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Q.: My lovely tomcat is absolutely crazy about fruits and vegetables, strawberries, melon, pears, and not to mention tomato paste.
But if we give ham salmon, he shakes and snifts at us and walks the other way, he only eats one kind of cat food and dried food, and cat grass is always available to him...
Is it natural for this breed to be "vegetarians"?
A.: No, but it is very common for cats - breed or not - to develop strange eating habits.
The domestic shorthairs Kasper and Jesper plus the Russian Blue Jonatan (you can read more about them under "Who Is Blue & White?") - ate potatoes, which they were so crazy about that they had to have each his own bowl over which they would stand growling while eating.
Their dried food they would eat out of the same common bowl without any problems, often all three of them at a time.
Of other weird things they ate were unpolished rice, all kinds of vegetables (although never raw), preferably with a lot of soy and curry, rye bread dough, if they could get away with it, chocolate with nougat etc.
They weren't complete vegetarians, however, for they also loved chicken.
Of course you need to make sure this kind of things don't end up being their main diet "taking up room" for their proper food.
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