I’ve had three cats that would hurt me to get cantalope. They were all siamese…
:rolleyes:
Vegetarian cheese can be one of two things-
If you’re lacto, you can eat dairy products. The main thing would be to avoid rennet, and they do make nice cheeses that do not contain rennet.
If you’re vegan, you can get soy ‘cheese’, which involves no dairy whatsoever.
My cat loves pop corn and pie crust (but only my husband’s homemade pie crust - she ruined two of the three pies he wanted to enter in the State Fair last year!).
My dog loves pretty much any fruit or vegetable we’ve ever given her except for raw potato(e)s and squash. Last year, she would eat the grape tomato(e)s straight off the plant!
My hamsters like to lick yogurt off my fingers. (Lots of opportunities to glimpse teeny hammie tongues.)
We once had two Siamese/Persian mixes who were partners in crime. Merlin, who was otherwise the stranger of the two, liked the traditional cat things. Meat, cheese, milk, etc. Osiris was… well, we used to say Osiris fell asleep during his briefing, and consequently was unaware of what it was to be a cat. We left one of those foot-long deli sandwiches on the counter once. Merlin slid all of the lunchmeat out of one side of the bread, and Osiris was right there on the other side… stealing every last shred of iceburg lettuce.
Osiris was also notorious for being a fruit thief. I once had to lock him in the utility room while preparing fruit salad because he wouldn’t stop trying to put his face between the peach and the sharp knife. My mother cored a canteloupe once before realizing it had turned, dumped the pulp and seeds down the sink and chucked the melon. An hour or so later, we came back to find Osiris had stuck his kitty arm down the drain (the garbage disposal side, too! :eek: ) and pulled it all back up, eaten the pulp, and left us a tidy pile of seeds right next to the sink.
Years before that, I had a cat named Athena who would harrass you until you shared your crunchy junk food. Her favorites were Cool Ranch Doritos and microwave popcorn. You couldn’t watch a movie without her sitting on the back of the sofa, pretending to be a doily. Half the time you would pull a piece of popcorn out of the bowl and would realize, halfway to your mouth, that she had used the Ninja Kitty Paw Strike to take it away from you, and that crunching noise you were hearing was the cat eating your food. :smack:
Our dogs were more notable for what they wouldn’t eat – we had a poodle who wouldn’t touch anything with any kind of pepper on it, ground or chili. On the other hand, he used to steal hazelnuts out of the Christmas assortments and crack them with his molars. This worked out well for his sidekick, the St. Bernard, who drooled puddles on the floor for any kind of nut other than those.
My sister’s cat has decreed that you are not allowed to eat bananas with his presence without sharing. He was born in my parents’ house, so we’re not surprised. We’ve never had a normal pet. I think there’s something in the water…
Our cat goes apeshit for carrots, black olives, celery, and one other vegetable I can’t remember now. He doesn’t eat them, though, he rubs his face and rolls on them. Maybe they smell like catnip to him? I dunno.
He also drank Canadian Club on one occasion.
My cat loves soda crackers and the plastic they come in. Evening snack - I’m having a a few crackers and cheese, giving bite size pieces to my cat of both, and her later licking the plastic cracker wrap.
My husband’s cat doesn’t like any strange foods, but she looooooves her hairball meds. I’ve been giving her a tiny bit every morning when I take my vitamins, and she comes at a run when she hears me rattling the vitamin bottles. In true cat fashion, of course, she isn’t the one who actually gets hairballs - that would be my cat, who has to have it smeared on her paw to eat it. :rolleyes:
My dad’s shi-tsu loves ice cubes… but only if they’ve been fished out of a glass of Jack Daniel’s bourbon. If they aren’t bourbon flavored, they aren’t worth more than a perfunctory lick or two. Lest you think he’s a dog of good taste, however, bear this in mind: he will literally grovel on the floor for Velveeta cheese, too.
I used to have a tabby that was crazy for peppermint, so much so that he ate a roll of Tums. At first I thought it was because peppermint plants are in the same mint family as catnip but he later proved indifferent to catnip so I don’t know. He was also crazy for green olives, turning up at my feet every time I got the jar out of the refrigerator.
The same tabby, who would barf at the drop of a hat, also didn’t like the hairball treatment. However smearing it on his paw produced one of two possible results-brownish spatters all over the wall (from paw flinging) or smears on the carpet (from paw wiping). He’d never eat anything that I actually wanted him to. Some sort of feline paranoia I suppose. Or possibly the belief (held by small children as well) that anything good for you must taste awful.
My lab mix loves raisins.
My cat Winston loved Nacho Cheese Doritos. He also really liked that turkey gravy that comes in jars. My sister got the idea to put it on his food, and this would cause him to snarf it up in unseemly haste.
My new kitty Lucy the Maine Coon is an omnivore. She will apparently eat anything. Today’s haul includes a banana slice, a piece of kielbasa, a bit of corn on the cob and some cheddar. This was all snatched when a family member wasn’t looking, not deliberately fed to her. I feed her and her housemate two cans of cat food and a few scoops of dry each day so it’s not like she doesn’t get enough regular food.
Is this behavior normal?
Muffin loved corn on the cob. She would drag the cobs off and nibble away. She got her name because of an unfortunate incident with a pan of blueberry muffins. And her kittens adored potato chips…especially if you had the bag laying next to you on the floor while watching TV…you’d reach in for a chip and pull out a little black and white fuzzball. She and the kittens were also mad for tacos from Taco John’s in Colorado Springs. It got so bad that we took to sitting out on the front porch to eat the tacos while a mess of kittens and mama Muffin tried to break the screen door down. She occasionally would try to get the dog in trouble by jumping up on the top of the fridge and tossing down the bread bag for Coco to eat, but she never ate the bread herself.
I’ve had six cats since Muffin and not a one of them is as eclectic an eater as Muffin was. Oh, Moose would try to climb your leg if you had shrimp, and Chloe thinks all ham is hers, but only Muffin took people food to heart.
Is ear wax a food? 
Our family dog was well known for eating things that weren’t food - but her starring triumph was the day she ate part of a roll of fibreglass roofing insulation :smack:
That was about eight or nine years ago. She only just died a month or so ago, I don’t think the insulation was to blame.
I had a cat who LOVED cantaloupe guts. Not cantaloupe, mind you, just the innards. Basically he went crazy for the seeds, and that weird stringy stuff.
I had a Dalmatian who ate (and passed) among other things:
-pair of panty hose
-loaf of bread including the plastic, and twist tie
-bandanna (pink)
-Six dozen Christmas cookies (various flavors)
-socks (numerous)
-underwear (men and women)
-Entire chocolate birthday cake
and the best for last:
-Mens size large soccer jersey
She died of cancer.
My cockatiel likes banana peels. Not bananas - he turns his beak up at the actual fruit…he wants the peel.
My cat loves olives. He will roll all over an abandoned olive, bite it, throw it, chase it, bite it again… if you try to take it from him, he gets angry and actually growls at you.
Careful! Raisins and grapes are toxic to dogs, as explained here.
My kittens (only the girls–our two older Singapura boys won’t touch it) love fruit-flavored baby food. Bananas, apricots, whatever–they practically attack me for it when I’m getting our gecko’s dinner ready. I give all the cats a little meat-flavored baby food most days as a treat, but I’d swear that the girls actually like the bananas and apricots more than the meat!
I mean the soy “cheese”.