Cheesy Wotsits rule, okay..............

Cat's eat all sorts. The girls are no exception. Jonesy definably was no exception. By this I mean 'all sorts of rubbish'. What cats definitely don't do is eat the cat food you buy! They are devious creatures, lol, and will catch you unaware by eating the food you have bought for  few days, sometimes even a week or so...........and then they won't! The pathetic howls of anguish that you have given them the same make of food for more than two days is pitiful to hear. My cats would get all excited when the crunchie box was rattled, or the tin opener appeared. How exciting! Food was coming. Yummy. I would carefully place the bowl of food down onto the mat and stand back all pleased with myself. I have to say Jonesy cat would generally woolf it down as he was a 'gut bucket'. Peanut on the other hand, is the worst cat in the world for this.......even now she will race to the food dish, after meowing her head off that she was starving and hadn't been fed for all of ten minutes, sniff the food in the dish, and then cock her head at us, sit down and meow all over again. It was as if she is saying "How could you give me this? You call this food? I don't like this! It's the same as ten minutes ago!" Ripley and Jonesy would cotton on, and then you would have all three cats turning their noses up at the food. No amount of ignoring them and leaving the same food down would work. My husband and I would hold an amazing conversation with the cats. "It's all you are getting"....... "Meow" ....."Eat it"......"Meowwwwwww"......."There is nothing else"......"meowwwwwww, hoooowwwwllll"......This impasse would end with both human and cat stalking off in opposite directions ignoring the food. Any human sneakily peering round the corner of a door would catch a cat munching away until they realised someone was around and then it would start all over again. "Ah caught you eating it"......"Meow? I think not!"....."Yes you were definitely eating it".........."Meow, you are seeing things"........"You will get nothing more" ..... "Meowwwww" ....... Oh joy!!
Jonesy, being the gut bucket, would forage. It didn't matter that he had been given food two minutes earlier, and actually eaten it. Out he would go, into the wide world, to hunt. Well maybe not hunt! He would scavenge, generally in any rubbish bag left out by some unsuspecting person. If it contained chicken, meat, fish or any such food. One sniff at ten paces and Jonesy would have pinpointed it. We used to try and place our bin bags on top of the bin if it was full, and double bag them, to try and stop him. It never worked. Going outside would end up like the Hansel and Gretel story....follow the trail of chicken bones and you will find Jonesy at the end of it. How he didn't get a bone stuck in his throat I will never know?
Now Cepha was a whole other kettle of fish. He liked vegetables, broccoli in particular. Didn't matter if it was raw or cooked, he ate it. When we had Sunday roasts, and the cats would wander around desperate for some scraps, he would turn up his nose at the meat and eat the greens. Weird cat?
Then there is the 'junk food'. Oh yes indeed. The smell and rustle of Cheesy Wotsits would send Jonesy into raptures. He would go totally mad until you gave him one. In fact if you weren't careful his nose would end up in the packet and he would help himself. Okay it's probably not the best food to give a cat, but one now and again is okay I think? Cheeses and onion crisps had the same effect on him. Ripley still loves cake, crab sticks and cheese. Peanut likes cheese but is not bothered about the rest unless she is in the right mood. Oh yes indeed, we have junk food addict cats!!