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Joseph Littleshoes > wrote:

>
> Anybody else have cats that like a fresh green salad?

My cats like _anything_ green.

Prolly got used to it by offering them fresh grass, and fresh green
catnip that I grow for them. :-)

>
> Once i was sitting on the floor to watch a t.v. special and cutting up
> veggies for salad (all neat and tidy with cutting board and newspapers
> on the carpet) when "Sasha" after calmly but intently watching me cut
> up the veggies reached out and tentatively grabbed a chunk of green
> pepper. Pull it over to herself when i did not object and gobbled it up.

Hmmmmm... Mine bat around green olives and "taste" them but never
actually eat them, but nobody is interested in green peppers AFAIK.
OTOH, I hate green peppers so it's not like they get offered often.

>
> Since then i always feed me cats lettuce, green pepper and whatever
> other fresh veggies i have on hand. Diced and added to room temperature
> rice with oat bran added and all mixed up and dressed with a bit of meat
> stock. They get the occasional raw chicken gizzards but not often, a
> real treat for them that they inevitably have to 'kill', pounce on, play
> with etc. etc. before they get around to eating it.

Love leaf lettuce, celery tops, kitties DO like some fresh greens to
munch. Since I save them for the cockatoo, kitties get some by default.
<G>

>
> Of course anytime i am making a large amount of meat they get their
> share. "Asparagus" is adorable but not to bright and takes her cue from
> Sasha, who always knows, sometimes i think before i do, when i intend to
> make a meat loaf.

Mine know when I'm cutting meat and beg relentlessly!
"pay no attention to that water gun! Mom will give in if we are
persistant".

The cats have me well trained. <G>

Sasha sounds like a special kitty!
Some really are brighter than others IMHO.

>
> One time i was making meat loaf for a dinner with guests and i was
> pressed for time and was intently focused on cooking and did not pay
> attention to Sasha waiting patently for her raw ball of ground meat. I
> was just about to stick it in the oven when i realized, saw the most
> joyous look of immanent expectation....how could i let her down?
>
> So i took a couple of tablespoons of the seasoned meat loaf mix and
> rolled it into a ball and gave it to her.
>
> She had never had 'seasoned' meat loaf mix before and at first it was if
> i had served her a bad meal, she gave me such a look! And IMO actually
> sulked for a few minutes. Then seeing she was getting no real response
> from her sulking she went back and investigated the raw, but seasoned
> meat ball, and after a few licks and sniffs, and a bit of nudging about
> with the paw, gobbled it right up.

ROFL!
Sounds like mine!
They will turn up their noses until they realize that is all that there
is!

>
> Course probly my favourite anecdote about Sasha is the one where i am so
> pressed for time early in the morning that i wash the bottom pot part of
> the pressure cooker and sit it on the floor for a minute while i do
> something else that leads to something other and then out the door and
> gone all day and come home to a kitty sleeping soundly in the bottom of
> the pressure cooker, an ordinary, stove top pressure cooker, curled up
> into a tight little ball and cosily snoozing away.

Heh! It's amazing the size of box some of them will fit into!
Even if they "spill" out over the top...

>
> I have a big heavy old glass american punch bowl (early 1900' pressed
> glass) on top of a built in cabinet, i thought me cats were real
> acrobats for the longest time, routinely i would find one of them in the
> punch bowl snoozing away, obviously having had to jump almost 6 feet
> across from the top of the fridge to the top shelf the bowl is on.

Cats don't jump.

They levitate.

>
> Then one day i was making a pot of stock and heard a noise behind me,
> turned around and looked up and the kitty was strolling calmly across
> the top of the window between the fridge and the cabinet, i uttered
> enough of a slight gasp to cause her to pause, almost unconcernedly, and
> give me a look of concern about me, an, "you o.k." kind of look from the
> cat who then proceeded primly to the fridge and jumped down about 1 foot
> and from there to a counter top and then the floor. With a very
> distinct request for food i was making (a fish stock).
>
> The more i think about it the more anecdotes that come to mind.
> So ill stop now.
> ---
> JL

Oh Do go on!

Cats are amazing people. :-)
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Om.

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> In article >,
> Joseph Littleshoes > wrote:
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>>
>> Anybody else have cats that like a fresh green salad?

I have a cat who like tofu and seitan! She is always on a diet, LOL!
>
> My cats like _anything_ green.

Yes! like lizzards!
Pandora

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> > In article >,
> > Joseph Littleshoes > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Anybody else have cats that like a fresh green salad?
>
> I have a cat who like tofu and seitan! She is always on a diet, LOL!
> >
> > My cats like _anything_ green.
>
> Yes! like lizzards!
> Pandora
>
>

Lizards, yes, okay! Mine are on constant lizard patrol. LOL.

kili

"kilikini" <

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> Lizards, yes, okay! Mine are on constant lizard patrol. LOL.
>
> kili
> ================

Boxer dogs too!

Max drives me *nuts* chasing lizards!! Poor critters... they have no idea
just how fast a Boxer is nor how much energy it has. Uggh and I hate
picking up and pitching out mangled lizards. Ewwwwwww.

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Syssi