She smell checks almost every ingredient and never tastes. Best cat. Then she smells the end product and we’re both like ‘that’s that done, then’.
My cat doesn’t care for people food, but she does paw at my arm until she gets to smell my breath when I’m eating. Our routine is for me to take a bite, open my mouth and breathe at her, and then she sniffs and walks away.
Ya’ll are that weird couple that low key weirds out everyone but are so perfect for each other it’s also sweet and cute.
Cats are hilariously weird.
- Cats
- Logic
Choose one.
Not to make them feel included, but to kill their curiosity. I always offer a smell of my food to my cat and then take it away. She gets to smell it and realize it’s something she isn’t interested in. I think that’s the reason she doesn’t bother people while they’re eating. She knows she isn’t interested in “people food.”
My cat does like some people food, but yeah most of it is “You don’t want this.”
Cats don’t like pepsi, but mine has to sniff every last can.
I do this too. But of course some cat like some or most people food more than others. My cat eats ranch dressing, eggs, dairy, and oils. She’ll eat a few meats too. But she is mostly uninterested in human food, so I fulfill her curiosity often because it’s kind to my cat and it helps stave off her desire to beg. I also thinks she just trusts me more and is more fond of me because I engage with her in her interests a lot. Hell, that’s just good advice for raising children too.
My dog all of the time. Anything I think he’ll find interesting. But especially if he’s been curiously watching me with the item. Dogs love inspecting new things.
I do the same, but I’ll tell her what it is and what it’s used for so she’s got all the information about it.
I got a package today and I had to practically pry one of my dogs off of it because he was so interested in it. It wasn’t for him.
I have to show my cats all sorts of stuff, bolts, tools, gamepads, pens. They’re incredibly nosy, not curious, as that kills cats, just nosy and inquisitive.
Your cat: “what the fuck is that?”
Every time I’m holding something and my dog thinks it’s food I let her smell it and then she’s like “oh ok I’m not interested then”
My cat likes to watch me prep, she’s only interested in smelling after we’re done cooking. We’ve started to look for her approval lol it’s her highest mark if she licks her lips
Human recommended, dog approved.
Yes, but my cat is a dog
My cat is also a dog. And a second dog. We are legion.
My cat has to sniff the can of cat food after I dump it out in her bowl so she can decide if it’s worth the 4 steps it’ll take to get to the bowl. She’s a cat, she can smell the food in her bowl from less than a foot away. But if she doesn’t get to sniff the can, it might as well be poison for all she knows.
My parents have 4 cats, three of them willingly eat the wet food as soon as we put it down. Also, there 3 generations of cats (we started out with a brother and sister as kittens, my parents didn’t get them fixed in time, the brother impregnated the sister, we kept one of the offspring, my dad had a heart attack and we didn’t get to spay her in time and she also had kittens from an unknown suitor). The original female we started with is very picky, when we put down wet food for her and half the time she’s like “fuck this”. Occasionally she’ll dip her paw into it and then taste what’s on her paw to see if it’s worth eating. Cracks me up every time I see it.
For cats it’s important to show them what you have so they can see and smell it, they are much more likely to leave you alone after (unless it’s delicious and they want it).
My cat insists on it. With almost any new thing, she will meow until she gets to sniff it.
Yeah same here, new objects have to go through customs first lol
All the time! My dogs, too
I sometimes let my dog sniff random things I grab from the living room table. She seems to enjoy it.
Normally My Cat is my best friend, mostly in the kitchen !
Not deep heat! They hate it
I do this all the time lol, I feel like it helps the KitKats feel less ignored or whatever. They don’t need attention 24/7, so little things like that can help them bond without requiring lots of time or energy
