My pure breed Rusian Blue cat, Napoleon, goes completely stark raving crazy over watermelon. If we cut one open he’s jumping all around, meowing super loud, and jumping up on our legs until we give him some. I’ll give him a huge piece and laugh as he spits out the seeds while he eats it. He absolutely goes nuts over it. I did a little experiement and found that given a choice he’ll take watermelon over a fresh can of tuna.
What food does your cat go crazy over? I mean completely nuts.
Well, my cat does get somewhat excited when she sees lizards running around [sub](oh, I just love finding lizard heads all over the carpet).
My cat goes nuts over Tuna, not the top of the line brand not the ultra cheap ---- and stinky ---- Walmart bottom brand, but a middle of the road type.
A recently deceased cat of mine, may he rest in peace, the poor little guy, used to go absolutely nuts over raw beef, cooked chicken and tuna. Normally a quiet cat, he would just go crazy when I came in with cooked chicken or started cooking it. He’d virtually crawl up my leg if I let him to get to it, then sit meowing and purring by my feet, looking up at me, occasionally reaching out a paw to snag my cuff as if to ask me ‘is it ready yet’? Then he’d walk around my legs, meowing as I cut him off a portion, cut it up and blew on it to cool it down and he’d wolf it down when I gave it to him. One night, he ate almost an entire chicken breast sitting on my bed as I ate, wolfing each piece down, finishing up before I could finish my piece, then sitting there, purring and meowing and reaching out with a paw as I cut him another portion.
I miss him, may he rest in peace, but he was 14 rich years old when he passed and my other cat isn’t quite as nuts as he was over foods.
oddly enough my cat refused to eat anything except for her dry cat food. give her some good fish, sniffs it and walks away. anything but her dry food and water, sniffs it and walks away. it is SO wierd!
Welcome to the SDMB, RnGy9, and I’m so sorry to hear about your little guy – we call our cat that too, “our special little guy.”
My kitty goes bonkers over peanut butter. Plain, actual peanut butter, or cookies, or anything even remotely flavored with chemicals to taste vaguely of peanut butter. Gryffin seems to like the sensation of having his jaws stuck shut with it.
I have another cat, Bunn E. (pronounced “Bunny”) who is half siamese, half british shorthair, and he is exactly the same way. He won’t touch anything but his dry food and water. He won’t even eat kitty treats. And he only likes cheap food like Alley Cat, which I guess is good because it saves money.
Well, they aren’t exactly my cats. Heh, heh, heh.
When she moved my dear sister sent me by air two of her cats, who arrived looking like they seen all of their dead ancestors. I thought “uh-oh”. Dead cats=very upset sister. So I bought them a large selection of hot food from the local roach coach. They ate the shish-kabob chicken.
Now we get to the meat (or vegetable surrogate) of the story.
I bought all the food she told me to, but being a major animal lover, I felt they might want to eat the same fresh tuna I ate. Well, they were so-so on that. I’m puzzled. I stick my nose in the cat food can. AAAAHHHHGH! What a stink! Now I’m REALLY puzzled. I taste it. It’s AWFUL. But there’s a kitty face staring at me, wondering when I’m goin’ to relinquish the can. “Ok, cat,” I think, “if this garbage smells good to you, I’ll help it out.” So I put it in the microwave. ZZZAP! The cats look interested. I open the microwave door. Oh, boy! Nasty, nasty. Like the conscientious guy I am, I stick my finger in the sloppy crud to ensure it isn’t hot. It’s ok after I stir it. I set the plate down. Instant disappearance. Very fast eating indeed. Clean plate.
Some weeks later I return cats to my sister, who complains that the cats now come every time they hear the sound of the microwave. Heh, heh.
I knew a cat who was crazy about cantaloupe. Possibly they’re related, pkbites?
My cats don’t have such outre tastes, but if they go crazy for anything it’s probably turkey. Sliced deli turkey. Not chicken. Not tuna. Just turkey.
No way can you eat a turkey sandwich in peace around here.
My brother brought home some Zingers one day. Red Zingers covered in coconut.
Our three cats went insane. They had to have Zingers! They climbed all over us. So we gave them a little and they gobbled it up.
Since then they haven’t been very excited about Zingers. They might eat a little piece, but I think they’re just humoring us.
Whitebait for my cat. Do you have it in the U.S.? It’s almost too expensive for human food let alone cat food but if there’s any in the house my cat acts like a deranged addict. In fact, I’m sure that if, by means of food technology, the “essence” of whitebait could be extracted and used as a petfood flavour (in the same way shampoo can be made to smell like real apples, for instance) cats would probably need rehabilitation clinics.
my cat really loses it over corn, plain canned corn. the only way i could keep her away would probably be to break all four legs and throw her against the wall repeatedly, so i’ve stopped eating corn. and i liked corn!
the same applies to the evil, horrible, orange-colored petroleum byproduct used to fill lean-pockets, things i eat when i need something warm, but only have 5 minutes to eat. my protection method for this involves airborne kitties.
My Siamese loves milk and ice cream. She’ll try to stick her face into my cup to get at it. Sometimes I’ll pour a little milk in a dish for her, but I don’t give her ice cream (well, not any more). She also has a thing for water, especially if it’s in someone else’s glass. I don’t know how she knows you have some (I would have thought water was odorless), but if you leave a glass of water unattended at my house, be prepared to have a cat face stuck in it.
Hot Wings and Chinese barbeque spare ribs.
She’ll climb all over me to get them and then fights with them.
It is the weirdest thing to see a cat walking around fighting with a rib bone.
throws up arms CATS!!! Lamost as hard to understand as the … um … opposite sex
We’ve got two cats. One isn’t unusual at all with his cravings. He just likes fish flavored canned cat food.
The other one is quite odd. When my wife is eating Skittles he climbs onto her lap and just smells the fruity goodness, at first. Then he tries to knock them from her hands as she’s taking them to her mouth. If he’s successful, he does his best to eat it, but cats just aren’t constructed well to eat Skittles.
He also is crazy for Wheat Thins.
Is it any wonder he weighs around 20 pounds?
My neighbor’s cat loves cantaloupe as well. Unfortunately, it causes him intenstinal difficulties, so she has to hide the melon from him. He will chew through the rind to eat it.
My childhood cat loved it when we put our leftover spaghetti in his bowl so he could lick the sauce off it.
My parents’ cat is a cantaloupe fiend, too. Also likes Avocados, and will eat through the peel to get to it.
My late cat Emily was driven wild by the smell of green olives. I used to love green olives on cream cheese on a bagel, but I practically had to hide in the closet to eat it. A persistent cat is really something to see. My late cat Simon was the same way (albeit a little more dignified) iver graham crackers.
Haven’t figured out what the trigger food is for my current cat, Higgins.
My cats, Lillian and Dorothy, are retro enough to love tuna, like RnGy9’s cats. I enjoy tuna, too (OK, let’s get all the filthy jokes out of the way), but not enough to fight the Gishes over it. I swear, my mother in Philadelphia could open a can of tuna, and my cats’ ears would perk up.
They also used to like Cheez Doodles, back when I still ate the things from time to time. They would jump up in my lap and lick the Cheez off, leaving me holding a wet Doodle.
My cat, Kamikaze, loves anything meaty. In particular, she enjoys polish sausages and beef but won’t touch it if it has chilli on it. At the beginning, she would stand up on her hind legs to get it, and now that she’s realised that cute = more meat, she’s begun walking around on her hind legs and miaowing prettily.
None of my cats were allowed people food from the day one, and subsequently showed no interest in anything but cat food.
However, I’ve had three different, unrelated cats who would jump on the kitchen counter (which normally they NEVER did) to go after… pumpkin pie.