My mama kitty from the old country, she had a saying: Chi mangia bene, vive bene, “Who eats well, lives well.” Mangia, mangia! You got any more of that rosé?
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My mama kitty from the old country, she had a saying: Chi mangia bene, vive bene, “Who eats well, lives well.” Mangia, mangia! You got any more of that rosé?
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.. More please .. but hold the broccoli (Unless you add some melted cheese) ..
Don’t give my cats any ideas…
I always thought the thing about Garfield loving lasagne was made up, but it turns out my cats love pasta too. Tomatoes aren’t good for cats, so I’ve got a good reason to keep them away.
Tomatos are fine for cats and dogs. Just don’t let them eat the green stems or leaves. http://www.petpoisonhelpline.com/poison/tomato-plant/
I had no idea. Mike has set up a wonderfully educational as well as funny website here.
We found our Barney cat among our tomato plants 10 years ago as a 2 month old kitten, no idea where she came from! Tomatoes were good for her 🙂
My cat Echo also liked tomatoes. When I came home from the store with fresh tomatoes, she would search out which grocery bag they were in and puncture each and every tomato with her teeth. She was, shall we say, eccentric.
Many years ago, when I and the family labrador were young, my mother was sure the squirrels were stealing her cherry tomatoes. Then one day she saw the pup rearing up on his hind legs and delicately pluck off a tomato with his soft lab lips, then gulp it down without any outward signs of chewing.
He did the same with mint plants and chili peppers. It’s a lab thing.
My kitty will eat uncooked pasta. When I’m making noodles I break off pieces and toss them for her and she’ll catch them in her paws and crunch away.
She doesn’t know what to do with a cooked noodle though.
Duh–she should knit it!
*snort!* *facepalm*
Good one!!!
Good one, DebG!
If my cats could put their paws on this plate, they would munch all the pasta, right after the broccoli. No vegetable can fall on the kitchen floor here, it is devoured before it could land. My cats might have an identity crisis considering themselves to be bunnies.
My cats liked peas when they were little. They’d play soccer for a bit and eventually eat the ones they didn’t lose under the wicker box in the corner of the kitchen (my mom moved it once and found about a dozen dried up peas under there).
They don’t really do that anymore. 🙁
Kitten soccer with peas, awww 🙂
My white kitty’s favourite toy is a potato, sometimes it gets paw-handled, sometimes carried in his mouth, like dogs carry tennis balls 🙂
The absolute favourite of both kitties is courgette. They eat it raw, cooked, even the peel if they can put their paws on it.
It was especially adorable when they were tiny. My favorite was when little Stars knocked one into a small space* she couldn’t reach far enough into. I watched her flail for a minute or two before getting a bendy straw and fishing it out. After which they forgot about peas and spent the rest of the evening playing the straw.
(*That space was the central vacuum system’s kick switch thingy under the cabinet that lets you sweep stuff right into it. I kinda wanted to see if she’d manage to turn it on, though I don’t think she could have since it takes a little force to flip the switch. Which is just as well since the noise would have traumatized her for sure.)
LOL, I initially misread your sentence as the cat getting the bendy straw and using it herself to retrieve the pea – I was like “Cats have learned how to use tools? We’re doomed!” 😀
Me too!
I can see how it could be read that way. 😉
And I thought we were their tools.
I’ve heard of people not being able to successfully harvest broccoli because their cats would get to it first! Not my cat.
I’m on my first cat and she came into a house with a rescue dog who thinks every meal may be his last. She eats extremely fast, like the dog, and will eat anything available on the floor, the kitchen counter, or my plate, if I’d let her! So far, nothing that the dog or I haven’t been able to get to before she does has done any harm. My eating in front of them has become a real “spectator sport” to see which one can look neediest, and, which one can get to any dropped food fastest.
I’ve had too many cats to count during my life and none of them ever showed any interest in pasta cooked or not. The strangest thing I can think of that one of my cats craved was Patch who begged for pieces of my carob bar and T-One who kept stealing BBQ potato chips out of the bowl to lick off the seasoning.
Our previous cat was totally crazy about pasta, only cooked pasta though.
Once we did not inform the cat in due time that we were expecting somewhat noisy guests, so he got frightened when they arrived and hid from them in the kitchen. As we served pasta for dinner and unwittingly left him alone with the yummy pasta, he turned to comfort eating and helped himself. I haven’t seen such a dishevelled lookin’ spaghetti ever since 🙂
Oh, my orange guy did the chip thing too! With him it was Doritos. He’d get under the bowl and – BAP! – knock one out, then lick off the seasonings and leave the soggy chip on the floor…
My late and much-beloved Mr. Picky disdained all people food excepting only butter. He also would not eat cat treats, tried all different kinds. Reaction was a lick of the nose and walking away from.
Stars & Stripes only seem to like two flavors of one brand of wet food. My mom tried a different kind the other night and ended up taking the opened cans to the next-door neighbor’s cats. Which reminds me, I need to see if there’s more food in the house because what they left on the table won’t last two+ weeks while I’m babysitting. I’ll have to make a note of the flavors that are there before I use them up in case I have to get more.
😀 A pasta-eating cat? Great! Too bad mine has not shown any interest in pasta, since that is my favorite food, but she does occasionally lick pizza with gusto. My kitty loves potato chips, crackers, greasy doughnuts, pricey imported cookies, and is always trying to lick the bottle of olive oil. She also loves to lick the skillet used to cook eggs in butter and oil. BTW, there are no “fazool” – a dialect word meaning “fagioli”, that is, beans – in that plate of pasta, only tomatoes and broccoli. Yum!! 😀
Sylvia, my 19 1/2 year old silver mackerel tabby DSH, has a thing for Ruffles sour cream and cheddar potato chips. She gets excited whenever I rattle ANY kind of noisy bag as she’s sure I’m opening the Ruffles one. I take a chip and break off an inch long piece of 2 or 3 ridges worth. Then I break it into teeny pieces and park them (one at a time) on my belly that she then demurely picks up and eats while we watch TV. She eats only 3 or 4 of these little pieces and she’s satisfied and lays back down until the next time. Not sure how we got started on that routine. But I know when she’s gone, I’m going to think of her any time I pick up a Ruffles chip.
Oh my. That is such a sweet story!
🙂
My Jacques (kitty – all black but for the white star on his chest) is named for Jacques Pepin (co-chef with Julia Child) and Jacques Torres ( the Dessert Chef) – because he is a foodie! His favorites are Daal Makhani, cooked bacon absolutely NOT raw), Brie – the “riper” the better, popcorn, and anything with A lot of flavor. He has never tried pasta though… we’ll have to see what he thinks…
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