Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 08, 2015

My cat(s) would not eat cat food. They would wait until I prepared my meal and eat from my plate. Then they would eat some cat food, secure in the knowledge that I wouldn’t eat it.

Yep, I knew a woman who would cook for her cats: chicken, fish, and various animal organs. It was about as appetizing to smell as most cat food from a can.

My cats don’t like people food. I can leave a plate on the counter….No takers….

my cat dislikes most human food (tuna fish is the big exception) but she will lick my plate when I’m done having a slice of bread or something. I take real good care never to reuse a plate I haven’t watched all the time.

My sister’s cat gets chicken, shrimp, lobster, cream, butter…

Snoopy once said “I could never eat a cold mouse on a foggy morning.”

And somewhere, decades ago, I remember reading “If you think you’d like to be a cat, eat a can of cat food without using your hands, and then lick yourself all over.”

I like owning cats, so speak for yourself, punk.

@djc928What? I always thought he pulled them straight out of.. thin air.

Cats will eat ANYTHING! Even more so than dogs.

@djc928Yea, it gets tiring. Nearly 20,000 posts and so probably 5,000 personal eye rolls. If this site had a proper troll blocking feature I’d go Pro again.

My late cat Sweetpea LOVED cantalope, and Allie loved asparagus, cooked or raw. And they all like licking the salt off chips.

Dogs were bred (selectively evolved) to suck up to humans. I think it’s embarrassing for the dog and unbecoming of the human. Cats, on the other hand, were born to rule the Earth. Just ask them.

This is why I love GoComics — we get a tried-and-tired joke about dogs vs. cats and presto-changeo, a politically charged debate (no, diatribe) on the nature of nature vs. whatever erupts.

I look at the troll issue the same as my 13-year-old students’ behaviors (sorry if I’m drifting over to Stone Soup) — just don’t take it personally. It’s the way things are (whether by nature or design).

On the true point — my cats enjoy their cat food and generally just give people food a sniff. Right now they’re having a grand old time with a bit of ’nip in a toy mouse (they actually play fetch like dogs).

Don’t feel bad, you’ve lots of company, or in good company, or… Enjoy the day…

Cats like dry cat food because of the carbs. ;)

Of my two cats, the male cat is voracious…. not only will he eat his cat food, he will eat just about anything (reminds me of a dog). He willingly will eat popcorn, asparagus, Cheerios, cookies, doughnuts, lettuce, a submarine sandwich roll, and hummus. These are only the weirdest of the many different things he has gotten a hold of at one time or another.

It would bepend on the type of human food given considering wet catfood is the extra stuff thrown away from what would be served to people.

“That just proves there is no Special Creation which would show the opposite. We are indelibly connected with every life form on this planet ever bit as much as they are with us. It isn’t bad it is glorious! We are one!Now if we could just act like it.”Actually, it doesn’t “prove” anything one way or another. Why do you think it would have to show the opposite in order for there to be a creator?

It’s “Je suis Charlie;” Guys. But I both appreciate and share your sentiment no matter how you spell it.

Mary Roach’s book “Gulp” has an interesting story about vegan cat food. Cats are by nature pure carnivores (cats have never been observed eating plant foods in the wild), but some owners want to feed them “vegan” food. Well, food science can provide: add the proper smells and flavors, hydrolize the plant proteins to be chemically identical to animal proteins, and you’ve made a “vegan” (in that no animal flesh was used in making the stuff) food a cat will eat and digest as if it were meat. Kitty Soylent!

Re how much of our DNA we share with other life forms… DNA gives instructions on how to build and maintain an organism—including all “scaffolding” needed during the assembly process—from a pretty small and simple set of chemicals. So of course the overwhelming majority of DNA is common across nearly all organisms. If blueprints for buildings included complete instructions for making bricks and mortar and steel beams and copper wire, the Empire State Building and my house would probably have 95% of their blueprints in common.