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| 700.1 | | SUBURB::ODONNELLJ | Julie O'Donnell | Tue Feb 01 1994 09:17 | 7 |
| Rosie has a very sweet tooth. I don't know about sugar as I've made
sure it's never within reach, but she loves chocolate and honey when
she can get her paws on it. Of course, I strictly ration it, but it
does make a very special treat once in a while.
If she could get hold of it, I'm sure she'd love sugar: she liked the
jam I left out one morning by mistake!
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| 700.2 | Cereal Milk is Robin's Secret Lust | LJSRV2::FEHSKENS | len - reformed architect | Tue Feb 01 1994 09:31 | 11 |
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Robin usually bothers me in the morning when I'm eating my breakfast
cereal, she wants to lick some of the milk. Normally she's not
interested in milk, but this has sugar in it. She'll stand up and try
to take the bowl in her paws. She also likes the chocolate milk at the
end of a bowl of Cocoa Krispies (thus revealing my secret weakness...
really, I only buy one box a year, if that...; after being holed up
from the snow and cold, I just had to, you know, ...)
len.
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| 700.3 | | MAGEE::MERRITT | Kitty City | Tue Feb 01 1994 10:12 | 9 |
| My sister also has a 15 year old kitty with a thyroid condition. She
gets 1/2 tablet twice a day. Well little Mitzi is only 6 pounds...but
will eat anything in sight even if it means picking through rubbish..
going through cabinets etc. I believe kitties with thyroid
problems...are always hungry anyway.
I've had many cats that just love the sugar frosted donuts too.....
Sandy
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| 700.4 | I wouldn't if I were you! | STOWOA::VERRILL | | Tue Feb 01 1994 11:08 | 2 |
| Just be careful giving chocolate to cats and dogs. It can kill them.
Karen
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| 700.5 | I guess she's not unique! | LJSRV1::MARX | | Tue Feb 01 1994 12:49 | 11 |
| Thanks for the replies. This cat also eats everything that's not
nailed down! She has been known to sneak up on my plate and grab
vegetables.
What concerned me is the fact that she is going out of her way to find
the sugar and maneuver it onto the counter. I guess the thyroid
condition manifests itself in many strange ways. I guess there are
lots of kitties out there who have a taste for sugar so I'm not going
to worry about her. I guess I'll just have to keep the sugar in the
refrigerator!
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| 700.6 | Poor Rosie! | SUBURB::ODONNELLJ | Julie O'Donnell | Wed Feb 02 1994 02:20 | 4 |
| re:.4
Do you have any more information? Which ingredient is dangerous to
cats?
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| 700.7 | | STOWOA::VERRILL | | Wed Feb 02 1994 08:11 | 7 |
| I will need to check, but I believe it is called "theobromine" and is
a part of chocolate. There have been numerous articles printed about
it. It is something like 1 gram that can do this. Dogs are just as
susceptible but the LD is directly related to the size of the animal.
For now, I just wouldn't let an animal eat it.
regards,
Karen
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| 700.8 | Who's food IS this?? | POWDML::MCDONOUGH | | Wed Feb 02 1994 09:06 | 13 |
| Re .2
Sounds liek my place...except that Peppurr not only insists on
having some milk, she helps eat the cereal AND the milk...and get's a
little indignant paw up and pushes the spoon away if it gets in here
way... I made the mistake one day of putting a box of blueberry muffins
where the felines could get to them, and came back to find all 6
muffins adorned with little "kitty-bite marks" where they'd 'sampled'
each of them..
Hey...we DO "belong" to these fur-bags, don't we??? Whatcha expect??
John Mc
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| 700.9 | | SUBURB::ODONNELLJ | Julie O'Donnell | Thu Feb 03 1994 01:55 | 10 |
| re.7
Thanks, if you could find out, I'd be grateful. I live in the UK and
haven't heard about this.
I ask because I wondered if a chocolate substitute would be better
(I suppose not if it's in the cocoa) and if the ingredient might
be present in other foods that I might give them.
Poor Rosie - no chocolate :-( - and she loves it so much!
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| 700.10 | Give her a sardine instead! | STOWOA::VERRILL | | Thu Feb 03 1994 08:18 | 7 |
| re:9
Julie,
I forgot to check last nite and may be out for a while. I will
look it up and then if I can't post it, I will ask someone else to
do it. I also wonder if there isn't something about it in the
old version of feline?
Karen
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| 700.11 | | SUBURB::ODONNELLJ | Julie O'Donnell | Fri Feb 04 1994 00:48 | 2 |
| I don't recall seeing anything, but I'll have a look in the old Feline
file. Thanks.
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| 700.12 | | BPSOF::EGYED | Per aspera ad astra | Mon Feb 07 1994 02:48 | 3 |
| Theobromine is the alcaloid of cocoa. Try white choc...
Nat
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| 700.13 | | SUBURB::ODONNELLJ | Julie O'Donnell | Mon Feb 07 1994 09:17 | 1 |
| Oh yes, she does like white chocolate, so that's OK :-)
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| 700.14 | | SUBURB::THOMASH | The Devon Dumpling | Tue Feb 08 1994 02:46 | 10 |
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The chocolate in the UK (well ordinary Chocolate like Cadburys Milk
Choc.) has so little cocoa and so much milk in it that the Euro
bunglers were going to stop us calling it chocolate.
You know the advert, a pint and a half of milk in every bar.........
So I wouldn't worry too much, although white might be better.
Heather
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