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He's eating almonds. What weird things does you cat eat?

post #1 of 60
11/29/07 at 7:45am
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We've had Frankie for over a year and he was never interested in eating any people food and then last night my husband was eating handful of almonds and Frankie crawled onto his lap and was so interested in the almonds in his hand so my husband tossed one onto the floor. To our amazement, he hopped down there and chewed it up and ate it right up and now is bugging my DH whenever he gets some more almonds.

What weird things do your cats eat?

BTW, I don't think we should give him too many cuz he's on a prescription diet that keeps him from getting crystals in his urine and that food is working wonderfully so I don't want to give him anything that might be bad for him.
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post #2 of 60
11/29/07 at 8:14am
Don't give him any more - cyanide comes from almonds and the nuts may not be processed quite the same in cats' systems as it is in humans (and you're right about crystals, too).
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post #3 of 60
11/29/07 at 8:35am
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Don't give him any more - cyanide comes from almonds and the nuts may not be processed quite the same in cats' systems as it is in humans (and you're right about crystals, too).
Wow, I'm glad I wrote about this. We thought it was funny but had no clue that it could be dangerous or bad for him. Thank you so much for the information!!
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post #4 of 60
11/29/07 at 9:08am
Juniper loves chips. Potato chips or tortilla chips. When he smells the bag, he meows and tries to stick his head in it, no matter where the bag is. We don't feed him any, but the occasional crumb or piece breaks off and heads to the floor, and ZOOM he snatches it and *crunch crunch crunch*.
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post #5 of 60
11/29/07 at 9:30am
My RB girl Lizzie loved bread and ice cubes.
I'll never forget the way I discovered her love of bread.
I had gone to the grocery store, my Husband was at work so it was just me bringing the groceries into the house.
The first bunch of bags I brought it had a couple of loaves of bread in it.
I went back outside to get more bags and by the time I came back in she'd ripped the plastic off the bread and had eaten 4 or so slices and there were at least 3 or more other slices torn up all over the kitchen floor.

I was chopping onions on Thanksgiving and a small piece fell on the floor, before I could pick it up Elliott had eaten it and sat there begging for more.

I've never found a food that Gracie won't eat.

Annabelle won't eat any people food at all.
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post #6 of 60
11/29/07 at 9:31am
My cat Sohni eats granola and cereal. I have a bowl of dry cereal or granola with me when I read, and Sohni sticks his head into the bowl to pull out flakes everytime my back is turned.
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post #7 of 60
11/29/07 at 10:59am
Ummmm, plastic bags
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post #8 of 60
11/29/07 at 11:54am
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Originally Posted by Graciecat View Post
My RB girl Lizzie loved bread and ice cubes.
I'll never forget the way I discovered her love of bread.
I had gone to the grocery store, my Husband was at work so it was just me bringing the groceries into the house.
The first bunch of bags I brought it had a couple of loaves of bread in it.
I went back outside to get more bags and by the time I came back in she'd ripped the plastic off the bread and had eaten 4 or so slices and there were at least 3 or more other slices torn up all over the kitchen floor.

I was chopping onions on Thanksgiving and a small piece fell on the floor, before I could pick it up Elliott had eaten it and sat there begging for more.

I've never found a food that Gracie won't eat.

Annabelle won't eat any people food at all.
I would have loved to see that bread episode.

Onions??!! I've never seen any animal that liked onions. Wow.

I'm glad Frankie doesn't like chips cuz we always have bags of chips sitting on the counter with just a clip on the top. When we first adopted him I had everything put away in the cupboards but after I found that Frankie didn't like people food, the chips and crackers ended up back down in the corner on the counter and cookies are on top of the microwave.
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post #9 of 60
11/29/07 at 12:18pm
Onions are dangerous for dogs and cats.

My cat pretty much eats ANYTHING, yes, even as an adult. She is not picky at all. She will even eat your salad if you leave it unattended for a second. As much as she can.
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post #10 of 60
11/29/07 at 3:29pm
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Originally Posted by Larke View Post
Don't give him any more - cyanide comes from almonds and the nuts may not be processed quite the same in cats' systems as it is in humans (and you're right about crystals, too).
Almonds have cyanide?! I'm not sure if I want to eat them anymore, either!

You learn something new every day at TCS!

Most of my furbabies like potato chips, tortilla chips, etc., (I guess it's the salt in 'em ), but I won't let them eat the stuff very often. They especially like Cheetos..

I used to have a cat that just loved bananas. And another one that loved M&Ms (this was before I knew that chocolate could be toxic to a cat). I'd let him have one or two every once in awhile, b/c he woudn't leave me alone till he got one. But I quit doing it after I found out it could harm him..

Maverick is my little Italian kitty: he loves anything that has tomatoes in in - like spaghetti sauce, lasagna, etc. Geronimo likes peanuts, or peanut butter (they're not poisonous too, are they? ). Gabriel has a sweet tooth, and like cookies & cake. Winchester doesn't like any "people" food - not even tuna: he doesn't like most cat food, either - he's the fussy one of the bunch. I haven't come across anything weird that Spencer will eat, but if you throw it on the floor, he'll eat it (he's the one who always takes the food out of the bowl, and eats it off the floor! ). I'm guessing that he eats that way b/c that's how he used to eat - off the ground - before we rescued him from the Wal-Mart parking lot..

~KK~

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post #11 of 60
11/29/07 at 5:04pm
Pong loves Klondike bars. Hubby gets on peace when he is eating on.

Ping loves Hawiaan Bread and pork rinds. I was eating pork rinds just the other day and Ping stuck his paw in there stole one and ran to the other side of the livingroom to eat it.
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post #12 of 60
11/29/07 at 6:59pm
Not that I am an advocate of giving nuts to cats, but Wikipedia said domestic almonds DO NOT have cyanide in them. Bitter Almonds do... and wild almonds - as do apple seeds, and the soft seed inside a peach pit.

Best to ask your vet about it.
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post #13 of 60
11/29/07 at 9:18pm
Bread, potato chips, asparagus and corn on the cob . We daren't leave a bag of bread lying around anywhere, as Molly will eat his way through the packet to get to the bread.
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post #14 of 60
11/29/07 at 9:26pm
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Bread, potato chips, asparagus and corn on the cob . We daren't leave a bag of bread lying around anywhere, as Molly will eat his way through the packet to get to the bread.
I used to have a bread "thief", too. I don't recall who it was (I think it was either BuffPuff or Cheeto), but I had to hide the bread in the microwave so they couldn't get to it: they'd chew right through the bag..

~KK~
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post #15 of 60
11/30/07 at 1:16am
Many years ago, my parents had bread loving cat. They thought that putting the loaves on the top shelf in the cabinet would be enough to keep him out of bread.... We came home one day to a bread massacre, bits of bread and plastic all over the kitchen.
The cat actually ate very little but must have been annoyed at their attempts to hide it from him.



Tomas likes raw turnip greens and Sho will beg for jerky (only allowed to occasionally have a tiny piece of natural/non preservative added kind).
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post #16 of 60
11/30/07 at 5:11am
Looks like Lizzie had a lot of company in her bread thievery...is that a word
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post #17 of 60
11/30/07 at 6:01am
Sadie loves fresh green or yellow beans and romaine lettuce. I've got a veggie-loving girl!
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post #18 of 60
12/1/07 at 3:45pm
Hannah loves cheese! When she hears the package open, she comes running and begs for a bite!
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post #19 of 60
12/2/07 at 1:51am
My cat Millie loves dried spaghetti. I gave her a stick to play with one day when I was cooking, after about 1 minute it had all gone and she was meowing for more. This is especially strange, as she is probably the fussiest eater I have ever seen, to the extent that she won't eat 90% of regular cat food
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post #20 of 60
12/2/07 at 4:53am
my boy sterling liked popcorn, I would give him just the soft round part
no kernals, also the very tip of bugles, combos, cracker and cheese, and a good steak once in a while, my gril minca loves ham, and turkey,
only hickory farms, in the package... good kitties
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post #21 of 60
12/2/07 at 8:16am
my kitten martini eats everything. if you turn around for a second, martini will be in your plate checking out what you have. she'll try anything at least once. anytime i'm eating, she sits there begging and crying for my food. the person i got her from claims they never gave her table food, so i'm not really sure where she got this habit from! she also likes to eat random fuzz on the floor. and i caught her eating cotton balls yesterday.
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post #22 of 60
12/2/07 at 4:41pm
I try to keep a close eye on them and food, but Chloe seemed very interested in my vegetable soup and kept trying to lick the remainder of it out of the bowl.
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post #23 of 60
12/2/07 at 7:35pm
Our Kaylee eats everything. We swear she is part dog because I've never seen a cat get into so much food! We can't leave anything out when we're not around because if we turn our backs for a second she'll be in there. Just today she went head-first into an open bag of potato chips when I turned my back! The worst is anything bread-related...before we got her we used to keep our bread wrapped up and on the counter, but now it has to be in the pantry or she'll chew her way into the bag and destroy its contents.
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post #24 of 60
12/2/07 at 8:48pm
Junior is picky when it comes to cat food but he'll at least nibble just about any human food I've offered (which isn't much since I'm a picky eater as well). His favorites are chicken, Pringles and cheese though. I tried to give him a piece of banana once and he arched his back and stepped backwards away from it.

Mez
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post #25 of 60
12/1/09 at 9:05am
My cat was just eating an almond he found, and I paniced thinking he could get ill from it~ XD

My one 21 year old cat (he had to get put down this year), would eat anything. He would cry and meow until you gave him your food. He ate anything from sour-cream to Chinese food!
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post #26 of 60
12/1/09 at 9:46am
Charlie is a fruit eater - peaches are his favs, but he's also eaten strawberries, plums, blueberry (pancakes) and banana

Jack loves blueberry pancakes too but doesn't like the peaches - he's pretty much a foodaholic and wants to sample most anything you are eating.

Both LOVE tapioca pudding!
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post #27 of 60
12/1/09 at 9:54am
Genever wants to at least sniff anything you've got, she is very interested in people food but doesn't like to actually eat much of it.

That said, she loves deli ham, when BF opens the packet she comes running. She also has been known to steal a cheeto or a chip and eat it all. Um... popcorn, no kernel. And she likes toast. And once she dove into a bowl of peanuts and went crazy. We only let her have people treats once in a great while though since she seems to have a sensitive tummy.. More often than not she gets treats by stealthy stealing than by us giving them to her....

Yesterday when I was home for lunch, I had a tofurky and soy cheese sandwich (i do eat real cheese but sometimes get soy cheese for sandwiches). I went to the bathroom to blow my nose, and I came back and Genever was on the table, top bread slice off the sandwich, and she was licking/eating the soy cheese! GET OFF THE TABLE!!! Jeez, even I don't really like the soy cheese on its own!
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post #28 of 60
12/1/09 at 2:23pm
MarsBar likes tomatoe sauce and raw egg. Calico likes cooked linguini dipped in soy sauce. Tigger likes anything she can snag off your plate.

They all go nuts chewing on celery leaves, spinach and cilantro, but I don't think they swallow so much as chew it up and spit it out. If they can get it my kitties also like vanilla ice cream, powdered milk and bone marrow. They are my little terrors, no grocery bag is safe until they have inspected it, and when I cook, bake, or eat I have to protect the food from them.
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post #29 of 60
12/1/09 at 2:36pm
Grape juice.
Ginger loves it and will steal it from me, though she seems to like anything in my glass better than her "dish" (It's a glass, more specific MY favorite Campbells soup cup!) Its mmm mmm good, she wont drink from a bowl.
Pretzels, she does't eat them as much and maul and kill them. The little bendy ones. It is a death match, Cat vs Small pretzle.
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post #30 of 60
12/2/09 at 4:13am
Fluffy will eat anything edible. All of mine like bread as well.
When Fred was still with me, he loved to sneak sips of my White Russians. I would not let him have much at all, but after a few tiny sips he would lean against my leg with a big, cheesy grin.
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