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(It has been a while hasn’t it?) .. A couple days ago, I went by the store to get Maiko some cat food (cause I had obviously run out). (BLUF: My revelation was that I was totally unaware that cats have a discriminating pallet.) I guess being a dog person for most of my life, I naturally thought that cats would eat anything. Boy, was I mistaken!

Anyway, I was at the local discount grocery store the other day and found some very low cost cat food (I was cheap) that purportedly had four different flavors; salmon, chicken, seafood and something else that I can not remember probably mouse. The cost was significantly cheaper than even the lowest name brand and when I got home, opened the bag and poured out some in her bowl, she took one sniff, stuck her nose in the air and strolled off.

Well, having paid a good $1.15 for a whole bag, I said to her, ok … I bet that you will eat it if you get hungry enough. Well, it has now been three days and still it sits right there right where I poured it. Now I know she isn’t sneaking food behind my back, since she is a house cat, so she must be on some kind of animal hunger strike. So, now again I am finding that I have yet another huge misunderstanding of cats. I am thinking that I am going to win the food battle, since she will have to eat this stuff sooner or later, however now a weird manifestation is occurring. I am finding that the hungrier she is getting the more naughty she is getting. She is now knocking over all of my plants (almost broke one of my vases), is jumping up on literally everything and is now trying to bite me. The meowing is starting to drive me crazy!!

I was originally thinking that I was going to get my moneys worth out of this cat food (which probably tastes like cat litter), and now I am beginning to think that the cost of replacing broken vases, and other breakable things, etc may ultimately cost me much much more than buying the best cat food money can buy. Did I say that cats remind me of human females?