While you might assume that what most cats are enjoying in their food is satisfying their carnivorous tendencies, you might also be surprised to know that cats want and need a lot of things other than meat in their diets. Dry pet foods have all kinds of ingredients in them, usually a lot of grains and supplements. While cats aren’t supposed to eat onions or garlic, they can eat a lot of other vegetable matter and really love greens. I notice that whenever I eat popcorn or shuck corn, my cat, Drane, likes to smell the corn and the husk. I also discovered that he likes spinach a lot after I tried to get him to stop eating a vase of roses by redirecting his urge for greens. Sometimes he can even be persuaded to eat half of a kidney bean.
Now that we live in the city and I don’t feel comfortable letting Drane outdoors for a chomp on the neighbor’s lawn, I always keep a large pot of grass for him to munch on (larger and more sturdy than the one in the photo above). So he’s been getting his fiber for awhile now. But I was recently happy to discover that he is also crazy about nutritional yeast flakes. After reading that cats respond well to it, I gave him just a little to make sure that he wouldn’t have any negative reactions. He licked it up and immediately asked for more. Later, I heard him getting up on a counter that he usually ignores and I found him poking around the bag of nutritional yeast — This stuff has a powerful hold on cats’ desires. And in reasonable quantities, nutritional yeast seems to be a good food for cats, as it’s filled with protein, vitamins, and usually B12, when enriched.
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