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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / June 2005cats and olives...
What gives here? I've known three cats that go completely insane for olives - our Stella being the latest. She won't beg or touch human food except olives. She can smell them at 100 paces and if she gets nearer, she starts to salivate! So much so it was dripping from her little mouth? Is it something cat nip related??  Signature.oO rach Oo. > What gives here? I've known three cats that go completely insane for > olives - our Stella being the latest. She won't beg or touch human food > except olives. She can smell them at 100 paces and if she gets nearer, she > starts to salivate! So much so it was dripping from her little mouth? Is it > something cat nip related?? It is the salt in the olive they like. > What gives here? I've known three cats that go completely insane for > olives - our Stella being the latest. She won't beg or touch human food > except olives. She can smell them at 100 paces and if she gets nearer, she > starts to salivate! So much so it was dripping from her little mouth? Is it > something cat nip related?? I dunno, but the one time Sinbad (may he rest in peace) bit me was when I teased him about black olives. He loved them! What happened was, he was sitting on the table when I was eating. I ate a black olive, then leaned forward and breathed in his face. He leaned forward in turn and bit me on the nose! Well, a nip, but I definitely felt it. I felt I deserved it, so I apologized to him and never did it again. Priscilla Signature"Inside every older person is a younger person -- wondering what the hell happened." -- Cora Harvey Armstrong Years ago, I had a cat who didn't really care for people food and wasn't competitive about her meals. Her brothers regularly nosed her out of her dish if I didn't stop them. The exception was for olives, especially green olives stuffed with pimento. All the cats loved those as a treat, but she would just go nuts. She'd bat her olives around, eat them, steal her brothers' olives, and hiss and swat at them if they tried to get their olives back or go anywhere near hers. She also had a habit of eating her wet food by picking up chunks of it in her mouth, carrying it out of her dish, and depositing it on one particular area on the floor. Once she had put the food where she wanted it, then she would eat it. I don't remember her ever eating an entire meal straight from her dish. > She also had a habit of eating her wet food by picking up chunks of it in > her mouth, carrying it out of her dish, and depositing it on one particular > area on the floor. Once she had put the food where she wanted it, then she > would eat it. I don't remember her ever eating an entire meal straight from > her dish. But doesn't that remind you of a bullied girl trying to get away from the boys? SignatureWeb site: http://www.slywy.com/ Message board: http://www.slywy.com/phpBB2/ Journal: http://slywy.diaryland.com/ > But doesn't that remind you of a bullied girl trying to get away from > the boys? It does, but it was so ritualistic. It's not as if the boys couldn't have found her food there if I'd let them. But, whatever made her happy and comfortable during mealtime, I was glad to accommodate, even if it meant that part of the carpet needed extra cleaning to not smell like cat food. My late Meowzer had an obsession with olives. It didn't matter if they were green or black he loved them. It was the one sure way to catch the little rip when he'd sneak out side and not want to come in. I'd just get the jar out and toss him one or two and while he was distracted I could scoop him up. About once a week I would take an olive and slice it up for him as a treat. My current trio could care less for them but Meowzer was crazier for olives than he ever was catnip. Celeste > What gives here? I've known three cats that go completely insane for > olives - our Stella being the latest. She won't beg or touch human food > except olives. She can smell them at 100 paces and if she gets nearer, she > starts to salivate! So much so it was dripping from her little mouth? Is it > something cat nip related?? |
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