He can't be normal

[desperance]

I just stood there and watched Mac eat a raw mushroom. The whole thing, stalk and all, with every evidence of relish. Nom-nom-nom. He's weird...

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[glinda-w.livejournal.com]

I once had a cat (OK, technically, it's was owned by a cat, but hey...) who liked mushrooms (fresh or canned), black olives, and my roommate's tofu. Another was absolutely crazy for peanut butter. And spicy things, szechuan or cajun, hotter than I could stand them. The latest cat (see icon) doesn't seem to have any odd food fetishes (she's 10 1/2, but I've had her less than a year), but she ignores fresh catnip - I bought her a plant, even! - while scarfing up the dried stuff).

They're all insane, it's just the details of the insanity that differ :)

[woodrunner.livejournal.com]

My dogs are apparently vegetarian (like me). They will eat carrots, celery, green beans, mushrooms, zucchini, potatoes, radishes, yams, cucumbers, etc. They will also eat apples, bananas, grapes, strawberries, melons, and so on.

One of them likes green peppers, hot spicy stuff, and oranges.

The other one likes blueberries in blueberry season, eating them clean off the plant without damaging the plant, when we go get blueberries.

But of course, they are dogs, and walking garbage disposals.

[affreca.livejournal.com]

I had a dog once who loved raspberries, and would pick them with her lips. I was amazed how neatly she did so, without getting thorns in her mouth.

[szandara.livejournal.com]

your post just sparked this conversation:

My Daughter: Who's Mac?
Me: Mac is his cat.
Daughter: Who's he?
Me: Desperance? He's a fantasy novelist who lives in England and likes to cook and has two cats named Barry and Mac.
Daughter: He's a fantasy?
Me: Novelist. Fantasy novelist. He writes books.
Daughter: Oh, I thought you meant he was a fantasy. Like, he wasn't real.
Me: (thinks a bit) He's as real as anybody else on the internet. Which isn't saying much, come to think of it.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

That's me. I disappear if you stand my electrons sideways.

Some days your daughter is right, though, and I am exactly a fantasy novelist. Like today, when the only writing I've done has been in my imagination...

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

It's the relish that makes it so uncanny. How did he get the lid off the jar?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I knew, I just knew somebody was going to do that. I see these things coming, and still don't duck 'em...

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

Just doing my part to see that the universe fulfills your expectations.

[jemck.livejournal.com]

We once had a cat who on one memorable occasion ate half a panful of ratatouille that had been left incautiously uncovered on the stove overnight.

Talk about garlic breath the next morning, when he walked up the bed to say hello...

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

People talk about mushrooms (especially Portobellos) having a "meaty" flavor. None of our cats have ever demanded their share, but they have become expert banditos in the presence of unguarded broccoli, zuccini, tomato sauce. Peanut butter ranks right up there with catnip, although I admit to a certain lack of sympathy as they attempt to lick it off the tops of their mouths. The little barbs on their tongues go the wrong way.

Our dog is much more eclectic in his vegetable tastes, although he did turn his nose up at asparagus from our garden, the more fool he.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

although I admit to a certain lack of sympathy as they attempt to lick it off the tops of their mouths. The little barbs on their tongues go the wrong way.

Are you familiar with arachibutyrophobia? It's a recognised psychological condition, with a paper duly presented at a conference and everything; and it is - of course! - the morbid fear of having peanut butter cling to the roof of your mouth...

[triciasullivan.livejournal.com]

foods that cats of mine have liked:
banana
fig newtons
pineapple cottage cheese, but only if the pineapple was picked out
tomatoes
spaghetti with tomato sauce

also once had a dog who ate tobacco, not the chewing variety either. and live hornets.