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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-11 11:14 PM
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What strange food do your critter(s) like? My cat just tried to lick peanut butter
of my knife. I took it away from her. Don't know if it is bad for cats or not.
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7wo7rees Donating Member (913 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-11 11:18 PM
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1. That's nothing.
My one Siamese does broccoli, pork rinds and licks plastic bags.
My other Siamese will do cashews, but no other nut, thank you.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 06:57 PM
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15. My friend's tabby did broccoli.
He weighed well over 30 lbs. Hmmmm..

Also our beloved Kwan Yin was mad for fried chicken! "It's paw-lickin' good!"
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-11 11:40 PM
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2. It must be fun to watch a cat with peanut butter stuck on its tongue.
Edited on Mon Sep-12-11 11:53 PM by The Velveteen Ocelot
Cats who have owned me, or who currently own me, have been known to eat the following:

Cantaloupe
Green olives
Bread
Corn on the cob
Corn husks
Wheat Thins
Blueberry yogurt
Chow mein
Popcorn
Centipedes
June bugs
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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 04:42 AM
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7. My dogs have incredibly long tongues.
I found that out when I gave them peanut butter.
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BrendaBrick Donating Member (859 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 06:40 PM
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14. Green Olives...
I had one cat who loved a green olive. You would have thought it was catnip or something! I don't know what it was about it, but he would roll himself around it...never ate it - but was definitely attracted to it for some strange reason ~
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nolabear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-11 11:49 PM
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3. Bunny the Cat loves fruit, particularly stone fruit.
Peaches, plums, cherries, she loves them more than meat. Watermelon, bananas, oranges, juicy stuff.

She also loves cereal, particularly Special K.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-11 11:52 PM
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4. When my Inky first met a fruit - I think it was a banana - she started to swat it like it was
so unpleasant vermen.
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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 07:12 PM
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19. Cats hate the smell.
Every cat I've had hated bananas.
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 12:18 AM
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5. My mother used to have a Siamese cat who loved creamed corn.
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suninvited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 04:08 AM
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6. I had a tuxedo cat who loved it too
well, she loved corn of any kind. Whole kernel, creamed, or right off the cob.
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Chan790 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 06:30 AM
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8. I once had a kitten...
named Charcoal who quite by accident we discovered liked popcorn and beer...so much so in-fact that she began to turn up her nose at everything but popcorn and beer. No dry food, nor wet food. No kibble. No roughage. Nothing she could predate upon (we tried crickets)...she refused to eat anything but popcorn. She'd drink water...but never leave your beer on the ground or on any table she could reach because she'd headbutt it over and lap lap lap. Meanwhile the vet is getting ever more pissed off at me and saying I'm abusing Charcoal.

I'm like "You see if you can get her to eat food then, doc. I'm spending more on microwave popcorn for her than I'm spending on food for me."
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betharina Donating Member (313 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 06:36 AM
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9. my aunt's tuxedo cat loved olives, the pimento stuffed kind. my persian, clifford,
liked fruits and pistachios. he would wake up from a dead sleep for pistachios, but hated fish. my kramer loved food. any kind. whatever i was eating, he would sit next to me and try to guide my hand to his mouth, instead of my own, with his paw. i miss my kitties:(
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amyrose2712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-11 01:16 PM
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25. Aww. Sounds just like my late Scratchy! Miss him to pieces.nt
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 09:24 AM
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10. My wie's sheltie will eat ANYTHING she eats - and she uses a lot of hot sauce.
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 05:39 PM
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11. All my dogs have loved peanut butter.
Don't have any cats, so I would not know their reaction.
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OriginalGeek Donating Member (589 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 05:50 PM
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12. My aunt's dogs would sit there
and let you feed them sliced cucumbers until you were out or they exploded whichever came first and they really didn't care if it was the latter.

We can't leave a glass of iced tea unattended without finding our cat face down in it lapping it up like she needed it to preserve the last of her 9 lives.
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-11 02:52 PM
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29. I have a dog who will eat watermelon, corn on the cob, banana, and dearly loves bread.
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MerryBlooms Donating Member (940 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 06:23 PM
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13. Vanilla
Our Manx is crazy for vanilla flavor, especially plain cheesecake, ice cream or whip cream. Just a few licks off your finger and he's done, but man, he doesn't let up until he gets it.
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 06:59 PM
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16. My pisspot kitteh demands my egg yolks every morning
She'll "mow" at me till I make fried eggs and will keep yelling at me till I drizzle the yellow stuff into "her" paper plate--the one she demanded be filled with finely diced chicken breast twice before the eggs--once when Mr. MG set foot in the kitchen and again when I arrived--but she polishes off the chicken long before the egg yolk lands in her plate, so that's okay. Because mixing them would be weird, right?

She's not spoiled. Not at all. :eyes:
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 07:07 PM
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17. My cat, Kamere, loves veggies and cantaloupe.
Help me Jesus if I try to slice cantaloupe in secret.
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 07:12 PM
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18. Chipmunk.
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 07:24 PM
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20. My dogs love coffee (although one will only drink it with cream and sugar)
And ice cream.

And one of them loves beer. And bourbon and Coke.

Bake
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Shagbark Hickory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 08:18 PM
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21. The feces of other animals. Ducks and rabbits in particular.
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 08:19 PM
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22. Another melonhead in my household
My cat loves cantaloupe and honeydew melon. She'll do peanut butter, too, but not too much of it. She will drink soy milk, too. My first cat adored baked goods. She'd rip into bags of bread and eat hunks out of it. I once left a tray of muffins on the stove to cool. I came back a few hour later, and she had taken a bite or two out of each one of them. She also loved Italian food and El Charito Mexican TV dinners and donuts. She would lick the tray clean after I ate the dinner. The old man adored beans, squash and pumpkin.
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 09:02 PM
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23. I also had a cat who loved bread.
We didn't dare leave bread out on the counter because he'd tear the plastic wrapper open and gnaw big holes in the crust.
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-11 02:48 PM
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28. A friend of mine's ex-roomie had one, too. But, only Roman Meal bread.
He would drag the whole loaf down the hall and into my friend's closet, where he would then consume it. He left every other brand of sandwich bread alone.
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amyrose2712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-11 01:13 PM
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24. Kittah iz addited to hummus and seems to love lima beans...
started going after my brussels last night but I was having NONE of that!
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mcar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-11 02:06 PM
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26. My dog would carry out a hit for peanut butter
He's also crazy about my homemade multi-grain bread. He just waits for an opportunity to snag it off the table if we forget and leave it there.

I had a Siamese mix cat who loved spaghetti (cooked, plain or with sauce, she didn't care). Just sucked the stuff down.
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CherokeeDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-11 02:23 PM
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27. Celery....
One of mine loves celery...he will lick it, eat it, roll on it, rub his face on it. Sometimes when I open the refrigerator for something and the door stay open for a minute, if there is celery on a low enough shelf, he will have his head inside rubbing against the celery. I learned to keep in a drawer or on a top shelf. He also loves cheese, milk with sugar, and waffle syrup.

The other cat...chicken, turkey, steak, chicken. turkey, steak...you get the picture....

I have had dogs who loved watermelon, olives, Brussels sprouts, all kinds of weird things...
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Avalux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-11 02:53 PM
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30. My dog loves raw pumpkin.
Edited on Wed Sep-14-11 02:53 PM by Avalux
Last year when I was outside carving pumpkins for Halloween, a chunk fell on the ground (I think it was the eyeball cutout). A large chunk, and Jake is a little rat terrier. He hauled it off and happily proceeded to munch on it til gone. Then he wanted more! :hi:
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madmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-11 07:31 PM
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31. My cat loves sweets, he will take a cookie or sweet roll out of your mouth.
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-11 08:31 PM
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32. PRETZEL!
That's what we started to call our Sandy! (Named after Sandy Koufax, even tho she was a she!)
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Luciferous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-11 09:27 PM
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33. My dog loves carrots
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