Weird cat tastes
wbg
I'll toss one out - our 8-yr-old neutered male tabby, Sir Pellinore,
AKA The Shredder, who loves all sorts of cheese, even including feta,
which is more than most humans can say, decided tonight that he is
cuckoo for raw chocolate chip cookie dough. Even with his history
of favoring the unusual we were surprised.
Anyone else have a kitty that craves cookie dough?
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Helen Free
Well, hmmm.....not to sound bossy here, but be sure not to give him the
chocolate chips--those can kill cats.
That is the funniest thing I've read in a while!! :-) Maybe he has a
definite sweet tooth.
My funny cat tale: I put my cat Calvin on his leash today (he doesn't go
out anymore after a mishap with a car), and we played around in the snow.
He loved it!! Does anyone else's cat like the snow? The other two are
perplexed, and don't really like it.
How are you and your kitty liking the snow and ice you're privy to down
that way? I saw you were in Portland, OR.
Cheers!
Helen and her three feline companions: Calvin, Hobbes, and the roommie's
cat Cinnamon
Jennifer T Luck
He might like the cookie dough because it has raw egg in it? When Milo
sees me pull an egg out of the fridge he goes into throes of ecstasy. I
can't mix things standing over counters or tables anymore. I have to
stand in the middle of the room so he cannot get to the bowl. P.S.- I
don't ever let him have raw egg, too much risk for salmanella (sp), but
we occasionally give him some hard boiled.
Christy
One of my cats will eat plums, peaches, nectarine and any kind of juicy
fruit. She really likes the juice off of an apple. When I eat an apple she
wants to lick the apple as I eat it.
Another cat I had loved anything I ate, especially Doritos. I would open a
bag and set it up against the back of the couch and he could jump up and
pull doritos out with his paws. When he went to live with my sister as I
had to move to Hawaii, he would get on top of their refrigerator and open
the rolled up bags and help himself to the doritios.
Christy
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jdkerkes
I thought any form of chocolate is deadly for cats.
wbg <w...@hevanet.com> wrote in article <69eqjr$g6e$1...@glisan.hevanet.com>...
> I'll toss one out - our 8-yr-old neutered male tabby, Sir Pellinore,
> AKA The Shredder, who loves all sorts of cheese, even including feta,
> which is more than most humans can say, decided tonight that he is
> cuckoo for raw chocolate chip cookie dough. Even with his history
> of favoring the unusual we were surprised.
>
> Anyone else have a kitty that craves cookie dough?
>
> Brewster
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> and they have many other fine qualities as well."
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Walker - Sharon Y.
Sparky likes small pieces of crackers, bread, muffins, pie crust, etc.
Maybe it's the yeast ...?
wbg (w...@hevanet.com) wrote:
: I'll toss one out - our 8-yr-old neutered male tabby, Sir Pellinore,
Kay Lancaster
On 13 Jan 1998 16:01:35 GMT, jdkerkes <jdke...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>I thought any form of chocolate is deadly for cats.
Theobromine is the chemical in chocolate that makes it toxic to cats...
chemically closely related to caffeine. However, as in all things,
"the dose maketh the poison", and so the effects will depend on
how much chocolate the cat eats, and how much theobromine is in the
chocolate (darker, harder chocolate has more theobromine than cocoa).
Chocolate chip cookie dough of itself isn't bad (except for the raw
eggs), and a slurp of chocolate ice cream now and then seems to be
well tolerated by most cats. But don't let them get into the baking
chocolate, for instance. (Most cats are smarter than that, however.)
Kay Lancaster k...@fern.com
just west of Portland, OR; USDA zone 8
wbg
Helen Free (net...@seanet.com) wrote:
: Well, hmmm.....not to sound bossy here, but be sure not to give him the
: chocolate chips--those can kill cats.
wbg:
Actually, it would take quite a few more chocolate chips than any cat
would be inclined to eat in order to do any damage to a cat of 8 pounds
or larger. Dogs are another matter - because of their eating style, a
dog of almost any weight can scarf down enough chocolate fast enough
to keel 'em over permanently.
Helen:
: That is the funniest thing I've read in a while!! :-) Maybe he has a
: definite sweet tooth.
wbg:
Funny thing is, he hasn't exhibited any particular affinity for other forms
of sweets in the past. One time I was preparing some Cheddar Hots(tm) for
dinner - one of the few "prepared" foods we'll eat is specialty sausages
of a wide variety - and we like the Cheddar Hots, which have red chili
flakes added and are actually fairly zingy even for those of us who are
accustomed to zingy (I cook Thai a lot) - so Sir Pellinore comes into the
kitchen & does his customary begging act - methinks, "OK, but you won't
like it with the chili peppers" - but the fool *did* like 'em - chowed
down on 2-3 small bits in a row, until I noticed his eyes were watering
and called a halt! The cat is whacko, for sure.
And it's not like he's starving, either - he's the best birder I've ever
known - nabs one or two juncos or chickadees or sparrows a day - and
always eats everything - beak, feet, feathers 'n all - sometimes we
wonder why we bother charging his dish with crunchies when we let him
in each night.
: My funny cat tale: I put my cat Calvin on his leash today (he doesn't go
: out anymore after a mishap with a car), and we played around in the snow.
: He loved it!! Does anyone else's cat like the snow? The other two are
: perplexed, and don't really like it.
: How are you and your kitty liking the snow and ice you're privy to down
: that way? I saw you were in Portland, OR.
We've been snowed in completely the last 3 days - we live at about the
800-foot level, while downtown Portland sits at about 70 feet ASL.
The nutso kitso has asked to go out in the snow several times, and has
stayed out a fair time on each trip. No accounting for cat tastes :-)
Brewster
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NYoung5585
>From: Jennifer T Luck <jl...@acsu.buffalo.edu>
>Date: Tue, Jan 13, 1998 09:26 EST
>Message-id: <34BB79...@acsu.buffalo.edu>
>
>
>I
>don't ever let him have raw egg, too much risk for salmanella (sp), but
>we occasionally give him some hard boiled.
>
>
9 Lives and Friskes has canned tuna with egg bits.
Nancy Young
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deteriorate the cat. -Mark Twain
NYoung5585
>From: Jennifer T Luck <jl...@acsu.buffalo.edu>
>Date: Tue, Jan 13, 1998 09:26 EST
>Message-id: <34BB79...@acsu.buffalo.edu>
>
>
wbg
Not necessarily, and not as a general rule. The active ingredient in
chocolate, theobromine, is technically a nerve toxin, about which
apparently not a great deal is yet known. Like any ingested toxin, there
is a direct relationship between the animal's body weight and the amount
of chocolate required to cause difficulties. It is my understanding
that few if any cats of 8 pounds or more are in much danger of damage
from chocolate, chiefly because they will probably not eat enough
chocolate, fast enough. Time is of course a factor as well, just as it is
with humans and alcohol.
Likely if you could force enough chocolate down a human's throat, and
they were slight enough of build, and you did it fast enough, they could
very well die from it. In practice, I understand that a human will
regurgitate long before the danger level can be reached. I do not know of
any specific experiments in this regard :-)
Brewster
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Rachel Polanskis
In article <69g34v$q...@mtinsc05.worldnet.att.net>,
Not that I have heard.
At least not in small amounts...
ClawdiePuss (Mr. Cat to you) loves romano cheese.
He also likes the occasional bit of ice cream (just a spoonful).
The neighbours next door (we live in a duplex) absolutely love him,
and spoil him with porridge for breakfast, and smoked salmon
and chicken.
We usually feed him things like raw chicken breast, fresh mince and topside
steak.
When it comes to canned food, he generally likes the cheaper brands
(more smelly?) but goes mad over some Whiskas brands occasionally.
He absolutely hates tuna, of any sort, but likes anything in aspic.
For treats he has romano, brie or camenbert cheese (only when we do)
but also has dried whitebait (small dried fish) and icecream as specials.
You would think he would be a rather heavy fat cat, but he's not,
rather he is muscular and sleek...
rachel
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In article <69gpgb$cih$2...@glisan.hevanet.com>,
w...@hevanet.com (wbg) writes:
> jdkerkes (jdke...@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
>: I thought any form of chocolate is deadly for cats.
I still don't know about that,
but I do know:
Never never ever ever feed a cat aspirin.
It will kill them dead or make them sick as anything.
When looking for a painkiller to help soothe a sick cat,
the vet suggested I could give it valium in a small dose, but
never ever give them aspirin.
Theresa Moyer
Jake likes cheese. He also likes popcorn, especially cheese-flavored
popcorn. One night I was sitting on the couch with a can of popcorn, the
kind that come out around the holidays with 3 different flavors. Jake
hopped up on the couch, stuck his head into the can, and came out with
one piece of cheese-flavored popcorn. I was just grateful he didn't
lick the cheese off and leave the kernel : )
Eve Bloomer
Hello everyone.
I had no intention to "delurk", was just enjoying other people's
stories, but I just _HAD_ to answer this one!
Miss Pearl likes just about anything I will eat, but this one blew me
away. Green olives!! Well, not the olives themselves, just the juice -
she goes absolutely nuts, rubbing the lid of the jar, exactly the way
I've heard that catnip is _supposed_ to affect cats... (Of course, NONE
of my feline companions has ever cared one way or the other about
catnip..)
Back to lurk mode - I'm LOVING this NG!
eve
wbg wrote:
>
> Helen Free (net...@seanet.com) wrote:
> : Well, hmmm.....not to sound bossy here, but be sure not to give him the
> : chocolate chips--those can kill cats.
>
> wbg:
>
> <snip>- methinks, "OK, but you won't
> like it with the chili peppers" - but the fool *did* like 'em - chowed
> down on 2-3 small bits in a row, until I noticed his eyes were watering
> and called a halt! The cat is whacko, for sure.
>
<snip>
> Brewster
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Eve Bloomer (eblo...@nospam.erols.com) wrote:
: I've heard that catnip is _supposed_ to affect cats... (Of course, NONE
: of my feline companions has ever cared one way or the other about
: catnip..)
Weird - I've never known a cat who *didn't* get crazy on it. Our current
tabby is an enormous entertainment whenever we let him have the catnip
mouse. And he must have a couple of Puritan Pussies in his background,
because he invariably gets a sorta guilty look whenever he's whooping it
up under the influence of the Evil Weed.
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Angela Lucero
Helen Free wrote:
>
> Well, hmmm.....not to sound bossy here, but be sure not to give him the
> chocolate chips--those can kill cats.
I don't think that it sounds bossy at all! None of would want to
unintensionally hurt one of our little doodles! (my word for cat)
AL =^..^=
Hackman
Jennifer T Luck wrote:
>
> He might like the cookie dough because it has raw egg in it? When Milo
> sees me pull an egg out of the fridge he goes into throes of ecstasy. I
> can't mix things standing over counters or tables anymore. I have to
> don't ever let him have raw egg, too much risk for salmanella (sp), but
> we occasionally give him some hard boiled.
I haev resisted tellin gthis story in this group, but as you posted on
eges, here goes.
While living in Rome we rescused a small near dead white little kitten
we ended up naming "Stir-Fry"
This little guy was a hoot. I had invited the people from work over to
our apartment for my Birthday party, and everyone was to show around
9:00.
My wife and I were fixing things for the party, and she was shelling
some boiled eggs to make devil eggs out of.
One dropped on the floor...little stir fry started bating at it, and as
he looked so cute, we just let him play with it, saying we'd clean it up
in a few minutes...
Well, he tried to bite it, and low and behold he found it was good !
Next thing you know he was eating the boiled egg like it was the best
thing he had ever had...we laughted our heads off, and didn't think much
more about it...
Well, 9:00 O'clock rools around and people started showing up. After
awhile the house was full, and stir-fry was having fun getting to know
every one (he was very socialable from the start)
Well, (maybe) you've guessed...next thing I know there is the really bad
oder starting to go around...seems that every time someone picked this
little guy up, he'd fart!
Big, smelly little kitty egg farts!
Now....you really can't imagine just how bad this little kitten
smelled! How could something so small smell
so BAD!!!!
If was one of the funniest thing that happened to us while we lived in
ROme...and to this day I still think of that stinky little cat...wonder
how he likes it over the rainbow bridge?
r.g.nixo...@xtra.co.nz
Our big black and white cat Tom loves banana muffins. He also likes to sit
under the table at tea time to catch treats 'dropped' by the children. I
did draw the line though to the toddler in her high chair, holding her
chicken bone down so that she could 'share' it with him.
konengro
> Big, smelly little kitty egg farts! wonder
> how he likes it over the rainbow bridge?
Well enough, I imagine, if he can get devilled eggs there.
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Rachel Polanskis wrote:
>
> In article <69gpgb$cih$2...@glisan.hevanet.com>,
> w...@hevanet.com (wbg) writes:
> > jdkerkes (jdke...@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
> >: I thought any form of chocolate is deadly for cats.
>
> I still don't know about that,
> but I do know:
>
> Never never ever ever feed a cat aspirin.
> It will kill them dead or make them sick as anything.
>
> When looking for a painkiller to help soothe a sick cat,
> the vet suggested I could give it valium in a small dose, but
> never ever give them aspirin.
>
> rachel
>
Like, the other poster, I have heard that chocolate is not suppose to be
good for cats. Well don't tell my cat, Tabitha, that she loves
chocolate. But it has to be cadbury's. Chaplin (my 2nd lord and
master) likes peach flavored yogurt (but not the peachy bits).
SVF
Sarah Fox
My Reilly was nuts about.... canteloupe. That's right, the orange melon!
If I didn't give him a nice big slice, he'd jump up on the counter and start
gobbling down the scooped-out pulp and seeds.
Veronika loves french fries, with McDonald's the favourite and Burger
King coming second...
And then there's our current pet-food schizophrenia, to wit: Brenin (the
dog) prefers cat food to dog food, and also insists on his share when tuna
or milk is given to the cats. Veronika (the 14-year-old) prefers Kitten Chow
to Senior Cat, whilst Gwydion (nine months) prefers Brenin's Pedigree with
Veg OR Senior Cat to Kitten Chow.... aaaah!!! Mealtimes sometimes feel like
a game of musical bowls, as I try to keep each one eating the correct food.
Eric Grimm
My cat, KatNipp like yogurt. We'll give her a little left in the bowl and
she'll gobble it up like we starved her. Also a fanatic for turkey, lays
chips and bananna. We usually feed some Purina kitty food though. Those
are just treats.
KatNipp & me
Jennifer T Luck
Big, smelly little kitty egg farts!
>
jtha...@usa.net
>
It is. Also onions. The latest source I have for this
comes from "Cats for Dummies", IDG Books Worldwide,
pub. date: August 18, 1997.
( Regardless of the title, quite an excellent book :)
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I also have 2 cats that come running if they hear the *snap* of a banana
peel ( even asleep upstairs in the bedroom). The same two and my little
one also love lettuce and all 4 love ice cream.
wbg
konengro (kone...@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
: > Big, smelly little kitty egg farts! wonder
: > how he likes it over the rainbow bridge?
: Well enough, I imagine, if he can get devilled eggs there.
: Paul F. Hoff
: Milton, WA
We got a tip from someone about Vaseline(tm) as a way to keep down
the hairball count. So we offered The Shredder a fingertipfull -
he went bananas over it instantly - and every night, all we have to do is
pop the top off the Vaseline jar, making that characteristic "click",
and he comes running for his fingerfull. Hairball count has fallen off,
and his coat has gotten glossier.
My friend who passed along the tip reports that every cat he's known
has craved Vaseline on their first taste.
Scuttlebutt has it that that expensive anti-hairball grease you shell out
for at the pet store is essentially nothing but plain ol' Vaseline.
Somehow I have no trouble believing that :-)
Brewster
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> Like, the other poster, I have heard that chocolate is not suppose to be
> good for cats. Well don't tell my cat, Tabitha, that she loves
> chocolate. But it has to be cadbury's. Chaplin (my 2nd lord and
> master) likes peach flavored yogurt (but not the peachy bits).
>
> SVF
No. No. No. Please do not ever give your cat or dog chocolate. Their
livers cannot break down some of the components in it and it is toxic to
them. For dogs there is a carob based treat that you can give them that is
specifically for dogs. But I am not sure if that works for cats too. But
no matter how much your cat may like the chocolate, never let them get into
it. It really can kill them very easily and can lead to severe liver
damage.
Just little ol' concerned me.
Beth
Carol Thompson
Onions are poisonous to cats??????????????????????
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Sarah Fox (rhyf...@msn.com) wrote:
: My Reilly was nuts about.... canteloupe. That's right, the orange melon!
: If I didn't give him a nice big slice, he'd jump up on the counter and start
: gobbling down the scooped-out pulp and seeds.
: Veronika loves french fries, with McDonald's the favourite and Burger
: King coming second...
Tristan loves honeydew melon, I cut up pieces for him and he eats them
up! He likes any kind of fruit except citrus.
But his favourite treat is Pounce, which he only gets a couple times a
week since its not good for him. But he will open the can himself using
his paws and mouth f I don't lock it away!
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Fish
We have 3 cats, Spike aka "The Princess", a tortoise shell calico, Mittens
aka "Loverboy" an almost all black kitty with extra toes and a white patch
on his chest, and Socks aka "Pukeboy", all with similar and dissimilar
tastes.
They all love cheese. LB and PB love Kraft slices and come running when they
hear us THINK about having a slice, however, Spike will have nothing to do
with that imitation stuff, she eats only real cheese.
Spike loves pasta, especially with sauce and also loves hotdogs with ketsup
(I didn't teach her that,I came in the living room from the kitchen and
found her finishing off my dinner).
LB and PB would die for a life time supply of...GARBONZO BEANS!! (eeww-ed.)
They go nuts if they think my fiancée is holding out on them. Actually they
go nuts when she DOESN'T hold out on them.
Loverboy loves strawberry yogurt (fruit on the bottom is best, by his
standards. He will sit right on our laps, nose to nose, waiting for us to
hand over the goods. He licks the foil freshness cover, the lid, and would
get his head stuck in the container if we didn't watch him.
They also love drinking from the magical fountain of water-from-nowhere.
Located conveniently in the bathroom. Spike prefers to drink from the falls
of the magical fountain.
ilambert
They are?Ive never heard of that before. Irene
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Danzig really likes yogurt. Specifically Strawberry or Peach, but she'll eat
any flavour. Whenever my s.o. or I get a little yogurt container Danzig
dashes over and stares at us 'till we put a spoonful on the lid and place it
on the floor for her.
If it's lemon flavoured yogurt her face will pucker and she'll jump on our
lap just to make sure we aren't eating good yogurt before she goes back to
her portion.
Rich Nistuk
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Big Foot loves the Wise White Cheddar Cheese popcorn. I have to give
him a couple pieces or he thinks he's being abused.
Eric Finlayson
> My Reilly was nuts about.... canteloupe. That's right, the orange melon!
>If I didn't give him a nice big slice, he'd jump up on the counter and start
>gobbling down the scooped-out pulp and seeds.
My moms cat also loves cantaloupe. She has been known to claw through the
garbage to find the rind.
I had anther cat that liked peanuts but not the skin on them.
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My Teigr will go crazy over spinach. She is not usually a thief but when I am
cleaning it she will run up and actually swipe a leaf then run off and eat it.
When she's finished, she will run back and swipe another. She has never done
this for any other type of food.
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MyJourneyy
>Funny thing is, he hasn't exhibited any particular affinity for other forms
>of sweets in the past. One time I was preparing some Cheddar Hots(tm) for
>dinner - one of the few "prepared" foods we'll eat is specialty sausages
>of a wide variety - and we like the Cheddar Hots, which have red chili
>flakes added and are actually fairly zingy even for those of us who are
>accustomed to zingy (I cook Thai a lot) - so Sir Pellinore comes into the
>kitchen & does his customary begging act - methinks, "OK, but you won't
>like it with the chili peppers" - but the fool *did* like 'em - chowed
>down on 2-3 small bits in a row, until I noticed his eyes were watering
>and called a halt! The cat is whacko, for sure.
One time, my boyfriend's roommate made red beans and rice, (really spicy). He
let the leftovers cool off in a big pot on top of the stove before putting it
in the fridge. Bailey got into it. I don't mean, just ate some, he was
standing in the pot, up to his tummy in red beans with it all over his face.
He obviously loved it b/c after we cleaned him up and tossed out the leftovers,
he searched for it all night.
Another time, he was eating some leftover broccoli. I wasn't sure if it was
good for him so I tossed it into the (outdoor size) trashcan that was about 10
feet away (from where we were standing). He didn't miss a beat. He got up his
speed running across the counter and dived head first into the trashcan after
it. It was so funny we did it about 3 more times before putting the lid on the
can.
He's also eaten salad (with Italian Dressing), radishes, pez, orange juice, an
apple, potato chips, french fries, biscuit with jelly, and a lot of other stuff
he shouldn't have.
TD drank an entire glass of iced tea the other day but he's usually a lot more
choosy than the baby.
Kim
MyJourneyy
>Weird - I've never known a cat who *didn't* get crazy on it. Our current
>tabby is an enormous entertainment whenever we let him have the catnip
>mouse.
Mine doesn't like it at all. We had a thread about that a while back.
Apparantly a lot of cats are unimpressed with catnip.
Kim
Naomi Diesendruck
MyJourneyy <myjou...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>One time, my boyfriend's roommate made red beans and rice, (really spicy). He
>let the leftovers cool off in a big pot on top of the stove before putting it
>in the fridge. Bailey got into it. I don't mean, just ate some, he was
>standing in the pot, up to his tummy in red beans with it all over his face.
>
>Kim
Thanks for the hysterically funny Bailey stories, Kim. The red bean story
reminds me of something Little Benni (RB) once did.... I sometimes make
a prepared product that is supposed to be Pad Thai (rice noodles with
a slightly spicy sauce which contains, among other things, dried shrimp.)
She was the only one out of 5 cats who would go nuts when I cooked this,
begging to lick the bowl, etc. One time I walked back into the kitchen
after eating to find her curled up in the cast-iron frying pan in which
I'd cooked it! (of course it had cooled off some by that time,
fortunately.)
Benjamin, on the other hand, loves garbanzo beans (mentioned by another
poster.) His favorite is when they're in spicy curry sauce, a la Indian
samosas. He also goes totally bonkers over Buffalo-style chicken wings
(very spicy!), much more than any other chicken. He will beg and whine
to be given dried-out scallion greens, too - he won't chew the fresh ones,
though, only the dried ones. His other favorite treat is sweet baked
goods, particularly crullers. He's a serious pest at mealtimes. :)
He also tries to walk right into the fridge whenever you open it...
Miranda is so addicted to spider plant leaves (a frequent houseplant
favorite among cats) that she has us all trained to pluck leaves for
her every day - and now she climbs up amongst the plants and helps
herself. We actually grow a large number of spiders just for her. :)
We tried the wheat grass a.k.a. cat grass approach, but she just prefers
spider plants!
Topcat (RB) used to love cherry pie with vanilla ice cream. If you
left the ice cream off, she would look at you accusingly. (We only
gave her tiny bits of this treat.)
- Naomi
Naomi Diesendruck
Hey, that's what my husband calls male cats! Where'd you get that
word from? (he makes up so many words I've stopped asking where
they come from - his fertile imagination, I suppose. :)
- Naomi, owned by two doodles, the Sunny Doodle (Benjamin - buff colored)
and the Noodle Doodle (Neutron.)
Hackman
other weard foods my cat likes
cream cheese
olives
pork skins! (put his head into the bag to grab one)
Joroha
If that was the truth, I would have one stiff, dead cat!!!!!!! She loves
onions.
> They are?Ive never heard of that before. Irene
Angela Lucero
> Angela Lucero <luc...@sequent.com> wrote:
>None of would want to unintensionally hurt one of our little doodles! >(my word for cat)
> >
> Hey, that's what my husband calls male cats! Where'd you get that
> word from?
Hi Naomi!
I dunno... That's just what they are. Doodles! Actually, my doodles
are both females... I never thought about a male cat being different
since I've only had females. Hmmmm.... I 'think' that the way I came
up with doodle (stuff like this is hard to remember) is that I think
they are doodle-brains if you know what I mean! :-) I also call where
they poop from their doodies... Does this mean that I think they are
poop-heads...? Sometimes! LOL!!! Seriously, I think that it's more
the doodle-brain thing or just the fact that it is a cute word for my
precious doodles! :-)
AL =^..^=
PS - I'll die if you tell me that your husband calls their poopers their
doodies... I'd find THAT hard to believe... ;-) Where did he come
up with the word doodle?
Marion Wagner
Re: Giving aspirin: Qualifier:
Except under vet supervision don't give aspirin.
I have an 18 yr old female tortie who due to arthritis gets 1 cherry
children's aspirin no more than once a week as per the vet. Come May
she'll be cruising on her 19th year
Amy Fonoroff
I keep trying to get my boys to taste something other than proteins -
fruits, veg, etc. - but so far all they want is chicken, turkey, fish and
other meats (which they get VERY little of). Wait - Ben Nevis actually
ate a cooked spaghetti strand last night. Penguin loves cereal milk, she
likes to lick bowls or pans with tomato saucey things, and occasionally
she'll eat a tiny piece of cracker or chip, and of course the meats -
but she HATES lamb! I wish they'd do something INTERESTING!
Tina M Noyes
wbg (w...@hevanet.com) wrote:
: Scuttlebutt has it that that expensive anti-hairball grease you shell out
: for at the pet store is essentially nothing but plain ol' Vaseline.
: Somehow I have no trouble believing that :-)
Most commercial hairball remedies are water-soluble (vaseline is not).
These are safer because non-water-soluble products coat the intestinal
wall, hindering the absorption of nutrients (especially fat-soluble
vitamins), and potentially causing infections by trapping bacteria
against the gut wall.
I would not recommend feeding vaseline more than once evry other month,
and even then - you could see an infection occur.
--
Tina Noyes
MSc student Biomedical Sciences, University of Guelph
http://tdg.uoguelph.ca/~peak/peaksters/tina/
Jean
I think you should read the ingredients of the commercial hairball
remedies. I have.
Jean
Tina M Noyes <tno...@uoguelph.ca> wrote in article
<6a5drb$2...@ccshst05.uoguelph.ca>...
Fish
Crunchy CheetosŽ -Loverboy
Teriyaki Chicken- Spike
Cary Kittrell
I once had a cat who would fanatically root out any
corn cob disposed of in any wastebasket in the house, no matter
how deeply buried, and then carry it around -- for days --
making that that unique "prey! My prey. Mine." sound.
--
cary kittrell When convention and science offer us no answers
steward mirror lab might we not finally turn to the fantastic as
university of arizona a plausibility? -- Fox Muldur
Not really. -- cary kittrell
Hackman
NYoung5585 wrote:
>
> Brandy likes broccoli(sp?), lettuce, cream of chicken soup,will kill for
> chicken or pork, any chesse sause, rosted gralic sause, yogrut, pasta, &
> cream filled donuts.
>
> BTW, does anyone know if gralic powder is OK for cats. *I know onion powder
> isn't.
>
> Nancy Young
> NYoun...@aol.com
>
> If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would
> deteriorate the cat. -Mark Twain
garlic, no problem....some even claim that it helps with fleas......
NYoung5585
forgot to mention her obsession for ground deer. She also likes polish sausage.
wbg
SheStep (bjs...@sprintmail.com) wrote:
: NYoung5585 wrote in message
: <19980122194...@ladder02.news.aol.com>...
: >BTW, does anyone know if gralic powder is OK for cats. *I know onion powder
: >isn't.
: I've heard it suggested as a cure for fleas, but I've never heard of it
: working. My cat won't eat anything with garlic in/on it, so I couldn't tell
: you my experience. I don't know for sure if it's *good* for them, but it
: prevents some cancers in humans, and I don't think it's bad for them either.
: --
: Shelia
: bjs...@sprintmail.com
The Shredder is quite attracted to the aroma of garlic, especially fresh
garlic - and though he won't eat the straight stuff, he has no problem
chomping down on meat that has a garlic flavor.
Brewster
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Body Double
BOTH my cats (Taz and Gremlin) love Cats Only, a treat/nutritional
supplement I saw advertised on the web. Gremlin pushes the jar (about
the size and shape of a peanut-butter jar) off the coffee table and
starts trying to pry the top off with his teeth. Taz just watches.
I highly recommend this stuff. It smells like dead fish would smell
if you fermented it for about a month inside a fisherman's shoe.
Yeah, awful. But the CATS love it. :)
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When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence.
When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-- Warren Farrell (American Psychologist)
Body Double
Gremlin loves grapes, raisins and olives.
Oh, not to EAT. Silly SILLY humans. To PLAY with. They roll ever-so-
enticingly across the floor....
Hanne Sunde
My cat Tips LOVES olives. He'll go berserk when he smells them, and beg
for some. Then he'll chase them around the kitchen before he kills and
eats them..
Hanne
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Tony Towers
k...@omit.dbtech.net (Body Double) writes:
> I highly recommend this stuff. It smells like dead fish would smell
> if you fermented it for about a month inside a fisherman's shoe.
> Yeah, awful. But the CATS love it. :)
That sounds like one of the Whiskas treats - the one with cheese
(cheese and rabbit I think). If you can imagine gorgonzola left on a
window sill for a month or so you get some idea. My two love them,
but they don't get them very often 'cos I can't bear to open the
(fortunately) airtight bag!
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Richard Pinkall-Pollei
On 15 Jan 1998 04:15:07 GMT, wbg <w...@hevanet.com> wrote:
>Weird - I've never known a cat who *didn't* get crazy on [catnip].
I read somewhere that only about 60% of cats respond to catnip. We
have two cats -- one does, one doesn't.
Joy Gaylord
Richard Pinkall-Pollei wrote in message ...
Only two of the many cats I have had have reacted to catnip at all, and then
only briefly. One totally ignored it even when it was fresh, the other
reacted for a minute or two.
Joy
Georgy & Jim
Two of our cats out of six actually sit in the terracotta pot which has
catnip growing (Trying!) in it. They mooch past suddenly quiver all over and
then (occasionally) leap into the pot decimating our plant! I don't feel
compelled to stop them, the pot just fits them snugly!
Our three kittens don't respond directly to it but they do love a mouse toy
full of the stuff.
When I worked at a Wildlife Park we tried some fresh catnip on some Ocelots
they ignored it! So you never can tell I suppose.
Georgy
Carla Backitis
I have two cats, and neither of them care a whit about catnip. however,
I use some of the medical "blue" rub stuff on my husbands arthritic
ankle, and as soon as they catch a whiff they come running!! I don't let
them get into it, it can't be good for them. But it's like they go
nuts!!! Anybody else experience this?
Carla B. ( & Felix & Oscar)
DMansD
It's probably the mint that drives them crazy. Catnip is a mint and even if
they don't care for catnip, another mint might appeal to them more. Ernie
tried to get the gum out of my daughter's mouth one time because he smelled
it's mint flavor. We have mint growing in our back yard and the neighborhood
cats are often out there, munching away.
Carol Hildreth Evers
Speaking of weird tastes, my cat just loves the toothpaste I use. Just after I
brush my teeth, she comes running and loves to sniff and lick my mouth. She
actually bit my lip once, but I put a stop to that. I use Ultrabright
toothpaste. I never thought about the mint thing until now.
Carol Hildreth Evers (owned by Tasha and Patches)
Alma
In article <352D19CE...@imation.com>, Carol Hildreth Evers <clhil...@imation.com> wrote:
>Speaking of weird tastes, my cat just loves the toothpaste I use. Just after I
>brush my teeth, she comes running and loves to sniff and lick my mouth. She
>actually bit my lip once, but I put a stop to that. I use Ultrabright
>toothpaste. I never thought about the mint thing until now.
>
>Carol Hildreth Evers (owned by Tasha and Patches)
>
My boys hate the smell of toothpaste. They'll squint their eyes and twitch
their noses if it's anywhere near. If you bring it closer they'll take off.
They love catnip though.
Alma