Can cats develop a sweet tooth?

[Archae]

I've read somewhere that cats don't like sweet stuff.

WRONG!

Charlotte, my calico constantly tries to steal sweet stuff that I'm eating, like a "Little Debbie" snack cake I was just eating.

I know dogs will practically eat anything, but can cats develop a sweet tooth?

[B Calm]

1. My little girl cat loves ice cream!

[Sanity Claws]

2. Don't know but they can become addicted to carbs

Some cats like dry food, which has far too much carbs for their health. The superfat cats that you see eat dry food.

[Bertha Venation]

3. Toby eats plastic -- the vet said

that plastic tastes sweet to some cats. It's very annoying, though, when he barfs up pieces of plastic.

[CherokeeDem]

5. That explains it...

I just posted that my largest cat doesn't like sweets, but he loves cellophane, plastic wrappers and curling ribbon...pulled a strand or two of that from an unpleasant place. Learned to pick up all little pieces of plastic to keep him from eating them. So it tastes sweet, then maybe he does have a sweet tooth.

Thanks for the info.

[CherokeeDem]

4. One of mine loves sweets...

He loves pancake syrup, ice cream with caramel sauce, and cake icing. Though not sweet...he loves celery...go figure...he swoons when he gets a stalk of celery, rubs against it, then gnaws on it.

My other cat, who is a big boy, is addicted to dry cat food. If his little treat bowl is empty at 4 am...I hear about it. He'll lick a little ice cream and that's all the sweet stuff he'll eat.

[Bertha Venation]

9. Hahahahaha -- celery!

That is funny. I'd like to see that! The only vegetable-eating cat I've ever had was Valentine; I have a picture of him standing on a roommate, gnawing her corn on the cob.

[CherokeeDem]

11. My little Rusty is a hoot...

I'll try to get a pic of him next time he has celery.

When I was little, I had a Chihuahua named Henry, who loved green peppers. One day he wasn't in the yard and we found him next door in the neighbor's small garden, pulling a green pepper off the plant. Did I say he loved green peppers???

[Bertha Venation]

12. hahahahaha Henry

I love it!

[CherokeeDem]

15. He was named after Dr. Henry Perkins...

the doctor who took out my tonsils right before my 6th birthday. I adored him and when I was given the Chihuahua for my birthday, I had to name him Henry.

We then had a Chihuahua named Chico and as an adult, I had a beautiful long-coat Chihuahua name Don Manolito Montoya II...after the character in High Chaparral.

Weird what we name our little furry friends...

My kitties are Rusty Wallace and Fox Mulder, better known as Rusty and Fox.

[Bertha Venation]

17. Isn't Rusty Wallace a race car driver?

I like it that you named Henry after your doctor. I like your pet names.

On July 20, 1994, Harry Truman and Richard Nixon were born. The sweetest kitties I've ever had. Richard left us at age twelve, Harry at sixteen, nearly three years ago. Harry was the feline love of my life, and I miss him every day. I miss Richard, too.

They got their names thus: Around the time that I got them, Richard Nixon died. At the same time I was reading David McCullough's biography of Harry Truman. I just liked the idea of having cats with people names.

Now we have:

Petey
Toby
Cocoa
Charley Girl
Skittles
Smudge
Moose
Mildred
O'Malley
Rat Face

Yes, we are crazy cat women. They're a lot to handle. Suffice to say that after O'Malley and Rat Face we finally said NO MORE.

[CherokeeDem]

18. Yep...

Rusty Wallace is a race car driver, retired. I have very eclectic (strange) taste...love car racing, science fiction, the theater, lots of things that don't go together.

For twenty years, I had a little female black cat named Uhura, after the Star Trek character.

I love the names O'Malley and Rat Face...the others are adorable as well.

And yes...we are crazy cat ladies!!!

[lastlib]

19. I had a cat that liked rhubarb pie and corn on the cob.....

really

[CherokeeDem]

21. Rhubarb pie???

A cat connoisseur!

I had a dog that loved to eat corn on the cob...would just chomp away at it, but never a cat. Too cool...

[lastlib]

25. That was the strangest cat I ever saw.....

When Mom cooked corn on the cob for canning, the cat would be waiting for her when the first batch came off the cooker. Mom would cut off most of the first ear, but leave a little bit of it and put it down for the cat, who promptly went at it hammer & tong! Once at a Sunday dinner, we had rhubarb pie--Dad cut off a little bite and put it down for the cat, who ate it and begged for more. And she also liked to eat fried hot banana peppers! but that kinda bit back, I guess. First time she bit into it, she kinda drew back in surprise from it once the hot taste hit her; but then she dug into it and ate several bites of it! Crazier cat I never met!

[lunatica]

31. My cat loves white corn on the cob

I'm pretty sure it's because white corn is sweet. He chews on plastic also. But I wonder if that isn't just because it makes one of his favorite sounds. If we open anything with a crinkly sound he comes running.

[Xyzse]

6. I know some cats addicted to twizzlers

So I have no idea where the idea that they don't like sweets come from.

[In_The_Wind]

7. Two out of three of my parrots love sweets. My cats always begged sweets as well.

Chocolate is the one treat we don't share.

[Enrique]

10. i just saw birds eating sugar packets

they were going crazy over them, picking them from the outdoor tables at a restaurant. One bird grabbed 4 of them at one time. The waiter said he'd been there 7 years and never seen that before.

[In_The_Wind]

29. Birds learn very quickly where the food is stashed.

Miss Frodo doesn't beg, she demands ...

want some
want some
want some
WANT SOME OF THAT

I cook extra for the birds.

[alarimer]

8. Mine eats ice cream

Any flavor, ice cream or frozen yogurt. It doesn't seem to matter.

I let him lick the spoon when I am done. He doesn't seem to like other people food, though.

[olddots]

13. We had a cat that ate an orange once

he ate anything he saw us enjoying but he never liked coffee or cigarettes

[Beware the BeastMan]

14. I had a cat who loved yogurt,

to the point that she would come running if she heard me tear the top off of a yogurt cup.

Oh, and my other cat only likes cereal milk. He won't drink it "neat."

[redwitch]

30. Our Odin loves yogurt.

I spoon feed it to him.

[Wait Wut]

16. All of my cats have had odd cravings.

Py was addicted to ketchup.
Buster would jump on the table and steal peas from your plate.
Bear loved spaghetti...and anything she could steal from the garbage or the refrigerator (we had to duct tape it shut).
Harley liked iced tea.
Snoopy loves bread...and toothpaste.
Chili likes feet (Yes, feet. He likes to lick feet. Clean or dirty, stranger or family. Keep your shoes on.)
Sam loved salads...including the tomatoes.
Ki liked green olives.

That's all I can remember, right now. But, I've spent my entire life hiding food from my cats.

[Akoto]

20. Never had a cat, but my lab puppy loves ice cubes and cherry flavored medicine. n/t

[B Calm]

32. I had a yellow lab that loved to eat squash out of the garden. Had to keep an

eye on him when he was near the garden. He loved the huge apple tree in the yard too. Whenever an apple would fall to the ground he would run over and eat it.

[benld74]

22. Ours L-O-V-E marshmallows

Lick them down to nothing. Also like to lick on cantelope rinds to get the juice.

[joeybee12]

23. I'd been told they don't have the taste bud for sugar...

Did your cat borrow someone's???

[winter is coming]

24. I had one that liked angel food cake and orange soda.

Wasn't interested in anything else sweet, though.

[Danmel]

26. My cat Buttons loved yellow cake

He also liked cold sesame noodles. But his favorite food was roast turkey. On Thanksgiving, he would camp out by the oven waiting for the bird to come out of the oven. He was a great cat. He played fetch, stayed in our fenced yard and came in when we called him, and would just hang out in our laps all day. I miss that little boy.

I have three cats now- none of them have any interest at all in people food-I can have leftover fresh tuna steak, turkey or salmon, and they prefer canned cat food- go figure.

[Generic Brad]

27. My cat loves lollipops

Specifically watermelon Dum-Dums.

[grasswire]

28. Miss Figgy, calico belle, loved glazed donuts.

She would rip right into the bag and steal one.

Keiko, glorious orange tabby, loved avocado, watermelon juice, and cantaloupe.

Chester was "the chipster" and he also LOVED corn silk from a fresh ear of corn. He would be into the grocery bags when fresh corn came into the house.

[Demoiselle]

33. We had a cat who loved corn on the cob.

Her teeth weren't exactly suited to nomming kernels neatly, so she left the ears in a big mess.
Still, she was happy.