Another entry for the weird cat files

[muckefuck]

I may have mentioned before that our beast is a little beggar. Virtually every time you prepare something at the kitchen counter, he's there crying for a look. He's even more bold at dinner time, placing his little white paws on the table edge and hoisting his face up to solicit sympathy. Generally, I find that the easiest way to get rid of him is offering him a sample of whatever it is--cookie, cocktail, chicken part, you name it--I happen to have in my hand. Invariably, he sniffs it (sometimes rather thoroughly; other times he recoils immediately, particularly where tea or alcohol are involved) and turns away.

Did I say "invariably"? Well, you all know there's been at least one exception; now there are two. This morning, I held out my toast with Knoblauchquark, expecting the usual sniff-and-release. Instead, he licked the bread clean. So, for the record: No interest in cream or butter or yoghurt or ice cream or any other dairy product, but give him some quark with chives and he'll devour it. WTF, cat?

Comments

[oh-meow.livejournal.com]

My cat is a fiend for strawberry liquorice.

[tyrannio.livejournal.com]

I think Allium spp. can be toxic to cats and dogs: you might not want to make a habit of this.

Our cats are (fortunately) never interested in our food, except for the occasions on which innerdoggie gets fish.

[darkphuque.livejournal.com]

FNW-the-Cat doesn't eat people food at all, and that's probably to the good. My vet told me that many people foods are too fatty/sugar filled and can lead to diabetes in cats. He was not at all concerned that my cat loved the mice she catches... He feels that there is less of a chance that the mice could hurt her. He did say that if she ate a mouse who had ingested a mouse who had eaten poison could make the cat very ill.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

So far, I haven't seen any mice around, which is a damn shame because I think he'd love a mouse to eat. And why poison mice if you've got a mouser?

[darkphuque.livejournal.com]

Mice can be poisoned outside and wander into my space. Mouse/rat poison isn't fast acting and the animals can live for a couple of days before succumbing to the poison consumed in someone else house. Mice can also be poisoned by nibbling on my plants, many of which (Euphorbaecae/Apocynaceae/Passifloraceae can kill humans...

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Also note that they can get toxoplasmosis that way -- Gwydion didn't have it as a kitten and spent the next fifteen years as an indoor-only cat, but he started shedding toxo parasites, presumably from eating the occasional mouse.

(Probably won't hurt the cat but could be a problem for visiting kids and pregnant women.)