Patrick, the sugar nut

[ZombieHunter]

Hello,

Things have been great in our kitty household, with Patrick the MC getting along very well with Raffi the Ragdoll.

One thing though...I would think it was quite strange for cats in general to like sugar as I thought they couldn't taste it?

Now, I obviously do not deliberately feed the cat junk, and he has a strict routine with feeding...but if there's sugar abound he goes completely insane.

Ever since we brought him home he gets a spray with the spray bottle if he jumps on the dining table or hassles us while we eat - they have both learned to wait patiently after we eat and they get a treat if they were good. However...not even the spray bottle deters him from sugary food.

I was eating a cookie and he did everything he could to lick my mouth, and I baked a lemon meringue pie a few weeks ago, and he wouldn't stop howling the whole time it was baking...when I was the making the lemon filling, he wouldn't stop rolling around the floor and meowing - it is so bizarre!

Does anyone else have this happen?

[jowens500]

Our mc's go absolutely insane for sweet things. Just the other day we came home and our female opened the cabinet door and helped herself to some cereal.

[CatsMom]

My MC wants anything we have. If it's something we drink or eat, he desperately wants it. His favorite is cheese puffs or popcorn. He loves to grab ahold of of them & play with them.

Our moggie went crazy over cantaloupe. We'd have to lock him in another room while we cut it. He went crazy nuts over the melon. He would cry and dig at the door. We couldn't eat ours without giving him something. He even ate the rind. If we left the melon inside a cabinet, he'd open it and eat the entire thing within a day. If we placed it in a bag to ripen, he'd eat thru the bag & then eat the entire melon. We placed it in a drawer to ripen, he learned place his paws thru the handle to pull open the drawer & then eat the entire thing.

[Suzygeorgie]

Kenny can sniff out chocolate at 100 yards - even if it's wrapped in a plastic container. He's not interested in fruit, so we can leave that out, but generally sweet things attract his attention much more.

[candes]

Kenny can sniff out chocolate at 100 yards - even if it's wrapped in a plastic container. He's not interested in fruit, so we can leave that out, but generally sweet things attract his attention much more.

My childhood MC did the same and would unwrap Xmas foil chocolates. So, since chocolates are poisen, we had to keep them locked up after that. But I can assure folks that it is not the sugar attracting them. Cats can't taste sugar.