Would someone please tell the cat with the freakish sweet tooth that

she does NOT like oranges?

I'm trying to get some work done from home today - all those loud meowing interruptions during my snacks...! :rofl:

My wife tried that with her dog (Sheltie) when she was just a puppy - pizza with habanero sauce. The dog figured, "Mama likes it, so I might!" and now she actively seeks out snacks with hot sauce on them. Fortunately the border collie does NOT like hot sauce of any kind so a few sprinkles of the cheap shit people use for "hot wings" (hot sauce for wimps) will keep her out of the trash.

I'm on a slippery slope here. :P

She screams at her toys too. Maybe she thinks I am one.

Just a PSA.

I'm screwn, to be sure. :P She takes small bites out of my breakfast bars.

Cat owner = been there.

I had one who opened a kitchen cabinet and climbed to the top shelf to get at a pecan pie that was covered in plastic wrap.

I was so amazed that he got what he was after, I couldn't be mad at him when I saw him munching away.

Now, a cat liking anything citrus...THAT'S freakish.

genetically incapable of tasting "sweet". They lost those taste buds sometime in the course of their evolution.

Housecats, tigers, lions, any and all cats.

To be fair, Evie scrunched her nose and declined the slice. :rofl:

If I tried that with the hordes, well... :scared:

are homemade whipped cream with vanilla, chocolate chip cookie breath/dough/crumbs, and mint-flavored toothpaste. And he's a BEAST about it if any of these are within the range of his very keen nose. :yoiks:

But we have to be careful about indulging his sweet tooth. Ginger has dental problems since he was a kitten and has to undergo general anesthesia for ultrasound teeth cleaning every year to 18 months. (He also has had kidney problems, and teeth problems can exacerbate kidney problems.) Getting him into a cat taxi for a visit to the kitty dentist is such a drama/trauma (for him AND me), and general anesthesia is such a worry that we really don't want to accelerate the cleaning/anesthesia schedule, now that he's almost 12 years old.

I try to give her as little people food as possible, but if I refuse to share, she piddles on the bed, willful little thing...

She and her brothers will be 10 on April 6. Socrates likes strawberry yogurt. Plato once ate the whipped cream off a Starbucks raspberry mocha frappucino - and I found out when he gave me a raspberry-scented kitty nose kiss 5 minutes later. :rofl:

:hi: