[Sca-cooks] Re:keeping butter

[Sue Clemenger]

We had a mama kitty when I was growing up that would eat the *strangest*
things.  We lived on a farm, and kept a coffee can on the back porch with
suitable leftovers to take out to the chickens, the next time someone went
out to the barn.  That cat got more of it sometimes than the flock did--cold
oatmeal, melon guts, etc.
My current kitties don't go much for human food, but I do have one that eats
wool and silk, and another who, bold as brass, will jump up onto the counter
*right in front of me!*, and go for the butter.  If I forget, and leave it
out, I'll come home to find big scoops of it missing, patiently licked out
with a cat tongue (you can see the little grooves).
Oh, and one of the four of them has a great fondness for collard greens and
kale....will knock the garbage over to get to the "ribs" that I cut out when
sauteing winter greens.
--Maire

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise" <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Re:keeping butter


> > ya know, i was gonna say that too, but glad you did.  i
> > once actually had a pussy-cat sized bite taken out of a
> > stick of unsupervised soft butter. 8)
>
> The cats, bizarrely, don't appear to bother the butter-- they haven't
> even shed on it. Clearly they are slightly mutant, though they do like
> popcorn and sweet corn, so they can't be that mutant.
>
> (Yes, Stefan, cats do like corn. I've seen a barn cat dragging a whole
> ear of sweet corn out of the field for her babies, and many cats will
> eat popcorn with great fervor.)
>
> Clearly buttering the paws of our cats would not keep them from
> wandering, unless it worked by making walking too slippery.