cats eat the dangdest things!

[Tinkerbelle]

Tinkerbelle likes eating turkey, and tuna. she pretends to like cheese, and then doesn't bother to eat it. she licks the top of hair spritz bottles until i take them away from her, which can be very dangerous, but gets sick after, so i feel better about it. She LOOOOVVES to chew paper.

[Martin]

My cats; Red and Black, don't like fish but love chocolate, cheese and any kind of cake! I'm going to try them on chewing gum tomorrow!

[Troy]

Martin, you may want to check out this older topic entitled:

"No chocolate for cats" http://PetoftheDay.com/talk/Forum13/HTML/000052.html

[Martin]

Troy,Thanks for pointing that out, I enjoyed the previous discussion and from now on it's no more chockie for Red and Black ! ...and before anyone reacts, I was only joking about the chewing gum !

[pam_pesto]

My cat Pesto ate a red string, bit by bit. I found it in the litter box in a different form.
Otherwise, she loves anything garlicky, parmesan cheese, pasta, cream cheese and bagel, fish and turkey.
She also licks a lot of things-- maybe for the taste? She licks and licks her new scratching post, but never licked her old one. She also licks the placemats, the freezer, and of course, her mom and dad.

[4 feline house]

I found a big, red rubber band on the floor yesterday and was reminded how one of my cats who is now at the rainbow bridge, Toot, used to love eating rubber bands, specifically these big red ones. I was always afraid they were bad for him, since he usually barfed them up, but he somehow managed to find them!

[Martin]

4felinehouse, That reminds me of a cat I knew in a previous life called Smokey. She was rubbing at my ankles one day while I was making a salmon pate sandwich. The pate came in a sausage-like plastic tube with a metal staple at each end. Having cut-off the end, leaving some pate on it, I dropped the end of the tube on the floor for Smokey to lick the pate off. You guessed it, she swallowed the whole thing! So, after a trip to the vet, and a hefty bill, I had to force-feed the poor mite with liquid parrafin until the inevitable happened and the offending bit of plastic re-appeared!

[4 feline house]

Bless her heart, munching on a goodie, minding her own business, and next thing she knew she was being whisked off to that nasty place with those bad men in the white coats and being force fed melted candles!

[Martin]

Not just that! The liquid parrafin was 'administered' from a small syringe whilst the poor critter was held by a pair of hands in gardening gloves! I imagine the volume of L.P. was the equivalent, for a human, of perhaps a pint!

Funnyly enough, she went off salmon pate after that!

[This message has been edited by Martin (edited February 21, 2001).]

[jcohick]

Our cat Mike loved tomatoes. If you would leave one cut and on the counter, he would climb up and suck all of the seeds out. He liked bananas too.

[BassetHound08]

Hola peoples! My cat eats paper, No you're not hearing things I said my cat eats paper. Yep i know you'resitting there, "What a dumb cat!" BUT YOU"RE WRONG! My kitty is very smart thanx so much. One day I was looking through a catalog and I wasn't paying any attention to poor little kitty. So what did kitty do? She jumped up onto the table and stared to eat the catlog. But don't worry kitty is alright. So make shure next time you're looking through a catklog that you're paying plenty of attention to your kitty.

[Logan]

On the paper subject....My Butter just loves to chew paper. I would swear he is part Goat. He will attack all paper, including things he shouldn't, like checks, my work papers, etc. He doesn't eat it, just shreds it. That's at least one way to get rid of our excess around here!!!

[4 feline house]

Since I have multiple allergies, I have a box of kleenexes in every room. The box in my bedroom usually stays right on the bed.

When Big was about six months old, I came home from work to find him sound asleep in the middle of the bed on top of a fully shredded box of kleenexes! That started a saying around our house "Uh, oh, someone needa be beat!" Of course, instead of being beaten, he was sugared!

[felixowner]

As a kitten felix loved to chew all types of paper, including cardboard. for a few months, every bill i paid or magazine i read was decorated with his jaw imprint pattern. When i made him a special cardboard box "house" to hang out in, his only use for it was to sharpen his teeth on the "door". Now he has moved on to nails, screws, and other prizes he finds in the basement.

[Vi Co Bi]

My Princess Crystal loves fresh baked bread and would come running when I took it out of the oven. She'd throw the most awful fit if she didn't get the first piece. It never seemed to matter what kind of bread it was (white, wheat, sourdough, rye, whatever), just as long as it was still warm and had a touch of butter on it.

Jackson has to be the oddest cat I've ever had. If it isn't dry cat food or canned cat food, he **won't** eat it. No kitty treats, no table treats, doesn't matter, he won't touch it.