She smell checks almost every ingredient and never tastes. Best cat. Then she smells the end product and we’re both like ‘that’s that done, then’.
My cat doesn’t care for people food, but she does paw at my arm until she gets to smell my breath when I’m eating. Our routine is for me to take a bite, open my mouth and breathe at her, and then she sniffs and walks away.
Cats are hilariously weird.
- Cats
- Logic
Choose one.
Not to make them feel included, but to kill their curiosity. I always offer a smell of my food to my cat and then take it away. She gets to smell it and realize it’s something she isn’t interested in. I think that’s the reason she doesn’t bother people while they’re eating. She knows she isn’t interested in “people food.”
She gets to smell it and realize it’s something she isn’t interested in.
We have had very different cats then.
Yup, mine was way too happy about the opportunity to steal anything
I’ve never had a cat that wants people food, and I think it’s because of just showing them what it is and then taking it away.
My last cat was food-obsessed. I would do the “show, sniff, remove” thing and it would work depending on the food. But many foods only needed a fraction of a second for her to know she needed it in her mouth right now. If you took it before her attempt to eat it, you met the response of “hey, I wasn’t done with that!” and the paw would come out to bring your hand back.
For roast chicken you would have to actively defend your plate the entire meal. She would sit next to you and very slowly try to “sneak” her paw on to your plate to take what she could. As though I wasn’t watching her like a hawk and she had some kind of cloak of invisibility.
I miss my round dinner thief.
My cat does like some people food, but yeah most of it is “You don’t want this.”
Cats don’t like pepsi, but mine has to sniff every last can.
Not to make them feel included, but to kill their curiosity.
That’s how she feels included. Even if you don’t mean it that way, that’s how she sees it. She’s important enough that you care what she thinks. That’s good cat parenting.
Yeah, I’m just saying it isn’t the intent of what I do.
we always had to defend the table when we had two cats. They both would steal sausage, ham, cream cheese and butter and one of them would even take cheese and margarine.
i think the only people food they didnt like was purely plant based stuff.
I do this too. But of course some cat like some or most people food more than others. My cat eats ranch dressing, eggs, dairy, and oils. She’ll eat a few meats too. But she is mostly uninterested in human food, so I fulfill her curiosity often because it’s kind to my cat and it helps stave off her desire to beg. I also thinks she just trusts me more and is more fond of me because I engage with her in her interests a lot. Hell, that’s just good advice for raising children too.
My dog all of the time. Anything I think he’ll find interesting. But especially if he’s been curiously watching me with the item. Dogs love inspecting new things.
I do the same, but I’ll tell her what it is and what it’s used for so she’s got all the information about it.
I got a package today and I had to practically pry one of my dogs off of it because he was so interested in it. It wasn’t for him.
Every time I’m holding something and my dog thinks it’s food I let her smell it and then she’s like “oh ok I’m not interested then”
Pretty much all the time. Whenever my cat is staring at me and I have something in my hands, if he’s close enough to sniff, I hold it where he can sniff. Doesn’t matter what it is.
If it’s food, and maybe the food is something he is interested in, I can see his expression/posture change, and I pull back and and separate a small, cat-sized bite for him to try, being careful to only give him cat friendly morsels, like a piece of meat or something.
Usually he doesn’t have any interest in what I’m eating, so that’s rare. Most of the time he sniffs, then retreats to a safe distance, uninterested in what I’m having… I just think he’s not sure until he gets a good whiff; so I give him one.
Who doesn’t love a good sniff?
My parents cats love carbs/sweets.
Cats can’t taste sugar though
Most sweet things usually have a lot of fat which kitties love.
That’s what they say, but the cats sure do love it. They’ve eaten bits of donuts, potato chips, drank iced tea, etc…
One of mine would pick up mini marshmallows with a claw, lick all the powdered sugar off and then shake her paw to get rid of it, flinging the wet, sticky blob off into the unknown.
Sounds about right!
You are all adorable.
My cat immediately tries to eat anything I show him. Feathers, pinecones… he’s not the brightest.
Meanwhile, one of my parents cats refuses to eat wet food and will taste test it by dipping her paw into it and tasting what is on her paw, then usually decides it isn’t what she likes and yeows for something else. She pretty much only eats Temptations Cat Treats.
All the time! My dogs, too
Yes, but my cat is a dog
My cat is also a dog. And a second dog. We are legion.
For cats it’s important to show them what you have so they can see and smell it, they are much more likely to leave you alone after (unless it’s delicious and they want it).
I sometimes let my dog sniff random things I grab from the living room table. She seems to enjoy it.
My cat insists on it. With almost any new thing, she will meow until she gets to sniff it.
Yeah same here, new objects have to go through customs first lol
Normally My Cat is my best friend, mostly in the kitchen !
Our cat was brought up on high protein and indulgence. Everything she wanted to smell, we presented; every sniffable light had a willing Sherpa to get the nose in range. Open the closet door. Added blanket in couch corner arranged for easy use by submarine cat. Toys to carry around.
You better believe she’s there for cooking.
My dog will often drive-by sniff whatever’s on my plate