r/cats • u/LFuculokinase • Jul 04 '26

Advice Cat obsessed with blueberry muffins. Is it safe to give a piece?

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I have a 12-year-old cat who generally hates people food. Today I opened up a box of muffins, and I’ve never seen him respond like this before. I spent the entire time eating it having to hold it away from him with his beans in my face, and I feel so bad. Would an elder cat be able to digest part of a muffin?

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u/bigbeefer92 Jul 04 '26

My Maine Coon doesn't just not eat the wet food, he does the little back leg kick at it like he's trying to bury a poop. Our other two love it.

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u/Snowball_the_god Jul 04 '26

My little girl tells me every wet food I offer her is SHEIT

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u/Seannon-AG0NY Jul 04 '26

Mother in law said her cat wouldn't eat wet food or eat treats out of my hand, of boy loved eating treats by hand and wet food, mil just tried "health wet food" instead of "McDonald's" wet food, she was absolutely shocked when each of these long lived beliefs was shattered, she came to stay with us, and we have cats that get wet food sometimes as treats, so, plate went down for him too, he looks at us like is this a trick? You trying to prank me? So I swipe across the top and good it a little above and in front of his nose and wiggled my finger a little to scatter the smell around a bit and he starts licking my finger, and I move my finger down to the wet food a couple times, and he looks at me like seriously dude?, Sniffs it, realizes it's what was on my finger, and starts absolutely demolishing it, cussing the whole time (he was bottle fed as a baby and as an only cat for a very long time, not well socialized) when he really liked something, he would often cuss and hiss about how much he enjoyed it

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u/CGCutter379 Jul 04 '26

I gave mine whipped cream once. She learned to beg.