[mass55th]

"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.

[I Buried My Guns]

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.

[TheOldLady]

"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."

Our late Muffin would literally eat any food. If we were eating it, he would beg for it until he got a bite. If he liked it, down the hatch. If he didn't, he would politely eat one small bite and then walk away.

He particularly liked cookies and potato chips. I carry tea and a cookie to Hubby in bed every morning, and Muffin always got one bite of the cookie.