ROFL WELCOME BACK DAVE (rebel yell).

"David Yehudah" wrote in message
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: Sam has turned into the family food inspector. We've been feeding the
: kitties on the kitchen table since Toby and Mac had to be put on diets.
: Their meager portions have both ravenous all day, and we couldn't keep
: them out of the cat's food unless we put it out of reach. Hence the food
: dish on the table.
:
: However, not everything has a difficult time reaching the cat's food
: dish. Grasshoppers, for example.
:
: The first I heard of this problem, I was sitting at the table reading
: "Lyndon, an Oral Biography" (when I saw the part about oral, I thought
: it was porn) and Sam was grazing in the food dish. Suddenly she sprang
: about three feet straight up, did the Wall of Death around the dining
: room, and took off for parts unknown. The food dish went flying across
: the room and landed upside down on the floor.
:
: With glad cries and hurriedly mumbled graces, Sam and Toby reverted to
: chow hound mode and jumped on the dish. Before I could get there they
: had flipped the bowl over and attacked the grub. Toby got the larger
: portion because Mac couldn't growl and snarl at me and eat at the same
: time. I honestly believe he would have attacked me if I'd tried to
: interfere.
:
: Among the debris I found a large, annoyed grasshopper spitting cat hair
: and mumbling what he was going to do to Sam if he ever caught her out
: again. He was still grumbling when I set him outside.
:
: Since then Samantha does not take a bite of anything without first
: poking it gingerly and inspecting it from all sides. Who knows, it might
: bite back. She even checked out my breakfast this morning. The whole
: affair has made her exceedingly jumpy; I mean, if a girl can't trust her
: food dish. . . She's as nervous as a cat, as they say.
: Cheers,
: Dave
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