Dec 24 2008
Cats and food
Why is it that cats beg for food, even when they have been fed. Three out of our four cats manage to try to con one of us into feeding them again… even if the other has already fed them. The pure tabby (the one in the blog header), Malfoy is an utter thief. He is just over a year old. Got him to replace a fading Perdi(ta) last winter but Perdi (the calico cat) rallied and is still with us. Malf is a downright scavenger. A rescue kitten from Westray he seems to have kept some of the feral scavenging gene. The other day, whilst I was running a Dungeons & Dragons game he stole a piece of Christmas cake and yesterday he opened a pizza waiting to be cooked. He has learnt how to get in the flip top waste bin and has also raided the compost / green cone kitchen bin. Heaven knows what will happen when the beef is cooked for Xmas lunch tomorrow! Merlin, the tabby and white, is also quite good at trying to find food in the kitchen but at least he has the sense to look guilty when he is caught!
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Umm! One goose breast gone from the kitchen and one very rotund tabby cat thrown out of the house (21:45 Xmas Eve). F
Got keep Tabs on them catsies! Now our Stumpy wouldn’t dream of thieving - she doesn’t have to. She just sits in the kitchen and looks like she hadn’t seen food for 100 years. Sooner or later something is bound to obey newton’s First Law. A goose with one breast is a sorry goose indeed.
But not as sorry as the purrson who may have been looking forward to eating it! Respec’ Malfoy!
True, O Sauce of All Wisdom!
Put a comment on your first blogging site yesterday before realizing you had moved on to a second. Two sites: does that mean you can get to vote twice at the coming general elections? No? Well, if you lived in Chicago … # “Why is it that cats beg for food, even when they have been fed. - ANJ” Because your cats want to have a tail as plump and long as the one that guides the flying felon from Stromness. And, judging by their satisfied tummy looks, and other appurtenances, they are well on their way. Does ANYONE on the islands (or in the UK) feed their cats economical dry food? It can be done, you know. I feed my hounds once a day, and what they don’t finish, I take away until the next day (if I remember). None of them has written to the Times (nor to Island Blogging) yet, complaining.
Ahem. Me and Marmers get both kinds mjc. They’re not mutually exclusive. And with Marmers a-round, nothing is purrticularly economical!
I like an enterprising cat, especially if it belongs to someone else.
EffCee, a clear case of retroflection, I should think.
Stumpy the Glutton gets only dry food twice daily, except for an moderate supply of tit-bits during preparations for cooking. The only thing she categorically refuses to eat are onions: lemons are not very popular either. There has never been the slightest crumb of food left in her bowl 67 seconds after she starts eating.