Lord, our Bert does!
We haven’t fed him any of course, but all D has to do is open the jar even a short time and he picks up the smell and is right there in seconds.:eek:
Must be the oil, right?
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Q
Yup. Current cat plus his brother who passed away a few years ago LOVED olives. Especially the really briney ones like kalamata. We do let him have one when we’re snacking on olives. He doesnt really eat it - just licks it and chews it a little.
One of my cats would eat olives till he’d burst, if I let him. I throw one his way now and then, as long as it’s without a pit. The other cat is the same way with Cheerios.
Used to have a cat who would beg for an olive but wouldn’t eat it. She’d bat it around the kitchen until she lost it under the fridge. A few times I’d forget to dig it out… yum.
I just discovered the cat I have now loves orange dreamcicles. I was eating one earlier and turned my head for a second only to look back and find the cat licking my popcicle! He appeared out of nowhere too.
Sammy had a thing about olives- to be specific the pimentos. The rest of the olive he could take it or leave it.
The Shoe is also an “appears out of nowhere when the olives are opened” cat. He doesn’t eat them, just licks them throughly and bats them around the floor.
Gweniever liked popcorn and cooked carrots.
The late great Tiger loved olives. And garlic cloves. And Pringles.
Ms. D gave Bert an olive on a paper plate a while ago, and not only did he eat it, he licked the plate clean!
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Quasi
Apparently a lot of cats react to olives like they do to catnip. I know the Princess Natasha acts just like she’s on catnip when she smells a green olive. Boris, OTOH, does not like the nip, but the scent of green olives makes him insane. He starts stalking and biting everything around including me and his sister. I have determined that he is what we call a “mean drunk” and I have instituted a strict “no olives without locking up Boris” rule.
My cat’s the exact opposite. He’ll eat the green part and leave the pimento (right where I’m guaranteed to step on it in bare feet)
You people have some *weird *cats.
My Squirt, on the other hand, won’t eat anything but her cat food. I can’t even find a cat-specific treat that she likes. Except only recently she discovered the whipped cream on my husband’s dessert. But I can understand that – cream, milk, etc.
But Olives?!?
(I’ll have to try that)
My (late) cat Kate loved the brine that olives came in - the olive juice, as it were - and would lap it up like crazy. I will admit I never thought to give her an actual olive, she was always so happy with just the brine. I always assumed it was the salt, but maybe I was wrong.