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Real-life Garfield is the cat who got the pasta
METRO.co.uk ^ | September 11, 2009 | MILES ERWIN

Posted on 09/11/2009 10:04:18 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows

Humphrey is a real-life Garfield, who will only eat lasagne. The picky cat's love affair with the pasta dish began after sneaking a bite of his owner's leftovers.

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: kittyping
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Man, Happycat has really let himself go.

Seriously, Humprey could use less lasagne and more exercise. That cat looks like a candidate for a kitty heart attack.

1 posted on 09/11/2009 10:04:19 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
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LOL. Carb loading kitty. THe guy needs to take up ‘jogging” or Italian. Sweet. Look at the tongue.


2 posted on 09/11/2009 10:06:35 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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3 posted on 09/11/2009 10:07:41 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Crazy is the new sane.)
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Apparently he’s saying “THPFFFF!” to cholesterol.


4 posted on 09/11/2009 10:09:11 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Crazy is the new sane.)
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Ooookaaay...but I want to see him drink out of the glass with that straw, LOL!


5 posted on 09/11/2009 10:10:07 AM PDT by ravingnutter
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6 posted on 09/11/2009 10:14:05 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Maybe he’s just big boned.


7 posted on 09/11/2009 10:14:51 AM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: JoeProBono

When did Carrot Top form his own cult?


8 posted on 09/11/2009 10:18:10 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Crazy is the new sane.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

There is no such thing as a “finicky” cat. Spoiled, yes. Finicky, no. He wouldn’t eat anything for a week? Let him go two.


9 posted on 09/11/2009 10:19:07 AM PDT by LiberConservative (OneBigAssMistakeAmerica)
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That’s my philosophy with cat food. I’ve never had to implement, though, since my cats never refused their food. Probably has to do with them all being former strays.


10 posted on 09/11/2009 10:20:58 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Crazy is the new sane.)
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He wouldn’t eat anything for a week? Let him go two.

Yup. My dad told me once that there's no such thing as food you don't like. There's just food you're not hungry enough to eat yet.

11 posted on 09/11/2009 10:23:05 AM PDT by Terabitten (Vets wrote a blank check, payable to the Constitution, for an amount up to and including their life.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

A pasta eating cat is no big deal. Our dog Kat (short for Katrina as she is a rescued dog from the hurricane) loves garlic shrimp on linguini.


12 posted on 09/11/2009 10:29:10 AM PDT by orchid (Defeat is worse than death, you have to LIVE with defeat.)
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I knew of a cat who would eat the leftover juice and seeds when we were eating watermelon. He also ate some of a raw halloween pumpkin after it got all soft.


13 posted on 09/11/2009 10:33:59 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: Slings and Arrows

My two are the same way. Former strays that have never turned their nose up at anything I’ve given them.


14 posted on 09/11/2009 10:49:21 AM PDT by LiberConservative (OneBigAssMistakeAmerica)
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To: orchid
Our dog Kat (short for Katrina as she is a rescued dog from the hurricane) loves garlic shrimp on linguini.

Who doesn't?

15 posted on 09/11/2009 10:50:40 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Crazy is the new sane.)
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"I knew of a cat who would eat the leftover juice and seeds when we were eating watermelon. "

I had a cat who loved watermelon, bananas, and pineapple. He also loved to lick the caramel dip put on apple slices. He was a cool dude.

16 posted on 09/11/2009 11:02:26 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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A couple of months ago I picked up a feral kitten down by the bayou, behind a defunct "Ike'd" bakery that has been closed for a year. I was surprised that she let me handle her, as I think I was the first human to ever put my hands on her. She wasn't even on solid food yet, and she bit my nipple a few times when I was holding her!

I went back for her sibling who she was playing with the day I grabbed her, but it was gone, either eaten by dogs, plucked by a hawk, or run over in the nearby street. I'm glad I got her; she proves I'm capable of love.

Anyway, my story: I did not know what to feed her. Her ribs were visible because her momma did not produce enough milk (we guessed). I had regular cat food, but knew kitten food has more nutrients/calories, so I defrosted a pound of ground venison and she gobbled it up. Then I found a couple of pounds of nasty old frozen salmon in my freezer. She gobbled THAT up. Yucky, fishy-smelling tilapia? Down her gullet. Well, soon I was out of standard food and started giving her pizza-topping meat: cubed ham, pepperoni, and sandwich meat. Soon, I was out of all that, too, so I began to mix her fun meat with regular cat food, with poor results. I was really scraping the bottom of barrel (refridgerator?) in an attempt to fatten her up. After trial and error, I found that she would actually eat anything as long as it had come in contact with bacon grease: Broccoli, carrots, soy beans(edamame), spaghetti, tomato, dried crusts of bread: You name it, she would eat it if it tasted of bacon grease.

But then I felt like an idiot, because I realized I had fed her all sorts of expensive meat when a cockroach rubbed in bacon grease would have sufficed.

17 posted on 09/11/2009 11:29:01 AM PDT by I Buried My Guns
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18 posted on 09/11/2009 12:06:08 PM PDT by PERKY2004 (Proud Military Wife -- Please pray for our troops!)
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To: stylecouncilor

ping


19 posted on 09/11/2009 12:06:12 PM PDT by windcliff
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He’s bloated from all the salt.


20 posted on 09/11/2009 12:19:49 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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