they’re kitties
soylent greenies are kitties
“Could the current Morris be eating a former Morris” sounds like a question worthy of Cecil.
Doughnuts make sense, since they’re fatty. Cantaloupe, though, I can’t fathom. I thought cats didn’t even have taste receptors for “sweet”. Maybe there’s some catnip-like drug in it?
Try moving the baby oil next to the olive oil and corn oil.
I’ve also noticed that cats like canteloupe. I’ve seen 'em go for broccoli, too.
No; at least not in 2000, when this study was done.
Here you go, sleep well tonight.
No idea. Cantaloupe didn’t make her happy or rowdy like catnip did.
A quick google found this, Scientific American articlesaying cats don’t taste sweet.
TruCelt, I’m not sure I’ll sleep any better knowing my kitty might be eating a pony.
I had a cat that loved seeds from squashes and melons, too. I always thought it was because, on the first night I had the little stray, I (a hippie vegetarian at the time) had nothing in the house more suitable to feed her than some soymilk and some squash; I thought her love for them was a childhood memory of finally being taken off the street and given a warm place to sleep and some warmed food, however inappropriate for cats.
I worked for a humane society for a long time. We didn’t have a crematorium, so carcasses were taken to the municipal dump. The unholy disaster that would have unfolded if we’d sold the carcasses for animal food? Not a chance.
This strikes me as insane conspiracy theory.
You might better stay away from Jello too. . .
She must only like vegetable fats then, because she won’t eat croissants. Cats is weird.
I have witnessed the cantaloupe thing, too. Cats is weird. My old guy (17 years) eats corn off the cob. I have to put it in the fridge because he WILL open a cabinet /bag /container to get to it, eat the husk and puke it back up once once he gets to the kernels, will demolish the cob. I also have to fend him off while I’m trying to eat it. Weirdo.
In the USA, at least, any “meal” ingredient listed on a pet food label must list the species, if it is other than cattle, swine, sheep or goats. So any manufacturer putting rendered dogs, cats, or even horses in their treats would have to, by law, list “dog meal” in the ingredients on the label. Since no company is going to suffer that kind of PR nightmare, I find it HIGHLY unlikely to be true.
Cite: 2001 AAFCO manual, page 117: “The ingredient “Meat” and “Meat by-products” shall be qualified to designate the animal from which the meat or meat by-products are derived unless the meat or meat by-products are derived from cattle, swine, sheep, goats or any combination thereof. For example, ingredients derived from horses shall be listed as horsemeat” or horsemeat by-products."
I can’t speak for other countries, but I’ve yet to see an ingredient label here listing “dog meal” or “cat meal.”
I don’t eat jello willingly, but it’s more a texture thing than being squeamish about eating animal feet. It’s more the idea that my wee fluffy kitty eating a pretty pretty pony might cause the world to end from cute overload.
That and the mental image of [a herd of] my too-lazy-to-chase-a-fat-spider cat[s] taking down a running horse is pretty funny. If they made jello out of mouse or sparrow feet, I would not be quite so amused. Not that she’s catch a mouse either, but I’ve had cats that could. The siamese I mentioned upthread used to bring in live birds and leave them in my bathtub. That’s *not *one of the things I miss about her.
It’s like when people go to eat Chinese, and someone makes the joke that you’re eating cat or dog. I don’t doubt that you can get that meat somewhere in the US, but even if it is part of a culture, 99% aren’t willing to take the risk if they even want to. Also, due to perceived medicinal abilities or taboo, as well as rarity due to no regular source, cat or dog meat would cost much more than beef/pork/chicken, so the restaurant wouldn’t put it in their cheap or on-menu dishes. I’m not saying that a human or pet eating forbidden meat unwittingly doesn’t happen, but that the chances of it happening are so ridiculously low.
Don’t worry. Jell-O isn’t made from feet. It’s from “the boiled bones, connective tissues, and intestines of animals” (and feet?). Rest easier.
Which only makes sense, since the ingredient it gets from animal matter is collagen, not keratin (ie, the stuff the visible part of a hoof is made of). Gelatin manufacturing also uses hides (also full of collagen).
Telling the whole tale would derail this thread, but one of my old bosses helped to create the mass-market cat-treat industry. (Up until the 1980s, the big cat food companies didn’t believe that a market existed for treats for cats. They were, obviously, rather wrong.)
Mr. singular & I almost named our first stray Meloni as a tribute to her love of cantaloupe. Fortunately her predeliction for getting in trouble presented itself, and she was dubbed our beloved Oops. Twenty years of bliss and rescue ensued.
Wouldn’t making dog/cat treats or dog/cat food be incredibly dangerous, health-wise, for the animals?