Your Pet's Odd Tastes?

I just opened a can of refried black beans. Kitty went nuts meowing. I put a little on a finger and held it in front of her to no reaction.

Spooned some into a dish to use for a spread, put it on the coffee table. Went to the kitchen to grab some flatbread. When I came back she was attacking the bowl like it was tuna fish. And this, from a cat that has never, ever, gone after food - especially people food which rarely happens anyway - uninvited.

tomatoes, chili peppers, cherries... if it is red and has a seed, she will find a way to steal some. :shrug:

What's a half-runner?

We can't keep plastic bags out in the open at our house because the cats will chew them to pieces. They can smell it from several rooms away, too.

Nothing is grosser than a plastic bag with a hole chewed in it covered in cat saliva. :scared:

BTW, when one of our cats recently had an ultrasound for bladder stones, they found a huge wad of plastic is sitting in his stomach. All I could do was shake my head. I had no answers for that one.

She also has a cellophane jones.

There is really no way to keep all possible plastic things away from a determined cat.

the number of times I've come into the kitchen and seen them on the counter, trying to eat their way through a ziplock bag or two, and that innocent look in their eyes....

Here's a pic of evil and eviller, rasslin':

and to me finding plastic in the litter box, or puked on the floor is worse than the bags themselves

She can be in a coma at the other end of the house, and if I make the slightest noise getting a breakfast bar, there she is, rolling on the floor, singing and acting cute until I break down and give her some. Her favorite flavor is raspberry.

She will lay there for hours, moaning and groaning trying to get someones attention to come rub her belly.

the only dog food she would eat was basically pure cornmeal. Tres weird-but interesting nonetheless! :shrug:

The clean ones, right out of the drawer - she paws it open and picks a pair. Then she brings them to me in the living room, or at the computer. If I don't look, gets my attention so that I can see what she has brought me. Why does she do this?????

tree roaches, but my underwear? She didn't kill it, she pulled it out of a drawer! I'm not going to eat it, and I'm always clothed properly (I have children!), so I don't need them.

None of my 5 cats have ever spent a day outdoors in their lives since we rescued each of them, and yet they still do that. I've seen them stalk and kill socks, makeup brushes, shoes, etc. This whole thing is hardwired into their furry little brains.

It's soft, probably. It may carry, even through the wash, some of your most personal scent. Or if there's a particular textile?

Mine likes the socks. And anything wool. Major wool fetish. She once got into the bedroom closet and dragged an old, heavy, army blanket out to the living room. The closet stays closed now, at all times.

She's not picky, but leans towards thongs of all fabrics.

Maybe she just likes the way they swing.

...that loved to eat cantaloupe! I don't think it gets much weirder than that.

Well, except for my mom's Persian, who, much like no name's cats, loves to eat plastic.

any kind of melon, she was into it. Tomatoes, too, like the #2 post.

I recently discovered Oscar enjoys chocolate donuts.

Rowan has always loved french fries and peas.

:shrug:

asparagus, and a couple of them will knock you down for a carrot.

I am switching to a fruit and vegetable diet and they are into it too.!

loves my husband's dirty socks that he has been wearing all day. This weird creature will take them and rub his face all over them and chew on them and drag them around the house for days if we let him. He also loves leather shoes that have been worn.

He has many kinds of dog treats, that he gets to eat when we go on a walk. If I offer something other than a marrow bone first, he will refuse it. A Beggin strip must be second. After those two come the generic milkbones, scooby treats, or snaps. You'd think he was a wine taster, for goodness sake.

Anal ones, those.

but he likes to be hand fed by a woman in a scenic location, in at least 2 or 3 courses...

Like owner, like pet?

I know some men who would like this treatment though!

Whenever we had it, she'd be up begging for it in seconds. The crunching noise she made was hilarious!!!

of seeing a kitty hurt itself if a kernal got caught in their throat.

...just to make sure she didn't get any of the old maids. She was a great cat that we "adopted" at 10 years old, from a house where a dog got all the affection. We had her for a few years, until she got killed by a neighbor's dog ;(. We loved her like a child and hopefully made her last years on earth pleasant ones.

Fannie cat: cookie crumbs, the milk at the bottom of the cereal bowl, spaghetti sauce. But only as sort of a taste, she doesn't want more than a sample.

Jen cat: anything meat related, but most especially the Sourdough Jack, and she begs and cries and begs and cries and would eat NOTHING but people food if I let her. (I don't.)

My two kitties eat nothing but plain yogurt, dry cat food and fresh grass (lawn grass that I grow for them in a pot).

They refuse eggs and any kind of meat or fish, including cooked chicken and fish, even salmon. They won't eat any kind of canned or moist cat food.

I have had many feline friends over the years and have never before seen one refuse a piece of cooked chicken or fish. But both of mine - female littermates - are peculiar that way.

she likes to smell my feet.

Maybe I have cause and effect reversed.

well... he is chinese...

mmmm... mackeral... :9

Trying to kill the smell? They hate feet? :shrug:

I couldn't leave any fruit or vegetables out, or they'd have teeth marks and cat saliva all over them when I got up in the morning, or home from work. I used to sit on the floor and peel potatoes over newspaper so he could eat the peels. Sometimes I'd buy bananas and !accidently! leave them on the counter at night. Those were his favorites. I miss that cat every day. Gone 2 years.

Except tuna. I think he likes tuna because of the can being similar to a cat food can.

Our dog likes everything we like. He also likes cat food, wet or dry. He HATES dry dog food.

keep him away while we're carving the jack o'lanterns. If we let him out he'll nibble on the cut edges! Other than that, he eats only one variety of one brand of dry cat food. Odd.

is what our vet recommends when we have a constipated cat. They love it and it's almost pure fiber.

around the end of October...

She chews on them like a rawhide chew. Unfortunately, this means that I get to clean up all the little crumbies that get strung all over the place!. She also likes freshly popped popcorn--I think it's the smell more than anything, because she only eats a few and then she's done.

I had a cat once who loved to eat Christmas tree icicles. You'd try your damnedest to keep her away from the stuff, but sooner or later she'd be walking around the house with an icicle hanging out of her butt--a really pleasant view, let me tell you! We always had to keep socks away from her, too, because she'd carry them around the house and mew like she was talking to a kitten. It was sweet but also kinda sad.

green peppers, grilled or raw
red peppers, grilled or raw
carrots, raw
lettuce rind, iceburg or romaine
green beans, cooked
peas, cooked
snow peas, raw
tomatoes, raw
onions, grilled


and she loves fruit:
apples
oranges
raisins
grapes
limes (!)

The ingestion of onions can cause Heinz body anemia in dogs and cats. This is a condition that is 100% fatal. There is no cure and no treatment.

http://mmpinschersminiature.homestead.com/files/WARNING_Onions2.htm

but one, on occasion will not kill her. One onion slice, not whole onion, btw.

thanks for the link, I had heard of this before, from my vet. Same as chocolate, moderation and limitations are key.

the only other people food Lucy likes is Peeps.

I wonder where she got a taste for that?

Butter is not so odd but mine loves butter, prefers her own stick, no salt preferably organic.

it was weird.

We must have posted the same time! :toast:

Don't ask why. All I know is when I'm cleaning my ears with the q-tip, she wants to eat the wax. :wtf:

She'll take a DIRTY sock from the basement and come up crying with it in her mouth. I'll have anywhere from 5-10 socks (depending on my laundry load) in my dining room every morning.

How odd that my cat's oddities are between 2 other DU'ers felines' oddities..

it's so funny, when he sees you put them on your hands in the winter, he just love to jump up and smell them...

one of them also likes dill pickles. All of them like all kinds of veggies...have to have carrots with their meals...and fruit. Including whole apples. Right now they're loving the ends and pieces of fresh local vine ripened tomatoes. We have to watch them and not turn our backs if there's one on the counter or it won't be there when we look again.

The oddest taste I would guess, though, is Dot's love of nylon kitchen utensils. We don't have one without tooth marks in it.

and onions and lima beans.

Basically, if a human is eating it, it MUST be good enough for Her Highness.

fish food flakes and Semolina's garlic butter.

He was a barely weaned feral kitten rescue and that brought on his chewing/fabric eating habit; any clothing item that I have worn he will eat including shoelaces. Needless to say, my clothes are always picked up and the closet door closed. There is no worse feeling than running late only to find that the cat ate the laces down to the nubs in two minutes.

All my pets taste odd to me though.

One cat goes goofy over raw bread dough, takes after her daddy. Two of them lick the blue icy gel right off you if you let them. One cat is nuts over crackers, any kind, especially ranch flavored ones. We had a Sheltie, long gone now, who would go out in the garden and help herself to raspberries and cherry tomatoes right off the plants. She was also very fond of mandarin oranges. Childhood cat would eat black olives, Vapo-Rub, and any kind of pizza.

She would eat them off the VERY large patch I had as far up as she could reach.

Doberman who would eat NOTHING but dry dogfood and popcorn.

Both dogs would eat their particular favourite by pursing their lips, snaking out their tongus and hoovering in their treat ona at a time.

...as well as any kind of tomato sauce.
The dog is into fruits. Grapes are his fave, but he really loves the green "hats" off of strawberries.

the hard kind, not the ones that melt in your mouth.

My tiel loved Ichiban noodles - chicken flavour only (!), and would make a racket until I gave him some, if he saw me eating them.

I had gerbils as a kid, and one used to love fried eggs, pizza and steak.

Quaker Instant Apples and Cinnamon was her favorite.