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Cat Obsessed With Bananas Is Going Viral For How Inappropriate His Pics Look
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Cat Obsessed With Bananas Is Going Viral For How Inappropriate His Pics Look

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We absolutely adore cats. But nearly every day we learn something new and unexpected about our feline friends. Like that there are cattos out there who love bananas for no apparent reason!

Bean the cat absolutely adores bananas and enjoys licking them so much that his owner couldn’t resist taking photos of him and uploading them online. We reached out to Bean’s owner and she talked to us about when his obsession with this fruit started, how she rescued the catto when he was just an itty-bitty baby, and told us all about Bean’s ‘brothers’ Pirate, Ninja, and Raptor.

“He just kinda wanted a sniff of a banana when he was about 9 months old or so and ended up really liking them. He never gets much of one and it’s maybe a couple of times a month or even less,” she told Bored Panda.

“His vet knows about it because we’ve seen her several times this last year or so for his bouts of uveitis that he’s had a small problem with but he’s doing great and it is unrelated. She got quite a kick out of his photos. Banana would be unhealthy for a cat if consumed regularly though. So it’s definitely not a diet staple for him,” Bean’s owner pointed out. Scroll down for the rest of our wholesome exclusive interview!

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Meet Bean the cat. He really likes licking bananas for some reason

Image credits: Cat Named Bean

His owner couldn’t resist posting pictures of his love of bananas on Facebook

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Image credits: Cat Named Bean

We were curious to find out what other things Bean likes besides bananas. His owner said that his other favorite snack is Noosa Yogurt (“in small amounts also, of course”) and he also adores scrambled eggs and cheese. But that’s not all.

“He’s also a veggie lover and will go for Brussels sprouts leaves and lettuce. He’s a well-rounded boy. His actual diet is wet food twice a day, though,” the banana cat’s loving owner said.

Image credits: Cat Named Bean

Image credits: Cat Named Bean

“He loves following me around the house. He’s my shadow. When it snows he _loves_ to go outside for some supervised play. He will wait by the door if I ask him ‘do you wanna be a snow bean?’ Which I will usually sing to him in tune with Frozen’s ‘Do You Want to Build a Snowman.’”

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Image credits: Cat Named Bean

Image credits: Cat Named Bean

As it turns out, Bean’s been a minor internet celeb for quite some time now. However, things turned sour when his owner had a nasty run-in with some hackers and they ended up losing his 3k followers. Undeterred, the duo started fresh and now have over 11.3k followers on Instagram.

Image credits: Cat Named Bean

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“I love photographing him and he has such a big personality I figured other people would enjoy him with me,” the owner explained the reason why she started uploading her cat’s photos online. She also joked that she is a cat lady because she also keeps Bean’s ‘brothers.’

Image credits: Cat Named Bean

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Bean was a tiny unwanted kitten when his owner rescued him. Here’s the wholesome and heart-rending story. “So Bean was abandoned as a newborn by his momma. On the evening of 6 April 2018, I saw a post about this teeny white kitten that needed help.”

“It was damp and getting dark and cold and they had been watching for momma for 3+ hours with no sign and he was in the middle of their yard alone. I picked him up within a few minutes as they lived nearby,” Bean’s owner told Bored Panda. “He was my first bottle baby (I have fostered and rescued cats and kittens for years).

Image credits: Cat Named Bean

Image credits: Cat Named Bean

She continued: “My husband was deployed and my kids were school age so he has my sole focus every day and I was up every 3 hours with him every night. I’d originally intended on finding him a home, but as he grew and my husband returned from deployment when he was just 4 weeks old, we purchased a home and I couldn’t part with him.”

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Image credits: Cat Named Bean

Image credits: Cat Named Bean

Image credits: Cat Named Bean

Here’s what Bean looked like when his owner rescued him when he was just an itty-bitty kitten

Image credits: Libby Gutierez

Image credits: Libby Gutierez

Bean’s owner highlighted the fact that the catto’s been like her second shadow ever since then. Bean has plenty of friends in his forever home: there’s Pirate, Ninja, and Raptor, the other cats that live with him.

“Pirate is the oldest. We rescued him in Germany. He was super sickly and stunted. He has a badly infected eye that turned out to be cancer. Thus his name. He will be 10 this summer but is a healthy guy ever since his eye removal. Ninja is the second oldest. Also adopted in Germany. He was born as a feral kitten but we got him at around 5 weeks of age. He’s 1 year younger than Pirate and just turned 8 this last fall.”

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“And lastly, there’s Raptor. He was adopted here in Utah and is 3 years old. He was adopted through one of our local shelters when he was just a baby. We met in the adoption center for Petsmart,” the owner said, noting that he wanted to be with her so bad that he turned his back to other people looking at kittens. “He chose me. Everyone always giggles at his ‘lips.’”

Bean is just the cutest!

Image credits: Cat Named Bean

Some people also shared pictures of their banana-loving pets

The internet fell in love with Bean the cat!

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Meeow
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh boy, looking at the IG video does not like the way the pics look, I think his owner thinking too damn much. Raptor is soo cute!!

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Gabi
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually, if I think of that banana and humans share some 65% percent of DNA, I think it is time to be afraid.

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Luna Lovegood
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is what I needed this morning. A cat named bean who likes bananas. Thank you. This is truly why I come to Bored Panda.

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Chris Sprucefield
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok... So the cat like banana taste... I side with the cat... Who doesn't?

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Shari Conley
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This a beautiful Flame Point Siamese kitty! He looks just like mine!

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Spikey Bunny
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a kitty who LOVED canned peaches. I even have a video of him eating them and lapping up the syrup. I just wish I knew how to post it here. You would all die with laughter!

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Spikey Bunny
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He also loved yogurt. If you ever had any hope of enjoying vanilla Yoplait by yourself, you'd need to sneak outside to open it. There was no possible way to hide the sound of opening it - he always found us! XD

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Karen Klinck
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I too had a banana-loving cat: Gray Mouser. If I wasn't careful he'd steal the one I was eating out of my mouth! I made the mistake of letting him sniff the end of one I was eating (See? This is what I'm eating; you don't like bananas!) He took 2 sniffs, and grabbed a huge hunk of the end. Oops... A couple of my friends fed him one huge banana and half of another before I found them; fortunately, it didn't harm him. He also ate pears, apples, mangoes, and drank my orange juice when I wasn't looking. Strange cat. He was also a short-haired battleship gray who weighed 18 pounds--no fat.

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Michaelann Dahlman
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a Himalayan cat named Sam that loved corn on the cob & shake 'n' bake chicken.

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Amery
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This just lit up my day as I'm cutting a banana into my oatmeal, and here comes Zeus...nose nudging, haha! He isn't interested in the oatmeal, at all, though. ;)

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Arwen Undomiel
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This article rocks! I don't like bananas but I love cats and dis lil bean is so cute. this article is great

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AmandaCerny0
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow :) This is an incredible collection of ideas! Waiting for more helpful pieces. You would amazing to read a similar one here- petreviewz

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Karen Klinck
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gray Mouser (who was so large I'd've had to get a Bengal tiger for Fafhrd) was a banana fanatic. He attempted to climb in my mouth one memorable day because he *wanted that banana*! A group of my (less than intelligent--that's polite, right?) bought a bunch of bananas and were feeding them *all* to him one day when I walked in, caught them at it, and confiscated the remaining bananas--"because he liked them so much". (eek!)

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Magpie
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you for rescuing them all. And for finding out how to look after tiny cats. In case anyone else wants to know Kitten Lady on you tube has lots of short films.>>>>>>>>>>>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5VvB6tmC4lu_WCx7hE0PZA/videos

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Sarawyn
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Awwww love him and all the others. So beautiful and silly!

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Mary Piacenza
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For years, I had a cat who was crazy for canned asparagus. Go figure.

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Pumbaa
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There must be some reason for this behavior? Does anyone know anything about it?

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Cindy Johnston
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's funny. Every cat I've ever owned acted like bananas were made of acid.

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Brianna
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is hilarious. I love this so much. Must. Try. With. My. Cats.

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Kevin Wayne
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

sorry but am I the only one who thinks that these banana pics look like some kind of sick porn? I mean, come on😂

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Michaelann Dahlman
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He's so cute! I had a Himalayan named Sam who love corn on the cob. And Shake 'n' Bake chicken.

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SciFi Vortex
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's nothing "inappropriate" about bananas or cats. There's only inappropriateness" with closeted dirty and smutty minds.

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Meeow
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh boy, looking at the IG video does not like the way the pics look, I think his owner thinking too damn much. Raptor is soo cute!!

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Gabi
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually, if I think of that banana and humans share some 65% percent of DNA, I think it is time to be afraid.

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Luna Lovegood
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is what I needed this morning. A cat named bean who likes bananas. Thank you. This is truly why I come to Bored Panda.

chrissprucefield avatar
Chris Sprucefield
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok... So the cat like banana taste... I side with the cat... Who doesn't?

f8al2u avatar
Shari Conley
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This a beautiful Flame Point Siamese kitty! He looks just like mine!

spikey-bunny avatar
Spikey Bunny
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a kitty who LOVED canned peaches. I even have a video of him eating them and lapping up the syrup. I just wish I knew how to post it here. You would all die with laughter!

spikey-bunny avatar
Spikey Bunny
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He also loved yogurt. If you ever had any hope of enjoying vanilla Yoplait by yourself, you'd need to sneak outside to open it. There was no possible way to hide the sound of opening it - he always found us! XD

Load More Replies...
kkittywidget avatar
Karen Klinck
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I too had a banana-loving cat: Gray Mouser. If I wasn't careful he'd steal the one I was eating out of my mouth! I made the mistake of letting him sniff the end of one I was eating (See? This is what I'm eating; you don't like bananas!) He took 2 sniffs, and grabbed a huge hunk of the end. Oops... A couple of my friends fed him one huge banana and half of another before I found them; fortunately, it didn't harm him. He also ate pears, apples, mangoes, and drank my orange juice when I wasn't looking. Strange cat. He was also a short-haired battleship gray who weighed 18 pounds--no fat.

michaelanndahlman avatar
Michaelann Dahlman
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a Himalayan cat named Sam that loved corn on the cob & shake 'n' bake chicken.

annemariealtomonte avatar
Amery
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This just lit up my day as I'm cutting a banana into my oatmeal, and here comes Zeus...nose nudging, haha! He isn't interested in the oatmeal, at all, though. ;)

ddgrace avatar
Arwen Undomiel
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This article rocks! I don't like bananas but I love cats and dis lil bean is so cute. this article is great

amandacerny20 avatar
AmandaCerny0
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow :) This is an incredible collection of ideas! Waiting for more helpful pieces. You would amazing to read a similar one here- petreviewz

kkittywidget avatar
Karen Klinck
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gray Mouser (who was so large I'd've had to get a Bengal tiger for Fafhrd) was a banana fanatic. He attempted to climb in my mouth one memorable day because he *wanted that banana*! A group of my (less than intelligent--that's polite, right?) bought a bunch of bananas and were feeding them *all* to him one day when I walked in, caught them at it, and confiscated the remaining bananas--"because he liked them so much". (eek!)

bronmargaret avatar
Magpie
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you for rescuing them all. And for finding out how to look after tiny cats. In case anyone else wants to know Kitten Lady on you tube has lots of short films.>>>>>>>>>>>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5VvB6tmC4lu_WCx7hE0PZA/videos

autumnsky38 avatar
Sarawyn
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Awwww love him and all the others. So beautiful and silly!

lafleur avatar
Mary Piacenza
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For years, I had a cat who was crazy for canned asparagus. Go figure.

maoamdose avatar
Pumbaa
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There must be some reason for this behavior? Does anyone know anything about it?

cjohnston1061 avatar
Cindy Johnston
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's funny. Every cat I've ever owned acted like bananas were made of acid.

fantasytabby avatar
Brianna
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is hilarious. I love this so much. Must. Try. With. My. Cats.

kevinwayne avatar
Kevin Wayne
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

sorry but am I the only one who thinks that these banana pics look like some kind of sick porn? I mean, come on😂

michaelanndahlman avatar
Michaelann Dahlman
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He's so cute! I had a Himalayan named Sam who love corn on the cob. And Shake 'n' Bake chicken.

support_55 avatar
SciFi Vortex
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's nothing "inappropriate" about bananas or cats. There's only inappropriateness" with closeted dirty and smutty minds.

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