this is probably a Straight Dope type question...

[squamous]

Almost every housecat I've ever been around has been a real maniac for fish. I've seen some who had to be locked away when fish was being prepared in the household. Why do cats like fish so much? With their notorious aversion to water, I doubt it is something they would get much of naturally.

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[harold-penis.livejournal.com]

Fish are vereh vereh stinky. I think (since so much of a cat's brain is sheer NOSE) it quite possibly does ultra-hyper-far-out-freaky things to their pussycat psyche to smell something that smelly, and yet EDIBLE.

Plus, if they don't hardly get any fish in nature, what with water being all cold and nasty and vulgar, surely fish is then all the more a delicacy, which their wildcat forebears no doubt cunningly stole all the time from bears, herons and other retards.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Maybe all cats have learned the benefits of Omega 3 fatty acids.