Oh, you cat.

[telophase]

My dear, sweet, little cat who doesn't like meat or milk or cheese? Likes chocolate-chip cookies.

No, I didn't let her eat any chocolate; I know it's poisonous for cats. Why does she only like the things that make her sick? Pork and chocolate-chip cookies.

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[camwyn]

Aww. My boys like potato chips- they sit around and stare mournfully at me until I drop bits of potato chip for them, sometimes. Also ice cream.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

She occasionally eats potato chips, but what she really likes is stale dust-covered taco chips ferreted out from behind a speaker. I have no idea how they get behind there; presumably she stores them there for later.

She doesn't like ice cream, either. I got her as an adult and I guess she wasn't given dairy products at all after she was weaned, so she never retained the taste for them. The cat I had growing up would go crazy for ice cream, butter, and cheese.

[sky-country.livejournal.com]

My cat likes curry rice and always tries to eat chocolate ice cream. I am glad she doesn't have any money or she would be an ice cream fiend.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Hee. My cat likes, pretty much, cat food. Pork was the only meat she'd eat on anything approaching a regular basis, and I noticed that every time she had some she'd throw up shortly afterward, so I stopped feeding it to her. And if I have a can of tuna, she'll drink any tuna water I pour into a bowl for her.

She's always terribly interested when I'm in the kitchen and demands to smell whatever it is I'm making, but she never eats any of it.

[sky-country.livejournal.com]

My cat used to eat anything when she was a baby-- peaches, mandarin oranges, pork, chicken, steak, french fries, salad, ramen. She was like this Artful Dodger of sneaking food off my unattended plate. Now she likes curry rice and she likes tuna and chicken. She gets a teeny occasional shnerble of ice cream if I have any.

I'm so surprised they don't make little bottles of tuna water for sale. Somebody just isn't being ruthless and shameless enough over in marketing!

[sparkylibrarian.livejournal.com]

My older cat is also a sniffer, so we got in the habit of showing him whatever we're eating so he can sniff it and turn his nose up at it. Turns out the kitten we got is a licker. You offer something, and he licks it. Tortellini? Lick. Blue cheese buffalo-wing potato chip? Lick. Lime jello? Lick. Wheat thin? Lick.

[kitsunesan.livejournal.com]

I have a cat who won't eat ANYTHING but cat food. I've offered her milk, fish, cheese, meats of every kind, and she just won't eat it. So my boyfriend got a slice of apple pie one day and realized he forgot a fork, so he went upstairs to get one. When he got back to his room, the cat was on the desk devouring his apple pie.

Weirdo cat. XD

[telophase.livejournal.com]

The cat I had as a kid who LOVED fried chicken to the point that we had to lock her in a bedroom if we ate any because she would aggressively rush the kitchen table, once leapt up onto the table and started eating ... the broccoli on Dad's plate. We were so astonished we let her do it. XD (I've since found out that some cats just like broccoli and grape stems.)

[kitsunesan.livejournal.com]

One of my other cats will eat anything he can get his claws into. If someone in the house is eating doritos, he'll slice open the bottom of the bag and snatch them as they come pouring out. =P He also likes honey comb cereal, brussel sprouts, baked potatos. In fact, I don't think I've found anything that he won't eat.

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

One of mine loves peas and the sauce on chef boyardee ravioli. The other one would love to eat brownies. I know chocolate is bad for them but it actually never made him sick.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think it depends on how much is eaten, how dark it is, and the size of the individual cat - it's that way with dogs. The cat I had growing up never had a problem with chocolate sauce on ice cream.

The Black Lab we had growing up would eat just about anything, and one day Mom got two chocolate-chip cookies form the kitchen, put them on a paper towel by her bed, and went back into the kitchen to get the drink she'd forgotten. When she got back she found no cookies, a suscpiciously damp spot on the paper towel, and a dog trying to look innocent and completely failing. XD (From what I understand dog her size would have to eat a good chunk of a big bar of dark chocolate to be in any serious danger.)

[catystorm.livejournal.com]

One time I left a stack of oreo cookies unattended while I went to get some milk. I came back to find that the cat had eaten half the stack and was dragging as many as he could with him.

Never made him sick, but never let him have them again. >_>

[telophase.livejournal.com]

My mom's cat? Marshmallows. I as once eating from a bag of mini marshmallows and held one out to the cat to sniff, as you do, not expecting her to do anything. To my surprise she took it from my fingers and ate it. I never let her have another one, because it can't possibly be good for them, and discovered that I did have to hide the bag from her otherwise she'd try to get in it.

She also likes earwax. It's ... interesting to be woken up by a cat snuffling in your ear.

[tirwen.livejournal.com]

Two of mine are normal and want tuna and stuff, but one is weird - she likes french fries... Weird cats...

[tprjones.livejournal.com]

My cat growing up loved fish, but it made him very very sick to eat it. Tuna, cod, cat foods made from real fish of any sort; it all made him urky for days.

Except Long John Silvers. He could eat that all day and never get sick.

[tprjones.livejournal.com]

Oh, and my father's cat was insane about canteloupes. Couldn't get enough of the stuff.

[rilina.livejournal.com]

My friend's cat loves tortilla chips and bread. Yes, bread. She was making fondue one night when I was over her house, and the cat kept trying to steal pieces. I'm told in the past the cat has ripped holes in paper shopping bags trying to get at the bread before it's put away.

[lady-noremon.livejournal.com]

My cat likes bread too! X3
Like the week after I got her I had a sandwich and left the crusts on my plate so I could get a drink before I put them in the compost. I get back and here is this kitten sitting on the plate eating the crusts.

[unrelatedwaffle.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's not the chocolate itself that's bad for them, but the caffeine in it. Humans have a much higher threshold for caffeine than dogs or cats, and if any living creature has too much, it'll stop the heart.

When I was little, I used to run from room to room while I had my dinner, stopping occasionally to take bites. I got cured of that habit once we got these two cats that would eat ANYTHING provided it was on a plate on the dining room table. I'd come back to find my dinner half-gone, the cat looking nonchalantly at me with his hind legs on the chair and his front paws on the table.

My current cat has ADD. She'll eat a lot of things, but you have to hold it right in front of her face and keep waving it or she gets distracted and walks away mid-bite. And she LOVES to lick lettuce heads.

[puppleball.livejournal.com]

One of mine (Tommy) like fortune cookies, syrup and honey.

I used to have one that loved raw potato too.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

One of mine is a baked goods fiend-- we've simply had to stop bringing pumpkin muffins into the apartment, because suddenly he knows kung fu. His absolute favorite is Japanese melon bread, though.

In addition, people kept telling me that if I didn't want the cat to go near something I should put lemon juice on it, because cats are supposed to have some kind of species-wide aversion to lemon. So I waved a slice of lemon under the cat's nose as a test, expecting him to make his 'EW' face and go away. Instead, he looked absolutely delighted, leaned forward and CHOMP. He will eat lemon whenever he can get it. Species-wide aversion, my left foot.