Just look at this kitten in a banana-split costume, eating a banana

Just look at it.

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You used to be a predator and meat eater goddarnit, don’t go for the banana and water-melon. Do you think wildcats, cougars, lions and other cats would ever give a fruit as much as a second look? No!
- Lexicat
  
  REFUTED: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJhlguXpjWg
  
  Also my kitteh, and my former kitteh, both loved avocado. I mean were just nuts for it. Plus, the domestic cats generally like green honeydew type melons.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1253692044 David Dollard
  
  Good points, very funny.
PhosPhorious

Bananas area good source of potassium. I can only assume that kittens dressed up as bananas are also a good source of potassium.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1253692044 David Dollard
  
  Only in both are deep fried – LOL – PETA it’s a joke.
- Ashen Victor
  
  Humm…
  House cats are highly reactive to water, so the “high potassium content cat hypothesis” might be right.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EC7RUZWKCS7F77O2OP7TD566YU heresyourcopy

i find this disturbing.
SomeGuyNamedMark

What is “Nom nom nom!” in kitteh?
- http://www.xradiograph.com/ OtherMichael
  
  ”Nyom nyom nyom!”
http://www.facebook.com/wimwillem.de.groot Willem de Groot

My cats run away at the sight or smell of a banana. And they will never wear a costume.
stalkmykitchen

I thought my cat was the only one that like bananas! Awesome!
- SomeGuyNamedMark
  
  Mine too, he also likes apple juice. My previous cat also loved to chew on cantaloupe rinds.
  - http://twitter.com/deathsmiled Wendy Kitten
    
    I had a roommate with a cat who would nom strawberries, but only if you held them up by the green bits so he could gum at them. It was weird. He liked the flavour, but not the texture.
http://twitter.com/TheRedMonk01 Red Monk

I HAS BANANA!!
Boundegar

As I was just looking at it, my cat came and made the universal cat sign for “covering up poo.”
http://twitter.com/chriscoreline chris coreline

Its the meme that will never die, the emperor of memes, the memperor.
- SomeGuyNamedMark
  
  ”meme that will never die”
  
  That would make it a zombmeme, or maybe a memepire.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1253692044 David Dollard

This is my first time seeing kitty porn.
technogeekagain

I’ve stopped trying to predict what cats will and won’t like. I had a cat that liked broccoli. One of my current cats decided she liked graham crackers. A friend’s cat used to wait for manna from heaven in the form of cheerios dropped by their toddler.
- technogeekagain
  
  Not to mention their grass habit… I mean lawn, not pot. Though catnip is another data point.
  
  Being an obligate carnivore, and being poorly adapted to digest plant matter, doesn’t mean one can’t have a taste for it anyway. Gods know humans eat all sorts of things with zero nutritional value.
- http://twitter.com/deathsmiled Wendy Kitten
  
  Things my cat likes that confused me: macaroni and cheese (makes sense), cheese its, macaroni in general (Plain, with sauce, with oil), lentils, popcorn (they play with it first). Cats are weird.
Shibi_SF

I cringe at the thought of what comes out the other end after a cat eats a banana.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  It’s a longhair. Whatever comes out the other end is going to stick to the fur and have to be washed off.
  - malindrome
    
    Thank you for putting that image in my head …
hungrygirl

I think we’ve found Winston’s soul mate. :)
http://twitter.com/firebagger Mary Mac

another 49 seconds I will never get back.
http://selfconsciousposturing.blogspot.com Ginger Jane

That noise totally squicked me out.