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Cats eating bananas???? (Original Post) packman Jan 2020 OP
I am of the opinion Cirque du So-What Jan 2020 #1
Cats using claws as forks - I've seen that trick, too. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2020 #3
Re citrus -- I had a cat who loved citrus flavored cakes and cookies. highplainsdem Jan 2020 #5
I had a cat named, Yogi, who loved pinto beans. Jamastiene Jan 2020 #8
One of mine would eat hot banana peppers.... lastlib Jan 2020 #11
Various cats of mine have been mad for corn on the cob, bread crusts, The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2020 #2
Were your corn on the cob cats also tuxedo cats? yellowdogintexas Jan 2020 #14
No, orange tabby. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2020 #15
Had a cat once who loved tomatoes, would steal slices of tomato out of salads if not watched. highplainsdem Jan 2020 #4
I had a tomato eating cat too. yellowdogintexas Jan 2020 #13
Odd to me The Genealogist Jan 2020 #6
Both of my cats do that too. Archae Jan 2020 #9
My boy cat, Niko, likes peanuts. Jamastiene Jan 2020 #7
I had a cat that would rub her face bamagal62 Jan 2020 #10
Loving this whole thread. JudyM Jan 2020 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar Jan 2020 #16

Cirque du So-What

(25,970 posts)
1. I am of the opinion
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 12:05 PM
Jan 2020

that there is no food that some cat, somewhere, won't eat.

I had a cat who went berserk for canned sweet peas, spearing them individually on a claw and lifting them to his mouth.

There is one exception, however: citrus fruits. It appears to be like kitty kryptonite.

highplainsdem

(49,029 posts)
5. Re citrus -- I had a cat who loved citrus flavored cakes and cookies.
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 12:27 PM
Jan 2020

She'd also eat the crust off fruit pies, including cranberry-apple.

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
8. I had a cat named, Yogi, who loved pinto beans.
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 12:29 PM
Jan 2020

He would do the thing with his paw, but not his claws. He rarely ever stuck his claw out for any reason. He still managed to pick up one bean at the time to eat them though.

lastlib

(23,274 posts)
11. One of mine would eat hot banana peppers....
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 01:06 PM
Jan 2020

She would go get a drink right afterwards, though!
She also ate sweet corn off the cob. When my mom would start to can corn, cutting it off the cob, this cat would show up at her feet, and look up at her while Mom was cutting. Mom would leave a little bit on the ear, and set it down for kitty, who went after it hammer and tongs! really funny to watch!

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,831 posts)
2. Various cats of mine have been mad for corn on the cob, bread crusts,
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 12:09 PM
Jan 2020

cantaloupe and green olives. Not bananas, though.

yellowdogintexas

(22,270 posts)
14. Were your corn on the cob cats also tuxedo cats?
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 11:26 PM
Jan 2020

I have had 3 tuxedo cats who all had a huge thing for corn on the cob. It was so funny.
One of them would steal the cobs and hide them behind furniture. We'd find them when we moved things around looking for lost remotes etc.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,831 posts)
15. No, orange tabby.
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 11:57 PM
Jan 2020

He also liked the husks, maybe even more than the corn itself. I'd be husking corn and he'd twine around my ankles begging for a husk, which he didn't really eat much of but mostly just chewed on. Same cat who'd tear open plastic bread bags in order to gnaw on the crusts.

Strange creatures they are. Another one liked to chew on the rim of a metal waste basket until his teeth clanked. I never understood that at all.

highplainsdem

(49,029 posts)
4. Had a cat once who loved tomatoes, would steal slices of tomato out of salads if not watched.
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 12:25 PM
Jan 2020

She also went through a bowl of ripening peaches once and bit into every single one.

Never thought to check if she'd like bananas.

yellowdogintexas

(22,270 posts)
13. I had a tomato eating cat too.
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 11:24 PM
Jan 2020

He went into the garden and bit chunks out of the tomatoes. We thought it was rabbits until we caught him at it.

One time I made him a Faux Bloody Mary : a goblet of tomato juice with a stalk of celery in it.

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
6. Odd to me
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 12:27 PM
Jan 2020

I let my cat smell a banana before I eat it, if she is around. She recoils in horror from it every time, and makes a disturbing face

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
7. My boy cat, Niko, likes peanuts.
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 12:28 PM
Jan 2020

The neighbor's cat also hangs out at my house and raids the bird feeder to eat peanuts and peanut pieces. There is also a silver/gray fox that likes dried fruit, bird seeds, and peanuts. I think every animal outside likes the peanuts I put out for the birds. Niko is an inside cat only, but his eye cross when he smells peanuts and he won't quit meowing and going crazy until he gets one too, lol.

I once had a cat, named Sid, who liked cantaloupe.

bamagal62

(3,269 posts)
10. I had a cat that would rub her face
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 01:00 PM
Jan 2020

And body all over our bunches of bananas.
She would almost attack them in a way that cats react to catnip. She never wanted to eat them though.

JudyM

(29,270 posts)
12. Loving this whole thread.
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 11:16 PM
Jan 2020


Love kitty personalities.
My cat would sit on my shoulder and eat the corn on the cob from one end while I ate from the other end. She liked to head butt my cheek while we were doing that ❤️
She loved cantaloupe too.
And she’d come over to face me and meow when I played guitar and sang.
Sweet girl.

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