Silver is a very strange cat...

We bought a pizza and some spicy chicken nuggets for dinner last night
and I was just eating the leftover chicken. Silver the vulture jumped
up and stared at me like she does whenever I have some kind of protein
in my hand, and I told her she wouldn't like it... evidently she
didn't believe me because she reached out and sneaked a lick when my
attention was taken by the monitor. Ugh. Kitty spit on my chicken! So
to teach her a lesson (the nuggets are as spicy as I can stand to eat,
even without hot sauce on them, and I was SURE that she'd hate the
pepperiness) I said 'okay, you can have that bit, and she went lick,
lick, lick... I waited for signs of distress. Nope... she licked it
some more! I gave up and pulled the breading off that side of the

Aleks A.-Lessmann...

Spicy as in "Chili Spicy"? IIRC there's a lot of animals that don't have
the nerves for capsaicin - which is what makes us taste Hot & Spicy in
chili - and also make a very good analgesic, BTW

jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt...

Analgesic? I *need* an analgesic after eating some hot and spicy dishes!!

Aleks A.-Lessmann...

Hehe, I know that feeling.

Still, when not used orally, capsaicin seems to work pretty well - maybe
it numbs other nerves too. ;-) Never looked too much into the
biochemical actions of it.

I do not know it, but it may very well be that cats don't have any
receptors for capsaicin either.

nugget and offered it to her and she scarfed it down... The only sign
of discomfort was a bit of lick-licking but that could just have her
way of saying 'yum! Can I have some more?'

Strange cat...

She also adores any form of sugary carbohydrate, like cake (I don't
give them to her but she'll rapidly scarf up any crumbs that fall to
the floor), dairy products, and anything 'meaty'. About the only
flavours she doesn't like are apple, cinnamon, and tomato. Scouty's
much more conservative, and only eats cat food or dairy products...
and Tessie still thinks she's starving in the gutter and she'll eat
ANYTHING if you turn your back on it, or even if you don't...

What do your cats like to eat that's not conventionally recognised as

Helen Miles...

Tiger likes Lasagne or any form of tomato based pasta sauce. Lily likes
oatmeal, yogurt, curry, rice, pasta, apple, malted fruit loaf, croisants
with blueberry jam, pancakes..... ;o)

Helen M

'cat food'?

Will in New Haven...

D*g food. It's only one of our cats but anything that goes in Bear's
bowl gets a big sniff and a couple of licks from Winnie. He doesn't get
to eat much but Bear just stands there astonished for a second before
very gently shoving him aside. Bear weighs exactly one hundred pounds
while Winnie goes a little over four, so a gentle shove is all that is
needed. The cats all eat from one bowl on a counter where Bear cannot
climb. He gets any crumbs that drop. Noblesse oblige makes Winnie a
sloppy eater.

Will in New Haven

Sam...

Smokey: Pizza, especially the cheese; Chicken, especially Popeye's
Cajun style; potato chips - especially the Jalapeno ones that are too
hot for me; maple-flavored sausage links; any form of ice cream except
sherbet (we got dirty looks for that one:))

Mistletoe: Nada. If it's not in her bowl or Smokey's it's not fit to eat!

Enfilade...

Smokey's worst was dragging grease-soaked napkins out of the trash and
eating them. Poor boy. He quickly learned that there's no point in
eating paper soaked in bacon grease, when begging gets him bacon.

Takayuki...

I have to admit that bacon grease paper towels are tempting.
Cellulose saturated with fat - it's like a very rich and savory
vegetable. It seems appropriate though that a cat named Smokey would
like bacon. But probably, they all like bacon.

Enfilade...

Nocturne has no use for bacon. If it doesn't go crunch, Nox probably
doesn't like it.

jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt...

Well, neither would I! Bacon, that is. If it's not crunchy, I don't
like it.

I cook bacon chewy :)

jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt...

I would call that "rubbery". :) If it bends without breaking, it's raw. :)

Enfilade...

Dylan and I do not agree on bacon. He thinks mine is raw; I think his
is burned/burnt.

His goes in first and comes out last.

As for me, there's this certain degree of shine that you see when it's
raw, and when that's gone and it's pleasantly chewy, rather than soft,
then it's the way I like it. Bacon should not shatter when you stab it
with a fork, IMHO, it should cut the way ham does with a knife.

jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt...

Mmmmmm, crispy bacon.....

Smokey, even more appropriately, loves ham best of all.

jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt...

Roxy's new fixation is Neiman Ranch hot dogs. She's a bit frightening
in her determination to get some from me when I'm eating it.

Pat...

Abelard loves sweet corn, asparagus and brussels sprouts (even frozen ones).
Eli loves whole wheat bread.

jbhajos...

Hobo's favorite is broccoli. Speckles favorite is a
pineapple/cream cheese spread liberally dotted with pineapple chunks.