# The following is not cat food **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 18, 2004, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-is-not-cat-food/269780 "2004-10-18T04:18:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**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:** [October 22, 2004, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-is-not-cat-food/269780/81 "2004-10-22T23:44:56Z")
We can add pumpkin loaf to the list. I was eating a slice for breakfast, and Maggie leapt up onto the table and began licking the top before I could stop her. ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-is-not-cat-food/269780/82 "2004-10-23T00:27:11Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > But then he would be a dog, not a cat! No, if he had eaten eight of the donuts, broken up and stepped on the other four, and then had the runs all over the house, he would be a dog. ---
**Author:** ![bowler\_girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7993a0/32.png) [@bowler\_girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bowler_girl)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-is-not-cat-food/269780/83 "2004-10-23T01:31:09Z")
Willow, aka “World’s Cutest Kitty”, surprised me twice. Once, by eating all the carrots that my roommate had left on his plate after eating garlic pork. The second time she found an unguarded pbj sandwich. She seemed quite partial to the raspberry jam. Another kitty, Simon, she of no tail and a boy’s name, wouldn’t touch shrimp or any other kind of seafood but give her some Hardee’s roast beef or a Kraft single and she was in heaven. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-is-not-cat-food/269780/84 "2004-10-23T05:46:14Z")
I just found out this week that Thor is a fiend for pretzels, Bugles, and fortune cookies. Definitely not an Atkins follower. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-is-not-cat-food/269780/85 "2004-10-23T21:49:19Z")
My first cat, Muffin, got her name from her penchant for blueberry muffins. And she adored corn on the cob. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-is-not-cat-food/269780/86 "2004-10-24T03:10:24Z")
I forgot to mention that Buffy loves lemonade. We even have a picture of her daintily sipping it from my mother’s glass. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-is-not-cat-food/269780/87 "2004-10-24T23:23:03Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > To my girlfriend’s cat: > > … > > Blueberry muffins are not chairs. I laughed until I cried at that last comment. I can’t get the visual out of my mind of the cat non-chalantly parking it’s butt on someone’s treasured blueberry muffin, then acting all innocent as if to say “oh, did you want that?” ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-is-not-cat-food/269780/88 "2004-10-25T09:53:50Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I forgot to mention that Buffy loves lemonade. We even have a picture of her daintily sipping it from my mother’s glass. That’s really weird. My cats run away from citrus smells, especially lemon. It’s fun to tease them with lemon yogurt; the dairy smell attracts them from long range, but the citrus smell repulses them when they get close. They sort of bounce back and forth a bit before eventually leaving in disgust. ---
**Author:** ![Engineer\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc29f/32.png) [@Engineer\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engineer_Dude)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-is-not-cat-food/269780/89 "2004-10-25T16:22:29Z")
My cat’s breath sm… Nah, better not. ---
**Author:** ![Lathe\_of\_Heaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Lathe\_of\_Heaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lathe_of_Heaven)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-is-not-cat-food/269780/90 "2004-10-25T17:04:41Z")
My Jack will chew on my earplugs if given half a chance. I use the silicone kind, and if I leave them lying out, he will carefully pick them up and take them to a corner somewhere to have his wicked way with them. Fortunately, 1. he doesn’t seem to swallow them or any bits thereof, 2. silicone is believed to be biologically inert anyway, and 3. my bedside table has a drawer. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-is-not-cat-food/269780/91 "2004-10-25T17:44:14Z")
> [@Lathe of Heaven](#): > > My Jack will chew on my earplugs if given half a chance. I use the silicone kind, and if I leave them lying out, he will carefully pick them up and take them to a corner somewhere to have his wicked way with them. > Fortunately, > > 1. he doesn’t seem to swallow them or any bits thereof, > 2. silicone is believed to be biologically inert anyway, and > 3. my bedside table has a drawer. Jezabel loves playing with the little yellow foamy earplugs, she doesnt chew or eat them, but bats them around and carries them in her mouth like a toy mouse…and chases them in a strange version of ‘fetch’ 😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-is-not-cat-food/269780.md?page=4)