We usually get strawberries every week, and supervenusfreak will stem and slice them in the living room, while watching TV. And every time he does this, all three cats suddenly become VERY interested in what he’s doing. The only other time they do this is when he’s cleaning shrimp (but that I can understand…cats and seafood).
Is this a common thing or are our cats just weird? Or is that not mutually exclusive?
Your cats are just weird. I never heard of such a thing.
Then again, none of my cats even like people food. (Did you forget the SDMB rule about pictures in threads that mention cats?)
postcards, either you are a freakishly good photographer, or you have some of the prettiest cats on earth! No shit; those are outstanding portraits!!
As for the OP: I always thought it was honeydew melon that cats had elected their Unlikely Produce Fetish. Maybe they had another convention recently.
I once had a cat that was cuckoo for canteloupe.
I like the coloration of the fourth feline…that kinda grey-ish purple color coat makes their eyes really stand out.
That said, I hate cats anymore. They smell up a place no matter the amount of litter box maintenance. You can always tell as soon as you walk into a place whether there are felines or not.
Sorry, I need to go to bed now, I’m ranting. Apologies for the hijack (it’s really a long story with much cat-love in between).
I swear I’m not gay…did I just agonize over the duality of my relationships with fucking cats?
Get scratched much?
:smack:
Yeah, I did! Rectification below.
Macy - very young…this was taken at about 10 weeks. Macy is our Stewie…I swear someday she’s going to kill us all in our sleep, put on our skin and take over the world with her human disguise…
Scraps - same time. She and Macy are littermates. Mom was a black and orange calico. Scraps is a gray and peach calico with a very “Pheobe” (from Friends) disposition.
Princess Chocolate Pudding (I DID NOT NAME HER!) - Our problem child. This is the one with the attitude and the willfulness to act out on it.
I think they are associating the strawberry behavior with the shrimp behavior. My cat shows up whenever I open a kitchen cabinet because he knows that is where I keep the tuna. Your cats are probably hoping for some shrimp when they see someone slicing things in the living room. If you let them smell the strawberries I think they will lose interest.
I haven’t noticed anything with strawberries and cats but a couple days ago I made a quick salad to take to work and I cut up some olives on top then loosely put the cover on the container while I put the rest of the stuff back in the fridge. I turned back around to see a cat had knocked the lid off the container and was in the act of stealing an olive. I have known a few other cats that seemed to have a thing for olives.
Raw spinach is what brings out the deviousness and even some aggressiveness in mine.
Cats are carnivores but I have found most will eat a plant, I’ve read some of them even turn into herbevores (well totally true) but once a cat discovers he/she likes plants she may eat them.
My mother grows aloe plants and my cat will sink it’s teeth into the fleshy part and suck the aloe juice. I don’t know why, she seems to have developed a taste for it. Other than that she’s a meat loving cat. I have seen her even put cheerios in her mouth, but she’ll just spit them out and now she prefers to play hockey with the cheerios instead of taste them
She’s a vampire kitty and she’s trying to build up her immunity to sunburn. I wonder if that would have worked for Bunnicula. Or Nosferatu. Tell her it won’t work, aloe has to be applied externally. Incidentally, aloe juice is good for hair. Which may be why Dracula had such a righteous coif.
Yeah. I should probably go to bed.
By the way…
You need to keep the cat poopers in the garage. What’s that sound that a cats tail makes when it’s going back and forth? Oh never mind. 
Every cat I’ve had has been ga-ga over canteloupe. Our present critter also like tortilla chips, probably because of the salt. Sorry, no photo.
Many cats have a weird human food “thing”. I had one whose “thing” was pimentos.
It is unusual for all three to have the same “thing”, however.
My current cat will not touch any human food, oddly.
Absolutely. Every cat I’ve eve had has gone crazy over olives, especially green ones.
Z wants corn chips. (And, at least in that picture, to be left alone.)
Actually, it’s probably the noise he’s making that is attracting them. He’s likely creating small rustling noises, that to a cat seem similar to a mouse or other prey moving around.
I’ve found several things I do that attract my cats attention like that, and they will leap up and look around to see if there’s a mouse in the vicinity.
Agreed about the misplaced association. I had a friend who used to “call” her cat by running the automatic can opener. The cat came because it associated the noise with cat food being prepared.
