Thread: Chocoholic Maine Coon?

Hector loves to chew plastic bags in the veg rack, I always find teeth marks in them! Roxy loves to run around with a bag in her mouth (she found my pack of grip seal bags and I keep finding them everywhere!)
Hector also loves custard, ben and jerrys cookie dough, cheese and heinz baby breakfasts! Roxy is a girl after my own heart, toast, cake and pastry crumbs! They both like oatcakes too..........they are a local thing not the cracker type ones they are a bit like a pancake (anyone who really wants to know what they are google staffordshire oatcakes)

Sounds like a lot of MCs will eat anything and everything. Kenny does like to eat all sorts but it's the chocolate that really gets to him - if there's any nearby you can see his nose starting to twitch!

Our MC Whiskey wants to smell everything we eat and drink. He will pester us until he gets a good sniff full. He hasn't found a favorite to eat yet. But he does loves to play with Cheetos Cheese Puffs. His grabs onto them with his claws. Then he will hold up his paw up and flick his paw around until the puff falls off and flies across the room. He will then spring into action chasing it down and start the play all over again. He doesn't have an interest in licking or eating them. He also doesn't have interest in eating Chocolate but he loves chocolate wrappers. He will try his best to jump up and grab the wrapper and run off with it. He loves the crunching noises the wrappers make.

We had an orange tabby Copper that loved cantaloupe. We would place the cantaloupe in a brown bag to ripen. He would eat thru the bag to get to the mellon and practically eat the entire mellon. Thus it had to be rippened in a closed room. You could not cut into a cantaloupe without him getting in the way. Finally, we learned to place him in another room with the door shut until we were done cutting the mellon up. He would carry on in the room meowing and banging on the door (like he was being tortured) until we let him out to eat the skin and any pulp that was left over. His kept him happy while we ate our pieces.

Everyone on his facebook knows that my Buddy had a thing for stealing my chocolate cakes. He loves cheese and has developed a tomato sauce fetish now. (Yes I've even had to put it on his food)

My nine month old called MC Kitten has never shown a desire for chocolate bars, though has been known to lick the plastic lids from little chocolate dessert pots that we have for pudding sometimes

Originally Posted by catslave

Everyone on his facebook knows that my Buddy had a thing for stealing my chocolate cakes. He loves cheese and has developed a tomato sauce fetish now. (Yes I've even had to put it on his food)

Hector says sorry but those tins of food are sooo yummy!!!! He says tell Buddy to try banana icecream, have you seen the pic of him trying to magic mine to him with his eyes lol xx

For those who are not their friend on facebook heres Hector trying his magic powers out!!!!!

Chocolate can be poisonous to cats... be careful please!!


Believe it or not, chocolate poisoning is one of the most frequent ways that our pets get poisoned, especially during festive events such as Valentine's Day, Xmas, or someone's birthday. We all love chocolates, so it is not intuitive to accept that chocolate can be a deadly poison. And if you believe that feeding chocolate to your cat will, at worst, cause only a slight stomach upset, you are deadly wrong. So make sure that the chocolate boxes are stashed out of the cat's reach. Also remember that includes cooking chocolate and chocolate chips.

What is so bad about chocolates?

Chocolate, or more precisely cacao contains a compound called theobromine which has four different effects on cats:

It is a stimulant which increases heart rate.
It is a diuretic (which means that it increases liroduction of urine) resulting in increased loss of body fluids.
It causes stomach uliset.
It acts on the nervous system.

Symptoms of chocolate poisoning

The symptoms will very depending on the amount of chocolate the cat has eaten. The most common symptoms are: vomiting, diarrhea, excessive urination, nausea, seizures, irregular heartbeat. A larger dose of chocolate may well cause a coma or death. Symptoms usually start within a few hours of ingestion but can take up to 36 hours. If you think that your cat has eaten chocolate, don't wait for the symptoms. Try to induce vomiting and contact your vet asap. Because the extent of poisoning will depend on how much chocolate is in your cat, the vet will almost certainly ask how big your cat is and how much chocolate she has had.
Are all chocolates equally poisonous?

Not all chocolates are equally dangerous because different chocolates contain different levels of theobromine. As mentioned above, theobromine is found in cacao, so the higher the percentage of cacao in the chocolate, the more poisonous the chocolate is. For example, milk chocolate contains 60mg of theobromine per oz whereas dark baking chocolate contains 450mg/oz. As a general rule, the more cacao in the chocolate, more dangerous the chocolate is. 45-50mg of theobromine per pound of body weight is sufficient to poison a cat; and 45-50mg is just 0.1oz of dark chocolate!

Choccie locked in a coonie proof box now :(

I missed your comprehensive post. All chocolate firmly out of MC's grasp.

Curiously this evening, my partner was eating a small bar of caramac and Kitten went wild, trying to snatch the chocolate out of his had. We gave him half a square and it was gone in about a second. Clearly another emerging chocolate lover