Today I was in the garden, and witnessed a most peculiar event.
We have a little birdhouse, on which there rests a platter with various seeds (sunflower seeds mostly). I saw the approach the birdhouse and time a perfect jump right into it. I thought it was a cunning display of predatory skills, lying in wait for a prey to pass by, but no.
The damn thing ate all the birdseed on the platter.
She wasn't exceptionally hungry or anything - she gets fed often enough and had just had some. She also doesn't have any sort of intestinal parasite, as she was just treated for that.
I'm just really curious what would drive a carnivore like a cat to suddensly eat seeds, is all. It makes little sense from an evolutionary standpoint, what with having too short an intestinal canal for digesting herbal foodstuffs.

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I had a cat who would eat potato skins, and another who will drink vinegar. They're more willing to eat odd things than people think.

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