What is it about chicken that makes cats go crazy? 🍗

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I bought a takeaway rotisserie chicken on my way home from work today, pulled up in my driveway and my cats were clambering all over the car even before I got out - it was like a scene from a Stephen King film Woody's face was pressed up against the windscreen and the other three surrounded me as I tried to get out of the car.

They've each had a dish of tasty chicken not the skin or thighs and are now sleeping it off after a thorough full-body wash, too much excitement for one day 😴

I’m sure a vet on here said they use rotisserie chicken for cats who won’t eat.

That's interesting! Mine aren't bothered about pork, lamb or beef (love tinned mackerel though) but as soon as chicken is brought out it's every cat for itself.

Our first family cat in the 80s used to steal chicken off your fork - she was from a rescue centre mad cat lady that took mangled, unsellable chickens from a local poultry farm so thought chicken was the only acceptable food. We later took in a farm cat who preferred mice and birds, never understood the fuss about chicken

Ours adore roast chicken (and tinned mackerel but not tinned tuna weirdly).

Mine love roast chicken, but they kill for prawns. 🦐

And here is our feisty fluffer. Whooshed straight in onto the table to snaffle his favourite
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Broccoli..
So keep your Posh Chicken op..

Woah! I'd like to say my cats enjoy chickpea and lentil Dreamies but I'd be lying 😂

He eats any veg!! Strange boy!

My boys go mad for a haddock fillet from the chippie. I get the batter and about 20% of the fish, and they snaffle up the rest like crazed seagulls.

Crazed seagulls 😂 You'd think our poor cats are starved of decent food

Not my cat says he doesn't know what you mean

That's a Homer Simpson-type face

We later took in a farm cat who preferred mice and birds, never understood the fuss about chicken

Did she not know they are birds?

Mine go crazy for it. I swear one will come home from a mile away if he smells a chicken roasting! My DH hand feeds it to one of the girls and it sends her i to a frenzy of excitement. I think he's lucky to still have all his fingers.

I used to offer chicken to Cheddar, but she never touched it. So I thought she didn't like it. Turns out she does like it, but only if I have feed her.

Leo only likes chicken when you cube it, offer it to him from your hand, then throw it on the floor and pretend you've dropped it... He's such a weirdo!

Waiting for his chance......my pair go psycho when a chicken enters the house or is roasted!

Colin is a monster for raw chicken. I wanted to try him on some raw food (a twice milled one for kittens then the once milled one) but the postage was extortionate

I gave him a chicken wing yesterday but he just licked it so I ended up deboning it for him so we'll wait till he's older

I saw some cats on FB who were given day old chicks. They tended to play with them till Mum but the heads off so they could get to the insides 🤮

Mine pinches the chicken from my plate and fork, very rude and cheeky.

Nom nom

My old cat used to love KFC. I brought home a small bucket once and I think he ate half, including the tips of my fingers. 😳