I'm having these little fruit tart things - little pastries filled
with fruit jelly. Smudge has been howling to go outside, but when I
sat down at the computer with my snack, she jumped up and started
sniffing the package with great interest. So, not below stooping to
bribery, I broke off a couple of pieces of the pastry (sans fruit)
and put it on the desk for her. Wow!! I've never seen her tear into
meat like that. So I gave her several more small pieces, and she
continue to attack it as though it were filet mignon.

Actually, it's not news to me that Smudge is carb-crazy. As a kitten,
she broke into bags of rice and uncooked pasta before I moved them
to inaccessible places. She has been known (and you long-time RPCA'ers
will have heard this many times, but this is for the benefit of newer
members) to completely by pass raw chicken and cheese in an unattended
shopping bag to tear apart a bag of English muffins.

Anyway, fat lot of good the bribery did. She is now back at her
position by the front door, howling to be allowed out of her prison.
Her injury is much better now, so I'm back to letting her go out
during the day, but I bring her in at night.

Joyce