My Cat Likes BBQ Sauce

Cafe Society
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I had already fed my cats for the night, and was about to eat my own takeout BBQ Beef Sandwich, when my oldest cat, Flaherty, came over and wanted a taste.

I offered her a wisp of shredded beef permeated with BBQ sauce. It was impossible to offer her a plain morsel because the sauce doused the whole sandwich. I smiled, waiting for her nose to wrinkle in that, “EWWW!!! Human, that is disgusting!!!” gesture that cats will make at strong spice smells. I figured I could eat my sandwich in peace after she got a good whiff of it.

Well, she ate it. And she wanted more. And more. She got so excited she was standing on my lap, as I held the sandwich in the air out of her reach, dripping sauce all over my hand, wrist, and table. On the plate, she would have devoured it, leaving only the bread for me.

When we had finished it, (at a ratio of, I would say, 95% for me to 5% for her) she smacked her lips, and nodded and blinked at me. In cat, she said, “Well done Human! Your amazing new sauce pleases me. After the Revolution, I shall advocate for your survival as a Human with necessary culinary skills.”

While I am pleased to know I have the connections to survive the future Feline Reprisals Committee, I am a little worried because I did not make the BBQ sauce myself. In the old days, you could be fairly certain that a takeout BBQ Beef Sandwich was slathered in plain Open Pit. But today, with all the off-brands available, who knows what BBQ sauce it was?

What will I do when I have to appear before the tribunal?

I also worried about the sauce messing with her digestion, but she seems fine this morning.

Also, is this another proof that cats can indeed taste sweet things? Because my middle cat, Tallulah, shows a weakness for applesauce, as I mentioned in a previous thread.

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Just wait for it. You’re probably in for a day or two of extremely stinky poops and the odd SBD. That happens every time one of our fuzzbutts gets ahold of human food. Pixel especially likes dropped shreds of cheese.

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Perseus likes sweet food.

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My 2 like coffee. I guess that’s why they bug me. I feed them first every morning. Because, well? Reasons. I let the dogs out and make my coffee. The cats are allover me when I’m drinking my morning cup. I’ve been meaning to Google what would happen if I gave them a saucer full.

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We had a cat that liked curried eggs.

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I wouldn’t risk it.

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That’s crazy. I figured it was something like that. I won’t be giving them any.

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Most wouldn’t want coffee. If you use cream, they might be bothering you for that.

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No cream. Straight up, black coffee. Maybe they just like me in the mornings and want to be with me. Nah, that can’t be true. :wink:

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As far as coffee goes, my brother’s cats love iced tea. He tried putting something on top of his glass as a makeshift lid, but they would knock it off. For a while he would put his glass in the fridge to keep them away from it. Luckily they seem to have lost interest in it as they got older.

I had a cat once who ate marshmallow peeps and cotton candy. He only had cotton candy a few times, but we ate peeps together every Easter. Maybe he couldn’t taste “sweet,” but there was something about sugar that he liked.

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We have 9 cats. They all LOVE tomato-based food. Tomato soup, chili, BBQ, spaghetti sauce, pizza sauce, ketchup, etc.

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The cat we had when I was a kid LOVED green peppers. My mom would be chopping up green peppers and the cat would be meowing her head off, standing on her hind legs stretching (like only a cat can do) her full length against the cupboards trying to reach the counter with her paws. She never tried jumping up - which is odd, but she wasn’t ever a counter cat.

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Our cat will hound us for food when we’re eating, but will almost never actually eat human food. She just wants to be offered.