Pawcurious Vet Blog: With Pet Blogger and Veterinarian Dr. V

My old kitty Fizzgig always wanted to eat whatever I was eating. She LOVED Fritos. She drove me bonkers while I as making corned beef and cabbage on St. Pat’s day, so I gave her a huge cabbage leaf, figuring she’d see I did not have much to interest her. She ate the cabbage and came back for more. She also once stole the button mushrooms out of some Thai leftovers.

My friends had a cat that would steal citrus fruits on the counter. The things that cat would do to grapefruit were hideous.

One of my cats is very strange. She will ignore most food – including fish but goes crazy for caramel dip, hummus, dried pineapples, and one particular kind of frozen yogurt that has blueberries in it. The caramel dip is her absolute favorite, it is the only thing she will beg for even if it isn’t out.

Another one of my cats can smell pita bread from miles away and run straight to it. Not just any bread, but pita in particular.

My Eesa LOVES Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce. She also like tortillas, and once ignored a pork chop left on the counter, in favor of steamed broccoli.

Q would go nuts for banana bread and poppyseed muffins.

Romeo loves lasagna and pizza.

Our dearly departed baby Molly LOVED ranch dressing.

Roger, another cat now at the RB would literally swipe cheese out of our hands and run off into the corner and devour it.

I once had a cat who LOVED asparagus, mushrooms and broccoli. He would literally swipe them off of our plates.

I had another who loved bread/cake products. Once a friend was watching her in her own home for me. The woman’s son came home from school and called his mother in a panic, claiming that they had a Giant Mouse or Rat who had stolen the brand new loaf of bread from the kitchen counter and dessimated it to mere crumbs in the wrapper. My friend was convinced her son was making it up to cover the fact that *he* had eaten the bread. When I found out, I had to laugh because I knew what had really happened to the bread!

I currently have a little kitty who will eat just about *anything*. She especially likes Chinese food.

And I have a silly male orange tabby who, for all of his life, has told us we were trying to poison him whenever we offered him turkey. Suddenly, this year, at the age of 14, he has decided that he likes it. A lot.

And all of my cats have always loved pizza crusts — I’m not sure if for the taste or the crunchiness and the way they feel on the gums.

My cat Muffin used to like popsicles, licking cheetos, and cleaning the bowl after I ate spaghettios or canned soup. She would beg for table scraps and hit my mom on the arm constantly during dinner.

My other cat Milo, he never begged for food ever. He was a little odd.

Our Cat won’t touch any ‘Human’ food, but will munch on the occasional dog cookie crumb she finds. Her true passion is flowers. Doesn’t matter what kind, she will finagle a way to where they are and eat them. I have not had a bouquet yet without a missing flower or two and teeth marks on it.

I left a ham sandwich on the cupboard once and my kitty ate the bread and the lettuce but left the ham.

Ben and Henry don’t really go for people food much, but Henry… he’s another story. He likes it all! He particularly likes popcorn and ice cream. We tried to capture a video of him the other night (to no avail, of course…) He cried every time I moved my spoon from the bowl toward my mouth. It was SO funny! Crazy boy.

My parents cat, Ringo, has some weird food choices…Popcorn, marshmallows, cheese(he loves cheese!), the husks off sweet corn, and will pretty much steal what is available if you leave your plate unguarded.

My husband and I’s cat, Charlie, is total opposite. He doesn’t try to steal food or has any weird tastes, though he does eat popcorn. He likes to beg for tuna, canned chicken and turkey breast.

I also switched my cats to an all canned diet a few years ago. My cat Omar had the hardest time. I’d come down to the kitchen in the morning and the loaf of bread would be ripped open and some eaten. The poor guy had become a carb addict from all the carbs in dry food and the withdrawal was too much for him. The bread stays hidden now so we don’t have a relapse.

I have 5 cats, and only one so far really likes a variety of things:
The middle of a soft french roll, kinda mushed into a cube,
Dried seaweed (She will nearly snatch it from me on its way to my mouth if I don’t give her some first!)
Cookie dough
ranch dressing
Fresh grated Parmesan mushed into a cube (her brother loves this, too!)
4 out of the 5 love grass. I take them out on short, supervised backyard trips, and they just sit and eat the grass. I call them my little goats when they do this.
Some non edible items she just lies to chew, not necessarily eat:
plastic bags ( I have no idea, she likes to chew these, so I keep them out of her reach.)
The end of the curtain rod. The tall cat tower is next to the window, and she likes to do this, too. Not just rubbing her cheek, actually chewing on.

Max tore through tin foil to eat a pumpkin cake (and cream cheese icing) and also ate through a plastic bag to the potatoes inside. He was a lovely weirdo.

This isn’t really food but I’ve always wondered and worried about this. No one has ever said it was bad, just weird. Maybe you can enlighten me. My first Maine Coon, Naphtali, used to love licking plastic. He would lick the grocery bags. I wondered if it tastes like water–or something else. Then my second Maine Coon, Kelly, does it too! They both liked licking the plastic liner in the trash can! Our other non-Maine Coon cats have never done this.

Thanks for giving me a good laugh, Dr. V. Believe me, with 6 cats, I can relate.

My elderly cat Tommy eats everything. If you leave anything remotely food smelling out, he will eat it. I once watched him pick up an entire potato wedge off my plate and the devour the whole things. He’s a tiny cat, 5lbs at most, but he can put food away like you wouldn’t believe.

Things Tommy goes bonkers for: Doritos, popcorn, french fries, broccoli, shortbread, rice, quinoa, gummi bears, and pretty much any dinner I make. He’s a total food hound.

I remember one night, I had a sleepover with my friends (I was about 8 or so), and we were eating a bag of smart food (basically just white cheddar popcorn). Well, my 20 year old tiny cat Grizzy decided that the half bag that was left belonged to her. I woke up to find the bag ripped open and every inch of the surface of it cleaned.

Cats are scavengers.

One of my cats LOVES bread. Will hijack my grocery bags and attack the plastic just to get at the loaf. Another cat likes eating lettuce. And, of course, shredded cheese and butter are a fav!