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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / July 2005Food preferences
Tonight we had roast chicken and cornbread dressing with celery, which I always accompany with a big scoop of cranberry sauce. The smell of the chicken had Sheba at my feet and Robin on the window ledge trying to reach my shoulder; and both were trying to convince me they were starving. So I got busy cutting some chicken up and finally handed them some bites. One bite I handed Robin had been lying in a bit of cranberry juice. He sniffed it and reared back and I swear curled his lip trying to squinch his nose! What did I do that delicious chicken? I had ruined it with that nasty cranberry. So I gave it to Sheba. She swallowed it whole. I don't think she smells or tastes anything. If its food, she eats it. -- CATherine > So I got busy cutting some chicken up and finally handed them some > bites. One bite I handed Robin had been lying in a bit of cranberry [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > swallowed it whole. I don't think she smells or tastes anything. If > its food, she eats it. LOL! Miranda will eat anything, too. One day I caught her licking some orange juiice!  SignatureMarina, Frank and Miranda. In loving memory of Nikki. marina (dot) kurten (at) iki (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki I used an eye dropper to give Rusty pineapple juice. The vet said fresh squeezed pineapple juice is good for hairball. Winnie >> So I got busy cutting some chicken up and finally handed them some >> bites. One bite I handed Robin had been lying in a bit of cranberry [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > LOL! Miranda will eat anything, too. One day I caught her licking some > orange juiice! > I used an eye dropper to give Rusty pineapple juice. The vet > said fresh squeezed pineapple juice is good for hairball. This was a myth running around the rabbit community for a very long time. But pineapple juice doesn't do anything to actually break down hair. The enzymes in it just don't work on keratin. In rabbits hairballs tend to be hair mixed with mucous and food, so there's some speculation that the enzymes break down the gunk holding the hair together. In cats, based on what I've seen Valeria hack up, the hairballs are just hair. Pineapple juice isn't going to do anything for them. b >> I used an eye dropper to give Rusty pineapple juice. The vet >> said fresh squeezed pineapple juice is good for hairball. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > b I heard at the Ontario Vet. College they give the cats pineapple juice. And here I was putting pineapple churnks on coffe filter to get the jucie for Rusty. :( Winnie >>> I used an eye dropper to give Rusty pineapple juice. The vet >>> said fresh squeezed pineapple juice is good for hairball. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > And here I was putting pineapple churnks on coffe filter to get the > jucie for Rusty. :( Sorry :( Here's one link I could find quickly. http://www.rabbit.org/chapters/san-diego/health/vet-talk/myths.html (scroll down to the third comment) b >>>> I used an eye dropper to give Rusty pineapple juice. The vet >>>> said fresh squeezed pineapple juice is good for hairball. [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > b O.K. I will save myself the effort and eat the pineapples + juice myself. How about canned pumpkin? I read in a vet coloumn canned pumpkin is good for hairball. Rusty loves canned pumpkin. Winnie >> Sorry :( >> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > How about canned pumpkin? I read in a vet coloumn canned pumpkin is > good for hairball. Rusty loves canned pumpkin. In bunnies (and I'm sorry I keep referring to bunnies, but that's where most of my nutrition experience is) canned pumpkin is used as a fiber source. I suspect it's the same in cats. This helps physically move stuff through the gut. I don't see any real harm in it, or in feeding pineapple for that matter. I don't know how much good it will do, but if it's not painful to administer (for you or the cat :) ) then I'd say go for it. Of course, I have a fairly slap-dash approach to nutrition, and my background and training is in herbivores. These obligate carnivores are weird. My former boss' hubby (a brilliant pharmacologist) used to say cats were from mars. I am positive he was right. b >> So I got busy cutting some chicken up and finally handed them some >> bites. One bite I handed Robin had been lying in a bit of cranberry [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >LOL! Miranda will eat anything, too. One day I caught her licking some >orange juiice! A couple years ago an elderly friend of mine had a tomecat that had a blocked bladder and no money. So I fed him orange juice. He really liked it and it changed the PH in his bladder and he got unblocked. Thereafter, she had to feed him orange juice every day. He begged for it! And he never got blocked again. -- CATherine "CATherine" <pepsicola5cents@drop.me.bigsandytelco.com> wrote in message > > A couple years ago an elderly friend of mine had a tomecat that had a > blocked bladder and no money. So I fed him orange juice. He really [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > -- > CATherine Maybe I should give orange juice instead of pineapple juice. He has a history of urinary blockages. I heard vitamin is good for blockages and OJ has lots of vit C in it. Winnie >"CATherine" <pepsicola5cents@drop.me.bigsandytelco.com> wrote in message > >> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >Winnie If he likes it, go for it. And it helps the immune system. -- CATherine >> So I got busy cutting some chicken up and finally handed them some >> bites. One bite I handed Robin had been lying in a bit of cranberry [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > LOL! Miranda will eat anything, too. One day I caught her licking some > orange juiice! Tygra likes yogurt and sweets, and gummi bears. Kristy CATherine wrote: > So I got busy cutting some chicken up and finally handed them some > bites. One bite I handed Robin had been lying in a bit of cranberry [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > swallowed it whole. I don't think she smells or tastes anything. If > its food, she eats it. LOL! Miranda will eat anything, too. One day I caught her licking some orange juiice! Marina ======================================= Joanne & I were having strawberry shortcake the other day. She let Spicey lick some Dreamwhip(fake whipped cream) off her finger. Spicey loved it. Suz&Spicey >CATherine wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >lick some Dreamwhip(fake whipped cream) off her finger. Spicey loved it. >Suz&Spicey Dream whip is good anyway you can get it. I once dropped a daub of it in my lap and was actually fighting Sheba for it! LOL! -- CATherine > Tonight we had roast chicken and cornbread dressing with celery, which > I always accompany with a big scoop of cranberry sauce. The smell of [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > -- > CATherine LOL. Sounds like mine. Boots is a chicken purist, refuses bits of sandwich if they have a trace of mayo on them. Frank just inhales it anyway. Sherry >> Tonight we had roast chicken and cornbread dressing with celery, which >> I always accompany with a big scoop of cranberry sauce. The smell of [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > >Sherry Worse than mayo is a trace of mustard. That will get the cover-it-up routine. At first I thought it was the spiciness of it. But the spices in pizza sauce and pepperoni is just great. Are cats Italian? -- CATherine |
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