My cat

[Canai]

I never thought cats would like mangos. He also eats watermelon, honey dew, cantaloupe, and onions.

 

[Insomniator]

cats are wierd.. mine used to eat onion peels until i learned they were poisonous to cats

popcorn is popular among them too

 

[Ns1]

meh. my dog ate fruit all the time.

 

[Canai]

Hmm I just realized he stole a big chunk of it while I wasn't looking. I better not have to clean that up later.

 

[Saint Michael]

Originally posted by: Ns1
meh. my dog ate fruit all the time.

The difference is that dogs can taste sweetness and cats can't.

 

[Foxery]

Dogs have a bad tendency to seek out garbage / unnatural foods... cats uuuusually know better, or at least find non-meat foods uninteresting.

Watching a young kitten try to make sense of a grape, however, is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

My cats are always a fascinated audience when I cook. I let them smell garlic last time, just to watch the reaction of, "oh boy, I get to have --- wait, what the f*** is this?"

 

[Ika]

pic? and obligatory LOLcats caption?

 

[ShotgunSteven]

My sister's poodles love baby carrots. They double as dog treats. She had to fence the garden in because the dogs found out that carrots grow in the ground, and they were digging them up and eating them.

 

[Canai]

Originally posted by: Aflac
pic? and obligatory LOLcats caption?

The battery in my digi is dead, but I have a pic from the summer.
http://i124.photobucket.com/al...7/billems/P1000379.jpg

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
My sister's poodles love baby carrots. They double as dog treats. She had to fence the garden in because the dogs found out that carrots grow in the ground, and they were digging them up and eating them.

Haha that's great.

edit: I'm going to start charging the battery. I think I have some good pics on one of my cards.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
My sister's poodles love baby carrots. They double as dog treats. She had to fence the garden in because the dogs found out that carrots grow in the ground, and they were digging them up and eating them.

We used to have a dog that would go around and pick off all the ripe tomatoes.

 

[eldorado99]

A mango, he's eating them.

 

[duragezic]

That's a nice fucking kitty.

I LOVE CATS!!!!! BIG TIME!

That one looks awesome!!

I want one so bad, but I'm allergic to them. Why can't I be allergic to dirty ol dogs instead of beautiful kittens?

 

[hiromizu]

Our late family golden retriever used to love Japanese pears and apples.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Canai
I never thought cats would like mangos. He also eats watermelon, honey dew, cantaloupe, and onions.

Did you add the onions in there because in the other thread you were in it was mentioned they were poisonous to cats?

Your cat will also lap up antifreeze...about a tsp is all it take to kill it though.

Just because an animal wants something doesn't mean they should eat it.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: Ns1
meh. my dog ate fruit all the time.

The difference is that dogs can taste sweetness and cats can't.

That was old science. I don't think any modern zoologist that studies cats would claim they can taste anything less than sour, bitter, salt and sweet.

They do have less taste buds than dogs though.

 

[Canai]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Canai
I never thought cats would like mangos. He also eats watermelon, honey dew, cantaloupe, and onions.

Did you add the onions in there because in the other thread you were in it was mentioned they were poisonous to cats?

Your cat will also lap up antifreeze...about a tsp is all it take to kill it though.

Just because an animal wants something doesn't mean they should eat it.

Wait, what? I didn't notice that. Does it matter if they are cooked? He usually gets them mixed with scrambled eggs. Do you have a link? (I'm forum-tarded)

edit: shit google reveals that garlic is bad too Thank god nothing bad has happened to him yet.

 

[FP]

Originally posted by: Canai

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Canai
I never thought cats would like mangos. He also eats watermelon, honey dew, cantaloupe, and onions.

Did you add the onions in there because in the other thread you were in it was mentioned they were poisonous to cats?

Your cat will also lap up antifreeze...about a tsp is all it take to kill it though.

Just because an animal wants something doesn't mean they should eat it.

Wait, what? I didn't notice that. Does it matter if they are cooked? He usually gets them mixed with scrambled eggs. Do you have a link? (I'm forum-tarded)

edit: shit google reveals that garlic is bad too Thank god nothing bad has happened to him yet.

You make your cat eggs?

wtf is wrong with people?

 

[Canai]

Originally posted by: binister

Originally posted by: Canai

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Canai
I never thought cats would like mangos. He also eats watermelon, honey dew, cantaloupe, and onions.

Did you add the onions in there because in the other thread you were in it was mentioned they were poisonous to cats?

Your cat will also lap up antifreeze...about a tsp is all it take to kill it though.

Just because an animal wants something doesn't mean they should eat it.

Wait, what? I didn't notice that. Does it matter if they are cooked? He usually gets them mixed with scrambled eggs. Do you have a link? (I'm forum-tarded)

edit: shit google reveals that garlic is bad too Thank god nothing bad has happened to him yet.

You make your cat eggs?

wtf is wrong with people?

Haha no, but I always give him a bit of whatever I'm eating.

 

[potato28]

My dog goes into people's gardens and digs out the ripe carrots. Also eats the apples and pears if she can get them.

 

[0roo0roo]

its probably a bad idea.
cats are carnivores exclusively.
if your cat gets the runs..well your carpet might pay a price.
its best not to waste fruit and stuff on a cat.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: Ns1
meh. my dog ate fruit all the time.

The difference is that dogs can taste sweetness and cats can't.

well the major difference is dogs are marginally omnivorous
cats aren't.

 

[alkemyst]

obligate carnivore is actually the designation for a cat's diet. However, they do get grains and the like from the predigested inards of their prey and why you can't just slap a piece of steak in your cat's bowl and expect it to be healthy.

Most cat foods out there (especially dry diets) have nothing to do with a cat's diet and are in effect worst than us eating McDonalds everyday. Cats have a much shorter lifespan than people though so the effects aren't as pronounced over life.

Even most 'science/prescription' diets are terrible. The sad part is there is not much money in the study of animal diets for pets, even veternarians can avoid the subject altogether in school and if they elect to take the elective nutrition classes they are sponsered by the same places that make crap foods. Scary thing is they can use dogs and cats even those euthanzied in pet food legally. Most say they don't do this, but there is no policing.

I switched to Wellness food for my cats...it's not cheap (about $50 month for my 3 cats plus about $15-20 for pouch food as a treat for them every other day)...but they are one for the real deals in quality pet foods even having their plants and any of their vendors plants inspected at human food levels.

A decent food I found for cheap (I feed the strays in my neighborhood this) is Kirkland's CAT food. It's based on Chicken, then Chicken Meal as the main ingredients as opposed to corn for most foods, and Chicken MEAL for the rest. Their dog food I think was part of the food recall, but it's a different thing entirely.

Another key tidbit...LIVER FLAVOR is just animal blood in most pet foods, usually not even fresh and practically off the floor of the plants.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: Ns1
meh. my dog ate fruit all the time.

The difference is that dogs can taste sweetness and cats can't.

well the major difference is dogs are marginally omnivorous
cats aren't.

This is not true either...dogs are carnivores, however; they handle vegetarian foods decently for the most part (having less possible fatal 'human food' sources). Nothing in their physiology is setup for anything but a carnivore diet.

On a pure vegetarian diet a dog would more than likely die. At best they may be able to process roughly half of non-meat products for sustenance.

Much of this is why commercial foods have so many added vitamins and minerals.

 

[Saint Michael]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: Ns1
meh. my dog ate fruit all the time.

The difference is that dogs can taste sweetness and cats can't.

That was old science. I don't think any modern zoologist that studies cats would claim they can taste anything less than sour, bitter, salt and sweet.

They do have less taste buds than dogs though.

Old science... like 3 years old? http://www.bioedonline.org/news/news.cfm?art=1911

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: Ns1
meh. my dog ate fruit all the time.

The difference is that dogs can taste sweetness and cats can't.

That was old science. I don't think any modern zoologist that studies cats would claim they can taste anything less than sour, bitter, salt and sweet.

They do have less taste buds than dogs though.

Old science... like 3 years old? http://www.bioedonline.org/news/news.cfm?art=1911

I need to read more into that when I have more time...sounds interesting...but I have seen my cats and cats I have witnessed gravitate to things like pudding and flan and ice cream and they acknowledge that in the study I see. Cats also gravitate to anti-freeze which is more lethal to them than dogs.

I skimmed through it quick and it's under the premise that cats taste receptors for sweet work like the rest of the mammals do. The don't quite dismiss it, but state that they don't taste sweet the same as us. They also state cats may detect high levels of sweetness...so they may not taste some sugar in their water but can taste the sugar in ice cream...

I don't see any other scientists working on this...but I have to do more research. It's an interesting topic for me.