What is the weirdest food your cat wants to eat?
What is the weirdest food your cat wants to eat?
By weird I mean outside of regular cat diet, things like cornflakes, ketchup or banana bread (these are real examples from my and my friends' cats).
Broccoli. The vet says it's ok.
Granpa Rex Allen, a Texas-dwelling Sphynx/Devon-Rex cross, regularly consumed broccoli. He lived to be 34 years and 2 months old.
From here: https://modkat.com/blogs/modkat-purrr/worlds-oldest-living-cats-how-to-tell-if-your-cat-will-be-one
@mihnt and @landflucht that's so weird, I came in here to talk about a cat I knew that would beg for the cut off stalks from raw broccoli!
Not my cat, but a family friend's. The cat would go nuts for olives. One of them liked having olives on their pizza, and the cat would eat their way through unattended pizza boxes to get to the olives on the top of the pizza.
I once housesat and the cat would bite any soft fruit as well as through the plastic bags of snacks if left unattended. I'm attaching the photo of what a peach bitten by that cat looked like. I hope the attachment works, first time trying this
I used to have a cat that went nuts for cantaloupe. Like she would eat through cardboard to get to it, then gnaw through the rind and hollow it out.
Reminds me of my old cat who would eat watermelon
I let my cats sniff almost everything, and they usually walk away. For example, today I let them sniff some both raw chicken that I was preparing for my own dinner, and both gave it a few good sniffs before walking away. Most recently, I discovered that my youngest enjoys peanut butter! I believe it was the same cat who has also tried to eat my dried mango on multiple occasions. It was either my oldest or a friend's cat who repeatedly took me up on the offer of banana chips.
My cat goes nuts for cheese. It's the only time he lets out his aggressive demanding meow.
My folks' cats will eat that cardboard box. Seriously, they have to be really careful not to leave any boxes out.
Spinach, Broccoli, Green beans and peas
My little idiot is very confused about his role in the food chain
Before my wonderful cat passed away, he was never interested in "people food". But there were 2 exceptions that he went absolutely bonkers for: ranch dressing and Taco Bell.
Made me question the true edibility of both.
That they're so delicious it crosses species barriers?
Maybe! Definitely maybe!
My girl craves bananas and will circle the table when my son and I are having breakfast, demanding her share. She also likes pita chips.
My old boy (RIP) used to love avocado and seaweed snacks.
Mine sits politely at the counter while we cook (no paws on the counter) waiting to taste anything we are cooking.
I don't think she knows she's a cat.
Onions. She has stolen them from my plate and came for more.
PSA: Onions and garlick are poisonous for cats!
My cat is fine, though. Not letting her have it anymore.
Edit: oh, and chips! Any kind.
Cats are so ridiculous, honestly - this is poison? IDC, Gimme! 😂
If it weren't for humans they'd long be extinct. 😂
"Hey, what's this?" Scratches gorilla playfully and lays down on side 😅
Avocados, bread and cheese. Also they will do anything for chicken nuggets.
Unfortunately, I also own a tiny human as well, whose preferred diet also consists of the same things and has a short attention span. The cats adore tiny human as she is a source of unguarded treats.
The struggle is real.
God help me as tiny human just found out about avocado toast with shredded Parmesan..... The cats are thrilled.
Oh no, your cats are millenials, now you'll never afford a house!
One of my cats loved fruit. She was a 7 toed blue eyed white cat that loved canteloupe as a snack.
One of our cats care's 0% for most foods but will beg for provolone cheese. Only provolone.
And tuna but that's not weird.
I used to have a cat that would go mental for Pringles. She would not leave you alone if she saw a can in the house until you would put it down on the floor for her to see for herself that it was empty.
Omg same. I'd try to be extremely quiet if I was opening a can but this bugger would come sprinting from across the house and try to eat them as I was putting them in my mouth. I do miss that lil shit though.
I have two cats that are both crazy for their own reasons.
One is just in love with marshmallows. He will not eat them that much, but loves to bite and kick them. I think, he just loves the texture of that. He also love to lick every sweet there is. We have to keep him away from glasses with fountain drinks, because he will lick edges.
Second one just loves plastic. When he is hungry, he will not look for food, but for plastic to chew instead. Any plastic bag, ribbon, anything, he will munch that until he will choke... Twice I had to pull a present ribbon from his throat... It's especially hard on Christmas 😃Olives, maize, and tortilla flatbread. He went mental when these were present.
I also had one who went crazy if he smelled olives in the house 😂
Water chestnuts. No idea why.
C R O N C H
Kalamata olives and raw tomato. I showed them to her just to let her know it wasn't something she'd want, but she calmly ate them.
The bottom of a kitchen cabinet at the air gap of the skirting (licking it). Only ever when I'm getting his food ready. Never any other time.
It's a weird appetiser, I guess
Our plastic Christmas tree. It's a constant battle.
my parents had a huge vet bill last year because dummy loved that plastic flavor
Bread. Even if it's in a plastic bag he'll just tear through it once you leave the room.
Glad I'm not the only one who has witnessed this insane behavior. I made the mistake of leaving a grocery bag with bread on the floor once and only once. My youngest cat went ape shit and I came back into the room to a bread massacre right through the plastic bag.
I have zero idea what drives this
My one cat likes to eat paint chips. It's a battle to prevent him from doing so. He also likes fries and will steal them from my plate. One of my other cats likes taco meat and my third cat is crazy about cheese.
My cat loves spicy. She's licked chili powder off my plate
Does "his own vomit" count? I found him behind a table munching and crunching on something. Turns out he had thrown up there at some point, it went unnoticed, dried, and he was eating little dried bits of chewed up "party mix" snacks.
Really, this seems efficient. Recycling.
All the cats we've had love nori.
Max, may he rest in peace, loved to share anything. He loved cooked collard greens, beans (especially garbanzo beans), potatoes, but would try anything and also always wanted us to try whatever he caught. (Yuck)
Forest, he loves all the usual cat stuff, fish and chicken and butter and cheese, nori, and also loves cooked greens.
The girl cats are/were less adventurous eaters, though good hunters and more playful. Both have only eaten cat food, tuna, nori. Disdain for anything unusual.
The corners of drywall in my house. Hes fine he’s just an asshole who thinks he’s going to starve if he can see the bottom of his food bowl.
Mine likes to lick butter off buttered toast
If I leave butter out mine will just start eating the stick.
Garlic bread. Which I can't let him have, because garlic is toxic to cats.
I have a cat that likes olives, particularly spicy ones.
Ginger cat loving butternut, I think he loves the color
My one cat always tries to steal my marmalade and bread. His favorite food is shrimps.
The green leafy tops of strawberries.
Asparagus peels, he loves them.
Chipotle burritos
Aged white cheddar and parmesan. He won't touch any orange Cheeses but anything aged he is all about it. He is a kitty with refined tastes. 🧀🐈
My cat will have the junky orange cheeses. We have to call out that the crinkly sound is the sound of human(intended) cheese and not cat(intended) cheese or she's in the kitchen and highly interactive.
Plastic. Especially if it makes a loud crinkling sound.
Mine will sniff anything I eat, and anything I might drop on the floor, but has never actually proceeded to eat any of it.
If she looks very interested and it's safe for her to try (I eat a lot of garlic lol, which isn't), I'll give her a crumb, but she'll mostly sniff a bit more then leave it. The only thing of mine so far I've found she actually does eat and asks for more is doughnuts, which I only give her a tiny crumb of every now and then..Mine used to do this, now he'll try to eat pretty much anything
tortilla chips and popcorn, only human foods she'll eat...
My oldest cat eats anything you leave on the table, except citrus and after that he cleans the stove by licking it. He has a nutrient absorbtion problem, so he just barely keeps above minimum weight.
My former oldest, now deceased cat really liked black olives and would also eat green ones.
Poor cat! I hope you don't like onions and garlic in your food.
Yes and yes. I also use a hefty amount of chili sauces.
I try not to leave anything for them to scavenge, but they still manage to find something.
btw. I have a theory that cats are immune to capsaicin.
tortilla chips, mayonnaise, and french fries (esp mcdonalds). though these days he'll sneak a bite of literally anything he can find.
Empty sunflower seed shells. Straight up cracking them, despite me blocking it. Also zucchini boiled with tomato sauce. One fervent attempt at a watermelon slice, munching down half of it.
Mine loves the bottom of a bowl of cereal.
The amazon packing tape.
It has a flavour!!
Olives, corn, Taco Bell hot sauce.
One of mine likes chewing on wires to electrical devices. He used to do it only occasionally, but at some point he got the hint that I'm shooing him away when he does it and now he'll start whenever I'm at the computer and he's upset I'm not giving him adequate attention. He stops by and stands up against the chair to let me know he wants attention, and if I explain to him that I'm working on something and you'll need to wait, he'll immediately move to chewing at the wires.
This along with the fact that he's more interested in me the second I start talking on my phone means I have to leave the room absolutely any time I want to answer or make a phone call.
I love him and he might have the happiest disposition of any cat I've met, but he's really an asshole sometimes. He pounces me when I'm sleeping sometimes too which can really hurt if his nails get me.
A carpet
Corn and peanuts. Either of those might as well be cat treats.
Ranch dressing, plain white rice.
Phone charger cords.
Anything with cheese flavored powder. He'll lick that stuff off sun chips, Doritos, Cheetos, etc
My cat was huge into fried chicken and in particular McDonalds chicken nuggets. She would try to eat that shit right off my plate.
Cat food probably
Last one: keyboard
My cat didn't have a particular food, he just wanted anything I was eating. One time he caught me off guard as I put a piece of chocolate (dairymilk oreo bar) to my mouth and took a big old chomp out of it.
😱 I hope your kitty was ok after that!
Cookies! He's not interested in salmon, ham, cheese, tuna, or any of the usual things. But you have a chocolate chip cookie and he's in your face until you give him some. He's not allowed the chocolate, and I don't think that's what he wants, he just loves the sweet beige American diet.
Popadoms. If there’s any left after curry night he will search them out and eat the lot
