Another of those "who is training who?" situations...

I make coffee the Turkish way, using a conical copper pot with a long
handle over a gas stove.  It makes a distinctive clank of copper against
iron.  Almost every time I do this, I look round from the stove and
there is Splodge standing on a stool.  "Meow? Meow? Meow?" - turns out
that translates into "give me a cuddle RIGHT NOW!".  Preferably before
I've finished making the coffee, so I have to do it with a cat on my
shoulder (and carry the coffee through into the next room with Splodge
still clinging on).

None of the other cats do this, and Splodge doesn't often ask for a
cuddle at other times.  Not does cooking with cast iron or stainless
steel pans do it.  But that coffee pot clunk will bring him in from
another room in the house or through the catflap fom the garden.

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