Have you ever tasted your cat's food?

No I've never tasted cat food but my son tried a couple of pieces of dry food once a few years ago.  I'm not sure what the brand was but I do remember he said it wasn't too bad and had kind of  a salty taste.

Not me personally.  But after I mentioned Soulistic to my Vet, she purchased some of the chicken (Good Karma I think).  She and the staff chowed down on a pouch.  She said it tasted pretty good.  I'll take her word for it.

Ha, ha, This is amusing! Not so funny when your cat tastes your food though, running off with part of your dinner! My cat jumped in the fridge and started chewing on my lamb cutlets the other day.

kitty chew said:

Ha, ha, This is amusing! Not so funny when your cat tastes your food though, running off with part of your dinner! My cat jumped in the fridge and started chewing on my lamb cutlets the other day.

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Funny!  That reminds me of when a client of mine gave me a home cooked Boston Butt for Christmas.  When I got it out of the fridge and started cutting on it, Nat appeared out of nowhere with this "oooooh WHAT is THAT!???" look on his face.  He wanted it sooo bad!  LOL!  It was only Nat, the other kitties couldn't have cared less.  

I still don't have the nerve to try their food, but they sometimes like to see what I'm eating in hopes of getting a little taste!

Our dog pulled a major heist when I was about 12.  The Thanksgiving pork roast was put on the table, we were called to eat and as we were entering the dining room, there was Duchess, our German Shepherd with her front paws on the table and the entire pork roast in her mouth!  There was a porch about ten feet from there with the door open (it was a nice day.)  She was gone in a flash.  What could we do but laugh?  There was enough food to feed everyone, even without the pork roast.  And Duchess had a rare treat.

Winchester said:

Yes. :anon:  Sorry for grossing you all out. :anon:  But it is what it is. 

I won't give the furkids anything I've not tasted and that includes liquid meds. It's what I've always done. And I know for a fact that Theophylline tastes rather like unsweetened maple syrup.

And cat food tastes as bad as it smells! :nod:  

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Same here, Pam. Both food and meds get a taste test. I'm always getting teased about the latter at the shelter, but it really does help to know what the stuff tastes like when I'm trying to decide what to hide meds in.

jcat said:

Same here, Pam. Both food and meds get a taste test. I'm always getting teased about the latter at the shelter, but it really does help to know what the stuff tastes like when I'm trying to decide what to hide meds in.

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I agree. And it's just that I can't give a med to a cat and say, "Oh, it's fine!" if it really does taste horrible. The Composure is horrid stuff and I won't lie to them, although Rick says they don't know. But I always say, "I know! It's bad stuff!" when we give them their doses.

I have yes.  The dry food isn't bad. Can't say the same about the wet stuff though.

Also, some years ago we had a dog and I used to eat his milk bones!  LOL  Actually my brother and his wife also liked his milk bones!  LOL

I took some really great video of my kid tasting the cat food not too long ago, I wish I could figure out how to post them lol. She'd been asking me for weeks what it tastes like and if she could taste it and once I caught her trying to sneak a cat treat. She's 9 years old. My initial reaction was "NO GROSS WHY" but after awhile I was like "What's the worst that could happen?"

Before I started the video I told her to grab a few pieces of dry food and she said "WAIT lemme see what kind it is." And as she read of the ingredients everything seemed to be to her liking until she got to "Shrimp?!" I thought she'd call the whole thing off but she totally just ate it, one camera, and it went exactly how you'd expect. Awesome disgust faces and spitting it out. I did an after interview video and asked her how it tastes and she said "like shrimp and raw chicken" which I'm pretty sure she's never tasted either haha.

Anyway, she doesn't ask to eat the cat food anymore.

Oh, I'm dying here! 

Tonight I fed something that wasn't too well received. Schrodie the Tonk is a total critic and quite clear about it when he dislikes the fare. He will sniff, give a crinkle, then scrape by the plate like he's trying to cover it up. If there is something lying around, like a sock... he will often drag the sock over the plate! He's grabbed my underwear, socks, a T shirt... once, he apparently hated the meal SO much that he covered it with THREE socks-- and a wire shirt hanger. I have NO idea where that came from! I was in stitches when I saw that! 

A coworker of my husband told the story of how his cat disliked a meal and covered the plate-- with his wife's bra that the cat apparently dragged out of the laundry room specifically for the purpose. That was bad enough. But it happened when they had dinner guests-- right in front of everyone! Cat trots through the dining room with a bra in its jaws, then drops it on the plate of food... in  front of a live studio audience. Priceless! 

I just tasted some of the Hill's Age Defying dry-- bland. Gritty. Needs salsa. Salsa redeems everything.

MackieMac said:

 
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A coworker of my husband told the story of how his cat disliked a meal and covered the plate-- with his wife's bra that the cat apparently dragged out of the laundry room specifically for the purpose. That was bad enough. But it happened when they had dinner guests-- right in front of everyone! Cat trots through the dining room with a bra in its jaws, then drops it on the plate of food... in  front of a live studio audience. Priceless! 

I just tasted some of the Hill's Age Defying dry-- bland. Gritty. Needs salsa. Salsa redeems everything.

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OMG.  That story is priceless.

Ewwwww. Ewwwww. Ewwwww. No way! Yuck Yuck yuck.

What a character!