Originally posted by KLEO:
I've read most of the stories about odd kitty cuisine including ice, broccoli, cucumbers, chips, ice cream, milk from the spoon, Wheaties, Jello, etc....

But what about rubber bands, cellophane wrapping, Q-tips and cotton balls?
Once this past Christmas I caught her with an icicle (tinsel) disappearing into her mouth, and no, I didn't get there in time, but apparently no harm done!

Luckily this isn't a steady habit, but it is quite disconcerting when it happens. I mean is she a cat or a goat? Or is she a cat pretending to be a goat, or what?

She loves to lick her feather-toys and I often wonder if--God love her--she's remembering past kittens of hers (We found each other at a shelter when she was about one year old, she's now 2 1/2). She also licks the cotton balls--as if there aren't enough problems with hairballs and such!

She's very finicky otherwise: she doesn't like cheese, haddock, certain types of her brand catfood, and I could go on.

It's not very worrisome at this stage, but I was wondering just how unusual it is????

Kleo ~

Texture... It may be all about texture.

I got one of those 3-D jigsaw puzzles of a castle one Christmas. There was a prominent cautionary note included for those proud owners of cats. It warned that cats are drawn to the puzzle pieces because of their texture and were apt to eat them!

I did my best to lock up the puzzle in a room while I put it together. But... wouldn't you know it! Cats will be cats. At the first opportunity they were both stealing pieces away and trying to gobble them.

One piece was ruined but not destroyed. So now that the puzzle sits majestically completed -- one tower has "catapult damage".

There are some things cats can't resist. And a Christmas tree full of dangley "kitty toys" is high on the list!