spicier the better! If we get takeaway from the Malaysian place you have to give him his own little bowl of chicken with some noodles or he will not leave you alone.

watna

ABajaninCork wrote: »

My old boy loved:

• Curry - the hotter, the better!
• Jerk Chicken
• Spaghetti with King Prawns and garlic
• Anything spicy
• Oh - and Madeira cake!!

He was also a ham lover and was VERY picky which ham he'd deign to eat. Loved Denny's and Lidl's. HATED Tesco's own make - used to spit it out!

My parents old cat (now sadly in kitty heaven) was like that with ham too. Mum bought him some when she did the weekly shop but it had to be Deli ham. He didn't like the crap stuff. If ham was even a day past its use by date he wouldn't touch it, even though it smelled grand to us.

Cats are awesome!

Glowing

My scribble loves a bit of ham, though yes, it has to be fresh!

hogeybear

Noodles used to love Meanies crisps. She'd be drooliing all over ya to get a smell of the crisp wrapper!! She'd ate the onions outta curries, and'd do backflips for doublemint gum. Rubbin' her face in the gummy mess until she was dehydrated from spittle loss. She'd even pick it off the road.

Heroditas

On the first page, I stated that one of our cats likes crisps, any crisps. I would like to apologize for lying. She eats any crisps apart from Pringles. In fact, she turns her nose up at them! Gas little thing.

The other female like eating avocados. We can't leave them in the fruit bowl because she'll grab them in her mouth, drop them on the floor and gnaw on them. Then she realizes she doesn't like them and I end up moping up green pools of sick. :mad:

They also like mash.

Oh and Rocky (male cat) like Kellogg's Special K. I caught him with his head in the bowl the other morning munching away at them. this was when I turned my back for two seconds to get some milk for them. :rolleyes:

ElleEm

Carbonara is our guy's newest thing. He seems to just love spaghetti!

And prawn crackers.

blondie7

One of my cat loves peppers he actually picks the peppers over rhe meat and he is called Pepper