What do you treat your critters with. I used to buy a can of tuna for the cats.

[applegrove]

Buddy has just tried salmon and it is a big big hit. No bones in it.

[JHan]

1. If I had a cat, I try my hand at this treat:

For my doggies, I give em chunks of steak as a treat.

[Lithos]

12. Seen that before

Ok, the time investment is heavy - but the point is made Cats prefer something fresh to the manufactured alternative...

[JHan]

13. I just love the Chef's knife skills... and his meticulousness

[Lithos]

14. Very true

You can see the skill - which translates to love...

L-

[CurtEastPoint]

2. I had some 'expired' salmon, frozen and I cooked in the m'wave and omg they loved it!

[safeinOhio]

3. Mine likes it smoked.

Very picky.

[CurtEastPoint]

7. Well, la de dah! Mine aren't! LOL!

[safeinOhio]

18. Little Lilly was rescued

from a very rich old lady who had to give her up. She thinks her poop don't stink.

[CurtEastPoint]

19. Oh, I have one or two like that!

[radical noodle]

4. I have two cats and they love

Delectables Bisque. They like the Chicken & Tuna flavors and it's the consistency of a thick soup. Neither of them like bits of things in their food. I split one packet per night for them. They also get Temptation Treats (Dental ones).

[TexasTowelie]

5. Actual tuna is not good for cats.

https://blog.petmeds.com/1800petmeds/is-tuna-bad-for-cats/

[applegrove]

16. Thanks for that.

[Best_man23]

6. Water from canned chicken or tuna

Our two kittehs love it.

[Runningdawg]

8. My cat is weird

She doesn't like most people food and both times she had fancy squishy food she barfed almost immediately. She likes the bacon and liver treats I make the dog but her favorite is cereal. No milk, just the cereal. Her favorites are Cheerios and corn flakes.

[procon]

9. Bits of green olives.

I know, it sounds crazy, right? Green olives and their juice have a component that is similar to catnip... Google it. I think they are even more potent than catnip and a little goes a long way. They can smell it coming, and drives my kittehs absolutely bonkers!

[lastlib]

24. I used to have a cat that liked corn on the cob!

But I had to cut it off the cob for her! She was nuts for it.

[politicat]

10. Sardines, butter, cheeseburgers.

That's what we supplemented our 23 year old cat's diet with when she was getting frail in the last couple years. She really, really loved the cheeseburger (just a small patty, with a quarter square of American cheese, then chopped up fine) but she'd eat a brick if you buttered it, and sardines were her personal heroin. Also buttermilk (which has very little lactose) and greek yogurt (which has almost none) and string cheese (no lactose), if we pulled off fine strings and let her play with them.

By then, we were happy as long as she was eating something, and as long as she was capable of eating, drinking and getting to the litter box, we were willing to continue kitty hospice as long as she was engaged and not in pain. She was never lactose intolerant, but we never gave any milk anyway. She was never very large (topped at 7.5 pounds) and was down below 4 at the end, but she pretty much beat feline kidney failure at age 19 thanks to stem cell research (she was a test subject.) It was a stroke that got her, after a very long, happy run.

We and her vets (especially her specialist vet) attribute her long life to good genes and us keeping to the kitty principle of obligate carnivore, with a reasonable amount of moisture in everything she ate. Spouse fed her kibble when she was a teenager (from 4 months until she was three) but she acquired a sibling who couldn't tolerate kibble, so she was on canned for most of her life. Kibble is really hard on cats; they're not equipped to process all the carbs.

[golfguru]

11. In suburb of Chicago, we saw this beautiful red cardinal bird sitting on railing

sitting on railing of our 2nd floor patio. We had no idea what to entice him with, so my wife just put a bit of scrambled egg in a bowl for him. Next thing we see the male bird brings his babies with him and feeding them the scrambled egg!

Someone told me cardinals love sunflower seeds. So we began putting out seeds in a bird feeder. Then the whole family of cardinal bird began visiting the feeder many times every day. Next year, new babies were escorted by the parent birds to the feeder. This went on for many years we lived there.

[Danmel]

15. My cat loves fresh turkey

Years ago, I had a cat who loved cold sesame noodles and yellow cake (not at the same time). He was a great cat, I miss him.

[blogslut]

17. The meanest cat on earth is also the pickiest eater on earth.

Getting her to eat more than one serving of anything is a miracle. Lately, the only way I can coax her to eat the rest of her fancy cat food is to sprinkle grated parmesan and nutritional yeast flakes on top.

I found I like that combo on top of microwave popcorn so, yay!

[Books_Tea_Alone]

20. New pet owner of 2 rescued brothers..

We just adopted 2 brothers who are 2 yrs old. My son was visiting after hiking the AT and his leftover supplies were out- the cats polished off an entire bag of Jack Links beef jerky - no ill effects

[applegrove]

21. Yeah. They'll do that. Mine forgot the dry cat food they don't love and bite a hole in the bag of

the cat food they do like. I even put a new bad of the good food in the closet thinking it would outsmart them only to have one of them spend the whole night scratching to get into the closet.

[yellowdogintexas]

22. the water from the tuna can, and they get to clean the can too.

Also the can Kirkland canned chicken breast comes in. I either use the broth or freeze it for those damn recipes that call for 1/2 cup of broth. By the way that Kirkland chicken is the bomb. I keep it on hand at all times for chicken salad, chicken soup, chicken enchiladas or any other recipe calling for cooked chicken breast. I make a thing we call Pantry Soup using Kirkland chicken with broth, a can of Ro-Tel, can of chicken broth, chile powder, cumin, Yucateca Green Habanero picante sauce, cilantro, a can of rinsed and drained black beans and a cup of frozen corn. Serves 4. Put it all together except for the corn and cilantro and when the flavors have combined well after about 20 minutes on simmer, add corn and cilantro and serve when corn is cooked through. Good with tortillas toasted in the oven or chips. It is very Weight Watchers Friendly too.

[applegrove]

23. Oooh that sounds good.

[shenmue]

25. My dog likes little tiny milkbones

[iamateacher]

26. Fancy Feast Broths

The 17 year old drinks the liquid and my Maine Coon eats the fish. My Calico, who died recently, loved melon, especially honeydew.

[DBoon]

27. Our 12 yr old pit bull likes chicken jerky

of course any form of beef is appreciated. Somehow she regards human leftovers as a prime treat. Maybe they are more flavorful, maybe she is just figuring if her humans eat it it must be special

[Warpy]

28. Canned human food is not a good idea

since the heat of processing destroys taurine, an amino acid cats need in large quantity.

When I treated my own beasts, it was with raw chicken livers. It was always pretty hilarious, they'd crouch and growl at them for a good half hour before it dawned on them that what was in the dish was edible.

[applegrove]

29. Oh mine only get human food once in a blue moon. It is dry then wet food every day.

[kimbutgar]

30. When I make baked salmon I always save a little to give to my cat

She loves that salmon and stares at us when we are eating it.

[3catwoman3]

31. The biggest of or 4, a brown tabby...

...who is 15 pounds of sleek muscle, totally loves spinach and arugula. He recognizes the crackly sound of the plastic bags as soon as we takes the out of the fridge, and he shows up right away to get his fair share of salad.

[applegrove]

32. I thought I was doing mine a favour by buying expensive cat food with

some veggies in it but the cats prefer the grocery store brand to a much greater degree.

[vanlassie]

33. I had a cat that LOVED cantaloupe. He would dig the rinds out of the garbage

and we would find them, looking corrugated. Cantaloupe was like crack to that cat.