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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / May 2007Kitty Farmcat steals supper
I had some frozen cooked sliced turkey breast from Christmas that I decided to defrost to give the cats a little treat. The following day, that is. It was on the kitchen worktop, defrosting away in the plastic bag. Last night I suddenly became aware that KFC was eating something - right next to me. A slice of turkey. She had broken into the plastic bag and helped herself - very silently. I guess she still remembers when food was hard to come by and how she must snatch food where she can. I took it away from her as it was still half frozen but both KFC and Boyfriend got turkey breakfasts today. Tweed > I had some frozen cooked sliced turkey breast from Christmas that I decided > to defrost to give the cats a little treat. The following day, that is. It [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Tweed That's sweet. I'll bet she wouldn't have minded it being frozen. "Turkey Pops" sound like fun to me.  SignatureJoey DoWop Dee Remember: It is To Laugh > That's sweet. I'll bet she wouldn't have minded it being frozen. "Turkey > Pops" sound like fun to me. Our first cat Speedy Joe used to love those packs of frozen chicken giblets you used to be able (not seen them for ages) to get in supermarkets. I got a pack one day and as I was putting it on a saucer and putting it in the cupboard to thaw, he started trying to open the door to get to it so I said "Okay" and dumped the whole lot in his bowl figuring it could just as well thaw out there as in the cupboard and surely no cat would eat chicken giblets that were frozen solid! Please note I did say he was our first cat.... Seconds later all I could hear was...Crunch! Crunch! Crunch! Cruch! He scarffed the lot in a few minutes He ate the lot, well it was a hot day After that I have never again been surprised by what a cat will eat Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs >> I had some frozen cooked sliced turkey breast from Christmas that I >> decided [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > That's sweet. I'll bet she wouldn't have minded it being frozen. "Turkey > Pops" sound like fun to me. Ah, poor girl, she had been used to finding her own living for many years so smelling turkey through a plastic bag sealed with a knot was no problem. Apart from mousing around my chicken huts she used to tart herself around the neighbours for dinner scraps. She is still very fond of mashed potatoes, brussels sprouts and cauliflower with gravy on. It was years before I realised she was living wild and started to feed her proper food, in the garden at first. I always thought she "belonged to a neighbour." It's easy to entice some cats away from their real home by feeding them when they present as (pretending to be) hungry at your house, so I've been careful not to do that. KFC and Boyfie were genuine cases. Kitty had a home she was afraid to go back to and Boyfie was hopelessly lost. No-one ever claimed my lovely lad although I advertised him on local radio, and a service called Petfinder and put cards in shop windows. Whoever had him before must have cared a bit about him - I've said this before on the group - because he had a really expensive collar on. I wish they could know how happy he is now and not worry that he might be dead. I suspect he might have got into a van with the back doors open and been transported miles away. They aren't having him back now, anyway! Firstly, I love him. Secondly, his life is idyllic. Truly. If I were a cat I would like to be Boyfie. He can go in and out as he pleases 24/7 in a safe environment. He does a bit of mousie hunting and the occasional small rat, and catches collared doves which he presents to KFC. If it is raining or cold he eats breakfast, nips outside for toilet duties and retires to the duvet on the spare bed for the day. He will then get up around 5 pm and meow for a bit of supper. That eaten, he will go outside to look at rats for a couple of hours and come back in to snooze on his donut bed on the chair next to me, where he is right now ;-) Tweed On May 14, 5:35 pm, "Christina Websell" <spamf...@tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote: > >> I had some frozen cooked sliced turkey breast from Christmas that I > >> decided [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] > look at rats for a couple of hours and come back in to snooze on his donut > bed on the chair next to me, where he is right now ;-) A little bit of heaven on earth. :) PatM >I had some frozen cooked sliced turkey breast from Christmas that I decided >to defrost to give the cats a little treat. The following day, that is. It [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >Boyfriend got turkey breakfasts today. > That's a cat for ya. I'm sure she thought that if you didn't want her to have it, you wouldn't've left it out where she could get it. >>I had some frozen cooked sliced turkey breast from Christmas that I >>decided to defrost to give the cats a little treat. The following day, [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > That's a cat for ya. I'm sure she thought that if you didn't want her to > have it, you wouldn't've left it out where she could get it. This is a cat who is "allegedly" dying of kidney failure. Tweed >>> Last night I suddenly became aware that KFC was eating something - >>> right next to me. A slice of turkey. She had broken into the [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > This is a cat who is "allegedly" dying of kidney failure. Maybe the real cure for kidney failure is partially frozen slices of turkey? ;) On May 13, 11:54�am, "Christina Websell" <spamf...@tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote: > >>I had some frozen cooked sliced turkey breast from Christmas that I > >>decided to defrost to give the cats a little treat. The following day, [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > - Show quoted text - I thought it was very encouraging that she chewed through plastic to get some food. A couple of months ago you were struggling to get her to eat anything. Maybe Spring has perked her up. Suz&Spicey On 13 May, 07:54, "Christina Websell" <spamf...@tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote: > I had some frozen cooked sliced turkey breast from Christmas On 13 May, 07:54, "Christina Websell" <spamf...@tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote: > I had some frozen cooked sliced turkey breast from Christmas ARGH! Have you any idea how traumatic that statement is to me?! When my dad was alive, he had a friend who reared free range turkeys- I am not saying anything against free range turkey once you've eaten one for your Xmas dinner you'll not be buying factory farmed again! So this friend would always give my dad the biggest, plumpest turkey every Xmas I don't remember exact figures but I think one of the things weighed 36 pounds! (And that was gutted etc) And the dramatis personae around the Xmas dinner table would be mum, dad, me, brother, sister in law, Granny and a couple of great aunts so there woild be plenty to go round and plenty to spare (My youngest brother, who still lived at home at the time rather sensibly was a vegan) Of course dinner would finish, brother, sister in law, granny and great aunts would return to their respective domiciles often with some cold turkey wrapped in foil Boxing day would come..My dad didn't really like turkey, Xmas day because it was traditional and on Boxing Day again because it was traditional he would have some cold with chips and pickles but after that..No turkey until next Xmas So my mum would end up with a lot of turkey left over and just me and her to finish it and my mother firmly believed in "Waste not want not" so she would freeze some of it. But there was usually too much left to freeze all of it So.....between what was left and had to be used up and then what was frozen and had to be thawed and used so she could put other stuff in the freezer... Between about January and February every year I had turkey sandwiches for lunch and came home to turkey salad/rissotto/curry/stew/casserole/ pie/braised/fried/friccaseed/soup/you name it had turkey in it! One day near the end of the turkey glut I said "You could always give me turkey and custard for a change" but seeing the glint in her eye I swiftly changed the subject (Funny that story should come up now- it's just after 5.30 on a Sunday. Three years ago at this very moment I was calling my brother to say "I'm on my way....sorry I'm running a bit late...took me a time to get my head together, call Ron and all that" and my brother was saying "Don't come if you don't want to,. Mum died 10 minutes ago") Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs > Between about January and February every year I had turkey sandwiches > for lunch and came home to turkey salad/rissotto/curry/stew/casserole/ [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > me turkey and custard for a change" but seeing the glint in her eye I > swiftly changed the subject She could have made a variant of this... http://cookbook.turizm.net/cookbook/default.asp?recipeID=116 I've had it - improbable but good. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 On 13 May, 10:04, Jack Campin - bogus address <b...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote: > She could have made a variant of this... > > http://cookbook.turizm.net/cookbook/default.asp?recipeID=116 > > I've had it - improbable but good. My mum was not famous for her cooking skills (Genetic obviously as I'm no great shakes either) The day after she died, we were at the vicar's trying to think of things to say and he said "Well was she a good cook?" And we all agreed no apart from me saying "Well she did make the best cauliflower cheese" My brother said there was no way we could have mum's cauliflower cheese as part of her eulogy.... Halfway through said eulogy on the day the vicar said "As a cook she was no great shakes but she did make the best cauliflower cheese" My brother has not quite forgiven me yet! Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs > On 13 May, 07:54, "Christina Websell" > <spamf...@tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > I am not saying anything against free range turkey once you've eaten > one for your Xmas dinner you'll not be buying factory farmed again! Charlie worked for several years for a man who once raised turkeys. Every year each of his employees received a huge fresh free range turkey from the best grower in the state. I miss them so much. It isn't so much how you cook the turkey as it is the turkey you have to cook. I could eat turkey every day. Jo >> On 13 May, 07:54, "Christina Websell" >> <spamf...@tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Jo The 'Turkey Diet', sounds like a sure fire weight loss plan. :-) -- Bill, who hates the Turkey tradition. Give me a cow any day. > I had some frozen cooked sliced turkey breast from Christmas that I decided > to defrost to give the cats a little treat. The following day, that is. It [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Tweed I was surprised that you would leave the turkey out to defrost. It is much safer healthwise to defrost it in the fridge so the bacteria won't multiply so fast. >> I had some frozen cooked sliced turkey breast from Christmas that I >> decided [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > much safer healthwise to defrost it in the fridge so the bacteria won't > multiply so fast. It's only 12C here in the daytime at the moment and drops to about 5 overnight, which is the temperature of the fridge. Besides which I have every confidence that my cat's stomachs can deal with a few bacteria given what they have probably had to eat in the past. Tweed > I had some frozen cooked sliced turkey breast from Christmas that I decided > to defrost to give the cats a little treat. The following day, that is. It > was on the kitchen worktop, defrosting away in the plastic bag. > Last night I suddenly became aware that KFC was eating something - right > next to me. A slice of turkey. She had broken into the plastic bag and > helped herself - very silently. I guess she still remembers when food was > hard to come by and how she must snatch food where she can. > I took it away from her as it was still half frozen but both KFC and > Boyfriend got turkey breakfasts today. I'm impressed that she managed to get onto the counter! How high is it? Joyce > > I had some frozen cooked sliced turkey breast from Christmas that I > > decided [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > I'm impressed that she managed to get onto the counter! How high is it? Only waist high. Child's play for Kitty. I hope to have my camera at the ready next time she scales up the wire of an old puppy pen I have hanging up on the wall of the conservatory to get to the top where the sun was shining in like she did the other day. She wanted to take in some rays ;-) Tweed >I had some frozen cooked sliced turkey breast from Christmas that I decided >to defrost to give the cats a little treat. The following day, that is. It [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >Tweed She's still a slick little number, isn't she? ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War >>I had some frozen cooked sliced turkey breast from Christmas that I >>decided [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > She's still a slick little number, isn't she? ;) Yep. No flies on Kitty Farmcat! If it's food, it's hers so she sez. Tweed >I had some frozen cooked sliced turkey breast from Christmas that I decided >to defrost to give the cats a little treat. The following day, that is. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Tweed LOL! Well, it's said that God helps those who help themselves - and KFC certainly helped herself to the turkey! ;> Hugs, CatNipped |
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