Conference misery::feline_v1

    Oh yes, my "Tigga" loves bread. When I make a sandwich, I usually
    take an extra piece of bread and break it up for him. If I don't
    he tries to nip at mine.
    
    How about "Pop-Tarts" ??? My "Kitty" just loves these. She can be
    on the other side of the house, but when I put a Pop-Tart in the
    toaster she comes charging in the kitchen. I've even opened up a
    can of her favorite food at the same time, but she ignores the
    cat food and begs for the Pop-Tarts. I'd be interested to know if
    anyone else has a cat that likes "junk food".
    
    kathie
    

    I have one cat that adores mexican food.  Most especially tortillas.
    He will screech at us every time we have tacos or burritoes or 
    just chips and salsa.  He has been known to help himself to a bag
    of tortilla chips stored in the pantry.
    Jo

    Our two are also fond of bread, particularly when they have "caught"
    it themselves; i.e. when the neighbours have put out bread for the
    birds and our boys help themselves to it. Kimi acts just like he
    does when he brings a bird or a mouse in: shows it to us so that
    we can tell him how clever he is, and chirrups away proudly at it,
    batting it as he does. He particularly likes cathing raisin buns,
    preferably buttered.
    
    One day I was eating cheese on toast for lunch, and Kimi was coveting
    it, but not getting any. He disappeared outside, and a bit later
    came back - with a piece of cheese on toast! I never have figured
    out how he managed that one.

    What on earth are Pop Tarts? I've nver heard of them. We don't have
    them in England.
    
    Ellen
    

    re:4               
    Ellen,
    
    Pop-Tarts are small pastries filled with various fillings (cherry,
    strawberry, apple, brown sugar,etc) that you put in the toaster
    to warm. I believe they are put out by Kellogg. Another brand
    name for the same kind of thing is "Toastems". They are supposed
    to be a quickie breakfast type food, but me and my kittys like
    them for snacks. 
    
    I guess they are just one of the many "junk foods" that we have
    here in the States.
          
    kath

    ... consider yourself lucky.
    
    - Dick
    

    One of my cats loves cantaloupe.  And he also loves corn, especially
    fresh, right off the cob.
    

    I have a question for Ellen Pirie (sp).  What exactly is a moggie?
    How did the name come about?  A british friend told me that she
    thinks  it is usually used to refer to a long haired cat.  She has
    been in the states for a time and therefore thinks she is a little
    out of touch with british slang.
    Jo

    A moggie is any cat which does not belong to particular breed -so most
    pet cats are moggies. However it is a rather derogatory term and
    is often used to describe strays or noisy toms.
    
    I will check my dictionary and see if I can find the derivation.  

    We tried two dictionaries, one standard English, one Scots, but
    we couldn't find the derivation of moggie.
    
    Interestingly, perhaps, my parents from Manchester in the North
    of England refused to use the term moggie for a cat. For them a
    moggie was an insect of any kind.
    
    Our cats aren't veggies, which is tough for them cause we are. One
    of the will sometimes eat dried fruit, or cucumber raita, but
    canteloupe would be asking too much. The other cat recently took
    to drinking the water we were soaking some black-eyed beans in.
    
    Phillip
    

    My parent had a cat that loved cantaloupe!  Espcially the juice
    that is left in the rinds.  He used to lick it up.  (unfortunately
    he always got diarrea afterwards) He was an indoor outdoor cat,
    and my dad has a compost pile, and had to start burying (deeply)
    the cantaloupe rinds!
    
    Sally

    My Smurf who is usually very finicky came up to me one day and started
    licking my fingers like I had catnip all over them.  I couldn't
    figure out why he was going so crazy.  The only thing I had on my
    fingers was olive juice.  Well, thats what is was, he loves green
    olives, even better than catnip and pounce!.  I also let him try
    a black olive and after he batted it around he gobbled that one
    up too.    Any other olive lovers out there?   

    Eirene and  Panther like olives, and if Alex sees either of them
    eating them, she'll have one to. Mine like them with a little feta
    on the side.
    
    Deb

    We used to know a cat that loved ear wax!! (Yuck).  We discovered
    this after scratching an ear with a little finger - the cat seemed
    to love it. We were most surprised and rather disgusted!
    
    Ellen
    

    Honey also prefers Kalamata olives to the green or black, but he
    will eat the black when there aren't any Kalamata on the buffet.
    Chauncey isn't an olive fan, but they both love feta!
    
    And for being bread eaters, they both love the stuff.  Honey once
    chewed thru the bag to get at a loaf of French bread, which is his
    favourite.  He also chewed thru the plastic wrap to eat a chunk
    of birthday cake (but then it was for his birthday...Montellio's...
    the cat has good taste!).  The sound made when opening a jar of
    baby food will rouse them out of a sound sleep (even better than
    a can opener).

	 My parents  have  to keep all their bread in a cabinet that T-2
     (pronounced  tee-too) can't reach. If they leave it on the counter,
     when  they  come back to the kitchen they will find a wax paper bag
     with a hole in it and a loaf of bread inside the bag with a similar
     sized hole in it.


    

    
    Brandy and Magellan have gotten into our cabinets to chew through
    a loaf of bread - now we put the loaf into a plastic Tupperware
    container.  They love popcorn (especially Brandy) - we don't put
    butter on it - they get one or two pieces - I don't know what it
    might do to their insides...
    
    Brandy loves to play with grapes but doesn't eat them. I have to
    watch her to make sure they don't end up squashed on the carpet...
    
    One thing I thought they would eat but they hate is eggs (cooked)
    - I dumped some leftover breakfast eggs into their bowl one day
    and they ended up carrying pieces of them around the kitchen but
    nothing more...

    We had one a few years back that loved pancakes.  She would take
    hers and "kill" it first, then drag it all over the house, and then
    eat it.  Watching this silly kitten/cat kill the pancake was enough
    to put us in the hospital.  I even got some pictures of her in action.
     
    M-L

         "Spunky" loves (in this order) Olives,ham,cheese pixies,
    donuts, and raw eggs.
    
         "Atreyu" (pronounces a-tray-u) Tuna fish,Cheese,shrimp and
    spare ribs.
    
                         REK

    I have a cat that loves to sit and watch me eat potato
    chips.  I decided to let him try one - and he loves them!
    I have to hold the chip for him, though, cause he has
    a hard time chewing it (long fangs in the front, small,
    short teeth in back).
    
    He ends up trying to chew it with his back teeth, and most
    of it falls out of his mouth and onto the carpet.
    
    Never thought I'd have a "junk food junkie" for a cat.

    My twins (Eirene and C.L. Panther) go nuts over chips! When they
    were little kittens I had some friends over and someone spilled
    some chips on the floor. They devoured them like little munching
    machines, so we put a newspaper on the floor and dumped a whole
    bag of chips on it. They went into a feeding frenzy munching those
    things.
    
    Deb 
      

    
    
    	Corby is a "Twinkie_fanatic"!  Loves the cream filling...more
    so than the cake.  

    Punkin's favorite snack are donuts.  After that come croissants
    and cheese curls.  I put down a bag with a box of donuts in it for
    a minute, and when I came back to put it away, he was in the bag.
     He didn't bother to take one out -- just stood there half in the
    bag with the box torn open eating away.
    
    Pusshy loves Italian spaghetti but he spits out the mushrooms.
    
    Princess loves carnations, but will graze through our neighbor's
    tulip bed when she can get away with it.
    
    Would we let our kids get away with this?