Recent Feline Depredations

Jan 09, 2014 17:36

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pameladean January 10 2014, 03:29:11 UTC
Oh, yum. I am glad to know that tired greeny potatoes make good latkes. I often have tired greeny potatoes around.

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inlaterdays January 10 2014, 01:08:20 UTC
Cats can't shake that killer instinct even when they turn vegetarian, I guess.

shaking them vigorously to break their little corny necks

I lol'd.

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pameladean January 10 2014, 03:30:49 UTC
Cassie kills my socks, too, if I roll them into balls and leave them about. She carefully killed eight pairs before I went to Wiscon, so I could stay in a hotel room secure in the knowledge that no socks would crawl out of the dresser and bite me.

The cats do get regular cat food with meat; we just don't cook meat for them to steal, as Raphael remarks below.

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inlaterdays January 10 2014, 14:08:37 UTC
Oh, I didn't think they were really vegetarian - I was trying (and failing) to make a joke about their pursuit of the corn tortillas and meatless sausage.

How kind of Cassie to keep you safe from socks!

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skylarker January 10 2014, 02:09:17 UTC
Tigger was very interested in my raviolis Florentine this morning. He liked the cheese, which I expected, but also seemed to like the sauce, so I gave him a big chunk of tomato (I don't like the chunk form, myself). He ate it right up.

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pameladean January 10 2014, 03:31:31 UTC
Many cats seem to like a vegetable adjunct to their diet now and again. My Sukey loved corn and used to drag cobs out of the garbage to gnaw on.

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skylarker January 10 2014, 13:47:18 UTC
It's so unpredictable. My first cat would eat cabbage. One of the cats at the Grand House, Ashling, was a fiend for licorice! I never know with Tigger, so I'll offer him a bit of anything he seems interested in.

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ethelmay January 15 2014, 04:41:03 UTC
Licorice may give people high blood pressure and other problems if eaten in inordinate quantities (I ran across a medical paper the other day that actually had "following a licorice binge" in the title, which amused me). Dunno if it does anything bad to cats.

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ext_231410 January 10 2014, 03:25:19 UTC
Cassie did eat the piece of tortilla she killed--she just didn't seem to enjoy it much. The quality of food that we provide for cats to steal is a constant source of disappointment to her. Though she did seem pretty happy with that loaf of crusty bread she ate the middle out of.

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pameladean January 10 2014, 18:42:27 UTC
That reminds me -- I just saw a notice at the co-op that the makers of that bread are going out of business. It's very hard to be Cassie. Not so great for us, either.

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pameladean January 10 2014, 18:41:31 UTC
Possibly not; then again, I no doubt interrupted the process by putting the potatoes in a warm room before they were adequately either frozen or dried.

It's good for cats to like pumpkin. It's often recommended by veterinarians for constipation, a thing very elderly cats can suffer from.

One of our last batch of ancient cats loved pumpkin, but the rest disdained it.

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