Never met a cat that didn’t love ear wax.
I used to have a cat that went crazy over cashew nuts. I don’t care where she was in the house, when she heard the lid unscrewing, zooommm…she was there. And she would get aggressive if I didn’t pay her off fast enough.
Looker T. Booker T. Babycakes Bean loved mint. Candy canes, Lifesavers Wint-O-Green, toothpaste, he was all over it.
Our First Cat: bagel & cream cheese, ice cream, tapioca pudding, my mom’s gigantic lemongrass plant
His successor really enjoys his cocktail shrimp. And he’ll get super aggressive and petulant if he doesn’t get one every time the blessed freezer door opens.rkey
My cat only eats smoked turkey, sardines, anchovies, albacore tuna, cream cheese and cheddar. obligatory cat lady photos
My last kitty was absolutely indifferent to human food with three exceptions (from his perspective). Once when he was trying to kill a moth it flew above his leaping range and I smacked it into a wall in passing. He dove on it, ate it, and gave me a very superior look, having taken my prey. He would also, if I opened a can of tuna, drop by to let me know that if I happened to have some extra tuna lying around he would be quite happy to take care of that for me. He would do this in a cat way, very nonchalant and fully prepared to not have been asking if I hadn’t been offering.
The third one was moose meat. My uncle hunts, my aunt preserves the meat in Mason jars, and because moose are really, really big everybody in the family gets some. The ordinarily very calm kitty who would meow quietly to remind you he was there if you had tuna would frantically climb your body to get the moose if you were too slow to give him some. For those of you who’ve missed the joy of having a 20lb cat climb you, way to go. It’s not fun.
I can’t help but wonder if this is some sort of secret that the naturalists haven’t yet figured out. Perhaps vast numbers of domestic shorthairs gather in secret to hunt down and, eventually, kill a moose, sharing out the bounty in tiny chunks amidst a feeding frenzy. Later, they return to their houses as if nothing had happened. I saw that “Amazing Journey” movie. Those wee buggers are smarter than they look.
Moose are quite a bit larger than humans. Somebody should make sure this isn’t happening before the felines decide we can openers aren’t really necessary anymore.
I once bought a box of one of the Celestial Seasonings teas, and left it on the counter. The next morning I found the box on the floor, ripped open, torn-up tea bags and tea strewn all over the kitchen floor. Yup, one of the tea’s ingredients was catnip.
And all of my cats have gone crazy over green olives.
Hoover (RIP) loved cream of wheat. He would “share” mine on cold mornings and would get very upset if I ate too slowly! I learned to eat cream of wheat fast so he could have the bowl. He didn’t care about cold cereal or any other breakfast foods, but he went nutso over cream of wheat. He amazed me once when on the first cold morning of Autumn he showed up in the kitchen while I was microwaving my first cream of wheat of the season. He let me know he was ready for the cream of wheat, too, dancing and yammering! We used the microwave all the time and he never particularly cared or even paid any attention. And I had not made cream of wheat since Spring. How did he know that *this *time I was making cream of wheat? I miss that big old kitty.
Our current kitty, Chutney, has bamboozled us by being the only cat we’ve ever met that didn’t like fish. Even tuna. Not interested! Cats are weird people.
Oh yeah, in terms of “non-edible” things, Julius also enjoys Etoufee of Rubber Bands, Grilled Dryer Lint Sheets and Pasta Pomodoro of Fringe. He ate a pound of leather fringe off of all the “shakira style” belts my parents brought me back from India. I don’t wear them so they were hanging in the back of the closet. I always wondered what he was nipping back there for-turns out it was for his “Fourth Meal”.