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Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :

After fending off the nineteenth attack upon my ankles by my mother's kitten Gracie this morning, I picked her up and spoke with her quite firmly.

When I did I distinctly noted the odor of coffee on her breath.

It's so sad, really. The corruption of the young. She's only been here a week! I can see it now, strung out kitten, begging with a sign - will chase mice for chocolate. Thinking of nothing else but her next caffeine hit.

Pour out your coffee when you go to work, kids. Really, think of the kittens!

Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :

[Eek!]

Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :

[ROFL]

Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :

And Sara, you thought you had problems with Mr. Floppy...

Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :

[ROFL]

Posted by Stray (Member # 4056) on :

A couple of my ferrets like coffee, if it has milk and sugar in it. Not that I ever actually let them have more than a lick or two, because the idea of a ferret on caffeine terrifies me [Angst]

But I did get a very cute picture of my (empty) coffee tankard sitting on the end table, with a ferret diving into it up to her waist to lick the dregs from the bottom.

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

My cat's a big fan of chinese food. That does wonders for his smell.

Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :

I've had cats that go nuts over green olives. They act like it's catnip. They will roll around on the floor and rub against the olive. I have no idea why they do this. [Dont Know]

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

I thought this was going to be a StrongBad email or something [Wink]

Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :

My cat likes salads, especially the lettuce.

Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :

I had a cat that would practically climb your legs for corn on the cobb. She was also known to chew through the plastic on a loaf of bread and eat the bread. It was strange.

Belle, dear, aren't pets sometimes the best? heh! Kittens on caff!

I had Ferrets once, before the babies. I shudder to think what they would have been like on coffee. [Angst]

[ September 29, 2004, 02:31 PM: Message edited by: Olivetta ]

Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :

Oh and I had a hamster who liked her babies, if you know what I mean.

Posted by ReikoDemosthenes (Member # 6218) on :

heh, we have to be sure to put the sugar dish and the butter away or we find little nose or tongue prints in it, our cat also has this obsession with cheese...we mostly blame my sister for introducing her to that

Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :

quote:
Oh and I had a hamster who liked her babies, if you know what I mean.

yecchhh

Yeah, I know it happens. We had a cat that had an unsuccessful first pregnancy. But still, yecchhh.

Posted by Psycho Triad (Member # 3331) on :

Our dog is a huge beer fan.

We've never given her enough to, you know, make her drunk. But she'll follow a brown bottle around for hours. Several times she's knocked over empties searching for allusive last drops.

Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :

I thought this was a question, what will keep you awake better on a long car ride, caffeine or a cat. Oh well.

Have you considered an intervention?

I here COC (cats on Caffeine) has a nice program. Its a seven step thing. You put a cup of coffee on the floor. When the cat takes a drink, you step on its tail. By the seventh time the cat should no longer want coffee.

Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :

My dog would bark at beer. And bark and bark...

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

My cat's Mom, which is coincidentally my Mom's cat, really likes watermelon. If you give her the mostly-eaten rinds, she'll eat at them until only the hardest layer is left. She won't eat fish or chicken skin, but man does she love her watermelon.

Posted by Lupus (Member # 6516) on :

my parent's dogs really love ice. Though they don't get it very often, since they make a mess pushing it across the floor, and they rolling in the wet spots.

Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :

My cat loves watermelon jello, and pickles. She eats normal kitty stuff, but those are her favorites.

Ni!

Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :

My puppy loves carrot. She just chews on brocolli, hen spits it on the floor and barks at it. Her favourite chew toys are her wooden brush and plastic pop and water bottles. She will happily chase one of those around for a good half hour. Couldn't ask for a cheaper dog toy...

Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :

I had a cat that loooooved mac 'n cheese and Fruity Pebbles. As far as I know my current cat has no addictions, but she does like to smell my breath when I'm eating and stalk my empty cereal bowls.

Posted by screechowl (Member # 2651) on :

Let me tell you about a leghorn rooster that liked bread soaked in beer. Then he would sleep it of in waste paper basket.

I cannot divulge names here because the rooster was underage.

Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :

[ROFL]

Dan Raven!

There is locally here a buffalo that drinks beer. Honest. I've seen it.

He is a domesticated bison (well, as domesticated as those things can get, anyway) in a guy's pasture. The guy will go out and pop open a can of beer, place it on the ground, and the bison will come over and wrap his lips around it and tilt the whole thing up and glug it down.

(screechowl -- now we are going to have everyone thinking Kansas is just a vast prairie of drunken animals)

FG [Big Grin]

[ September 30, 2004, 09:03 AM: Message edited by: Farmgirl ]

Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :

Doesn't watermelon rind contain chemicals that induce vomiting? This has definitely been my experience. Does it affect the cat that way?

[ September 30, 2004, 09:07 AM: Message edited by: katharina ]

Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :

When my cat was a kitten if you opened your mouth nearby and let him sniff your breath after you ate some kind of meat he would actually put his head inside your mouth trying to sniff deeper. He can't do this anymore because his head is too big, but he still likes to sniff peoples breath.

Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :

A friend's cat once drank out of my unattended teacup. After a bit, we realized that catnip was one of the ingredients in the tea mix... [Smile]

Posted by the master (Member # 6788) on :

my cat's breath smells like catfood

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

quote:
Doesn't watermelon rind contain chemicals that induce vomiting? This has definitely been my experience. Does it affect the cat that way?

Not that I've seen. She seems to do just fine. Then again, I've always suspected she was a replicant.

Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :

quote:
Tuke (A moose): Like, we'll see you later, Smallish Bear!

Rutt (another moose): Yeah, Good Day, eh! (as they exit) You know what this calls for? A pile of delicious barley and amberweed on a cold bed of malten hops, eh!

Tuke: I Liiiiike it!!

Disney's "Brother Bear"

Posted by Lucky4 (Member # 1420) on :

the master: [ROFL]

My cat likes Mexican best. I've taught him well.

Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :

*Thinks of what his own cat would do with caffine*

Here kitty kitty kitty... Funny thing is... that's her name.