Dulcie loves her prawns.
posted in Cat Stories |Over the years I’ve discovered that cats, just like humans, have their favourite foods. For Jackson it was yoghurt, and Creamer was partial to M&S Sticky Toffee Pudding, or anything else he could lay his paws on. My mum even told me of her childhood cat that had a taste for oranges. However, with Dulcie it’s prawns.
She also likes cheese and potato crisps, but prawns are by far her favourites.
We like prawn curry, so I buy fresh prawns from the supermarket almost every week, in a sealed plastic tray.
Dulcie can hear the pack being opened from several hundred paces. Even if she’s asleep in another room she comes running at the sound. In the unlikely event that she misses this first sign, the smell of garlic and onion frying in the pan will bring her running.
The only draw back is that onion and garlic frying doesn’t necessarily mean prawns, but she lives in hope. She didn’t get where she is today buy not making the most of every opportunity.
She licks the prawn ‘juice’ from the bottom of the tray, taking care to collect any pieces of whole prawn I might have overlooked. Then she licks it out again just to make sure she didn’t miss any the first time round.
Then she washes her face and goes to sleep, a very happy and contented cat. Some days I really do envy her.
