What's the strangest food your cat/s like?

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Xander isn't a very adventurous eater, but Riley's absolute favorite is mandarin oranges. He also loves pineapple and dill pickles among others
 

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Originally Posted by Tink80

Kuan Yin will maul me if a can of spaghetti-os is opened. She's done this since kittenhood before she even had a chance to taste them. She is from a large feral community and her guessed bio dad apparently digs them out of the dumpster or the lunch room from the people who work at the mill where they live..apparently it's genetic
Oh, wow. I never put two and two together about why a certain food might drive a kitty crazy, but if a cat was feral and born and lived in a colony (as Larry was), it makes perfect sense that they would forage around to find food.....hence certain likes, sometimes.

Hmmm....maybe Larry found pumpkin and squash in the garbage, which makes me sad, sort of, thinking of him foraging through the trash.
But that was 4 years ago. He's safe now.
 

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Ritz doesn't like most people food, but does like to lick the bowl of (cooked) oat bran cereal. Sometimes she'll also lick the (plain) yogurt container. I don't let her have too much, but I deliberately leave them out for her to lick--she needs the fiber.
 

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Fluffy will eat anything. When we have dinner that I have cooked I will always leave her a bit to lick off the plate. She loves her veggies. If it is something that might be bad for her, she can't have any, of course, but otherwise I can't see the harm. The others don't eat much except cat food.
 

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I'm probably a bad dad in that respect, but my kitties know I am very protective of food, and so stay away and only sniff from a distance if its not obviously theirs and laid out for em. Getting too close while I'm preparing or eating food is a definite no-no, so not sure what else they might eat.

Had to do it after Wesley stole an ENTIRE lemon-garlic chicken leg off my plate shortly after first adopting him when I only had my back turned for a moment to get something out of the pantry...


I did give em a little organic mashed pumpkin and plain yogurt which they seemed to like.
 

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When Speedboat was living, he loved popcorn and would catch it in the air. He also liked pecans and so does Muffin. Max used to get in the bags from the grocery store and eat fresh collards.
 

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jericho's a lettuce eater too! hes obsessed with mac n cheese, mashed potatoes, and french fries as well. but we rarely give him scraps. maybe just a little taste every now and then.
 

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My kitty Church likes bread. Sneakers likes Combos snacks, pretzels, and anything with tomato sauce (especially Chef Boyardee/Spaghetti-Os LOL). Not that I feed her these things, but she always tries to steal them, and when I tried showing her what it is figuring she'd go away when she saw it was just a pretzel or whatever, she just ate it instead. Most of the time, if my cats show interest in something I'm eating I offer it to them so they can sniff it and realize it's not something they want, but half the time Sneakers will want to eat it!
If I eat Spaghetti-Os or canned Ravioli or something and leave the bowl for even a minute when I'm done, she'll go try to lick it clean. She's even tried to stick her face in the bowl while I was still eating.


My previous cat Sylvia had weird tastes. If she got a whiff of olive juice (the stuff green olives in a jar come in) she would act like it was catnip and she would also lap it up. She also liked anything with blueberries in it a lot, such as blueberry bagels or muffins.
 

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Originally Posted by clpeters23

Moose loves sauerkraut!
That's close to Flambe's love--cabbage! Dottie has to be very careful when she's cutting it up for corned beef and cabbage or coleslaw. He'll stick his paws right in. And, if he gets a piece, he'll eat it.

He will take lettuce, but as soon as he finds out it's not cabbage, he abondons it.

Snoopy loved soda crackers.

Punkin won't eat anything people eat.
 
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New 1 Midnight went nuts for oatmeal today!
 

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Aya goes absolutely bonker for sardines. She loves them so much that she will eat the ones slathered in miso and soy sauce too!

Unfortunately as much as she thinks she's entitled to eat fish, being a Japanese cat and all, they seem to increase her proclivity to want to whizz in innappropriate locations.
 
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Luna eats anything, but her new favorite is pancakes.
 

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Loki loves bread, or anything pastry-related. If we leave a cooking sheet out after baking something on it, we'll find her in the kitchen trying to lick it clean. And yet she refuses to eat dry cat food. Maybe we need to get her some with more grain in it.


This doesn't exactly count as "food", but my cat Emmy likes to eat fur or loose carpet off the ground. Crazy cat.
 

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Stewie loves to eat anything we put in a bowl...not on a plate but in a bowl,Soup cakes,ice cream.His all time favorite though is plastic shopping bags,When we go shopping and bring the groceries in i have to watch him like a hawk or before long her will be chowing down like it his last meal.
 

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I don't let kismet have people food at all - the only exception to this is his pumpkin to keep him regular. Luckily he LOVES his pumpkin and gobbles it up quicker than you can blink.
 

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Pepino loves lettuce, he screams for it when he hears the bag or the salad spinner
We think maybe since he was so malnourished when DH found him that he lived on leaves/plants. Who knows! He loves chicken and milk also.

Joey loves peanut butter and red licorice.

Sophia loves chips or doritos, even hot flavors!

Severino loves chicken and Butter...well, they all love butter!
 
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