Fish strikes again

[nlbarber]

Started a new medication today, which must be taken on an empty stomach and with no food to follow for 1 hour. So I get up, take the pill, and retrieve 2 muffins (a sort of banana-bran muffin made with a Kashi cereal) from the freezer to thaw a little in the intervening hour.

Fifty minutes later, I wander by the kitchen, and see Fish hurriedly jump from the counter to the floor. One partly-defrosted muffin has been extracted from the kitchen towel I had wrapped them in, and has been about a third eaten. Crumbs are scattered all around--cat teeth not being well-designed for eating muffins.

While Fish has a continuing problem of getting on the dining room table when I'm not home, I had seen no evidence of him getting on the kitchen counter, even though I occasionally let very tempting stuff sit out for more than an hour, unguarded, during dinner prep or mealtimes. Why did low-cal high-fiber muffins entice him when chicken or beef did not?

Strange cat.

Synchronicity:
http://www.comics.com/comics/roseisrose/archive/roseisrose-20040731.html

Comments

[ann-mcn.livejournal.com]

My first cat never messed with meats that were thawing on the counter (a perfect gentleman), but he absolutely loved angel food cake, and would nag at me until I fed it to him, a bit at a time.

[filkferengi]

I've had cats who liked strange things in the past, such as the chocolate frosting off poptarts, or boloney [she was perfectly happy with the stuff off the red rind], or even bread. But this current cat not only likes icecream lids, she also likes grits and even crackers. Unfortunately, today she also likes pursuing, clawing, & biting me. ;( [but not Himself; is my cat sexist, or what?]

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

LOL. I scanned the first few paragraphs quickly, not realizing that Fish was a cat.

>Fifty minutes later, I wander by the kitchen, and see Fish hurriedly jump from the counter to the floor. While Fish has a continuing problem of getting on the dining room table when I'm not home<

I had the most wonderfully goofy image of a badly behaved and adventuresome goldfish. Then I pictured it trying to jump back into the bowl, succeeding, with only a wet spot on the table to confound you when you returned!

Sometimes, I amaze even myself at how easily I am entertained (g).

[nlbarber]

Having a cat named Fish often creates confusion--if I speak a little too quickly, the phrase "my cat, Fish" is heard as "my catfish". I get some strange looks that way.

(I didn't name him, by the way. But somehow, it suits him.)

[toraks.livejournal.com]

GREAT ICON!!! :-)