One Thing That Scares Me
Posted on August 30, 2007 - Filed Under Cat, Got Me Thinking
My cats love tuna fish*. I’ve had cats all my life and most of them have loved it. So, sometimes when tuna goes on sale for less money than their regular canned cat food, I will buy it to give it to them as a treat. Toast (my momma’s boy) loves to lap up the water that it was packed in and the female, Jam, loves to eat the meat as well as some of the water.
Normally, Jam will start mewing in her ladylike little voice while trying to scramble onto the counter and work her way over my shoulder when I’m opening a can, and all the while it seems Toast is trying to trip me by performing complex figure eights around my legs or sitting on my foot so I can’t escape the room without his notice (hence, without giving him some).
But every once in a while, out of the blue, I’ll open a can and divide it evenly into their dishes, and they will turn their noses up at it and walk away stiffly, giving me a dirty over-the-shoulder glance as they leave the room with tails in the air. I don’t get it. Do they know something I don’t? It really makes me wonder because I do respect that animals have better instincts than humans. It also scares me because I sometimes eat the tuna and just give them my leftovers. It’s freaky to know that they won’t eat something that I just had in my sandwich. **shudders**
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*I’m vaguely a vegetarian, but I also enjoy the occasional tuna fish sandwich.
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Well, the pic is cute!
Sorry this is very o/t but I wanted to let you know that you have been officially “introduced” in adventures!!!
Cool - thanks I’ll check it out soon as I fix a photo glitch I’ve got going on! LOL.
It would make me wonder too! I have never given my cats tuna…Man I wonder if that would score me some points with Elvira?!
LOL oh, and sorry if Im not suppose to ask, but what is adventures? *~*
I sent you an email in response to your question.
It’s very interesting, that’s for sure. And the photo is cute!
I wonder what they smell?
That picture is hilarious; it looks like we interrupted a conversation they were having!
OMG - It does look like they were interrupted. They better not have been talking about me again!
Love the picture! And that is scary on the tuna thing…maybe it’s the mercury or something? Of they are just fickle… can’t are fickle in my experience.
Maybe that’s what they were talking about… hee hee, we got her again with the tune
Your comment made me laugh by the way, thanks!
I posted the answer to the suspensful question… didn’t want to cause you to have an accident
tuna…not tune… that’s another story all together
LOL. Kami, you crack me up!
When my wife makes a tuna melt for the kid, she will give our two cats, Mr Pants, and Me Too the tuna water, which they mostly lap up. We receive the same reaction from our cats that you do, periodically you receive a look of disdain as they saunter out. I agree that it does make you wonder . . .
Once as a treat, my wife gave the cats a couple of pieces of tuna with the tuna water, and they were pissed. They both had a look on their face like ‘what is this crap you are trying to pawn off on us in our tuna water?’ as they walked out.
Mr Pants finally licked his tuna water and the tuna chunk until it was dry, but wouldn’t eat it. Me Too carefully lapped up all the tuna water, trying not to touch any of the tuna chunks.
Since the chunks of tuna incident we don’t give them tuna anymore, just the water.
Cats won’t, or will dislike to eat anything that they have breathed on or if another animal (You) have breathed on it.
It’s true.
LOL. I can’t tell if you are joking or not, but with the cattitudes I’ve seen, it wouldn’t surprise me!
Animals are pretty smart. It might be something they are not used to. If you think about it there are a lot of interesting things going on in *pet food* ingredients depending on what brand you purchase.
Did you know in westernized cultures our pet’s diseases have soared in the past several years around the same time *pet food* became big business.
I did NOT know that, Opal. But it does not surprise me either. I’m trying to find safer things to feed my “kids.” After all, since I’ve taken them into my home, they depend on me for that and I would hate to think I gave them anything harmful.
This particular tuna said it was packed in water, but the ingredients said it was vegetable broth that contained soy. Teeni tries to avoid soy and I don’t like tuna, so we thought it was their lucky day. Maybe it was the broth. We threw it away not knowing what they knew and gave them a different brand, in a pouch with little liquid, which they devoured. So for those keeping score, our cats rejected Chicken of the Sea 2-3 different times, but loved Starkist and also love 4 diamond, which we regularly find much cheaper than cat food.
…kitties should be Royal Tasters:)
cute pic!
i know you are only giving them a little taste but cats and humans who consume a lot of fish are more prone to thyroid problems; just a little heads up.
but my mom gave Rupert a little bit of tuna water and he was in love.
I did NOT know this! I have been trying to do research on it and so far have only found out about one lake in Kansas where they mentioned that eating the fish or frogs from it might be dangerous. If you know of any other info, please pass it on! Thanks for the heads up!
LATER: I found another article with similar reports of fish from Lake Michigan. I also found this link about soy and the thyroid - which I need to share with my niece who has thyroid cancer http://www.thyroid-info.com/articles/soydangers.htm
my cat wont eat tuna packed in oil… only in water. i don’t get it either. she says hi, by the way.
LOL. Hello kitty! I don’t like the oil packed tuna myself so I can’t blame her, plus I guess a cat wouldn’t naturally get “oil” in the wild.
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