I was not sure which forum I should put this in....

I was wondering if any of you citrus growers had come across cats that like citrus? One of my Siamese cats ADORES anything citrus. I have photos of her eating lemons she has stolen from drinks and her favourite thing on earth is oranges which have had the peel grated, she just loves to lick at what is left of the peel. Odd, huh? I always thought all cats hated abythinng cirus. Right now, as I type she is licking a bowl that I just ate papaya and lime juice out of. Her sister is not mad on raw citrus but will eat citrus icings or lemon cake, and any other food we eat with citrus in. She also loves melon and mangos. I hope they will leave my plants alone....I checked and the standard advice is coat the leaves of houseplants or poisonous garden plants with...LEMON JUICE! That is obviously not going to help! LOL (sorry Benny!)

Lulu:
Oh, I would love to adopt your cat. I have one mature Eureka lemon that produces fruit all year long. And I have now one bucketful that is rotting at my backyard that is even after I gave away my lemons to our neighbors.
I have 2 cats that came with us while living in the dessert. They were the ones that their mother abandoned when they were borne inside the tool open boxes of my service truck. I felt sorry for them because I was sure in another hour they would have been dead because the tempts at that time was over 120 degrees.
Anyway they were independent. They ate rabbits, squirrels and birds everywhere. I guess it took after their mother because their mother was also a cat that was living by herself inside the Marine base.
I would just see those dead animals at my doorsteps including rats.
I saw one time there was a rabbit running and out of fear went inside my house through an open main door and it dropped dead I guess from fear when it got into the bedroom.
Oh, I wish I can adopt her/him.
Benny

Never heard of spraying lemon juice but I have used bitter apple to keep cats out of my plants. My cats (love fresh veggies and my siberian husky loves lemons and pickles.

I'll look out for some bitter apple, thank you!

Benny my girls are good hunters too. We live in London now, and the cats have to stay indoors because of the traffic and because there are a lot of people in London who kidnap cats (especially pedigree ones as they look more expensive) and then they send you a toe or a bit of tail in the post and demand a ransom to get the rest of your cat back unharmed. Its horrid. But we often go for weekends or holidays to my family in the Southwest of England where I let them out. We get literally dozens of rodents a day, sometimes rats, but usually mice and shrews. We have had a couple of pheasants, a mole, a grass snake and rabbits too. One rabbit they brought innto the bedroom really early one morning and the poor thing was a live. It started sccreaming, and luckily it was unharmed and we managed to get it and put it out and it ran away. Mainly they leave birds alone, which is good because we have some rare birds around. Also, they love my mothers chickens, often they go and sit in the chicken house and lick the broody girls and snuggle up and sleep with them!

We have to get them in before dusk though because we have lots of buzzards and the vet thinks my girls are just about the right size for buzzard supper, and the fact that thy have white bodies makes them easy to see in moonlight.

Oh, how cute they may be!
One thing I like about my cats are they like to be hugged. Usually they were outdoor cats. They sleep I don't know where at night. But when I put a cardboard box and lots of newspaper and clean towels outside my sliding door during the cold weather they slept there. Was a little warm there.
Sometimes I forgot to close the sliding door and they came in.
I would just shout and told them to go out but they just stayed where they were and I 'd just picked them up and they would just limber as if there were no bones in their body when I picked them up.
And when you let them roam around they'd just lay on the carpet sometimes their feet up in the air.
I have a bunch of pictures I might post them here even when they were babies.
One time my wife was lounging in a lounge chair, one of them climbed up and cuddled at my wife's lap and streched her body as if there was no caring what happened in the world. And I have a very talkative African gray that does so many things people on the phone asked me who the heck was that. But that was another story.
And I would let Buddy(the bird) to ride on top of Marc and Cel ( the cats) shoulders when we were just playing around in the living room.

Such cute stories...makes me want to get a cat.

Anonymous wrote:

I saw one time there was a rabbit running and out of fear went inside my house through an open main door and it dropped dead I guess from fear when it got into the bedroom. Benny

Is your bedroom THAT SCARY Benny? ROFLMAO

My cats are my children Patty, I adore them.

Benny, both my girls are cuddly, and they both leep in the bed. Panache sleeps inbetween my husband and I and her sister Nougat sleeps on my pillow. Panache actualy thinks she is a parrot I think as she likes to ride around on my shoulder. She is really clever (her sister has the looks and she has the brains) she can press handsfree and redial on the phone, and then spends ages yowling and chatting to my mother, who she loves, and she can say the word "Meat", lol. She started saying it when I started feeding them only biscuits and no meat. One day she had a real tantru and kept running to the place where I used to put meat down for them, then when she goot my attention she screwed up her little face and said "Mea" which really does sound like meat! What could I do? I gave here a chicken wing immeadiately! Now she says it whenever she wants meat, and always gets it LOL.

Nougat sometimes gets in the bath with me, and sits on my tummy.Like I said, her sister is the clever one!

Patty:
I am talking about the rabbit's experience and not my bedroom condition !!!!
When I told this experience to my friends, they said that rabbits specially young are not tolerant to adverse condition such as he was experiencing and had a heart attack.
And that rabbit was so young and so pretty. We were all saddened by what happened.
Patty I am also LMAO with your comment.
Lulu: All I can say is WOW!!