Strange foods my pets like
 

Ok, I know that pets are not supposed to be fed people food but...

My cat Wish would attack me whenever I was eating canned peaches or cantelope. She turned her nose up at fresh fish. Go figure :confused:

KC, the Cairn Terrier, loves asparagus. One day she was begging for food while I was cooking dinner. I thought "I will fix her - I will give her some asparagus to make her go away". She loved it :eek: I thought she would spit it out like she does other vegetables.

Here is a picture of KC on the boat. She really gets in the way if my DH is trying to fish. We usually only take her if we not planning on fishing.
Anne

What a cute dog!
 

That dog, Anne, is very cute.

I grew up with a cocker spaniel who LOVED carrots--raw.
She would also eat corn on the cob... we'd give her the left overs,
you know how corn cobs are... and she'd nibble them clean!
In those days, 50 yrs ago, pet foods were not so nutritionally balanced
as today. She developed cancer and died.. probably due to the poor
quality of the pet food. I don't recall kibble at our house either. Was there
kibble then? hmmmm...it was only the smelly canned stuff. Things are so much better today.

Our Oreo loves whipped cream. The home she was born into, had small children, who gave her alot of dairy. I adopted her in the fall, and when Thanksgiving came, I had some pumpkin pie with whipped cream on it, and she jumped up
on the table (which we don't allow), and she actually pulled the dish over
to herself with her paw. Not so subtle...LOL So we give her a small portion
each day as a treat. This turned out to be a Godsend, since she was attacked by a wild animal 3 yrs ago up North, and had a painful tail injury. I ground up the Clavamox (kitty Augmentin) and prednisone and hid them both in the whipped cream and she just snarfed it up...no battles with pilling the cat!
Those of you with cats understand THAT...giving meds to kitties is a supreme challenge. You should see her run around after the whipped cream! We finally figured it was due to the Nitrous gas that it uses... an NO high!
Our oldest cat gets quality shrimp for her treat. This I started when meds were necessary for her arthritis, she accepts the pill, when a shrimp follows.
Tippy prefers turkey.:rolleyes:

I also read that gerbils need supplementary foods...so I used to cruise around office plazas when
doing errands and pick pine cones that were ripe but not open yet for them right off the trees. I'd open them in the
oven ( a trick I learned making pine cone wreaths years ago)..and feed them the newly opened
cones..they'd chew thru to the seeds..gerbils need to chew... and get the nutrients from the
fresh seeds. I also used to pick sorrel, dandelion leaves, clover, etc for them too. We live in a small
wooded area, where this was possible. We rarely gave them gerbil food, but mostly fresh stuff..and
they lived 2 yrs past the average for gerbils, I found out later. I still fondly remember them reaching up
for their goodies... very eager for the new food additions.

Anne,

I LOVE that picture! What a sweetheart!

Oh Gosh, Ginger ate almost anything.

She never got a nibble of people food until she was in her later years, but somewhere around 7 or 8, we used to start giving her tastes now and then. It will be hard to start over with the new dog..I hate trhowing away meat I could give to a pooch.

We have always given fresh carrots for snacks, but those didn't count as 'bad'.

She wouldn't eat grapes (unless we cut them in half :) ) and it seems there was one other thing, but we used to make a contest of trying to feed her things she might not eat, but she loved it all.

Cara

My male cat will eat about anything!Cheetos,potato chips,corn,biscuits and even pancakes.I have not yet found a food item he will not eat.
One of my dogs will bury anything from ritz crackers to cookies.I guess she is hiding them incase of a disaster.
I just a kick out of watching them. Izzy