"Mischief" wrote\

| Due to some fluke of nature and some lapse in my memory, I left the
| door to the freezer open all night last night......And since it's my
| day off i didn't notice it until i got out of bed at 12:15 pm.......
|
| Oops.......and since i an unexperienced in these matters, i called the
| first person i could think of....
|
| "Hello, Mom??" Mom assured me that if i cooked everything it would be
| ok.
|
| So i spent the whole afteroon cooking. I cooked beef, chicken, and
| even salmon. Cooked them and put them back into freezer bags and back
| into the freezer.
|
| BUT i was astonished, absolutely taken aback that not ONCE, not ONCE
| was I surrounded in the kitchen by hungry kitties.
|
| BEEF!!! CHICKEN!!!! SALMON!!!!!! (cue crickets)
|
| I expected to have all three of my troublemakers winding around my
| ankles begging for a taste.
|
| But nooooooooooo, I even checked to make sure they were all alive.
| They were all fast asleep on my bed. Hardly even batted an ear.
|
| Sheesh!!!!!
|
| I guess they are waiting for me to sit down and eat, THEN they will
| want their share.
|
| Cats..................

As I have recently learned, the cause might be that they thought you were
cooking the food for them, and they were compelled by the feline code of
ethics to ignore the effort.