Strange foods your cats like

[LinZ]

Yeah another nonsense topic from me...fun, yes?

Anyway, please share with us any strange things, food or not, your cat or cats like to eat.

My cats' favorites go like this:

Mollie - Doritos, particularly ranch flavored, tortilla chips (only with melted cheese), pumpkin pie, powdered donuts, cookies, croutons, vanilla ice cream, raspberry-scented lotion.

Caspurr - Pringles, Resee's Puff cereal, cookies.

Rolly - my mom's house plants, my hair when it's wet.

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My cats usually annoy me when they see me with any kind of food, so I let them try some and most of the time they eat and enjoy it. As you can tell, Mollie has a thing for junk food.

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LinZ - knows Mollie has a sweet tooth

[jason]

sounds like alot of things that are bad for them. mine get cat food and occational cat treats.

[Traci]

LinZ, ...Jason is right, many of those things you listed are harmful for cats. Many contain high fat content, some contain spices your cats shouldn't eat, and as for the reeses cereal puffs, if they are chocolate, chocolate is toxic to pets. Handlotions should be used minimally around cats because you can't gaurantee their safety...essential oils are commonly added to lotions, and if kitty licks it often enough, there may be a risk of slight toxicity. Don't take those risks.

If you want to feed your cats treats, do it health-conscientiously....choose cat treats in the pet food section at your local grocery store, or feed them minimal amounts of fresh vegetables, such as carrots, green beans, cauliflower. Use caution when feeding human foods to pets, pets can't tolerate many of them, and never forget what you feel is good for you is probably not good for your pets. Human foods like junk food shouldn't be given at all.

[Cleo]

I can't help but wonder if your "location of the inside of a hairball treatment tube" is due to their junk food habits.

I would be especially careful of your mom's house plants. As I know it, certain plants can be harmful and fatal to cats.

I agree with Traci about the essential oils added to most lotions. I was just reading the external link from the Toxicities page here and am now better educated on some of these dangers. For the obvious reasons with cats in the house, I no longer light candles. On occasion I used to burn incense but don't do it anymore.

I used to have a problem eating a bowl of cereal without my Keeks jumping onto my shoulder and sticking her nose in for a lick of milk ... I no longer eat cereal for this reason. Even though the milk was Lactaid I still couldn't say no. Come to think of it, I no longer eat allot of things including junk food, chips, etc. because they forget they are felines and I'm a sucker for a meow. The only thing I do give into letting them have sometimes is the water from a can of tuna if I'm preparing it for myself. Maybe a few morsels of tuna as well, it's packed in water, but then that's it.

[LinZ]

Dont' worry - they don't eat this kind of stuff all the time...we hardly even have junk food around here very much - I have just accumulated this list over the years of what they seem to have liked in the past. And when it comes to some of the things like donuts, cookies, pie, and a couple of others...well...Mollie got into the boxes/containers on his own and let his taste buds do the enjoying. If he has a hankering for sugar and I don't let him have it, he'll get it on his own, even if it means eating a hole in a cereal box and chewing through the plastic to munch on whatever's inside.

And I do try to keep Rolly away from the plants, but he has a tendancy of actually sitting in the pot (the plant is on a stand raised up off the floor) and chewing the leaves. He seems to like chewing the leaves of our hibiscus plant for some reason.

But I'm never really apprehensive of allowing my kitties to try any kind of food...if I don't let them have a sniff of what I might be eating then they refuse to leave me alone, even if I give them catfood O.o

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But, oookay...people didn't quite take this topic as lightly as I'd hoped but oh well.

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LinZ - forgot what she was going to say

[Cleo]

And I do try to keep Rolly away from the plants, but he has a tendancy of actually sitting in the pot (the plant is on a stand raised up off the floor) and chewing the leaves. He seems to like chewing the leaves of our hibiscus plant for some reason.

Have you tried growing the cat grass that's on the market? Cats, like most animals, have a natural tendancy to want or need to chew grass. This stuff works pretty well, it's clean grass and hey, it's poop-free!

Cat Grass

[Victoria]

We got a pizza last week with ham, pineapple & salami. Sometimes I let my cat eat "human food" (not too much!!) so I gave her a little bit of pizza but she went CRAZY for the pineapple & ate loads!!! Does anyone else have a cat who eats pineapple or other fruit? I was wondering if she was pregnant again but I don´t suppose cats have cravings in the same way as pregnant women! She loves pineapple but hates prawns!! Weird cat!

[LolitaContrer]

I did have a question about raw fish. not like the kind just out of the lake, but the stuff you get for sushi. In small amounts and limited situations is it ok to feed it to them. And what about canned tuna with no salt added in spring water. I've been known to feed this to them when I run out of catfood. Oh and eggs. But on the topic, my cats are usually pretty good b/c we've never fed them off our plates, and human food, (see above) we give them is prepared in their kitty bowls, and when we eat we usually put the in "quarantine" till we're done. They do like Pizza crust though. And they can distroy a roll of TP or papertowels in the blink of an eye. Confetti all over the kitchen! It's probably really bad I know.

[Traci]

Never assume raw fish is not a risk for contamination.

Too frequent feeding of fish to cats can cause several problems, mainly pansteatitis, aka yellow fat disease. Other problems cause vitamin and mineral deficiencies, such as vit E deficiency, thiamine deficiency, vit K deficiency. Tuna, mackeral, oily fish etc are high in fat and magnesium, unsaturated fatty acids and can lead to pansteatitis.

Tuna in spring water can be fed minimally, as treats, but please only do so in moderation.

As for other foods, especially people foods and table scraps, please refer again to above posts and links.

[guitarsjb]

Not to irritate anyone about the human food issue...but
Patches LOVES hot and spicy pork rinds. She will beat you up over them if you don't give her a couple out of the bag.
She also likes lima beans an pork and beans and buffalo wings (hot).
The other 2 cats Trouble and Fred eat mostly cat food and treats...