I had a cat that was wild about peppermint tums, he’d eat a whole roll if he could.
As for my current voracious orange tabby, I’ve seen him eat crickets, moths, bagels, sandwich bread, saltine crackers, salsa, french toast, chinese food, carnitas, ketchup packets, cheese (which he throws up again about half an hour later), rubber bands, door stops, dead tree leaves and cellophane.
He’s a tad overweight.
Things my kitties eat:
Rubber bands, hair ties, packing tape, my hair, lettuce, kale, bananas, peaches, plums, pear stems (not the fruit part, though), cantaloupe, watermelon, my face wash (she’ll jump onto the countertop to lick it off the bottle or my face, whichever is closer), orange juice …
When they were kittens, figuring out what new fruit they would eat was a wonderfully amusing process of discovery. You know the scenario: have some fruit for a snack in the evening, and suddenly the monster’s clawing her way up your shirt to get to the … banana? WTF? 
Nope, Daowajan, he’s not an Aussie. He’s a mutt, 1/2 Golden Retriever, 1/4 black Lab, and 1/4 German Pointer, we think.
But I just remembered, he’s also been known to have eaten an entire two pound box of chocolate with no ill effects, and has chewed open several cat food cans to get at the food…
It’s food, but it’s still a little strange. Claudia adores frutloops. I mean she’s got a full on fetish for them, and even has a dance to alert you that she wants them(hey, it’s not as though she makes any sounds unless she’s hurt or pissed so she needs to tell you somehow). The ferret frutloop dance is an art form that is greatly underappericated.
My dog (a small cocker spaniel mix) once ate a whole cucumber in a matter of minutes. And it was a HUGE cucumber. We have the “feminine products” problem as well.
Even the neighbor’s dog likes to get in on the act. Once, it got into our trash through the fence…and there were lots of little pad shreds all over the neighbor’s backyard, which I got to go clean up.
And a note to those whose pets eat stringy things: This can be VERY dangerous. If you think your pet has eaten thread, etc., please call your vet. The string can get pulled around in their digestive tract, and pieces of it can become taut and cut right through their insides. My grandma used to use a piece of thread wound around her fingers (kinda like you would to use dental floss) to cut through Velveeta…same concept. I used to work at a vets’ office, and they told me stories about how animals had died from ingesting stuff like that.
If your pet DOES eat string, do NOT pull it out of their butts-EVER. Simply let it pass through, and after they are done in the litterbox/yard, get scissors and trim any strings you find hanging out the backdoor. Pulling on it can hurt them.
My aunt’s dog once ate saw blades my uncle had set out for something or other.
Ours do too. The strangest thing either of them has even eaten was a potato. We came home one day and found red potatoes stashed here and there in the living room, and a half-eaten one under the couch. Literally half the potato gone. We discovered later that ferrets don’t digest potatoes well (or at all.)
I’ve got three cats who, of course, will basically anything that moves and is smaller than they are. They’ve got their individual preferences, though. Hairball is particularly fond of cockroaches; Bezoara goes crazy for lizards; Shiro snaffles up spiders like they were candy.
Snacks don’t have to be alive, though. Not ten minutes ago, I heard a crunching sound across the room and turned to see Bezoara munching down on a stick of cheap sandalwood incense.
Oh, and once I caught Shiro with a half-devoured OdorEater out of one of my work boots. I thought that was moderately gross, but it didn’t seem to faze him at all.
The latter two are ex-ferals, and I wonder if that has anything to do with their aggressively non-finicky tastes.
My mother has a cat who will eat popcorn, but only if it steals it from her. If somebody gives it some, the cat will ignore it. “Stolen Sweets are sweeter” I guess.
I believe the same cat will eat tinsile off the christmas tree.
My dog has eaten cashews and tator tots.
My dear departed Wheezie cat was crazy for ear wax. The look on people’s faces when he would pretend to be friendly just to put his little tongue in their ears, like some sort of bad first date, was priceless. My two current monsters like soap, I can’t keep bars of soap out and now they’ve learned to use the pump dispensers. The only actual food item they’ll touch, besides their kibble, is olives. I like to watch them make faces and stick out their tongues when they eat the jalapeno stuffed olives I sometimes buy.
Let’s see…wow. I love this.
Animal in question: My dog. A dalmatian.
Things consumed: Roof tiles, rocks(small ones), spiders, wasabi sauce, carmex right out of the little jar, leaves from an aloe vera plant, matches, tissues(a constant problem-always finding bits of white areound the house), muffin wrappers, and paper cups.
I know I can’t compare, but I must share anyway. Look at all the the sharing. Everyone hold hands! 
One of my dogs loves pickled veggies. Especially the jalapenos…and she won’t touch the celery.
The other…well. We’ve only found one thing she won’t eat-- Jello.
Thank the gods for this board. I thought Joplin was the only dog in the universe to dine on used feminine hygiene products plucked out of the trash. Seeing the other posts, I feel better.
Jops has also eaten: a bee skep, part of a wicker chair, gnawed the wood off the corner of the sink cabinet in the bathroom, part of the wood molding in the hallway, and several heels off shoes. I don’t think he’s ingested much of these items – tho’ he’s left some strange looking shit in the yard.
Currently Joplin is obsessed with paper towels, mail (try explaining that one to the water company – “yes ma’am, I think my dog ate the bill.”), and ears of field corn that the idiot neighbor puts out for the squirrels (and that the squirrels drop in the yard as they run for their lives when the hounds are released).
These are the just the non-food items. Basically, the only food item he won’t eat, that I know of, is pickles.
I had a hamster once. I think it was a hamster. I named it lucky, because I saved it from being released into a field.
I had a little plastic tank-thing that I kept it in.
We were poor, so my pet supplies were low-grade K-Mart stuff.
I knew that rodents were supposed to have wheels to run around in, so we bought him this bright yellow plastic wheel.
He ate it. The whole thing. Took him about a week, if memory serves.
Both my mom (Kat Lady, the op of the thread) and myself were floored.
I had a hamster once. I think it was a hamster. I named it lucky, because I saved it from being released into a field.
Actually he was a gerbil.hehe…although if you remember correctly he also figured out how to open his cage…which led to his untimley demise…he got into the rat poison that the landlord had under the cabinet where the sink was in the kitchen, you were so upset about it
Actually my moms scotty dog ended a rodent problem we had when a feeder mouse got loose and populated the kitchen with offspring ,
It wasnt the fact he ate them dead hed spend hours stalking and
chasing them after about a month he got rid of all them ice single handedly
Little did I know that they bred scottie dogs for that purpose …(Is this true btw or just a tale I was told?)
I have raised three puppies so I have endured the chewing stage three times. I crated my dogs but sometimes you think… oh I’m only going to be gone for 10 minutes so it will be ok.
I have come home to find feathers and sawdust on many occasions.
Strange food stuff… Tera loves apples. If I cut them up for her she will eat an entire apple. She likes to “graze”. Sometimes when we are walking out on the bayou she eats all kinds of grass, stickers, twigs, shrubs, etc… if I let her she will just stand and graze like livestock. Weird.