Umm, so the cat likes MERINGUE!

[Katymac]

How bad is that for him?

He was practically climbing me to reach it

Am still fascinated by the variety of food stuffs your cats like. My boy has started taking much more of an interest in my dinners (sits next to me and develops a rubber neck :)) & will try & lick the plate when i've finished.

I've always been a bit 'hysterical' about letting mine have human food (aside from roast chicken, prawns, tuna) convinced it'd be too spicy/salty/rich.

Going to calm down a bit now having read this thread....after all, if Jake wants to lick my plate clean it's less washing up for me :) :)

ZebraOwl - really freaky isn't it when they do that talking thing.

Used to think the youtube videos with kitties saying 'hello' & the like were all fake.

Until i heard very definite and clearly pronounced 'No, No, No's coming from the other side of my back garden fence. Was Tigger mid fight prep with a neighbours cat.

mathanxiety
I find it suggests nicely the speed at which the food is vanishing too

BibiBlocksberg
The first time they did the "mummy" thing I thought I was having a nightmare & tried to wake myself up . Black!cat's "yum yum yum" (or sometimes "miam miam miam", my habit of talking Franglais/Denglish to the cats has clearly rubbed off on them...) is flat out adorable... Love the idea of your cat's "no no no" at the neighbour's cat!

As far as human food goes, some of it REALLY isn't good for cats - chocolate, for example, or onions/garlic (that family of plants are toxic to cats) so it is as well to be careful. But they are furry little ninjas, so...

Me too with the 'denglish' ZebraOwl :)

Much as i've always chatted to mine (& got plenty of talk in return) think it'd freak me right out if Jake started saying 'mummy' human style.

The universe keeps sending me big boy cats with really high pitched siamese like voices so maybe that's what it is :)

Anyone......? :)

Blond!cat was after my (strawberry) soya yoghurt tonight. In fairness to him, this may have been because he didn't get any of HIS yoghurt with his tea as I was rushing, so he will have it before bed. (Am using the yoghurt to stir contents of urinary tract health supplement thing into. His brother gets a wee bit of yoghurt well smeared over his bowl so he doesn't feel left out/try to mug blond!cat for his. Black!cat puts on weight more easily than his brother though so now blond!cat's finished his antibiotics at last I might switch to putting the powder in his breakfast on mornings they have something it can be mixed well into - will need to wait until my brother is back in city he works in though as otherwise poor cat will end up double-dosed or undosed!

Both cats made an attempt to sneak a sour cream & chive flavour (but suitable for vegans & thus death-free, it's a tiny little miracle in delicious form) quinoa crisp from my plate when I was sorting my tea out. Blond!cat was also VERY cross the lid was firmly on the Marmite jar, too. Oh, and he was having a good old snuffle at the contents of the breadbin as soon as it opened.

(I'd rather the cats didn't go on the countertops. But they'd dance all over them in our absence, so there's a lot of moving them down & even more cleaning the worktops. Lucky there are petsafe antibacterial cleaners out there really...)

:) @ Soy Yoghurt Zebra? Marmite? Bread Bin? (thanks for cat food thread fix btw) :)

Jake & I shared some roast chicken flavour hoola hoops last night & i thought of you all.

I say shared, i ganneted the majority & his lordship got three or four little broken off bits & an admonisment of 'no, no more, too salty for you'

Greedy mummy :)

Know what you mean about jumping on kitchen surfaces, can't abide it knowing where he's been with THOSE paws so he gets lifted down with a firm NO every time. He has stopped while i'm around but as you say, when we're out goodness knows what they do up there :)

What wipes do you allude to pls btw - always interested in cleaning materials that are non harmful to living beings.

Well, I found out last night that the cat likes Irish tea brack too. Not the raisins but the crumbs.

Thorntons toffee. 'Twas hysterical to watch. Oh and chocolate gingers. In fact the dog we had at the same time was a bugger for apples and particularly oranges. She would beg for peelings from apple pies and sit drooling by your feet when you had an orange.

Just had to google what 'brack' is. Sounds tasty mathanxiety.

Was the thorntons toffee like one of those toffee penny's they used to put in Quality Street Spectre (sorry, too lazy to type your proper name tonight :))

Hours of fun watching our family dog eat a toffee penny - all day (well, it seemed like it)

It is lovely, and apparently the cat thinks so too. I make it instead of Christmas cake because I am the only one here who likes that, and brack is simpler. I put walnuts and raisins in it and soak the raisins in tea and whiskey. I can't believe the cat wouldn't be repelled by Mixed Spice.

I've a Tom cat that will drink my cup of tea but won't touch my husbands. He doesn't take sugar but I do. That's how I know they can taste sweet things x

I knew we were in bother when I dropped a lime yoghurt and the kitten ate it off the floor.

Mine's called Oliver because he will eat absolutely anything going and then cry for more. His absolute favourites are salt and vinegar pringles, lumps of cheddar cheese and tomato soup. He also loves to chew on the peppermint and liquorice teabags that Aldi do - they send him mental.

One of mine has recently gained her sense of smell and she's now always sniffing round my plate. She loves baked beans.

Mine loves cheese and onion crisps only ! and baked beans.

and he eats the fairy ring mushrooms and comes in with his pupils like saucers and off his little catty furface.

Just brilliant!

WTFCat will scrounge anything but is particularly partial to posh custard. He's not allowed it anymore as he has IBS and it gives him the squits

He knocked it out of my hand ate all the crushed crumbs & then growled a bit when I removed it

Eerily similar to my much missed Persian boy. Except the Food of the Gods was olives.

He was very determined about it.

We discovered that olives were his version of crack the day he raced over to DH, scaled him like a half prone tree, shoved one enormous, fluffy ginger paw in DH's mouth, hooked the half chewed olive out, and chomped it himself while giving DH a Growly DeathStare of the "don't you fucking dare try and get it back" variety.

Poor DH just sat there, spluttering and trying to spit out paw fur, in shock. 😂😂

Loving l these food thief cats

Mine likes Stockton crumbs, the odd crumpet with marinate and has a fish finger now and again.
She muggs the kids for crisps too
I also 'let her finish my 5am cup of tea every morning

I'm a well trained cat slave

Online, I remember dying of laughter when you posted that story before. It's one of the funniest things I've read on here. I can't imagine my Persians having the brains to do something like that!

My first though, when seeing that title was that the OP had a cat equivalent of the merengue dancing dog. Which is the best video ever.

I think cats are too cool to do stuff like that though. And of course it's meringue with an 'i' not, disappointingly, merengue with an 'e'.

I can't imagine my Persians having the brains to do something like that! hmm

To be fair to your Persians, the fuel behind Paw-In-MouthGate was more Obsessive Olive Lust than brain power. J was many things, I loved him to bits, but he was .... not blessed with a surfeit of brain power.

He hated getting wet with a passion. But would keep going to sleep in the bidet, washbasin and sink. Which were often wet from use. So he'd lie in them. Again. In a state of very vocal pissed off-ness at this strange and utterly unconnected (in his pea brain) dampness that kept suddenly blighting his existence. Again.

Daft, olive-obsessed, beautiful, very very thick, massive ball of rampant ginger fluffiness that he was.

My cat loves toast and marmite, ice cream, grated cheese

But his weird rubber fetish is the most consistent habit, he brings in dozens of rubber bands, rubber gloves, and for a couple of years while there was refurbishing going on in several local houses, we would come down in the morning to find presents of the rubber sealant strips from old Windows and bulky rubber diy gloves - some brand new with fleece lining etc.!

My Persians don't even have the brains to jump in the sink. Thank god! Wishing I'd remembered to ask the vet who did a ct scan of one of mines head, if there was anything actually in there!

Toddlerteaplease

My cats like different things. One loves Marmite, the other won't touch it. The ice cream man gave my dog a cone and he wouldn't touch it, neither would the younger cat. The older cat loved it though