Another weird thing Kitt eats…well drinks, rather. I make Cape Cods with Grey Goose and unsweetened cranberry juice I get at TJs. I mixed one up on night, wandered off to the computer with drink in hand to get a little gaming in…then realized the cat was sitting on the desk and lapping up my drink like it was milk.
I’m very careful now about my drinks. I haven’t had too many problems though as I’ve mostly switched to drinking G&Ts. Apparently they’re just not as tasty to him.
Joplin the lab mix will eat anything. I mean anything. The oddest thing is he will drink lemonade or orange juice out of your glass if you don’t guard it. He also loves canned mixed fruit, fresh vegetables (esp. carrots), and will go bonkers for yogurt or milk.
Adding to the list of non-food items Jops has consumed in his ten years:
2 packs of mint–flavored dental floss (actually, he just cracked open the containers and chewed the minty goodness off the roll)
Several nicotine lozenges (imagine THAT phone call to poison control!)
Tissues (used are best, of course)
Toilet paper roll cores (oddly he has never bothered with paper towel cores)
Numerous pencil erasers
Empty ketchup packets
A Sharpie marking pen
Envelopes (including bills – try explaining that to the water company)
Paper money (let’s just say that I almost killed him that day)
I’ve two cats. One of them loves “white” foods like FilmGeek’s cat but otherwise doesn’t like people food; the other one is a whore for people food, with one exception.
The very rare occassions that I get fast food burgers & bring them home, he doesn’t beg for it at all (though he’ll happily eat -real- burgers), and if I lay down the plate, he tries to bury it. This leads me to think that the Fast Food Nation author isn’t exaggerating when he says that the meat, cheese, and bun on a burger are flavored that way, and are actually tasteless without the food chemicals (which is also why you can’t quite replicate the taste of a fast food burger at home).
My parents’ dog loves anything and everything. Not so unusual for a dog… but when “everything” includes wasabi…
a tale of two kitties:
Ghandi (Russian Blue, male) : peas and would force himself between you and the table to get his head to the plate, and plain old fashioned cake donuts… if you didn’t give him his share, he would jump onto your lamp, bite into the other side of the donut you were taking a bite out of, stare you in the eye and growl. No longer with us, developed a taste for anti-freeze.
Sushi (Siamese, female): mint flavoured, artificially sweetened chewing cum (Extra, Trident, that sort of thing), she would knock over any garbage can to get to the wrappers and roll around on them. Also had a ritual wherein whatever we were cooking as the main course for dinner, she had to have at least 1/2 tsp of it in her food dish. She didn’t always eat it, but she would NOT leave whoever was cooking dinner alone until they put some in her food dish.
Never had a pet myself that had any unusual tastes. Well, not that we found out about 
However when I was growing up, my best friend had horses. One day we were playing Monopoly outside and the horse came up, stuck his nose in the box, and grabbed a mouthful of houses/hotels and munched happily. I guess he wanted to get into real estate.
Same friend had a Saint Bernard dog which was smaller than the horses, though not by much 
The dog used to help clean up after the horses :barf:.
The Neville kitties used to eat tofu, but don’t seem so interested in it anymore.
Luna stretches up toward the counter (as she does when we’re preparing chicken or other things she likes to eat) for garlic and avocados. We won’t give her either of those, though- I read somewhere that they’re poisonous to cats.
Luna loves cornbread. I left a pan of cornbread out on the stove, figuring she’s a carnivore, so she’d leave it alone. Every piece had a bite taken out of it.
Noxious, but not exactly poison.
Garlic damages the red blood cells, so can lead to anemia. But it takes either large amounts of garlic, or continued feeding for some time to cause this. Onions, leeks, etc. are similar, but even more dangerous for this. A single large dose of onion can be life threatening for cats. And things like leftover pizza, hotdishes, human (meat) baby food, etc. often contain onions.
With avocados, it’s the leaves which are most dangerous. Avocados from the grocery store usually don’t have leaves on them; if they do, pull the leaves off and dispose of them (flush 'em, do NOT put in a wastebasket that a cat can get into!) The skin, stem & seeds are also bad. The actual fruit contains less, and varies depending on where it’s grown and the specific strain of avocado. Still, it’s a risk, and there’s no reason to take a chance. There are plenty of safe foods around for a cat.
This is why we don’t give the cats anything that was cooked with onion or garlic (that’s most cooked food, in our household). I tell her she refutes Darwin’s theory of natural selection every time she begs for garlic, too
My cat’s breath smells like cat food.
Totally normal.
My aunt and uncle had a dog that once ate saw blades. And she was fine!
We have 3 cats; one of them loves licking the inside of banana peels.
Another is a general purpose scrounge; he comes around every morning while I’m packing my lunch, on the odd chance that it’s tuna sandwich day. If it is: bonanza. If not…50/50 chance he’ll want some, anyway. He’ll also look inside the refrigerator while it’s open, as he knows that food comes from there sometimes.
The third cat doesn’t give a damn what we’re eating.
