My husband is corrupting the cat!

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So it started one day when he was eating Doritos and the cat reached over and snatched it out of his hand.

So then he started occasionally offering her Doritos.

Then he offered a Lays plain potato chip.

Tonight it was an animal cracker.  Animal cracker?????

And the mind-boggling part is the cat loves all that.  She even liked the little bit of animal cracker she nibbled on, even though it's sweet.
 

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So it started one day when he was eating Doritos and the cat reached over and snatched it out of his hand.

So then he started occasionally offering her Doritos.

Then he offered a Lays plain potato chip.

Tonight it was an animal cracker.  Animal cracker?????

And the mind-boggling part is the cat loves all that.  She even liked the little bit of animal cracker she nibbled on, even though it's sweet.
Despite the fact that cats have no receptors for sweetness on their taste buds (more precisely, one of the two gene pairs which serves to produce the protein which builds the active receptor for sweetness - “Tas1r2" is an allelomorph in felines) some cats seem to like sweets.  My first cat - a Siamese named "Busy" - was plied with vanilla ice cream with a few drops of chocolate sauce (it was the 1950s - nothing was known about cats' susceptibility to theobromine) by my Mother, and to everyone's surprise she demanded a sundae every night thereafter.  Today, of course, we know enough to keep cats well shy of chocolate because of their disability in metabolising theobromine, and decades later - long after Busy's passing, when my Parents learned of the dangers, Dad often chided Mother, claiming that she'd doubtless shortened her Life.  Despite that nightly Sunday, she lived a few days over 22 years, ever in perfect health.

As to, "Animal cracker?????" - why of course; after all - how many cats do your know who are vegans?



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I think you're well on your way to having a spoiled kitty!

Well, if she lived 22 years, I don't think the sundays caused her much harm.  Haha
 

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I've got one who wants nothing to do with people food other than maybe some ham or chicken scraps now and then, but my Krissy always had that way about her, from a tiny kitten who needed to smell anything I ate, then over the years would sometimes want to taste it too. This included licking a chip, loved canned whipped cream, and so on.

Once it starts, it's on..........
 

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I find that offering a small bit of "people food" gets my cat off my back if he's hassling me about food. In other words, if I give him a very small sample then he knows he doesn't like it and he stops bothering me. That's the theory, anyway. It mostly works.
 
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