Does anyone know about Siamese cats eating differently?

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I have a civvie Siamese, and someone told me that Siamese cats chew differently. They really can't chew and swallow, more like they mash up food and then lick it? I didn't think anything about it, but now that we are on only wet food, I always notice the food "looks" different when the Siamese eats on it. It looks like mush! and just tonight, I was giving the other cats treats, and I could swear that the Siamese couldn't bite it out of my hand. It looked like he was turning his head wrong and couldn't grasp it. I had to lay it on a flat surface so he could lick it up. Maybe I am going crazy??

P.S. Thanks to all of you, Sprats is doing GREAT! He is playing daily, his fur is soft and not oily and matted looking. I never thought my 15 year old cat would act this way again! :) I still am bitter that I threw thousands of dollars at the vet for poor help. You all helped more than they ever did! I am out of strips - in case you look at his SS. It will probably be a week before I can buy any more.
 
I'm pretty sure I've heard that as well. I had a Seal Point for 11 years and I don't recall her eating differently than the others. I currently have two Lynx Points and they don't seem to eat in an odd way either, though I've never really checked. Maybe now I should! heh

Sarah
 
I have 3 meezers a flame point, a blue point and a lynx point and I haven't noticed that they eat any different than the other 8 cats in the household.

Mel, Max & The Fur Gang
 
I have a flame point. I have noticed that he doesn't lick up his raw food like Oscar, he kinda pinches off the top with his mouth and then steps back to eat. That just may be a Yoda-ism though. He does chew on the chicken chunks I have in it though. He turns his head to the side and just gnaws at it.
 
I have a seal point (pictured) and I've never noticed him doing anything different with his food/chewing. I'll look closer but I'm sure I would have already noticed since I tend to be obsessed with him LOL. :lol:
 
Kelly & Oscar said:
I have a flame point. I have noticed that he doesn't lick up his raw food like Oscar, he kinda pinches off the top with his mouth and then steps back to eat. That just may be a Yoda-ism though. He does chew on the chicken chunks I have in it though. He turns his head to the side and just gnaws at it.
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Kelly, that sounds exactly like mine. He kinda scoops up the wet and mashes it around - never licking it. His head turns to the side when I try to give him a chunk of something.
 
My half Siamese (half grey tabby, worst half of each we joke...) she likes to share her moist food and kibble with the floor. The kibble she tries to gobble up and usually ends up tossing half of it on the floor. With other cats I've had who do that I was sure it was on purpose - they'd spit individual kibbles out (ping!). We always figured she was just being her usual high strung self - any noise, any movement and she skitters for a second and the kibble in her mouth hits the floor. Sometimes we get lucky and it lands back in the bowl, usually it doesn't because she's snapped her head to look at whatever and it goes flying.

Moist food, she tends to bite a bite off the top and then drop it on the floor in front of the bowl and then nibble on it, sometimes she turns her head sideways to do it. Unless I put a ton of water in the food to make it more like soft-serve ice cream consistancy she doesn't lick it.

Honestly we always chalked it up to her being really high strung - the running joke here is she's so high strung she oscillates. But I suppose it could be the half siamese in her.
 
I have a balinese.. he has a very triangular and narrow face - looks more like a wallabe face than a cat face - kibble he always turned his head to chew, but sometimes dug his face right in, making these snuffling nomnomnom sounds.. and of course, getting it all over the floor. now with wet food I mix in lots of water so that he'll lick it up and get hydrated (he stopped drinking so much when he went on the insulin and I think I was overly worried about his H20 intake).
 
I think Bandit is more raccoon than Siamese, but he mushes his food forward in his dish with his face while inhaling it. When you give him treats, he'll grab them and and kind of do a weird sideways chew. Bandit's never really chewed his food, but I always thought that's because of his eating habits (in that he loves, loves, loves to eat. I can't give him more than 3/4 of a 3 oz can of food at a time or he'll eat it so fast he'll puke) .
 
Julia & Bandit said:
I think Bandit is more raccoon than Siamese, but he mushes his food forward in his dish with his face while inhaling it. When you give him treats, he'll grab them and and kind of do a weird sideways chew. Bandit's never really chewed his food, but I always thought that's because of his eating habits (in that he loves, loves, loves to eat. I can't give him more than 3/4 of a 3 oz can of food at a time or he'll eat it so fast he'll puke) .
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That sounds so familiar. Mine - his face gets all messy because he is pushing his food and mushing it up. Bandit is so cute. I love that face!
 
Jenn & Sprats said:
That sounds so familiar. Mine - his face gets all messy because he is pushing his food and mushing it up. Bandit is so cute. I love that face!
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That's the face he makes when he wants to be fed. Since I stopped free-feeding him 5 or 6 years ago, he has developed cute as a superpower in order to get more food (well, that and knocking over trash cans or figuring out how to open any other food-holding container).
 
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