Most cats think flowers are food. We had a cat when I was a kid that loved to munch on Carnation buds. My sister couldn't understand why her flowers never bloomed and the buds were always mis-shapen then she saw our cat chomping on them. She rarely took the petals off the roses but spent her mornings going from flower to flower sniffing each one. We jokingly called her Ferdinand after the bull who loved to smell all the flowers (todos las flores)