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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 09:22 AM
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What special treats do your kitties like?
Mine (well sort of mine, they live with my mom) love the usual list of stuff: shrimp, chicken, turkey. However, one of them will try to scrounge bites from anything she sees on the table, whether it's a bowl of black bean soup, a plate of broccoli, or a bowl of ice cream.

We used to have a cat who loved cantaloupe, of all things.
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Qanisqineq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 09:25 AM
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1. I have a cat that likes any kind of melon
and many tomato products -- salsa, spaghetti sauce. My other cats are picky and the only human food they like is cheese.
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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 09:27 AM
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3. I think all cats like tomato products.
Mine love the stuff.
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 03:59 AM
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44. I wouldn't allow my cat to consume any tomato product.
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Qanisqineq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:24 AM
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11. I forgot, one of my cats likes Junior Mints
I don't let her eat them but she licks the box and plays with it. When I am eating the mints, she is constantly trying to get the box away from me.
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Maineiac Donating Member (361 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 09:26 AM
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2. We do not give our cats "people food"
but our orange tiger stripe cat will jump on the table and munch on canned peas if we don't keep an eye on him.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 09:30 AM
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4. Tofurkey and vanilla soy milk. Jesus, even my cat's weird.
:eyes:
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stuntcat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 12:17 PM
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21. you DID raise a wierdo!
:rofl:
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REP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 09:37 AM
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5. Scallops, Cake
Every now and then I'll bring home a piece of cake from a bakery, and many of the cats act like I brought it home for them. It's weird. I once had a cat who LOVED Hydrox cookies; I'd buy my once-a-year package and she'd tear apart the package and gorge herself on them.

Thomas is a cat who pretty much likes catfood and not much else, but boy does he love scallops and calimari; I found that out when I dropped some of mine on the floor one day and he hoovered it up. When he feels poorly, I make up a batch of scallops and calimari for him. Yes, he's a little spoiled, but he's a very sweet cat.
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dropkickpa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 09:45 AM
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6. Don't have a cat now
but an old cat of mine was completely unable to resist these


No matter the consequences (an entire summer of being attacked by the parents) he was just unable to resist eating baby blue-jays. He didn't like people food, he was a great hunter. He'd only give us the parts he didn't like when he caught something (usually feet, tails, and beaks when he got a bird). Anything that was smaller than him was fair game (baby bunnies, squirrels, lizards, rodents, etc).
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kedrys Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 09:53 AM
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7. Each one has his or her own
For Evie, it's breakfast. Eggs, bacon, breakfast bars, kashi cereal...you know, breakfast. :)

Imhotep likes beef fajitas (no cheese) and roasted chicken. He'll beg for the latter.

Neutrino and Quark like itty bitty pieces of hot dog.

The other guys like regular kitty treats, thank Bog.

Plato likes me to blow on his nose so he can get a whiff of what I just ate. He's not necessarily interested in the food itself, just what I ate. It's weird.
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fizzgig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 09:53 AM
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8. one of my cats
who lives with my dad loves pickles but won't eat chicken, she'll also chew through the bags of bread products and chow down if we leave them on the floor while we put groceries away.

at home, my sweet fat girl goes batshit over french fries and once tried to swipe an onion ring from my hand.
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AwakeAtLast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:36 AM
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13. I have a cat that tears through bread bags, too!
Any time we are eating any kind of bread product, she's right there waiting for her bite.

Both of mine will wait patiently for the ice cream leftovers. :)
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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:58 AM
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15. Oh yes! Ice cream.
If I forget to leave the bowl on the floor for the cats to lick, I get a dirty look that can melt titanium. :-)
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KiraBS Donating Member (195 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 02:56 PM
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31. I used to have a cat visitor that would raid our cupboards...
My house was part of his manor... we would find a mountain of Co-Cat dry biscuits on the kitchen floor often.
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femmedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 12:20 PM
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25. I have one who eats the bread bags, too.
He doesn't like the bread. Only the plastic. :( We have to hide all plastic behind closed cabinet doors.

For treats, both he and my other cat LOVE freeze dried liver.
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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 04:50 PM
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37. Ugh, our Persian did that.
And our house was a mess, so she could get hold of plastic really easily. You'd chase her off one bag and she'd go find another.

She finally grew a brain stem and stopped after getting major surgery (including spleen removal) for the consequences.
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China_cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:12 AM
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9. I had a cat who would fight you for bites of
Pupperoni...the dog treat. Absolutely loved the stuff. We lost her last year. She was 23 and aged out of the system.
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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:18 AM
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10. Both my cats love tuna...
Which is only natural, but Erin goes nuts over the yolks of hard-boiled eggs.

I give him a quarter or half of one on occasion.
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ThatsMyBarack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 11:44 AM
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18. Mine, too!
They always know when I'm about to make a tuna-salad sandwiches, and they BEG me for bites of tuna!
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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 12:26 PM
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27. Bats have sonar, cats have "tunar."
I don't even have to have the can of tuna out of the cupboard, and both my cats are at my feet, begging. :-)
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carly denise pt deux Donating Member (855 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:35 AM
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12. My cat goes crazy for green olives
She can smell them when I open the jar and she begs for one.
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stuntcat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 12:21 PM
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26. sTranGe
neato.. but strange, I think.
This is all making me want to go try out everything on them to see what they like :crazy:
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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 05:23 PM
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38. I had a cat who did that!
One Thanksgiving, I had the table all set. The turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, three different kinds of vegetables, and a pickle plate with olives on it. I was in the living room trying to get everybody to go into the kitchen to eat, when I hear giggling. I got to the kitchen to see my cat on the table, devouring the olives. No turkey dive. Just olives.
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:50 AM
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14. Marinara sauce
If I'm the only thing between Calico Sophie and a dish of spaghetti sauce, my life ain't worth a plug nickel!
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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 11:06 AM
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16. My cat doesn't like eating broken glass
Otherwise, everything is a treat for him.



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AwakeAtLast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 11:17 AM
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17. If mine smell yougurt, butter, or bacon they come a-runnin'
One will take the yogurt container with her to get as much out as possible!

It's too funny!
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slj0101 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 11:48 AM
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19. Turkey bacon, pork chops, popcorn, Doritos,
the condesation off the sides of a water glass...

All of these are accidental discoveries. The Dorito thing was an accident. The SO was eating them one evening, and the cat kept bugging her for one. She gave him one to shut him up, thinking he'd hate it.

He didn't.


And he gets table scraps on special occasions (holiday dinners, when we have company, etc).

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GenDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 12:10 PM
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20. My cat's favorite treats are the ones she rustles up herself
She finishes everything but some of the internal organs.





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KiraBS Donating Member (195 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 02:59 PM
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33. LOL
Mine did that alot... she would leave the bits at the bottom of the stairs so give us a morning surprise.
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AirmensMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 02:41 PM
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53. LOL!
:rofl: That's Sylvester's favorite, too! Crunches like popcorn! :9
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MistressOverdone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 12:17 PM
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22. Empty tuna can
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 12:17 PM
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23. corn chips
have to watch her about corn - she will get into the dog food (corn based) and eat that - and of course hack it back up on my bed.
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 12:19 PM
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24. Those tiny cans of cat food,fancy feast
Barney and Morrison won't eat human food but Daniel will! So, every know and then I will cook her up a chicken breast. She loves it!!
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idgiehkt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 12:28 PM
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28. 23 hours a day of bedrest
That's about the only treats they get. Because any others, they'd have to move to make use of, and that would be taxing.
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KiraBS Donating Member (195 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 02:51 PM
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29. My cat...
The one in the picture below died in January. She was 20 and I miss her but it was inevitable.
As for treats, she was a demanding so and so and so. She was always looking for food from the table.
It is was chicken, turkey, fish or ham, she want nuts for it, she liked green veg it is had melted butter on it. She loved ham best.
And she loved breakfast food such as toast or cereal, if you ate cereal she would what the leftover milk and bits at the end, she would clean the dish.

I had another cat that loved crisps and ice cream (not together)but we were poorer then so he got less treats.
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 02:54 PM
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30. Dried Shrimp
He'll practically do cartwheels for them.
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anti-everything Donating Member (627 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 02:57 PM
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32. One of my cats loves cheese,
the other one is kinds strange, he likes pickles, jalapenos, and Guinness. He also once stole a whole slice of pizza from my girlfriend.
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Kajsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 03:18 PM
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34. Darwin likes Kefir-plain, lowfat Kefir.

he also loves ranch dip made with Kefir cheese.

If I put the bowl of dip on the table, he'll eat over
half of it when I'm not looking.

I don't leave it unguarded, anymore.
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GoneOffShore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 04:46 PM
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35. One of ours did too
And another was a freak for olives!?
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KiraBS Donating Member (195 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 04:49 PM
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36. Oh and these things were demanded,
so not exactly treats. She would campaign with maximum noise and disruption, she was relentless.
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Norrin Radd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 12:38 AM
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39. My cat is obsessed with wheat grass.
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PaddyBlueEyes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 12:38 AM
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40. Mice
hahahahahahah....
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 12:51 AM
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41. Potato chips!
My oldest kitty loves 'em! If I have some, I have to share with her.
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Drum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 01:24 AM
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42. I don't presently live with a cat,
but I think they like





I didn't make this .gif, but I do love it so.
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querelle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 03:12 AM
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43. Doritos
My late kitty Gizmo loved Doritos. I couldn't open a bag of the things without him running from where ever he was in the house to beg for some. He would actually drool while he gave me this pleading look. He would only eat two or three and then go away satisfied.

I sure do miss him.

Q
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RumpusCat Donating Member (548 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 08:46 AM
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45. McDonald's French Fries and Ben Gay
Not together, altho' he might like that even more! He LURVES the fries from McD's and goes nuts when I bring them home (it's not often). When I put Ben Gay or a similar product on my legs he tries to lick them and will roll around on the couch where my Ben Gay'd legs were. :crazy:
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 08:48 AM
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46. mole-bellies
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 10:25 AM
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47. Salmon. My dad gives them salmon.
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ganeshji Donating Member (401 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 11:19 AM
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48. Cats are so strange sometimes.
I have one cat who eats olives and blueberries, the kitten likes cheerios and pig's feet.
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 11:37 AM
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49. my cats like chips/pretzels and cheese
seriously. They usually don't eat it, just lick some salt or sniff and the dog comes by and finishes it off.

But both cats have been known to steal a potato chip or tortilla chip from the bag.
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astral Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 12:55 PM
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50. Shrimp! And . . . . canned asparagus?
My cat goes bonkers for shrimp. I occasionally buy a pack just to give him some for a treat for a few days since I don't buy meat for myself and he's relegated to canned / dry cat food most of the time.

I had a previous cat who went nutso over a can of asparagus, til I finally had to give him some and he was crazy for it so I give it to my current cat too if I happen to open a can. He likes it, and also will eat a few canned green beans but generally is more interested in his canned cat food than in what I am eating.

Once when he was on my lap I was crunching some plain Ritz crackers and he begged me for a bite, and ate one or two nibbles but that was it.

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scarlet_owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 02:36 PM
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51. Nico likes anything out of a bag, like potato chips, cheetos, etc.
My stepmom had a cat who liked cantaloupe.
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 02:38 PM
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52. I have a cat that goes nuts over Mexican food and
Italian food. Her special treat is Chicken and rice soup when I cook it. Actually, all my cats line up on the kitchen floor and wait when I start cooking. I believe they would hold plates and spoons if they could. They know when I start cooking even before I have all the ingredients out of the cabinets and fridge.
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