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I don't know if this actually belongs over in the "reviews" thread, but....

I just had a 2007 beef stew main for lunch. Beef stew yada yada yada.
What makes this worth mentioning was the reaction from my 16-year-old cat. First off, I need to say that this cat is so old she is called the "Fossil". Every few days, she lies in one place, in one position, for so long that I have to go check her pulse. Last week at this time, I thought she was dying. She was lethargic, confused, off her food, and I thought that she had probably had a couple of strokes and would finally be gone within a couple of days. After three or four days though, she bounced and started yelling at me to eat ice cream after dinner again... This is close to her favorite thing in the world, because she always gets the bowl to lick.
Anyways her response to the beef stew was out well beyond her affection for the ice cream bowl. The hover paw kept dipping toward the bowl while I tried to eat, and had to be pushed away about a half a dozen times. She is deaf as a post, so she kept meowing louder and louder when she was denied. She was absolutely fixated on this bowl of stew. I've never even seen her respond to a plate of fish like this.
When she finally got the bowl down on the floor, she left it cleaner than she ever leaves the ice cream ones.

Some of us like these things, some of us don't.

That is interesting.

First it's nice of you to share your left over bowl with the cat.. You are obviously a good Joe
When heated the MRE beef stew has a strong, if not outright pleasant aroma (to most of us )
The cat has a good nose and she maybe is craving that salty gravy.. Mmmm

I think the beef stew has one of the better flavors of all MRE components so Fossil the cat has good taste when it comes to mass produced military beef stew. For what it is worth I would let my elderly Tom Cat (r.i.p.) lick the left over bowl of civilian Dinty Moore beef stew. He would Purr super loud.I would save him a few pieces of the stringy Hormel Meat and he loved it. Also worth noting he ate the small bits of vegetables if any were left in the bowl.

I share my leftover or inedible older MREs with the Dog and if he won't eat it then the chickens get it. Eevn they have passed on out of date MRE cheese.
The Raccoon never passes up a MRE entree.. even a mid 1980's

When I came back from Basic in 1985, I was demonstrating a Diced Turkey and Gravy MRE to a friend who then tried to feed some of it to his cat. She sniffed, but would not touch it!

In Oct 2000, I was travelling in Jamaica and had the Dice turkey MRE on me for a late night snack. A stray cat entered my room via the balcony window and I gave some to her which she ate with no problem. She even ate the crackers. I then had a new friend who followed me all over the resort for the duration of my trip.

I've had two cats, both strays who wandered into my life, who made it to 17 years with me.
Stray cats are not picky eaters, they'll eat ANYTHING!
Dry bread, old rice, frozen soup, when your hungry, it all fills the belly!

well, the last two entrees I did (a beef taco and a turkey chili with beans) I know for sure I threw both entree packets away, yet later that evening I found both under the table, spotlessly clean and both the cat and my chihuahua being reeeeaaaalllll quiet with suspicious marks on their faces and paws...

Of course, the only reason I found them is I let my boston in from the backyard later that evening (he's way, way to rambunctious to have around when recording..) and I heard him rustling something under the table...

come to think of it...I think the only living being in my house that HASN'T tried any MRE stuff is my wife....No, wait, I made a maple sausage patty one time for her. Nevermind.

dirtbag wrote:I've had two cats, both strays who wandered into my life, who made it to 17 years with me.
Stray cats are not picky eaters, they'll eat ANYTHING!
Dry bread, old rice, frozen soup, when your hungry, it all fills the belly!

Yeah, strays are not known for being picky. I have had one for about a year now. That was kept around for a couple of my nephews. Even though she is fed and cared for, she still goes "hunting" every morning. Lizards, frogs, mice, and other small animals.

Hahah! Yep, you guys are right! I have had my stray cat "Joey" that makes an appearance about once a week, and I have given him Rations like Tuna & Noodles, a liver pate' from a 2009 RCIR, and one time a 2011 Beef Brisket that he went crazy for.
Now he can be picky, I tried to give him Jambalaya from I believe 2006, but he passed. So not quite like you guy's cats on the eating anything part.

Gotta take a picture next time I give him a Ration and share it.

Elandil, you've got a chihuahua too? Ahh you gotta send me a pic someday! I have owned only chihuahuas since my 1st late buddy when I was 8. Love those little turds.. hahah!

Ted would have to agree that sharing these things with our pets isn't cruel

Back in the early 2000's someone had given me a couple old, maybe 90's era vegeterian MREs, (my first mre experience) they had green or brown bags. I remember I tried to feed my cat part of the burrito and he wouldn't touch it, and he would eat anything,he was a fat orange Garfield cat and I can remember him eating greenbeans, raisins, pepperoni, cupcakes and even a huge waterbug once. That burrito was pretty terrible tho. I miss that cat.