Cats and potato chips
By geogirl85
@geogirl85 (116)
United States
January 22, 2010 4:44pm CST
So, I found a cat about two weeks ago, three years old, and absolutely the softest cat I've ever had. Over the past two weeks we've been getting to know each other, and one really weird thing that I've found is that she doesn't really beg for my food that much, unless it is a bag of potato chips. Then she's all over me, purring, and trying to stick her head in the bag. Does anyone else have a cat that does anything really weird, or has weird tastes?
6 responses
@kasumi_tendou (24)
• United States
22 Jan 10
I have two cats. One won't touch human food, but the other will eat anything! His favorite thing is Cheerios!
@wildcatsthree (289)
• United States
23 Jan 10
yes, my cat Gidget is a big fan of potato chips and chips with a cheese flavor but that's about all she will beg for except her cat food. She was found living in a dumpster and I have always felt she probably existed on garbage for a while and found potato chips were pretty good stuff.
@kaylachan (66781)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
22 Jan 10
I had a cat once who seemed to like to lick butter. She wouldn't touch any other human food or anything. When she first did it I thought it was because it was a milk-based product. But it wasn't just any butter it was butter spread. The country crock. So I found that kind of interesting.
@alonsozero (23)
• United States
22 Jan 10
I had three cats and the three of them likes to fight with dogs and the thing is that they always open their tail like a bloom and somethings they fight so intensily that I have to stop them. And that cost me lots of wound for real, it hurts!!!. Well anyway and one of them likes to play with a water ball, a small one and it does bring it back when i throw it and it does it like a dog.
@bystander (2292)
• Philippines
22 Jan 10
Having two cats and four dogs, with a rooster to booth, I have relative knowledge about the food preference of pets.
Most pets, like your new-found cat, develop their preferences for food during their early years. Like humans, they also have this formative stage in their lives where they learn things -- like what to eat (based on what's served them), the place where they pee and make their "drops", they manner by which they express gratitude and love, and whole lot of things which non-verbal, as they are, do.
Once these preferences are established, and that's when they are past the first year of their lives, most animals are no longer ready to learn new things. Teaching them becomes difficult and they, most of the time, resist change in what has been established during their formative years.
So a cat, like what you found, who obviously developed a preference for potato chips, would not go for fish or the supermarket cat food, as most cats are.