Strange Cat eating habits

[EnlightenedOwl]

Jasper my thirteen year old black and white is very conventional with food - felix, go cat, perhaps a bit of milk mixed with weetabix as a treat. Dreamies are also acceptable
Samson my other cat (background, ex stray I took in) is on the other hand a walking bin. A piece of Custard Cream biscuit was accepted gratefully the other day plus a roast chicken crisp (he nicked that)
As for tablets...not a problem give them to him like a treat and down they go.
the other oddity is he eats his breakfast or dinner and then when its all done he paws at the floor around his bowl (never had a cat do this)
anyone else got a cat with odd eating habits?

It's probably because he's been a stray, he's had to take calories where he can find them.

Pawing the ground around the dish is their way of saying I'll come back to this later, in the wild they can bury food for later.

ooh, one of mine does the burying food thing, very funny. Never been a stray, though.

Weird isn't it? Never had one do that before. Then again I've never had a cat that gobbles tablets either.

our cat used to love Melon & Mango - chewing on a mango stone was his idea of heaven

Make sure you never drop a paracetamol tablet, they are highly poisenous to cats (mostly fatal from what I've read) and it sounds like he'd eat one if he saw it.

I had some fights with my cat trying to get him to have tablets until I got them ready, put them on the side and he just jumped up and ate them

But he won't touch wet cat food, chicken, gravy etc
He will however polish of pasta sauce which made him very ill due to the onions

oooh good point fluffy I never thought of that - and we do have some quite strong medication in the house. He would definitely eat it. I will definitely have to be careful.

A couple of ours do the burying thing, Trevor can be obsessive about it at times.

One of our cats loves cucumber - she doesn't get many treats due to renal disease but a slice of cucumber gets a really enthusiastic response from her.

One of mine used to do the burying thing with food she didn't like - I assumed she thought it smelt like poo

I had a cat who would eat anything, even sprouts or peas off the table. Turned out she had a thyroid problem (she had also been a stray, so the two things combined to make her a scavenger). So keep an eye on his weight and if he looks thinner get him tested. it is quite common in cats.

Didn't think of that either! But he is putting on weight rather than losing so think he is just still in survival mode. Furry Dyson!