My cats have developed a strange craving.

Plastic, lots and lots of plastic...

The onions have healing properties, too. I don't have a cat or dog, but I myself love butternut squash soup! I'll be right over!

I personally don't have any pets at this time as I'm so busy that I would have no time to properly take care of them. But both my daughters have cats and dogs. But it is possible that cats and other animals instinctively know which foods have what they need for health. I remember my dog loving carrots and at the sound of my peeling a carrot he would run and wanted some.

i don't have a cat or dog at the moment but my rats go wild over very spicy food. they also don't like rat food much at all, and i don't really blame them - it looks like a really nasty muesli mix.

ÑHiya GardenGerty, We had a Dog that liked Cornflakes for Breakfast or Porridge Oats or Weetabix or Shredded Wheat not sugar of course. He did´nt like anything else we ate except that a huge bowl of it almost every day in fact if I remember it was every day as I had to go to work and did not have time for anything else. He did get a plus though a beautiful shiny Coat. I know they are not strange foods to us but they are not exactly doggie foods I never put much milk in though. Sounds very nice your recipe and hope your Cats are now recovered.

Hi G..Well, I have two dogs but cannot include Lambchip (my bijon frise) in the discussion becaue there is not a food known to mankind that this little dog dosen't like. If its on a "people plate", comes out of the frig or oven. she's in. My Irish setter however has a very particular pallet and when you give her something to eat, she has to examine it as if it could possibly be poison!!! When she was about 12 weeks old, I was sitting on the couch eating pistachio nuts and dropped one on the floor. She checked it out, carefully, and then picked it up and ran to her little throw rug, where she takes all new food and ate it, or so I thought. Later on, when passing by the rug I noticed that both halfs of the shell were there. Surely coincidental I thought and went on about my business. The next night I, again, was eating what was left of my favorite nuts, decided to give her one. She did the same thing..ate the nut, left the shell. I watched her and it was so funny how she carefully moved it around in her mouth, swallowed the nut and spit out the shell...A genius!!! Since then she eats anything with pistachio. I make a pistachio encrusted salmon, loves it, pistachio ice cream , loves it, etc etc. She also loves raisins. When she sees me get them out of the pantry, she comes running. She will eat as many as I give her! I found out the hard way however that raisins help to "clean out the system" if you know what I mean, so now she only gets a couple at a time..She also loves grapefruit. I have a pink grapefruit tree in my yard which is how that started and she loves them! Put a little sugar on it and you'll have a best friend for life. As lastly, whipped cream, I make it often and when she hears that hand mixer running, again she comes running. I know its not good for her, but I just let her lick the beaters. Its so funny watching those big eyes wide with waited anticipation of a delectable treat soon to be all hers!!!

Interesting? This type of food is good for the Cats, and the Vitamin A helps them heal? I have never heard this one before. We actually own a Pomeranian and have heard that allowing them to eat any kind of people food is not good for them, so we do not feed him anything but his food and Jerky treats for dogs.

Recently, we discovered CeeCee likes broccoli with cheese sauce. I mix it in with her regular food. After her belly is full, she makes a trip outside to take care of business. The she comes in for a long nap. When she sees the broccoli come out of the freezer, she dances around the kitchen waiting for it to be cooked. I only give her a large spoonful at a time. I don't want to give her too much at a time. But now I wonder what is going to happen when the broccoli is growing in the garden. I hope she does not eat it before we can harvest it.

My silver-tipped charcoal gray cat, Baby, likes mango yogurt. I tried giving him plain yogurt before and stuff with berries in, but he wrinkled his nose and walked away. But one day I was eating mango yogurt and he wouldn't leave me alone. I gave him a taste and he wanted more and more. That surprised me. I don't even see mango yogurt on the shelves any more. Just as well, they aren't supposed to have sugar.

Hi GG!! Well, as Dawnald mentioned above in #1, plastic bags are Kash's favorite, even though it's not a food. I do not dare leave a plastic bag on the floor as it will be chewed to bits, and I don't know how much she'd eat. Any type of plastic bag will do for her, garbage bags, shopping bags, plastic handles, etc. I'm really not sure if she loves it or hates it. One day when she was really young, about a year old, I came home from grocery shopping and put the bags on the floor by the kitchen to put the stuff away. She was jumping around all over the bags just playing, listening to it crinkle as she moved around. I didn't think too much of it and thought it was cute. These were the plain white shopping bags with handles that they pack your groceries with at the store. One bag was empty so she was crawling in and out, jumping on it, throwing it up in the air, and then.....somehow, I think when she was crawling inside, the handles got stuck around her neck. Off she took with this plastic bag flying in the wind after her around her neck. She was scared out of her wits and running like a crazed cat up and down the hall, into the bedroom, back into the living room and smacked right into the wall before I caught her. She was limping really bad so I ended up taking her to the vet. Sure enough, she actually hurt a part of her leg the vet said he never saw get hurt before. It was swollen and bruised but not broken or fractured. It took a few days for her to feel better and walk normally, and we had to keep her in one of the bedrooms so she would stay more quiet. It was funny to see as it was happening with the bag flying behind her (like a cartoon), but the end result wasn't so funny. Now I don't leave any type of plastic bags around at all as she seems to attack them.

My dogs love butternut squash! And nearly every other kind of fruit and vegetable. They really went nuts for my pear/squash soup and you might like it, too. Make your soup but when you blend the cooked squash add the equivalent of a pear, either a fresh one that's been cooked or one from a can. A bit of nutmeg on top to make it pretty and you have a whole new flavor for your soup. When Cookie wasn't feeling well a few weeks ago due to a minor procedure, I cooked and blended some chicken, mixed vegetables and a little cooked potato. It came out the consistency of soup when I added some chicken stock and while she would not eat regular food she lapped up enough of this to keep her from being weak. And it didn't upset her stomach.

My cats or dogs will eat just about anything at all if they think there´s a risk that one of the others will eat it first and they´ll miss out! The dogs are particularly bad for that, and can clear a plate in a couple of gulps, including your hands if you´re foolish enough not to let go fast enough! I had a cat once that would lick the chocolate from the top biscuit in a packet if you left an open packet unguarded. Disgusting habit! Particularly if you thought the unchocolately side you pulled out was just the back of the biscuit and tucked in! Do you mind telling me what the problem is with cats and onions? I´ve had cats for years and had never realised. Mine have been tucking into onions whenever they get table scraps but I´ll stop that practice if it´s not good for them.

Don't try to tell me your cats aren't spoiled, lol. I don't have any cats but my dog will eat anything called people food.

I just feed my dog Purina Dog Chow all the time. What's so funny is if I eat anything in front of her, she'll turn her head a certain way and give me a puzzled look. It's like she's thinking, "Why can't I have some of that?" LOL! She likes her treats, too, and I only give her those when I want her to come back in the house. Would you believe she prefers the dog chow over the treats, though? She knows what's good for her, I guess, LOL

I don't know about the betcarotene (Vitamin A). That could be the case. But my cats will eat canned pumpkin off a spoon! And since the two vegetables are closely related, there may be something to that. I give them pumpkin sometimes because it's very high in fiber and my vet recommended it to treat constipation. Maybe your cats want the fiber in the squash? Not sure.

I have 3 pugs and they eat anything that falls on the floor My grandkids come over and what ever they eat and if any thing gets on the floor they will eat it.

Ahh, there is no bigger compliment to your cooking than their desire for it! I have had cats that go nuts over veggies. I can't say I've had one go nuts over butternut squash soup (that sounds soooooo good right now!) I've had them go for string beans, peas, corn, brussels sprouts, artichokes, cabbage (they slept in another room after eating cabbage! LOL) and even tomatoes.

hi GardenGerty you have some smart cats as they must know butternut squash has a lot of vitamins in it besides tasting good, also of course the ground turkey probably appealed too. I did not know onions are toxic to cats. I knew that chocolate is toxic to dogs and probably to cats too. We once had a cat who loved tomato soup, dont know why but she had the glossiest coat and we always heard that she was a very pretty cat, black as ebony all over. Dogs like the taste of chocolate but I never ever give it to them, of course now I do not own a dog or cat cause it would raise my rent one hundred dollars which I do not have.

Pardon me because I know how serious you are with this discussion. I just couldn't help but be amused. The butternut squash soup was a strange concoction for me. Never heard of it before. But with the onions to top it all, ha ha, that was stranger. I kinda like onions and I think it is beneficial to the health. Now I have to research why it is toxic to cats. Spare me the agony and tell the reason, please.

My little dog like to eat almost anything.tissue,paper,plastic bag, and he like to bite shose,bench...almost everything is he favourite.but he dont like to eat apple,It is really strange.and he like to eat durian very much.How strange the dog is.