Open letter to my big red cat

[yakalskovich]

Dear cat,

no, you can't have any more olive ciabatta. The olive ciabatta is finished, and, considering our relative sizes, you had significantly more of it than I did.

And no, as we are talking, I can't feed you solely on olive ciabatta, South Tyrolean bacon, fried liver in sour cream sauce, tuna, and the leftover milk from cereals, warmed and thinned by adding some tea.

Those are supposed to be human foods. I know you like them, but you do have to eat cat food.

You are a cat, savvy?

Love,
your amused human

Comments

[ceitfianna]

Well, that just made me even hungrier, soon I get lunch. Lucifer needs to learn to share.

[yakalskovich]

**giggles**

My cat is a bit of a gourmet -- he eats stuff that makes people hungry!

He knows how to share, only has to do it in a cat-like manner. That means Mephi gets to sit beside him and look unhappy while Lucifer eats, or slurps the milk. When he decides he is done, and something happens to be left, Mephi may have a go.

However, there is almost always something left, even if there wasn't all that much to begin with.-

[ceitfianna]

They sound adorable and Lucifer makes sure that Mephi knows his place in the household order.

I'm curious, what makes South Tyrolean bacon so good that the place name gets added?

[yakalskovich]

Very traditional foodstuff from that region between Austria and Italy.

It's not really like German bacon, and not really like Italian prosciutto, but something special and interesting and intense. Even in the cheap shops, you pay a nontrivial amount of money for it. I rather like it, and so from time to time, I have some, and my cats get some small hard bits from near the rind (which I cut off).

If I say that Teja has 'cured meat' with his breakfast? That is basically what I mean.

[ceitfianna]

Oh that looks really good.

[yakalskovich]

If you ever make it here, we can have it, as it is meant to be, with bread, cheese and red wine (all from that area), outside on my balcony in the afternoon...

[ceitfianna]

That sounds delicious and I will someday.

[yakalskovich]

I hope so!

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

You and your cat have good taste.

What kind of liver?

[yakalskovich]

We like beef or turkey liver, avoid pork or veal liver, and are a bit meh about chicken liver...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Should I feel healthy if mine also demand bell peppers?* This week horrible-I cruelly let them starve after six months of having to spoon feed Kendra after one time giving in (it progressed from moving the bowl ever downwards).


(If they don't eat by tomorrow, I'll have to start that again. It got so bad that Kobold is only drinking bloody water out of my hand/from my finger.)


* Probably not since she mostly comes running for chocolate, even white.

[yakalskovich]

My cats eat strange stuff, but they also eat normal cat food.

Is there nothing your cats eat voluntarily? Tuna? Fresh fish? Raw minced beef? Lightly sauteed liver?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Pfft, no fish please, we're cats. Nor turkey, or any other lightly prepared concotion. Only dry cat food - for a random* limited time until they decide to gorge only on something else; they would eat caviar-priced veterinary diet and milk and yogurt and ice cream every day. Also african violets. They went off cheese which proves there's no milk in cheese anymore.


* read: right after I bought 10 kg of it.

[yakalskovich]

They are STRANGE. Especially with the African violets.

Milk and yogurt sounds like a start -- unless they puke on the milk?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Milk is never good for them. They are like humans and want it nevertheless.


ETA: and by starve I mean they don't clean their plates three times a day and wait for the midnight snack. Only my neighbour thinks they aren't their ideal weight.

[yakalskovich]

In what way is milk not good for them?

[bigfluffball.livejournal.com]

Are cats good at knowing what they can and can't eat? Or will they eat whatever you give them if it looks vaguely nummy?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

They learn by observation, hence can eat stuff that is bad or lethal to them if it happens to have interested them or smelled yummy, though they are unfathomably more picky than dogs.

[yakalskovich]

Oh yes, very, quite unlike dogs. As the article on theobromine poisoning nicely states, cats are too clever to eat chocolate, for example. Well, it puts it a bit more politely, but basically, only dogs are stupid enough to eat chocolate and get poisoned...

There are some things that cats will eat that's not good for them, like spilled anti-freeze.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Erm.

Cough.

*points at own cats*

And they aren't even that stupid! They just like chocolate. And things that give them stomach ulcers, like chives.

[yakalskovich]

Your cats are probably stranger than mine.

But I guess white chocolate is all right, if they like it --- it doesn't really have much theobromine.

[cracicotus.livejournal.com]

He does like his baked goods, doesn't he? My cats prefer bugs. They've never gone after bread.