Confused owner who doesn't understand why her chonky cat is not losing weight catches the cat licking the olive oil bottle in the middle of the night, plus other hissterical instances of cats' greed knowing no bounds

The word "diet" is not part of any cat's vocabulary, and they refuse to learn it.

We will start this by saying that chonky cats are amazing. And we love them. And they exist. There are cats out there who are just a little bigger than usual and have a hard time losing weight, and that is okay. We love them anyway. In fact, there is more cat to love with cats like that. With that said, some cats do need to de-chonkify. There comes a stage in these cats' lives where enough is enough, and something has to be done. But that does not mean that they have to like it. Or accept it.

Now, olive oil, as everyone knows, is pretty healthy. But maybe you don't want to drink it right out of the bottle. Which is exactly what this cat, who is in need of de-chonkification, was doing in the middle of the night, behind his owner's back. Olive oil. We've heard of cats who like bread, we've heard of cats who love veggies, but we have not yet encountered a cat who chooses olive oil as its weird human food addiction. But now, his owner knows. He's been caught red-pawed, and access to the olive oil will be removed. And maybe the de-chonkification could actually commence.

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The way that we would have had the biggest “aha!” moment of our lives when we caught him doing this. Olive oil. The foods that cats are obsesed with are beyond us sometimes. Our cat is obsessed with carrots. Will do anything to get them. And she doesn't even eat them. She just smells them, rolls around on the floor and then smacks them. We've heard of cats that are obsessed with cucumbers, some with snap peas, other with almonds. But olive oil - that's a first for us. We wonder how long he has been doing this for… and what lengths he will go to to be able to do it again.
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Every day, we find out a new food item that cats love eating. There is no reason for cats to eat mashed potatoes. That is not something that they would have been eating in the wild. Then again, they wouldn't have been eating olive oil or carrots either. One thing that we do appreciate about this answer - and all the other similar answers in this thread - is that the first thing that people do when they see a strange story like this is share their own similar experiences. That's what we love about the cat side of the internet. It is never, ever boring.
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