My dog’s turned in to a bit of a bread whore. I started giving her the stale ends of bread when I had them sitting around (it takes me forever to get through a loaf of bread)…now every single time someone in the house opens up a package of bread, she’ll come running into the kitchen and put her paws on the counter so she can get some bread. Even if she’s at the other end of the house and dead asleep, she’ll come. I have to rip the end pieces into smaller chunks so I have some to share with her each time, and not be chunking her out on bread. Plus, I feel as tho she will hurt me if I don’t give her some.
Clover the dog will do anything, anything, ANYTHING, including all her tricks, to get some cheese. That dog loves cheese.
Our Mimi, who normally doesn’t care for people food, goes nuts for vanilla ice cream. She practically climbs my husband’s legs whenever he has it, and will cry until she gets a taste. Then cry more until she gets another one.
Funny little creature couldn’t care less if you toss her a piece of steak or chicken, but watch your ice cream closely, or she’ll stick her feet in it.
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.
My Ponch-kitty loves bacon, cheese, and the stuff that’s left on the plate after I thaw chicken in the microwave. He will do just about anything to get these items.
Oddly enough, though, he seems to love the smell of strawberries. He does not want the berries themselves (I tried feeding him little pieces), but when I am hulling and slicing them to serve with dinner, he will sit on the floor with his front paws on my thigh, sniffing the berries the whole time I’m preparing them.
Also, when my coffee pot does it’s peculiar little ‘beep. . .beep. . .beep’ that informs you that your coffee is done, he immediately goes to his saucer. He knows that the beep means I’m fixing my coffee, which means I’ll be adding some Half and Half, which means I’ll pour an ounce or two of it into his saucer at the same time. When I have a second cup of coffee (which I do a few times a week), he seems ticked off that he doesn’t get a second saucer of Half and Half!
He is a rotten, bad, spoiled kitty!
Our kitties have quite distinct palates. Red loves her yogurt. Blue is a big fan of bacon. Scotch loves blue corn chips and those crunchy noodles that come with Chinese food. She is really disappointed if she hears a crinkly mylar bag and it contains something icky like potato chips. Soda goes crazy for lettuce and spinach. He will grab your arm and pull it to his mouth if you offer him a piece of lettuce.
Luna also likes cornbread. I made some once, and left it out on the counter. I figured hey, cats are carnivores, they won’t bother it. Found bites taken out of it the next morning.
I’m pretty sure it was Luna, because she loves cheap cat treats, the ones where corn is the first ingredient. I try to buy her high-quality cat food where something like chicken is the first ingredient. She eats it, but what she really likes is the cheap cornmeal-based stuff.
My kitty Minnaloushe loves egg yolks more than anything. Except maybe air-popped popcorn. She goes crazy when she hears that popper start. If you eat a plate of eggs she sits at your feet and yells at you until you’re done. She usually gets to lick the plate clean at the end. Sunday breakfast is her favorite day and I always leave a little yolk on the plate just for her.
We had watermelon last summer and on a whim we put the rind of it on the floor to see if anyone wanted to try it, and Chief-cat went nuts on that thing. He loves fresh sink-water so I think it’s the refreshing cool water taste he really likes.
Eliot, on the other hand, eats plastic and I have to chase him around the house to pull crap out of his mouth so he doesn’t die. He’s got a death-wish, I’m sure of it. He also licks walls and doors. Not the brightest, that guy.
Friskies Feline Favorites. Water. That is it. Marco will sniff human foodz, occasionally take the tiniest taste, but will not eat anything except FFF and drink water. If they ever stop making FFF, he’ll starve.
Horse shit. Our dogs loooove horse shit. The fresher the better, but this time of year they are often caught gnawing on shitcicles.
I have one of those picky cats. Boris will eat dry food. But I give him a half can of canned every day. He will eat it one day. The next day he may not. I change flavors every other day. He will not eat people food. He does not eat ham, turkey or chicken. If he gets a potato chip, he will lick the salt off. Yet he is overweight.
My cat likes the standing water leftover from showering. She will wait outside the shower door until I step out, so she can step in and start lap lap lapping up after me.
If she is thirsty and nobody has showered recently, she will drink from a bowl but it has to be placed on the floor just outside of the shower stall. If I place the water bowl in the kitchen, she will poke her head out from the bathroom hallway looking at me, as if to say “don’t you know the water bowl goes in here??”
Ariel the Wondercat is obsessed with chickpeas. I’m talking full-blown freakout whenever she sees them, complete with banshee wailing, frantic dancing around the kitchen and even a little bit of snarling.
No other kind of bean will do. She’ll still dance around while I’m opening the can, since she obviously can’t read well enough to tell them apart (well, she pretends she can’t, anyway)… but she’s walk away once she realises what’s inside isn’t chickpeas.
To a lesser degree, she also likes canned corn, roast chicken and cooked pasta… but she’d bypass a bowl heaped high with all of those things just to get a single chickpea.
“Maggie want cheese?”
“Meow!”
offers cheese
Now she won’t leave the stuff alone. If she sees anyone go towards the bag of cheetos, she runs in and starts meowing. She also thinks that anything I have when I’m in the kitchen is cheese.
It isn’t
Stupid kitty.
Both of our cats love whip cream. They don’t get much, but whenever a can is squirted, they come racing from anywhere in the house to get a squirt.
They also happen to be really big fans of food. Food is totally one of their favorite things to eat.
My sister’s English Bulldog, Kirby, LOVES raw baby carrots.
Dogs: pumpkin, bananas, cheese, carrots, peanut butter, eggs, any meat or fish, bread… The only thing they will not eat is hot peppers. I dropped a cayenne pepper on the floor one day and found it in another room with exactly one set of tooth marks in it. Apparently, someone took one bit, spit out the pepper and nobody will go anywhere near the kitchen when I’m chopping peppers.
They will take your fingers off for french fries or popcorn – I always have to pop extra just for them. They do start demanding their twice daily pumpkin about an hour before it’s due. I get this intense Boston terrier STARE for about 45 minutes, until I cave and get up to feed it to them. It’s healthy, high in fiber and Vitamin A, and is a perfect delivery system for some powdered meds I have to give them. And, they love it.
Cat: Anything fishy or cheesy. Particularly fond of tuna and chicken. Once ran off with a stolen skewer full of raw shrimp that he snatched off the kitchen counter. Shared with dogs. I suspect collusion. Licks salty things clean: crackers, chips, cheetos. Will eat himself sick on crab legs. Even the salty water that drips as you’re cracking the crab legs… he will lick up every drop and will puke later from all the salt. Doesn’t slow him down at all. Cat will kill ya for your crab leg, but he would not touch a raw fish head I tossed to him once. Go figure.
My (now dearly departed) kitty, **Blue, **wouldn’t eat anything but dry cat food. We tried to treat her occasionally with a can of gooshyfood or a few drops of milk, but she wasn’t interested. Dry diet cat food. Which she excitedly looked forward to every morning, whether her bowl was empty or not.
My (current) kitty, **Squirt, **doesn’t drink. At all. A bowl of water set out for her will not budge but will eventually evaporate. I even bought her a bubbling fountain, thinking that she wanted *moving *water, but she wouldn’t touch it. So now I’m stuck feeding her her dry *and *gooshyfood just to keep her hydrated.
I’ve tried giving her the leftover milk from a bowl of cereal, cheese, the melted remnants from a scoop of ice cream, etc. No dice. Cat food and cat food only.
My childhood dog, Penny, on the other hand, would give anything a try. Her favorites were popcorn and plain spaghetti. She’d get whatever dropped on the kitchen floor during preparation, and usually a bowl of leftovers. Mmm mmm! It was funniest when my mom would give Penny the leftover green beans covered in the leftover pork chop gravy. She’d lap up the gravy and leave a bowl of dry, bare green beans. I miss Penny. 
Sadie hasn’t turned up her nose at anything yet, but she prefers crackers and pretzels with sour cream dip. She’ll eat them without, but if there’s dip around, she’ll wait. She also loves paper (especially tissues) and cardboard. We let her open the junk mail.
Luna does this, too.
One of them, I don’t know which, likes mouse heads. One of them caught a mouse a while ago. By the time I found the mouse, its head was missing.