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

[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.