Daily Photo: Mewsette and My Salad
Mewsette loves her raw diet so she has no problem at all with “real” cat food, but she also has a long list of foods not generally associated with cats: cooked oatmeal, soda crackers, pecans, occasionally she’ll have a lick of my apple, and she even likes chocolate, though that’s something I don’t even let her have a taste of. It may just have to do with the fact that I’m eating it and she wants to give it a try but isn’t really interested, but she’ll actually eat the item too.
Including my salad, which I have just about every evening after they have had their dinner. Someone always likes my feta cheese or my olives or chick peas or even my little tomatoes, but this is just plain red leaf lettuce, no dressing or other ingredients at all. I coarsely rip the leaves by hand, and they certainly smell fresh and inviting to me, but to a cat? Mewsette always moves in and takes at least one leaf, pulls it from the bowl and eats it, and often a second. When I ask her about it, she gives me a sly “because I like it, that’s why” look.
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Goodness! The only food Austin wants off my plate is the meat!! He obviously does not have refined tastes!
Carolyn, I’d say Austin has the appropriate tastes for a cat! Mewsette, I worry that she’ll eat something she shouldn’t, but from what I hear in comments, lettuce isn’t entirely unusual.
i have a kitty that likes green beans.
Connie, that’s funny! Why would they like green beans? They actually look like clever little cat toys and if I bring them in from the garden they have to go immediately into the refrigerator, though I did have one girl years ago who would take them one at a time and eat them under the bed.
Aw, Mewsette, you’re so cute. We hope your salad was nommy!
Stephanie, I’m just glad she only likes a little.
June Buggie likes lettuce too!
RumpyDog, another lettuce kitty! Purrrrhaps we can tease out of them what obligate carnivores see–or taste–in lettuce.