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I never knew cats liked sweets...

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LyraSilvertongue · 03/07/2008 21:03

My cat is on the other sofa finishing off DS2's Drumstick lolly.
I thought cats only liked meaty/animal product tastes.

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Ecmo · 03/07/2008 21:03

My cat loves Maltesers

Shitemum · 03/07/2008 21:04

Sugar is supposed to be bad for cats isn't it?

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LyraSilvertongue · 03/07/2008 21:08

It can't be good for them.
Now I know I'll have to make sure I don't leave leftover sweets lying around.

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DisplacementActivity · 03/07/2008 21:10

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Shitemum · 03/07/2008 21:15

Apparantly cats cannot taste sugar at all!

And this from consumerhealth.org is interesting...
DO OUR PET ANIMALS EAT MORE NUTRITIOUSLY THAN WE DO?
Where are our priorities? I have a question that I ask my young patients: "Do you like sugar?" Of course they do. Then I ask them if they have animals, a puppy dog or pussy cat and if they would feed their puppy or cat sugar. No, of course they wouldn't. Many studies have been done on the effects of sugar on animals. Dr. Cheraskin studied a group of rats who ate sugar-coated cereal and another group who ate the box the cereal came in, and you guessed it, the rats who ate the box lived longer than the rats who ate the cereal.
The Pottinger cat studies are a favourite topic of mine. In the 1940's, 900 cats were studied by a group of anthropologist dentists. One group of cats were fed mainly raw meat and milk and they lived happily ever after, generation after generation. Another group were fed cooked and processed food. The second and third generation had arthritis, diabetes, dermatitis, cancer, skin disease, all the chronic degenerative diseases that we are seeing now in our human population. By the third generation, this group had no more live births; in other words there was no fourth generation. We've got to see some similarities between ourselves and these cats. We are not cats, but we are getting to the third generation of people growing up on refined foods and it has got to have some impact.

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LyraSilvertongue · 03/07/2008 21:23

Very interesting shitemum.
I'm sure I'd feel a whole lot healthier if I gave up sugar.

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Hecate · 03/07/2008 21:23

My mum had a cat that loved sprouts! couldn't get enough of them. No sprout was safe in that house! at the thought.

Hecate · 03/07/2008 21:24

oh, she also loved toffee. We called it 'numnum toffee' because that's the sound she used to make eating it.
we were bad, bad owners.

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LyraSilvertongue · 03/07/2008 21:25

That's just plain weird Hecate.

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Hecate · 03/07/2008 21:28

Well, she lived into her 20's, so it didn't do her any harm.
We threw her a 21st birthday party.

with little fishy cake

and a candle

mankymummy · 03/07/2008 21:29

my cat would go mad for salted peanuts. he used to lick the salt off one by one, then bat the licked ones into a pile until he'd finished licking the salt off and then eat them one by one.

very ood !

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LyraSilvertongue · 03/07/2008 21:29

That's even weirder!

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stealthsquiggle · 03/07/2008 21:30

My childhood cat used to love chocolate. This was before we all got told it was bad for them - he ate all my easter eggs.

One of our other cats loved crisps - she would hear a crisp packet opening from the other end of the house - so meanie DH gave her a chilli crisp - if looks could kill!

Hecate · 03/07/2008 21:30

we sang happy birthday

stealthsquiggle · 03/07/2008 21:30

ooh and another one loved tinned green beans with a passion

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