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Unsolicited Culinary Opinions -- HMPH!

posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 11:36am on 2007-05-05 under ,

I just ate a bowl of cinnamon yogurt. Perrine wandered over to where I had set the bowl down, sniffed it, and made the "this is crap" sign. "Shut up, cat. I don't need your opinion because I didn't put that there for you. We already know we have different diets. And yeah, it smells like spoiled milk; it's yogurt, it is carefully-pre-spoled milk (like cheese, which you do eat sometimes), it's supposed to smell like that. Silly beast."

(I've known other cats who loved yogurt, and looked adorable reaching into empty single-serving yogurt cups to scrape the last bits off the sides with their paws and lick them. So far, Perrine doesn't seem to like yogurt with or without cinnamon.)

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posted by [identity profile] donnad.livejournal.com at 05:54pm on 2007-05-05
My kitten, Snowy, doesn't like plain yogurt either, but she loves raita.

Plain yogurt is fine for cats, but any of the flavored ones you have to be careful. The sugar isn't good for cats.
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posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 08:17pm on 2007-05-05
Yogurt may be fine for some cats, but many cats, like many humans, can't digest the remaining lactose in the stuff. You can tell if you have a lactose-intolerant cat if s/he throws up after eating dairy products. In fact, a lot of vets tell you not to feed cats dairy products at all, because of the risk. (My mother's black and white cat -- as opposed to the black cat or the grey striped cat -- is lactose intolerant. I find that strangely vindicating, since I am too, and we fought about the existence of the problem for years.)
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posted by [identity profile] donnad.livejournal.com at 09:21pm on 2007-05-05
And some cats never become lactose intolerant and drink milk their whole lives with no problems.

When my kitten was experiencing chronic diarrhea we had to give her yogurt to help replace the flora, that's how I found out she didn't like it unless it had cucumber and mint in it.

Yogurt has a tiny amount of lactose, less than half that of regular milk.
I am lactose intolerant and can eat yogurt with no problems as long as it has the live cultures. The live cultures digest much of the milk sugars thus reducing the amount of lactose. When I eat ice cream or drink milk I get all jittery and feel like I can't stop trembling. I also get the usual lactose intolerant issues as well.
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posted by [identity profile] scarlettj9.livejournal.com at 05:38am on 2007-05-08
My little Miss Akiko will go nuts if she sees a yogurt container. She has to have some and will Meow as only a siamese that squeeks can until we give in and cut open the container for her.

Odd side question: why are yogurt containers smaller at the top then the bottom???
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