Are your birds giving your cat ideas?

As well as my 5 birds, I also have a cat and dog. We had our cat at least 6 or 7 years before we got our first birdy. Before the birds, the cat never had any interest in people food other than an occasional piece of meat. Since the introduction of birds, she now eats almost anything. Meat, veggies, oatmeal cereal, eggs, ice cream, among other things. I was wondering if anyone else has found this to be the case. A few years ago she was starting to look and feel her age. Her fur was starting to become a bit rough. Since she started on the new diet, her fur is extremely soft. She is also a bundle of energy. April runs around like a kitten and plays. She looks nowhere near her actual age of 14 years.

i dont own a cat, but my conures are "teaching" my amazon about how things are done in our house...like when mama is putting away clean clothes, it is fun to jump into the clean clothes and chomp on everything....

my cats are older somewhere between 10 and 13 I don't remember atm I've had them too long lol. Both of them have soft coats and are on a "mature" cat food. They act like kittens still at night(6 teeth knocked out between the two due to their "play") but are generally calm and lazy throughout the day. My cats get fish at least once a week (the same day I make it for my family I just cook some plain fish up on the side) and access to the veggies that the bird drops but they usually avoid all but the Kale or other leafy veggie. Most cats eat the things you listed anyways if they are presented in a way that appeals to them. Like I can't leave a pan that I've used to cook meat/eggs in the kitchen dirty without one of my cats jumping up their to lick the pan (after it has cooled) but if I put the same pan on the ground he wont touch it. As kittens they would never touch human food at all (exception being Gizmo who ate Gushers, the fruit snack, crazy cat). Anyways long story short, if you had you cat for 6-7 years before you had your birds that would put him at minimum 6-7 years old when you got the birds, so his nutritional needs were starting to change anyways with his age and he could have realized the nutrients he needed were in the human food he started to eat.

Actually, it was only after watching our birds get excited over our food that she decided to try it. She has even tried to get the food directly out of our mouths like the birds sometimes do. We don't encourage either the birds or the cat to do that though. I was really curious if others had cats that started to act like birds. One other cool thing she does is standing on the back of the couch will run her teath through our hair like the birds do with their beaks. She really bonded with the birds. She sleeps next to the cage of her favorite at night.

My cats (I have 2) will eat most things dropped from the cage or just play with some nutri-berries. I have a dog (Australian Shepherd) that loves the Timneh's pellets. I also have a cockatoo. Outside are 4 geese, 2 goats (dwarves) and 7 guinea hens. It works out great. There are never leftovers after everyone is through eating.