Guess What Piper Likes?

Well I was rather shocked two days ago when I couldn't manage to distract little Piper from what her mommie was eating. You all know me, I am completely against giving pets table scraps. No way! My boys have never consumed table scraps. Have they had fresh fruit like bananas or a chunk of carrot or cracked open pecans....yes! Big difference giving a pet the leftovers at dinner and giving them fresh banana or melon that has nothing added to it. I understand its slightly different with cats than dogs. Although I can guarantee Piper will never receive table scraps. Fresh tuna out of the can...yes! Pizza.....NO! I must admit Storm ate pizza! She loved the sauce. So she didn't exactly eat pizza in it's full form, she was all about licking the sauce. She also loved French fries. I doubt Piper will ever get to taste those delicacies thanks to her strict mommie! :)

Oh man, allow me to take a few moments to reminisce! Storm used to meow as loud as possible until you gave her the human food she could smell you had. When the crockpot had been going all day long, she insisted on sampling whatever came out of it. Beef, chicken, something cheesy....she wanted a taste!  She was funny! Might I add her sampling was just that, sampling. She never ate that much. The one item she ate the most of: French fries! She had to be limited to 3 fries. Only 2 if they were from Chick-fil-a, because Chick-fil-a has waffle fries, which are bigger.

Okay, back to my story. So there I was sitting on our couch enjoying my rather quick breakfast when I couldn't get our cat-daughter to leave me alone. There she was standing next to me getting closer and closer. I kept shoeing her away but she kept coming back. Another huge difference between cats and dogs....persistence. Cats never give up! Dogs do and are easy to tell to go lay down.

I felt like I was being stalked by a shark. I was shark bait! I finally decided to let her see what I was eating once I was finished. She was eager to look over the crumbs. I watched her closely as I assumed she'd turn her nose up at the crumbs and walk away. To my surprise the darn little thing ate the small bits of hard boiled egg that had been left on the plate. The crumbs mostly consisted of the yellow part. She left nothing! Then today I decided to try out the white part of the egg with her. Sure enough she ate that too. Mind you the pieces of egg consumed by her were merely crumbs. Equal in size to a Cheerio.  A Cheerio-sized yolk portion and a Cheerio-sized white portion is what she polished off. She batted the white part of the egg back and forth between her front paws before deciding to eat it.

Earlier today I shared this story with a friend of mine that has informed me eggs are one of the healthiest human foods a cat can consume. She uses eggs of all style as a treat for her 7 year old cat. Hmm, good to know! So I guess other than tuna we now have another food that we'll allow Piper to have. I will never go so far as to scramble her some eggs, as that breaks my general rule. If I'm going to offer our pets human food I want it to be as natural as possible. Not mixed or cooked with anything. Hard boiled eggs are natural to me. Nothing's been done to them except boiling them.

We have an egg loving Piper! Perhaps for her birthday we should mix up a bit of natural tuna with some hard boiled egg. She'd flip for that combo!