Conference misery::feline_v1

    
    My Siamese Sarah is usually very discerning (weighs only about 5.5 lb).  
    She usually only eats her dry Iams. 
    
    However, if there is chicken or turkey anywhere near the house she gets
    REAL rude.  Another favorite is pizza.

    Satin likes popcorn and peanut butter.  Sometimes she likes peanut
    butter on her popcorn!  Weird cat.
    
    Jo

    Had to get my pennies worth in here.  Mushroom will eat everything, she
    drinks beer out of your glass if you let her !! Her fav's include:
    
    Scones
    Rice (any kind)
    Chocolate
    Baked Beans
    French Fries
    Mushrooms (of course)
    PICKLES ??????
    raisins
    
    In fact when I think about it she will scoff anything she can get her
    paws on.  Omlette unfortunately is on a strict diet of white meat only
    as instructed by the vet.  
    
    One of the funniest things I ever saw was my boyfriend sisters cats
    (all nine of them) hooking sardines out of boiling water in a pot. 
    They are so greedy.  One of her Kitties (Cane) actually tried hooking
    fish off her own plate while she was eating...he's just so Fat !!!!
    
    Chrissie
    

    The only cat of mine that actually begs for people food is Taja.  He
    loves any type of meat, spaghetti, onions, rice, veggies, and tomato
    sauce.  Anything we are eating is usually fair game.  Last weekend I
    made popcorn and he stuck his head into the bowl and sampled some. 
    Usually, anything us humans are eating looks good, and he will sit up
    on his hind legs and beg until you give him a taste.
    

    Callie will eat ANYTHING she can get her paws on! The other day I was
    making potatoe salad, and I dropped a small piece of raw potatoe on
    the floor. Callie went running over to it, so I figured I'd let her
    play w/ it & pick it up in a few minutes. Next thing I know, I hear,
    "CHOMP crunch chew, snarf, snarf, snarf!" SHE ATE IT! I was very
    surprised!! No matter WHAT you're feeding Callie,(people food or cat
    food) she ALWAYS acts like she hasn't eaten in a week!
    
    We had Tabitha's all time favorite people food for supper last night.
    Chicken. She goes ape over chicken! She's a little cuddly love the
    whole time it's cooking in the oven. She butters us up because she
    knows we'll give her some if she's a good girl (even if she's NOT a
    good girl actually!)! She's also a small 5 pounder, so we don't mind
    giving her an extra helping or two when it comes to her favorite!!
    She also likes hamburg, CHEDDAR cheese (talk about finicky!),and an
    occasional tuna treat. Tabitha likes to try & make me squirm. If she
    turns her nose up at the can of food I've opened, she'll see how long
    it takes before she can talk mom into trying another can. If I do open
    another one, she just does the same tthing, "hmmph! I've had better,
    DAAAH-LING!" Oh, well! She'll eat when she's hungry, right?!
    
    Bonnie
    
     

    Otis like Gerber spinach, ham, chicken livers (Martha Stewart's
    recipe...he doesn't like plain boiled liver), turkey, popcorn,
    Grandaddy's corn chips, Hidden Valley Ranch dressing, meatloaf and
    mashed potatoes, shrimp and scallops.  I think he would (for lack of a
    better word) kill for shrimp!!!
    
    He does not _eat_ these for meals - (sometimes I do treat him with the
    chicken livers and the spinach) but have found him attempting to eat
    the other stuff if left on a plate.  Having had a cat (Benji) that
    picked at tuna...Benji stopped eating cat food and would only eat the
    tuna.  He developed a severe vitamin E deficiancy and almost died.  I
    then vowed never to let Otis get the 'taste' of Geisha tuna.
    
    Marilyn and Otis
    
    

    
             
       Well Tykey really doesn't much care for food at all!  But will
      eat when necessary, she's just real finicky...
      However, my newest addition, Domino, he's a different story and
      i'll bet if I didn't come home at dinner time to feed him, he'd
      probably eat Tykey, awha! i'm kidding..
      He does though have a good healthy appetite, he LOVES people chicken,
      when eating in the living room, his little paws are swinging like
      crazy, you just can't get the chicken to him fast enough..
      The other night my fiance had a slice of pizza & he's like I wonder
      if Domino likes pizza and i'm like I don't think ~ chomp chomp
      goes Domino on the pizza before I had a chance to finish my sentence..
      ~ silly boy ~ guess mom doesn't know everything, ha!
                                                          
    
      Diana

    My two, Ralph and Alice, **love** AMERICAN CHEESE!  It's the **only**
    cheese they'll eat.
    
    They also love tuna *but* it has to be mixed with mayonnaise.
    
    They try other things too and if they're in the mood they'll eat it, if
    not they won't but American Cheese is definitely their favorite.
    

    CAPERS.  Benj goes nuts when I take the jar out of the refrigerator. 
    Also baked beans, but only home-made.  And corn, but only fresh off the
    cob - not canned or frozen.
    
    

    Mocha's favorite food is definately, BUTTER. Sometimes we forget
    and leave the butter plate out and we end up with butter that has
    a sandpaper effect all over it. He loves cheese of any kind and
    spaghetti or anything with tomato sauce and pepperoni.
    
    Ming's favorite is, LOBSTER and steams which we have quite frequently
    and IAMS dry cat food.
    
    Mr. Miyagi loves, cheese of all kinds, brocolli, and string beans,
    and all kinds of cat food wet for dry, except, MAX cat dry, and Alpo
    canned.
    
    **for anyone who lives near a Market Basket super market they
      have **10** cans of ALPO cat food for $1.00**** saw it last night
      so don't know how long the sale is on.****
    
    Mocha and Ming have always begged at the table and we have obliged
    them, and they are spoiled cats and I wouldn't have it any other way.
    
    Barbara & her 3M's

    Scruffy has a strange appetite.  She'll eat various kinds of cat food,
    as long as I don't buy the same ALL THE TIME.  She'll eat some dry cat
    food, but only mixed with moist.  She's an indoor/outdoor kitty and
    still mouses, even though she can eat great at home!
    
    But she'll beg at the kitchen table while we are eating, and if she
    hears paper being open, well then there MUST BE food it in!!! "Can I
    smell it please??????????????  Oh! Is that all it is!!!!, huf!"
    
    So she'll get:
    
    Margerine
    Cold Cuts
    Fish -- raw or cooked
    Ground Turkey -- raw or cooked
    Vanilla I.C.
    Angel Food Cake
    any Gravies
    Chicken
    Turkey
    left-over skin off meats and their fats
    she'll lick margerine off of soft bread and then eat the bread
    milk left after we've eaten our cereal
    CHEESE!!!!!!!!!!!!
    frozen yogurt
    cool whip
    tuna fish and or the juice from it
    
    She doesn't eat alot at a time, she's pretty picky and finicky!!!!!!!!
    
    

    Pippin is rather picky but she goes absolutely wild for shrimp/prawns
    and chicken -  tuna when I'm making a salad or sandwich.  She seems to
    be perfectly happy with her canned and dry cat food.
    
    Gino likes spicey food - hot sausages (??) spicey chicken and anything
    that's been marinated.  But, again, shrimp drives him crazy.  Oh, he
    loves chinese food and french bread.
    
    Now stitch is a living garbage can.  I think shrimp and asparagus are
    on the top of the list - he would kill for asparagus - he loves corn,
    garbonzo beans, pasta (cooked and raw, rice, peas, sprouts, chicken
    spinach (cream spinich) artichoke, dried squid (comes in packages) fish
    potato chips, cereal - let me put it this way, he'll stick his face in
    anything you've got and most of the time he'll like it - lock yourself
    in a room if your eating ice cream.  I've often said that if I were to
    hit my head an pass out and there was no one around to help - someone
    just may find my bones when they came home and Stitch licking his
    chops!  
    
    Giudi +3

    Hmm.. Happy will eat anything that does not eat her first!!. smirk grin..
    she likes, english muffins, bagels and cream cheese, broccolli,
    carrots, jelly donuts (with lemon or strawberry filling only.. and they
    must from purity supreme. or crosbys.. but brand, x will do in
    a pinch.. she aloso likes baby food, turkey is best. pizza, chinese
    food etc. she er um is a tad chubby.. she says that she is not chubby,
    she is short and cobby and undertall..
    MS PRESCHIE our little Starlet,, also like to dine.. she enjoys
    most "human food".. like her sister Happy,, she also
    would prefer that you feed her with a spoon..  and she will
    also take her paw and steady your hand.. she also likes
    apples..
     Kissy, is just starting to figure out that I am not eating
    the same menu as she and her sisters, but she does not
    seem interested.. 
     Happy and Preschie get science diet or c/d  both wet and dry..
    and Kissy is eating FELINE GROWTH.. under  protest.. she has
    noticed that the her big sisters dish tastes different that hers..
    smirk, grin giggle,,last nite she er um tried to
    get preschie to give up her food dish to her,, YEAH RIGHT.. considering
     Kissys dish was empty and Preschie was still dining at a rather
    leisurely pace.. Our Little Starlet MS Preschie was not amused..
    smirk, grin, giggle,,
    Kate, Happy, Preschie, Kissy..

    Happy sounds like Limoges.  She will eat anything.  She was getting
    into our garbage can during the day while we were at work, so I sent
    hubby out for a kitchen can with a lid on it.  He came home with the
    kind that has a swinging lid.  Now, when Mogee jumps into it, she can't
    get back out!  So, we come home to a dirty, scummy, garbage can Birman
    who has satiated herself on garbage all day!! :^D  We are very careful
    not to throw anything harmful into the garbage can inside.  Those
    things go straight to the cans outside.  She usually just sticks her
    head inside all the empty 22oz cat food cans and licks the insides. 
    Then she comes out with sticky ears. :^)
    
    Hard to believe this apparent semi-feral cat was 2nd Best Seal Point
    Birman and 4th Best Birman in CFA last year!  You would think that I
    didn't feed her or something.
    
    Mogee once tried to make off with our 25lb turkey that was thawing in a
    sink full of water!!  Grabbed it by the leg and was trying to lug it
    out of the sink.  She only weighs 8 lbs herself, so this was very
    amusing.  That is the kind of appetite she has.
    
    Unfortunately, this appetite seems to be genetically dominant.  She had
    two kittens with Moody last year, Satin (of popcorn and peanut butter
    fame) and Surrey.  Both are just like she is about food; willing to try
    anything, and if we don't oblige, they are willing to take matters into
    their own paws to get what they want.  Can't leave anything out, and
    have to eat dinner accompanied by the squirt bottle.  But, you got to
    love them.  They eat things even the dog won't touch! ;^)
    
    Jo

    Dried apricots for Poppy. I was eating them one night on the
    sofa and heard, "crinkle, crinkle." There was Poppy with her
    head in the bag. When I moved the bag she climbed onto my
    lap and started licking my fingers. 
    
    Last week when I got out the apricots to use some in a recipe
    (a new bag, since she stuck her head in the old one), she 
    cornered me in the kitchen, pawing and meowing.
    
    Maybe it's because they're orange like her?
    
    

    Nippa *loves* all types of people food......anything goes!  But, it
    dosen't love her

    Linus' fave is deli turkey breast...I buy at least 1/2 pound a week
    just for him to snack on...I've been getting low-salt for him lately
    since he devours the stuff.  He also loves any kind of fish or poultry,
    and I always bring him home a "kitty bag" which he knows is for him
    immediately.  As soon as I walk in the door with one, he boots over to
    his feeding dish waiting for me and purring away.  He checks out all my
    food when I eat and has to sniff everything to see if its worth waiting
    around for.  I feel bad for him because I don't cook like I use to and
    am mostly doing diet food, so he doesn't get as many "goodies" as he'd
    like...but, I'm afraid he'd be huge if I kept giving him all the snacks
    he wanted.  He also loves Smartfood popcorn because you can not only
    eat it, but also play with it first!!
    
    Diana

    What a funny note!
    
    The Cowboy loves green olives, cantaloupe, potato chips, rice pilaf,
    lasagne, bread (any kind), and the list goes on and on...
    
    - Kathryn
    

    Gee, up to now I thought Misty was unusual because she loves "people"
    food.  Now I see she has lots of company.  She's always there to check
    out what we are eating.  She reaches out a paw to me so gently, how
    could I resist.  I guess her favorite is ice cream, (frozen yogurt,
    etc).  She can be fast asleep and when my husband brings the i.c. up,
    she's awake and immediately heads for his lap or the arm rest of his
    chair.  She sits like a vulture until he's finished and gives her the
    bowl.  The funny thing is, that's almost the only time she leaves me
    to go to him, and as soon as she finishes licking the bowl, she leaves
    him and comes back to me, to lick my bowl.  Her face is full of specks
    of i.c. ;-D  The Birmans like ice cream and chicken and fish, but they
    take forever to decide to eat something.  They sniff it from every
    possible angle first.  Needless to say, if they aren't quick, they lose
    out to Misty and Marnie.  Misty shares my toast or bagel in the
    morning.  Actually, she just gets a teeny piece, but that's part of our
    morning ritual.  I don't give her much because she is far from a skinny
    feline and basically a couch potato.
    
    I guess that chicken and fish draw the biggest crowd at dinner time. 
    Everyone wants some. ;-)
    
    Steffi and the moochers
           

    My Sneakers' absolute, all time favorite people food is... get  this...
    
    			LIFE CEREAL!!
    
    It's a ritual every morning.  As soon as my husband pours the milk
    in his cereal, Sneakers has both front paws in his lap, pleading
    eyes boring into him.  And the cereal square has to be SATURATED
    in milk, otherwise, no thank you.  Maybe Sneakers' should be on a
    LIFE commercial with Mikey??
    
    
    Another story... I turned vegetarian a year ago for ethical reasons.
    My husband absolutely refuses to give up meat, so, OK, I live with it.
    Anyway, I've discovered something called TVP (textured vegetable 
    protein) which is a kind of meat substitute made of soy products. 
    It actually tastes like little beef chunks.  Well, I made a stew out
    of it, and I honestly couldn't tell the difference, so I decided to
    try and sneak it on hubby.  He ate the stew, none the wiser... but
    the darn cats almost gave me away!!  Usually, they're all over him
    when he offers little bits of meat, but they WOULDN'T TOUCH IT!!!
    Luckily, I was able to bluff my way through it, and he still doesn't
    know he wasn't eating meat (since then, I've given all three of
    my kitties a stern lecture to never give me away again!!)
    
    Pam

    My cats can tell the difference between meat and soy-burgers too.
    Quite amazing.
    

    Re.20 & 21
    
    That's cute!
    
    Bon

>    My cat, Heather, will eat just about anything.  


	It must be something to do with the name!


	Heather    :-)

    I just found out about a STRANGE thing Callie likes to eat!
    She did it over the weekend and really freaked me out! I didn't
    know kitties liked such things as:
    
    
    
    				BROCCOLI !!!
    
    I laughed so hard! She came over & ate a big raw flower that I dropped
    on the floor! I tried to tell her that kitties don't like broccoli,
    but she didn't believe me, she just looked up at me & Meeeoooowww'ed
    for more! silly girl!
    
    Bonnie

    
    SHRIMP!
    
    No other kind of fish, just SHRIMP!  The way we found out was my
    mother brought some over for lunch one day and Tubbs wouldn't leave
    her alone while she was peeling it.  He even went so crazy as to 
    jump on the counter top (which is against the rules in our house)
    to get closer.  Sooooo, I got sucked into giving him shrimp as a
    week-end treat.  So I buy it frozen at the grocery, microwave
    about 5 at a time (leaving the rest frozen for another time), and
    shell them for him to eat.  He now RUNS into the kitchen everytime
    we are with 5 feet from the freezer (knows what container I keep it
    in) or start up the microwave, to his dismay it usually isn't shrimp
    time.  I know he'll never be satisfied with anything else than the
    real thing, because he even turns his nose up at POUNCE TREATS!
    
    

    .25
    
    My cats like a variety of different things but SHRIMP makes all three of
    them crazy.  We've had to lock them in another room when cleaning them
    - once they are released they start scouting out the house - Pippin
    will sit in front of the frig and yell her head off - Stitch goes on
    search and distroy missions and  Gino takes to opening the cuppords and
    sniffing out the higher hiding places.
    
    As much as they love chicken and turkey, etc. its the SHRIMP that gets
    them totally out of control.  BTW, Richard goes to the fish market once
    a week to buy the little darlings fresh prawns (usually Sunday).
    
    Giudi

    OOOH! I'll have to try shrimp!! I bet Tabitha would like that! She
    doesn't like too much, so I LOVE to find her special treats!
    
    She doesn't like POUNCE either! I couldn't believe it! Callie LOVES
    them tho!! It's so funny to listen to her snarf em' down! she's a 
    little piggy!
    
    Bonnie

I thought my kittens were strange when they were eating broccoli and popcorn.  
But from reading some of these  notes, I don't think so anymore.

My first kitten, precious, will eat crabmeat until she gets sick.  I thought
cats were supposed to be smart about how much they eat.  8')

michele

    In addition to many of the people foods listed here, 
    
    Schnapps likes Squash!
    

    
    Benjamin only likes a few 'human' foods:
    
    chicken (his number one favorite anything)
    vanilla ice cream (tried mint choc-chip, he didn't like it)
    milk (only skim, only a little bit)
    iced tea (I thought I had him once, I knew the glass was too narrow
              and deep for him to lick from, but when I wasn't looking,
              he used his paw to scoop some out to his mouth!)
    
    I'm sure there are others, but because he can be so demanding, I 
    try not to let him know what human food tastes like.
    
    dm

    My Orange Tabby Henry will kill or die to get a hunk of good San
    Fransisco Sourdough bread. No other type of bread interests him in the
    least! He's also my closest friend when I bring take-home sushi into
    the house, but he's very particular. He'll go nuts over a piece of
    tuna, yellowtail, or any other kind of fish, but he won't TOUCH any
    shellfish whatsoever. No shrimp, scallops, octopus, or whatever. A
    crazy cat, I must say...
    
    Fred