What weird things do your fur-friends enjoy eating?

Other than the obvious weird stuff dogs find in litter boxes.

Cider loves canned mushrooms. If we open a can he's on the counter next to the colander waiting to try and snatch one. If we take the mushrooms away before he can get one he will lick the colander.

They had an effect on her like some super catnip. After eating one she would start to do goofy things like trying to stand on her head.

my cat goes nuts and rubs her face in the olives and rolls around on them, wonder what is in the olives that drives them nuts?

Those and angel food cake. All I had to do was yell, "Cake!" and she would come running from wherever she was in the house. :rofl:

He used to lick powdered sugar donuts until they were bare. Didn't eat the donut, just the sugar!

Tucker

perhaps. Certain flavors of cookie. Vanilla ice cream. Saltine (no salt) crackers.
I think he just likes to participate. Not so much that he wants to eat it, but just feel like he is part of the bread breaking.
dc

And, not necessarily their own, either. I know several people who have discovered this on accident, after having their cats chew up the ends of used Q-tips.

My dearly departed B.B. loved baked goods. "B.B." is short for "Biscuit Breath", as she ripped into a ziplock back of biscuits a few days after I got her. She did the same on other occasions with other bread products. I couldn't leave pans of muffins to cool on the counter top without her taking bites out of all of them. When I would buy the pre-Lent pazcki jelly donuts, she would insist that I share with her, but she didn't want the filling unless I got them custard-filled. B.B. also loved Italian food. Had I known that, I would have named her "Garfielda", as lasagne was her favorite.

Of my remaining two cats, one loves beans, winter squash and pumpkin. I have considered changing his name to "Squanto." He's also fond of Italian food and raisins, not that he gets the latter. Not good to feed raisins to dogs or cats. The other goes nuts over cantaloupe and honeydew melons.

Both of mine love to play with dirty Q-Tips. I'll hear them rustling around in the bathroom trash in the middle of the night looking for a snack.

Mmmmm, earwax:puke:

He loved hot peppers-especially habaneros, his favorite snack was pickled herring in sour cream sauce and he loved fish and crab-he didn't like shrimp though.

She likes to "graze" in the garden when the tomatoes are ripe.

I had a cat who would get violent if you opened a can and did not give him one.

I had another cat who would eat corn on the cob.Not canned corn,only when it was still on the cob.

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OP asked, I answered.

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the second thing you have listed there....:eyes:

I always assume the roll-eyes is annoyed.

I remember our pug running through the living room, as fast as a greased piglet, with my aunt's used sanitary napkin as a treasure.

We watched our cat once what was looking like he was licking the grass. On closer inspection, he discovered an ants nest and was eating them. But the other cats did it, too.

It has become impossible for me to eat a ham sandwich without massive feline interference.

Vader's really into her kibble and will chase all of the other cats away while she eats.

I think she smells the oil on them and like that.

:shrug: There's no accounting for taste.

She loves all fruit, but give the girl a peach or a plum and she's in heaven. Oranges, too. She wrinkles her nose when she eats them.

have you ever had a rabbit named 'Kitty'?

She's grey with white paws, has longish ears and no tail...or at least a little puffy bunny tail. And she's a total stitch.

It worries me because I'm not sure which of the ones that grow around here might be toxic to dogs.

:bounce: :)

I got them (the cats) in China where you can buy half a roast duck at the market for like $2.50. I used to pick up some duck on the way home from work all the time and let the cats eat the leftovers and then chase the chopsticks around on the floor.

They also both *love* licking plastic shopping bags. I have no idea where it comes from but they could do it all day. Maybe it's the texture? I got a huge box of Ramen noodles from Costco and one of that cats likes nothing more than to stomp on the bags breaking up all the noodles.

actually just the two boy cats. None of my girl cats lick plastic.

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No clue why she does it.

dg

sauce, I give her one of the cooked meatballs. I learned to make them from my Italian grandma, and put raisins in the meatballs. The dog spits the meatballs on to her plate and picks out the raisins, won't eat them. It is the funniest thing. The first time I saw it I thought it was a fluke but she has done it many times. Fussy pooch.

daughter does. I never mentioned the raisin episodes to her but I certainly will now. I have forwarded the link to her. I can't imagine what may have happened if the dog had eaten them. Yes, she is is a smart pooch but it certainly was careless on my part.

I made copies for both of my vets, since the vet who was treating my 17-year-old cocker thought they were good for him! Yikes! Barney loved raisin bagels. I feel like I dodged a bullet, so pass this info on every chance I get... :scared:

Rhiannon :hi:

and it killed her. She was a big dog too.

any insect, after playing with it.
dc

As I said, most people aren't aware of this, as they are about chocolate, onions... It needs to be brought to people's attention, and better publicized. I had to make a copy of the article about it for my vet... :crazy:

pot pie and give him left-overs, if a pea inadvertently got in his dish he would spit it out across the room at us. Funny as all get out!!!!

edit to add..he LOVED bananas and strawberries,he could smell them when he was outside and come bouncing against the door to get in for some.

When I was a kid, my grandmother suggested giving baby food to my dog when she wouldn't eat. It was chicken or liver with vegetables and the dog would leave all the peas in a pile at the bottom of the bowl... I thought she must be just like me because I hate peas, too... :puke: ;)

She did, however, love bananas... :-)

Vito is a junk food junkie. Chips, cookies, donuts, ice cream, caramel. (I only allow a smidgen and not often.) I happen to like Peeps, but only after they've sat out in the open for a day or so to "ripen." I woke up one morning when Vito was a kitten and had a naked Peep in the package. He also licks the grit off emery boards. I think it reminds him of his mama's tongue. I've found a few naked ones he's stolen. Did I say he's a incorrigible thief?

The lovely and talented Pippy Cat loves to stalk, kill, and nom musca domestica.

Brianna tends to stick to any and all dairy products: feta cheese, whipped cream, you name it.

This is our furry friend. His name is Stinky, on account of his breath which was God awful before we took him to a vet to get a rotten fang extracted. (This is an adopted stray, long story, etc.)

He is an old man, and cannot eat too much, or too fast, because he pukes his guts out...



And this is a nightly visitor, an opposum who enjoys a hot meal some nights, when Stinky tosses his cookies...



Hey, a hot lunch is a hot lunch!

He looks all beat up. Bless you for adopting him.

The possum's name is Simon. :)

Stinky used to be our neighbor's cat. His name used to be Remington (our neighbor is a cop).

He was not well treated; harassed by bratty kids. So he spent most of his time in our yard, competing with other neighborhood cats for that territory. You can see how chewed up his ears are...

Stinky would only go home when he had no choice; when the weather was too cold to live outside.

It took a long time for him to feel comfortable enough to step into our house; first he would only go as far as the kitchen door, then he ventured into the kitchen itself, and after several months he finally got enough courage to explore the rest of the house. To this day, however, he is still scared by heavy footsteps; particularly men's.

One fine day our neighbor decided to get a large dog, and there was no longer room for Stinky at his old place. The neighbor was about to take Stinky to the animal shelter, so we asked to keep him instead.

That was almost three years ago.

...as if to say "get that thing away from me". I hadn't been eating much fruit at the time.

I think she must have been a mafioso in her past life and had to come back as a cat.

apples.
And butter. He licks a quarter pound of butter like an icecream cone.

mark

I would be cleaning my Mother's house and whenever I used bleach this cat went nuts for it. I always had to put him away when I broke out the bleach because I was so afraid he would poison himself.

I had to close the door to use comet in the bathroom. He would jump in the sink and
roll around in it if I didn't.

:-)

We would have to put the hamper in a secure spot above where he could get to it or her would destroy the thing trying to find them.

She's a piece of shit, so that might explain it.

open a package of it once and tried to eat them, I took it away when I saw her try to eat it.

I thought he only liked the liquid stuff, so I once bought the tablet form. Before I could even take it out of the packaging, he ripped through the shrink wrap, chewed open the container and ate half of the tablets. Unfortunately for him, my digestive tract has adapted to a diet high in legumes (which he also loves, BTW), so I no longer need the stuff. No more Beano treats for him.

That shit is gross.

Mine likes Tetra Min flakes, which is also kind of gross. Not as gross as fast food, however. He eats it right from the can. Also likes Repto Min. Must be the fish in it...

She loathes me but if I have PB toast, chocolate, a bowl of cereal or a bowl of ice cream, she is in my lap waiting for me to finish.

Wrigley loves bananas
Ricky - milk
Lucy - cat treats (not much on people food except chicken - Costco rotisserie chicken, please)

Dogs - anything, especially chicken jerky. Their real treat is Frosty Paws or a homemade version of it.

Frosty Paws Dog Ice Cream

32 oz vanilla yogurt
1 mashed banana or one large jar of banana baby food
2 T. peanut butter
2 T honey

Blend all together and freeze in paper cups. Peel away the cups & place in your pets dish to serve. These can also be made in a non-salt automatic ice cream maker and served like regular ice cream in a dish.

DO NOT freeze in ice cube trays as your dog is likely to eat them so fast he’ll choke!

http://www.blisstree.com/articles/make-your-own-frosty-paws-ice-cream-369/

We have black widows around here, and one night Huck was very sick. He may have eaten one. He was inexplicably ill and I took him to the emergency clinic. Whatever he et, however, he got over.

And chew off bits and pieces of it. Makes for some interesting cat-box cleaning....

exception of the big outdoor cockroaches that occasionally crawl inside. My dogs will not touch those.

And it isn't the butter. I don't put butter on the veggies.

We would always give him a little whenever we had it. :)

I hope this doesn't get deleted, it's so sickening but here goes.

My JRT Piglet had that name for a reason. She would eat anything and I mean anything. She managed to survive after eating a whole bag of mini reece's peanut butter cups as a puppy. She regularly got into the garbage can and pulled everything out onto the floor. She ate mice, voles, rats, and she and another JRT actually killed a poor raccoon.

But this story takes the cake.

We never let her off leash when on walks because of her fierce hunting instincts. We had some other behavior problems with her so we took her to a trainer. The trainer said we should let her off leash if we were in a large open space and that Piglet needed to run and get more exercise. So we took her to a very large park near our house (we're talking miles long park)and started letting her off leash. She had a ball running around and sniffing every blade of grass and rolling in hedgehog shit.

One particular time, we lost sight of her. She had run into a thicket of trees. When we found her we could see that she was eating something. We called for her and after a few seconds she came running towards us with something white hanging out of her mouth. I thought she had killed and eaten a rabbit cause it looked like fur hanging out of her mouth from afar. The closer she got I could see that it was not fur hanging from her mouth but toilet paper. Her muzzle was covered in brown stuff. I started screaming, gagging and running away from her while my husband tried to get a hold of her to clean off her face.

Apparently, this particular thicket of trees is where the kids from the skate park, who are too lazy to go find a proper bathroom, like to take shits.

That was the smelliest ride home, and I was gagging the whole way. When we got into the house I ran into the bathroom to wash my face and hands, hoping my husband would get Piglet cleaned up. I opened the door to the most disgusting smell and scene I've ever witnessed. Piglet had vomited up the shit on our nice Persian rug and was eating it again!

I ran back into the bathroom and started screaming and vomiting. My husband was laughing hysterically.

We had to get rid of the rug and Piglet's days off leash were over.

Agatha is a poop eating machine. Not just her own poop, oh no. Any poop. Dog poop. Cat poop. Deer poop. Rabbit poop. Guinea pig poop. Turkey poop is an awesome not to be missed treat. Canadian goose poop is a sweet snack she's partaken of a few times. She found raccoon poop once, that was a total score. Horse poop from a parade made her day. Cow poop was fairly rockin, too. She's a nasty girl.

And paper towels. She just cannot resist a paper towel. Toilet paper doesn't interest her, but a plain clean square of paper towel is irresistible.

She's an odd bird, that dog.

Including plastic bags and plastic plants.

I had a cat who loved this stuff so much, she would knock over the trash can to get at it. I once tried to take it away from her & she growled like I've never heard a cat growl before. :scared:

This was a very well-fed cat too, so I don't know why she went nuts for cantelope rind.

dg

He'd scratch your eyes out to get some. He also likes raw carrots. Fucking weirdo.

"It's paw-lickin' good!"

Then there was my friend's Winston. Winston had a thing for turkey (not that unusual) and... broccoli.

No snickering, please. Winnie weighed well over 30 lbs.

edit: spelling

He loves chewing/sucking on the plastic of trash bags, especially vanilla-scented ones.

I recently got a kitten and was having some trouble with the older cat and kitten playing nice, a friend of mine told me to put vanilla extract on the backs of their necks, something in the smell is comforting, could be part of your problem.

:-)

Try as we might, we just cannot break our dog of the habit.

I used to have dog that would find poop in the yard and eat it. I would yell at him every time but he couldnt get enough poop.

She also likes to eat corn on the cob.

loved grapes. Now the experts say grapes aren't a good thing for dogs. However, this was before that advice was out there. We would toss her a grape, and she would roll it around in her mouth, whenever she finally popped one she'd have a startled, but pleased look on her face. The grapes didn't kill her...she degenerative spine disease.