Hmm. I really had thought that the cats would like steak.

[xiphias]

After going to the Texas Roadhouse steak restaurant, Lis and I had a couple ounces of medium-rare steak left over. So we cut it up into cat-bite-sized pieces and brought it home.

We just put it into the cats' dishes, and gave it to them. They looked at it, sniffed it, walked around and traded dishes to sniff at the OTHER cat's dish, looked up at us quizzically. They went back and forth sniffing each dish and looking at us in a confused manner.

Then Nora made a "burying" motion with her front paw and walked away.

. . . yeah. No steak for our cats, I guess.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Easy. Saving it for later when it has "matured" more
They'll dig it up later

Dod

[undauntra.livejournal.com]

Most restaurant steak is cooked with some kind of seasoning. That may be what they find objectionable.

Also, some spices are bad for cats. Pretty much anything in the onion family (including garlic) is bad for cats to some degree. So it may be for the best that they aren't eating your steak.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we make sure to keep our cats away from any allium. I think this spice rub was mostly salt, though.

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

Lots of spice rubs have more salt than other ingredients, but allium is common in steak spice rubs. One site claims to have a copycat recipe of the spice rub used by Texas Roadhouse. I don't know if it is authentic flavor, but I do know that at all of the various sites listing copycat spice rubs that I managed to check, all list allium of some sort.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I find mine never took any interest in steak.. I chalk it up to the fact that cooked steak by it's nature is very much a molar-chewing food, and they don't have much in that department.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

That's a really good point that I hadn't considered. The thing I most like about steak is the chewy texture, and if I only had pointy teeth, I'd not be able to eat it well.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Yep, cats miss out on the deep back-of-the-mouth chewing experience that we enjoy. The cooked meat that mine have liked best is finely shaved poultry that is easy to tear off and swallow without much mastication.

[yehoshua.livejournal.com]

My pair won't touch dead cow, even when it comes in a tin marked "cat food." It just doesn't seem to be something in which they're interested, unlike tuna, which I think you've observed in the past is just about the last likely thing for a cat to encounter in the wild ever. If we order sushi, we have to make sure there's an order of tuna sashimi to split with them.

[jehanna.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was the same with most of the cats we had while I was growing up. It seemed to make sense at the time on the grounds that none of them was likely to bring down a cow.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

"Carrion? What do you think I am, a hyena?"

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

Huh. I would not have guessed any cats would pass up steak. That's cute imagining them circling each other's bowls to see if the same strange 'food' was over there too.

[bill_sheehan.livejournal.com]

The trouble is that they didn't see YOU enjoying it. Had you been eating it, they would have stolen it from your plate.

[delerium69.livejournal.com]

Steak may just not be the correct texture for them. And yeah, they may not have dug the marinade either. As for beef cat food, both of mine like it, so it obviously depends on the kitty. I do find it amusing that there *is* beef cat food. I said to my friend the other day it was funny because when the heck is the average domestic feline going to take down a cow? Ha, or a turkey for that matter, but their cat food is made of that too.

I've encountered people who go to butchers and buy hearts and kidneys for their cats, (even lungs with one cat!) because they love eating the organs and it's good for them. (Hence why they're in cat food, I assume.)

When I was a child I couldn't figure out why cat food wasn't just made of ground up mice. ;^p

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Actually, there is a school of thought that suggests that "ground-up mouse catfood" WOULD be the healthiest. But it's not cost-effective.