...but I knew that.
I was just reminded anew this morning.
I made my current staple breakfast (low carb, high protein) of a two egg omelette with spring onions, and decided to throw in some sea urchin roe* I happened to have thawed in the fridge.
Dervish did her usual ankle-circling, only slightly more vocal in her "Whatcha doin' Mummy, huh? Huh?" yowling. I thought nothing of it, plated up and took my breakfast to the desk to read emails while I ate.
She lurked on the bannister behind my monitor until I had laid my fork down, whereupon she quietly and emphatically stepped down onto the desk, and just about forced her way between me and my coffee mug (in use at the time) to reach the plate.
Which she then proceeded to silently clean, so thoroughly that I checked it for glaze erosion. Despite a few admonitions of 'No! People food not for kitties!' and a couple of scruffings, she would not be dissuaded. To be fair, I was laughing hard enough to spoil the effect of sternness.
This is a cat who turns her nose up at chicken or fish, even stinky canned fish, unless it is an ingredient in the cat food. She is happy to try mayonnaise, and only goes into yowling-furry-shark mode if she sees lettuce (I've learned to put greens away in the fridge quickly to avoid "sampling" bite marks).
Gourmet cat. Huh. Who'd-a thought it. :)
*I love fresh sea urchin roe and picked up a tub of frozen stuff on impulse a couple of weeks ago. It's expensive but you don't use much. (It's not like I keep it on hand or anything like that.)
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