The sugar thing may be true or not but,...

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:15:13 -0400, Fred Williams wrote:

Human note, (with Diana's permission):

OK, we have some evidence that cats go for some sweet stuff, but most of
it has butter or cream or some such stuff as well. The thing is that the
story is now being carried by the CBC at
http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2005/07/25/cat-sweet050725.html
and the CBC is a fairly reputable network. They will have checked this
story. Now whether the reseachers know what they're talking about, that's
another think.
Diana and Ryan both seem interested to sniff the sugar bowl from time to
time, but neither has tried to lick it. the do go after ice-cream and the
last bit of milk when I have cereal, but those could be other things
attracting them, like milk and cream, and strangely enough they like the
smell of my "Ancient Grains" cereal too, but I've never seen either of
them eat a flake.
What Diana and Ryan both lack is any temptation at all for anything that
can be called a commercial cat treat. They are mother and son, so I bet
there's something similar genetically going on there.


This brought back a memory from about 15 years ago. My next door neighbor
was getting ready for a dinner party and I had some of her stuff in my
oven. I went over to see what time she wanted it. Her cat, Popo. was up
on her table licking sugar from the sugar bowl. MLB

The article about "sweets" is interesting. Punkins does not like any cat
treats, whether wet or dry while Puddi will eat anything. Punkins does
like however a very small cube of white angel food cake and a wee bit of
cookie and filling from the non-chocolate type sandwich cookie. She also
likes one lick of orange sherbet. Puddi could care less for any of those.

Fran


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