Charlie's diet
 

Has anyone else gotten the idea that maybe this cat is not, in fact, a cat, but some heretofore undescribed species? First, he can make a wailing quack. Second, he beat some serious medical odds. Third, he appears to eat large quantities of things that should kill cats.
Either that or he's learned RM's dirty tricks. (Not the animal husbandry kind...)

Once, I had a cat that slowly, over the course of a year or more, stripped bare the entire arm rest of a couch, and much of the wood underneath, so it's not that surprising for me to see a cat eat...anything, really. As for the quacking, I've got nuthin'.

Sounds like a cat to me. Animals abso-friggin-lutely LOVE to eat anything that is toxic to them. In large amounts. Usually on Sundays, or just outside of normal vet hours.

Of course, a lot of things aren't as toxic as people make them out to be. You want to be careful, but there aren't actually too many things that merit the response the pet-owning world gives them. Their bodies, like ours, have defenses against that stuff too. In most cases, those defenses consist of puking on the sixty dollar gaming supplement you left out. Anyway, most of the big no-nos are pretty obvious.

There's also things that aren't actually toxic in small amounts. Garlic and onion in particular are kind of funny that way.

My cat made a sound that combined the qualities of a meow, squawk, and bray, and like Charlie, he'd use it to wake me around 7-8. He'd already eaten by then, he was just bored and thought I should do something about it. I usually acceded, because he was adorable and I am a total sucker.

Quacks/squawks aren't typical sounds, but everything else was/is pretty much 100% cat.

This reminds me how every veterinary in Brazil says: "DON'T GIVE CHOCOLATE TO YOUR DOG, HE'LL HAVE A HEART ATTACK AND DIE." which is funny since my dog eats chocolate cake. All the time. He's 10 and counting, which is pretty good for a medium dog.

Maybe it doesn't have real chocolate in it. It's the best explanation I can think of, because a few years ago my own dog accidentally ate some chocolate and had seizures for months afterward. (She seems quite all right now, but those fits are scary--and they started right after she got in the chocolate, so we figure that's the culprit.)

Chocolate cake. Made by my mom. With cocoa powder. Not chocolate powder which is mixed with a lot of sugar and such, cocoa powder. My dog runs around a lot, that count?

Look, I'm no expert on canine physiology; I'm just drawing on experience to say that usually chocolate fucks dogs up something terrible.

Maybe your dog's an immortal or something.

Dogs react to the theobromine, a chemical found in chocolate. Different types of chocolate have different amounts of the chemical. Well, here's an article talking about it: link.

The cake probably has a fairly low amount of actual chocolate in it, compared to chocolate candies.

I'm assuming it's more something towards: If he ate the whole cake, he'd have seizures.
Because, really, that's about how much chocolate he'd have to eat. That or some pieces of a chocolate bar.

And, honestly, who gives so much chocolate to their pets? Chocolate bars are, usually, treasured to a certain point; it's not something you'd give your pet, especially if you got a thing for chocolate like...Y'know, most people.