My cat is so weird, I wonder sometimes if he's not part dog!
He loves tuna fish (big surprise!), and will come running any time he hears me pull the can opener out of the drawer. Don't ask me how he knows it's the can opener, and not a stirring spoon, spatula, or anything else, but he knows the difference. Oh yeah, any other fish, he'll snub (and that's strange!!).
Ice cream. Okay, most cats will do ice cream, just for the milk that's in it. But usually you'll see them doing vanilla, right? Well, I can't stand plain old ice cream like that. But even if I'm sitting there eating cherry with chocolate chunks (yummy!!) ice cream, he wants to lick from the spoon (never from the bowl, only from the spoon), and will take quite a bit before he gets kitty brain freeze.
A couple other weird things he'll go crazy over is the sauce from Spaghetti-O's with meat balls (no other kind of spaghetti-o's, and none of the cheaper generic store brands). He'll lick that off of a spoon as well. But the weirdest one (to me, at least) is that if I'm eating kosher dill pickles, and offer him a piece, he'll lick that piece for a good 10 minutes!! No other type of pickles generate any interest for him, and I have no idea what's in those that he likes the flavor of, but he'll go to town on one of those!!
Oh yeah, and raw or cooked chicken or turkey he has no interest in, but he'll eat small pieces of raw hamburger until he gets sick, if I let him. Luckily for him I'm jealous about my hamburger meat, and limit him to 2 pieces. And cat food or treats have to be the crunchy type.....no soft mushy food or treats for my kitty!!
But the reason why I think he's part dog is this. You know those plastic balls with the jingle bells in them? The kind that are open, and you can see the bell? If I throw one of them down the hallway in the house, he'll chase after it, bat it around for a few seconds, then pick it up in his mouth and carry it back to me, and drop it so I can throw it again. We've done this for upwards of 30 minutes at a time before, until he finally gets tired and lays down for one of his 5x daily naps! I've never gotten a dog to play fetch with me for that long!!
Finally, don't bother buying my cat any fancy cat toys. He'll look at it for a second or two, then give you that "boy, did you waste money on this?" look, and walk away.....never to play with it. His favorite toy? An old piece of string that's frayed on both ends. He'll chase after that forever, or until his next nap time!! :laugh: