Do your cats like turkey?

[Chimera]

My best bud Little Guy (b. April 1986; d. June 2006) LOVED Turkey. Whenever I had it in the house and stepped into the kitchen, he'd run up to the refrigerator and go nuts until I gave him some.

In his later years, when he was having health problems, I'd sometimes buy and cook a Turkey Breast, knowing that more than half of it would be going to him. (The other half is mine. It's my favorite meat.)

My new kitten went berzerk yesterday when I set some out, but today, after something like five plates of it in a row (since the first one yesterday), he turned up his nose and asked for something else.

 

[bytor4232]

I have three cats, all under pathetic circumstances. All three love their purina. Our third cat Merlin will eat anything, he's a real garbage dump. My first cat, Fish, only eats Tuna and foul i.e. Turkey and Chicken.

Now our second cat, Chips, she goes ape over all thins foul. I have a showtime Rotisserrie where I cook whole chickens, and she camps out all day long while the food is cooking. She absolutely loves it. Thanksgiving and Christmas where we cook turkey she is a monster, I have to push her off the table constantly. Shes a madwoman.

So yes, all three cats love Turkey

 

[Kahuna Burger]

My current kitty gets no table food, but I still recal when we had a litter of kittens and my mom realized a smallish turkey had gone freezerburned in our deepfreeze. She baked it anyway then set it out for the kittens. 12 week old kittens waddling away from a turkey carcess barely able to hold up their own bellies =

 

[Dragongirl]

Every cat I have ever had loves meat in just about any form. Only thing they never could stand is spicy meat. My cats always have had an aversion to citrus fruits though. Maybe it is the acid. . .

 

[Thunderfoot]

I haven't had cats in years, but both of mine loved poultry of all kinds and in any form they could get it.

I distinctly remember back in 1976, 1 year after we got our kitties, that the more aggressive and gregarious of the 2 snatched a drumstick of KFC right out of the bucket on the table while we were in the kitchen getting plates and drinks...

And we were living in Germany at the time- we had to drive 30 minutes to get that dang chicken in the first place!

We were NOT amused...

You wouldn't have happened to be living in Augsburg at the time, were you? Only place I knew of that had a KFC was Munich and Aburg was about 30 minutes away (If you drive like a German anyway).

 

[Thunderfoot]

My mom had a cat that would dance on his hind legs for chhicken - (she called it the chicken dance).
One year when she was making thanksgiving dinner, he happened to spy the turkey, he did the "chicken dance" in a really excited manner ("the really big chicken dance"), so much so that his tail brushed over the burner on the stove and caught on fire - hence he was doing "The flaming big chicken dance". Yeah, they like turkey.

 

[Umbran]

In my youth, I had a cat that loved poultry so much, he stole a fowl (not just a chicken - the fowl is older, and thus larger) from a boiling soup pot on the stove. The same cat had a thing for Jell-O.

Other cats I had loved rye bread, yet another liked canned tomatoes....

Of course, scraps from a human table don't make for a healthy, balanced diet for pets. I know you all know that, but I gotta say it anyway. It's like a reflex...

 

[werk]

Yes, our cats both go nuts for turkey or chicken, whether we are cooking, reheating, cold cuts, doesn't matter, they just love the white meat I guess. We don't feed them 'people food' in order to stop the begging and getting underfoot in the kitchen.

For thanksgiving we were at a friend's, and they were feeding their cats scraps all day. Just like you said they will eat as much as you give them. The funniest was their blind cat, who couldn't find the turkey sometimes, and would just sit and cry because he could hear the other cats eating his share. We hooked him up, but it was so pitiful we all had a chuckle at his expense.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

Every cat I have ever had loves meat in just about any form. Only thing they never could stand is spicy meat. My cats always have had an aversion to citrus fruits though. Maybe it is the acid. . .

cats in general hate citrus. So they are as normal as cats can manage.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Every cat I have ever had loves meat in just about any form. Only thing they never could stand is spicy meat. My cats always have had an aversion to citrus fruits though. Maybe it is the acid. . .

We buy the Southwest Spicy Chicken Strips for our slads here. Our cats eats up with reckless abandon. She finishes it up quickly enough to hit us up for a secoind serving. before it goes in the salad bowl.