# No pretty kitty..cat's don't eat cake **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 25, 2001, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-pretty-kitty-cats-dont-eat-cake/83821 "2001-09-25T23:52:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-pretty-kitty-cats-dont-eat-cake/83821/1 "2001-09-25T23:52:59Z")
Well…I’ll be. Icing too! Will wonders never cease. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-pretty-kitty-cats-dont-eat-cake/83821/2 "2001-09-25T23:57:35Z")
At times like these I wonder if this whole “Fight Against Ignorance” thing is really working. I’m quickly losing hope. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-pretty-kitty-cats-dont-eat-cake/83821/3 "2001-09-26T01:02:04Z")
I consulted my three cats on your behalf, and… oh, nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-pretty-kitty-cats-dont-eat-cake/83821/4 "2001-09-26T01:03:47Z")
Kitties also tend to chew through speaker cords. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-pretty-kitty-cats-dont-eat-cake/83821/5 "2001-09-26T01:08:18Z")
My cat Blabby ate a Ritz cracker once. Guin, I had a cat that chewed through my alarm clock cord. Try explaining that to your boss when you’re late to work. I took my indoor cat Bo outdoors on a leash yesterday. All he did was eat grass. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-pretty-kitty-cats-dont-eat-cake/83821/6 "2001-09-26T01:15:23Z")
Sounds like Buffy. Yep, my sister’s speaker cord-luckily my dad was able to splice it back together. We had to unplug every lamp in the house and hide the cords! ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-pretty-kitty-cats-dont-eat-cake/83821/7 "2001-09-26T01:20:01Z")
One of mine developed a taste for Chee-tos. Little bastard would take them right out of my hand. One former cat liked popcorn and salad. They’re apparently not bound by traditional notions of cat tastes. Robin ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-pretty-kitty-cats-dont-eat-cake/83821/8 "2001-09-26T01:21:12Z")
The cat I had growing up had a passion for Sliders (aka White Castle “burgers”). ---
**Author:** ![labradorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@labradorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/labradorian)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-pretty-kitty-cats-dont-eat-cake/83821/9 "2001-09-26T01:41:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Reeder \* > \*\*Well…I’ll be. Icing too! > > Will wonders never cease. \*\* Did you _properly_ inform them that cats don’t eat cake? This is how you do it: "No my lovey, that’s not cat-cake, that’s people cake. You’re a cat and daddy’s a people. No no my babycat, that’s not for babycat, that’s for daddycat. It’s not babycat-cake, it’s daddycat-cake. Daddy eat daddy-cake and baby eat babycat-food, OK? Daddy make her some babycat-cake for babycat? That’s a good baby. BAY BEE CAT! No, daddy said that’s not for you, that’s for daddy cause cats don’t eats people-cake, peoples eats people cake and babycat’s a cat, and daddycat’s a people, OK? FORTHELOVEOFGODKITTENCAT, GET DOWN GET DOWN GET DOWN! Get down out of it, you little rat." [Daddy puts cake back in box, closes box, puts cake back in fridge, rinses fork and plate, and knocks babycat back off the counter for the umpteenth time.] ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-pretty-kitty-cats-dont-eat-cake/83821/10 "2001-09-26T01:48:03Z")
QueenBitchKitty has asked me to post the following after reading the preceding: “I’ll be damned. A human with a clue.” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-pretty-kitty-cats-dont-eat-cake/83821/11 "2001-09-26T02:40:11Z")
Not only does Midnight eat yellow cake, we also dscovered, to our utter amazement, that she _loves_ marshmallows! I was walking by her with a bag of marshmallows while she was perched at shoulder-height on the microwave, and she reached out and cupped me over with her crooked paw. She stretched over and sniffed excitedly at the bag so I pulled one ou nd held it up. She began licking it roughly with her tongue, using the serrated surface to shred the marshmallow and suck it in. It took her about five minutes of feverish licing to down about 2/3 of the marshmallow. ---
**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-pretty-kitty-cats-dont-eat-cake/83821/12 "2001-09-26T02:43:51Z")
Mine love cheese, popcorn and yougurt. Specially cherry yougurt. _shrug_ Go figure. And my cat loves to lick photos. The chemicals, I guess. Weird, huh? ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-pretty-kitty-cats-dont-eat-cake/83821/13 "2001-09-26T06:52:39Z")
I knew a cat who _opened a package_ to devour some Twinkies, much to the dismay of the human children who were expecting the treat for themselves and the amazement of the human adult who thought that the Twinkies had been placed in a cat-proof locale, even though she did not expect the cat to want to eat thm anyway. I also know a dog who recently partook of three very large homemade chocolate chip cookies and hasn’t been allowed to sleep on his mommy’s bed for several nights as a result, but that’s another story. ---
**Author:** ![mozchron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mozchron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mozchron)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-pretty-kitty-cats-dont-eat-cake/83821/14 "2001-09-26T06:58:37Z")
Things my cat loves to eat: Cake Crackers Tortilla chips Ice cream (green tea flavor) Sauteed mustard greens (really!) Yams Grilled eggplant Pie Popcorn And the list goes on and on… Honestly, he is the weirdist cat I have ever owned. He will jump up on the table and tale stuff off your plate if you let him (and he KNOWS that he is NOT allowed to do it - he waits until your back is turned). MM ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-pretty-kitty-cats-dont-eat-cake/83821/15 "2001-09-26T07:03:15Z")
“Ice cream (green tea flavor)” BLECH! we have a cat that eats the little food particles out of the sink. shes a white trash kinda kitty and we like it that way. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-pretty-kitty-cats-dont-eat-cake/83821/16 "2001-09-26T11:42:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CalMeacham \* > **…we also dscovered, to our utter amazement, that she _loves_ marshmallows!** Mine too. But only the white ones and not the pink. _Molly’s_ favourite odd food however is dried apricots. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-pretty-kitty-cats-dont-eat-cake/83821/17 "2001-09-26T11:57:15Z")
We had a Himalayan kitten years ago - he _LOVED_ blueberry cake donuts. Lucky for me, he wasn’t a fan of the chocolate frosted kind… ---
**Author:** ![RalfCoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@RalfCoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RalfCoder)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-pretty-kitty-cats-dont-eat-cake/83821/18 "2001-09-26T12:12:50Z")
My old warrior tomcat Trouble used to love beer. You couldn’t set a bottle down and leave the room, or he’d be there licking the bottle. I used to save the last couple of drops for him. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-pretty-kitty-cats-dont-eat-cake/83821/19 "2001-09-26T12:35:41Z")
Over the years, I’ve had cats who will eat: cantaloupe tomato bread by the loaf yogurt and many other odd things. But I’ve never had one who liked raw fish, shrimp, or any of the sea-foody things cats are supposed to love. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-pretty-kitty-cats-dont-eat-cake/83821/20 "2001-09-26T13:12:14Z")
I have a cat who used to jump on the counter when I made cole-slaw and steal cabbage when I wasn’t looking. Another of my cats is terrified of mustard, and she’ll smack and hiss at anything that has mustard on it. Kaia once had us pretty nervous back when we had pet rats and one day we saw her staking out their cage. She was staring intently… but our fears were calmed when we realized she was focused in on the _Dorito_ that was in the cage as a snack for the little guys. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-pretty-kitty-cats-dont-eat-cake/83821.md?page=2)