My cat, Mocha doesn’t eat anything unusual… just her z/d food allergy diet…
But this post made me fall off my chair laughing. It’s the best thing I have read in several days. 
We had another cat called Bilbo and he used to eat rubber bands and also tip up the wastebasket looking for God only knows what. When he didn’t find what he was looking for he’d give my wife a disgusted look and stomp off and procede to kick his cat litter all over the hallway.
He also used to perch on the edge of the bath when anyone was in it (a voyeur?) but soon gave that up when he slipped in a couple of times.
I have a photo of Maggie, sitting on the couch, pushing down the side of a cracker with her paw and daintily nibbling on the other side.
I have another of Jasper eating strawberry tops. He also likes corn shucks.
Mr. Caddy Bumble ate some of that green plastic Easter grass once. A day or two later, I had to (gently!) pull it from his… you know, his ass. Poor thing.
My little meatloafs believe they are being starved each and every day, and so are excellent scavengers. Lately they’ve been into filching olives, cheese of any kind, cooked noodles and of course meat from our plates (we try to keep them away, but sometimes the manage the sneak attack).
Just this weekend, they managed a whole series of thefts. I’d made rolls from scratch and left them to cool on top of the tallest bookshelf in the living room. Went out for an hour, came home to find a roll murdered in the center of the floor. How they got up there, I don’t know. Same day, my husband came home with some groceries, including a pound of sliced deli ham. He went to put it away, and couldn’t find it. Checked the receipt, and yup, he’d bought it. Checked the car, ham wasn’t there. We found it in the living room floor, in exactly the same spot as the roll had been. They’d eaten through the bag and taken out a huge divit of meat.
The next day, I decided to cube up the bread for stuffing. I get the white bread off the top of the fridge, and see they’ve eaten a divit out of it. So I get down the wheat bread and cube half the loaf, and then see the divit out of the remaining half.
Little bastards. I love them so much.
My Bandit loves the cotton on the end of Q-Tips. He won’t bother you for real people food, he likes his kitty food. But those Q-Tips… I’ve had 3 different hiding places so far for the box of them … He also loves chewing on cardboard.
Both Bandit and Bella will eat anything found on the floor that isn’t carpet. Well, they will at least try to eat it. Usually my SO or I have to chase them around to take it from them before they do eat it. I have to make sure the floors are clean so they don’t try eating every random thing that falls.
I’ve just discovered that my two guys, Sy and Carter, love raw pie dough. When something falls on the ground, they usually sniff it and then move along. This time though, they nummed it right up and soon Sy was sitting on my shoulder trying to get some more…weirdos.
Electra, may she rest in peace, was fabulous hunter who loved field mice. She had an unfortunate habit of leaving parts around, including a still-beting heart on pea-green rug one time. Can you say “DAAAAAADDDDD!!!”? She also liked peas, but only out of the pot. You could, f’rinstance, cook a pot of peas, serve what you wanted and leave the pot on the stove, or she’d go for it.
Lacey, my mom’s cat really seems to like dog food, but that’s ok, because the dog likes cat food. She will drink water right out of your water glass, however, sticking her whole fuzzy head into the glass and just lapping away. She prefers ice cubes, but simply cold water will do in a pinch.
My darling Daisy doesn’t eat a lot of wierd things, but she, too likes the occaisional piece of dog kibble. She almost always mews for Chinese food, but if you give it to her, she just sniffs it. Maybe she thinks she can inhale it. If you leave it unattended, she’ll very carefully bat a piece off your plate, knock it to the ground and eat it.
BTW, Master Wang-Ka, I think I just had a small heart attack reading that post. I immediately pictured a kitty with a napkin tied around its neck and knife and fork sneaking up on an unsuspecting victim. Thanks for a great laugh!
Dr. Faustus enjoyed potato chips, too.
He wouldn’t actually EAT the potato chip, but he would carefully pin it to the carpet with one paw… being careful not to break it… while he licked all the salt off it.
Then he’d play with it awhile, until it got knocked under the couch or something, and he’d forget about it.
Cleaning day was always interesting at my house…
My cat Shadow, before he was my cat, when he was still an outdoor boy belonging to my (now ex-) boyfriend’s neighbor, used to catch and decapitate mice. He would then remove their guts through the head hole, lick all the guts clean, then arranged them on the front walk. Amazing. He would then eat the body. I thought of him as the feline Jack the Ripper. Now, on the rare occasions when he catches a mouse in the house, he still decapitates them but no longer eats them or guts them. He’s gotten lazy in his retirement.
Master Wang-Ka: Once, I had a dream that an alien space grub with big pincers was biting through the base of my skull. When I woke up, I realized it was my cat Dolphie gnawing on the back of my head. Wacko.
My new apartment (I am a student and I am going to a new school) allows cats. I was on purina’s website and it talks bout cats eating q-tips.
Cats like human body fluids. That is why they will chew on q-tips.
I will try to find the link and post it on here.
I really love to read these posts, not especially for what the cats are eating, but the NAMES !! You people are very imaginative namers …
I Am The Troll…
Rubystreak, that would creep me out beyond imagining.
The worst I ever had to deal with while asleep was that my eyes would begin to feel peculiar… and I’d wake up because Chaos was parked on my chest, licking my eyelids because she felt I had been asleep long enough.
I don’t know WHAT I would have done if I’d had some sort of peculiar DREAM about that…
Master Wang-Ka, the idea of a cat trying to eat a full-grown man’s head is making me laugh my ass off. While my cat’s haven’t gone that far, one of them will bite toes if she gets the oppuratunity so you have to be careful in the bathroom and when you where sandals. She also loves licking the bathroom faucet She chews on plastic bags all the time but I think that’s mostly to annoy us and get our attention. Other than tha, her eating habits aren’t too abnormal.
My other cat’s habits are little more unusual, though not so much as some of the others mentioned (used condoms!?!?). He’ll go after toilet water at any oppuratunity. He loves cheese, especially spicy jalepeno cheese. When he was younger he used to hunt flies too and eat them whole.
For some reason, cats are attracted to my husband’s arm pits. Not just one cat, or two cats, but three cats so far. He’ll be lying on the couch, and a cat will snuggle up to get stroked. The cat will work her (so far, all the cats doing this have been female) head into his armpit. Soon, she’ll be licking that armpit (yeah, gross). And if he’s not careful, the cat will sink her fangs into his armpit, right up to the gum level. All the cats that have done this have done it multiple times. Apparently, his arm pits are VERY tasty. But I’m not gonna try them.
Of our two current cats, the male tabby only likes cat kibble and cat treats. The female Siamese, though…well, she likes the Q-tips, and hair elastics, and plastic bags. She also likes asparagus, which she will choose over steak. We can’t eat avocado without giving her a spoonful of it. She likes all sorts of veggies. Of course what she really loves is the meat course, unless it’s hamburger, which she won’t eat. It’s gotten so bad that I frequently fix her a plate* when I’m dishing up our dinners. It’s particularly vital that I do this if we have poultry or fish. She recognizes uncooked chicken and turkey, and will tell us that we really don’t have to cook it, she’ll take it raw. Oh, and she likes pizza crust…not anything else, just the crust. She loves anything dairy, as well. Milk, ice cream, cheese, it’s all good to her.
We had one cat who LOVED to lick off the powdered sugar on donuts, and she also enjoyed angel food cake.
*I guess I’m really spoiling her when I do this…I looked down one day and realized that the cat was getting a serving of everything WE were having for dinner…grilled steak, mac’n’cheese’, corn, and asparagus.
Armpits. My old kitty Kzin would jam her nose in my armpit and chew on the hair. I never figured out if it was the deodorant or the sweat that she loved.
Likely the sweat.
And when you begin setting your cat a place at the table and her own plate… well… let’s just say yours are more spoiled than ours are.
And ours are spoiled.
Then again, if you can teach 'er to use silverware, you might be onto a money maker here. I mean, how much mileage did SNL get out of Toonces? And he couldn’t even drive all that well…
I once had a big old indoors-only cat named Figaro, who had never seen another cat, and thought he was the only one. One day, I found a little kitten outside, and adopted it. This was so traumatic for Figaro that he stopped eating his food, cracked open an audio cassette, and ate the tape. For several days, every time he pooped, some of the tape would come out with the poop, and he’d be walking around with tape and poop trailing behind, so I had to cut it off each time. (I had tried to gently pull it out, which resulted in a very angry Figaro.)
My current cats are more normal. One eats the other’s vomit, and the other eats emery boards.
Lynn: My cat Dolphie loves the armpits of certain men. She will, like your cats, go so far as to lick and nibble them, the smellier the better. She also loves smokers and all things nicotine; she will shred and eat cigarettes given the slightest opportunity. This is the same cat who chews on aluminum foil and bites my head at night.
I just read somewhere that it’s OK for cats and dogs to eat raw meat b/c their stomachs are more acidic, which protects them from salmonella. Anyone know if this is true? I don’t eat meat anyway, so my cats only get their meat in cat food, but I’m still curious.
Peas, had a cat that loved to lick plastic too. (Heard later this was a nuerosis of some kind and needed a Vet’s treatment? This is unconfirmed.) Stickers off sticker grass. Bread. Q-tips. Peppercorns from Salami.
My husband’s cat has eaten Strawberries, once ate a small metal nut (It wasn’t pleasant coming out Hubby reports.) and loves to chomp pencils.
A little of the subject, but we had a cocker spaniel/chihuahua mix that ate oranges, grapes and bananas. Odd little dog.