He's not normal. I swear he's not.

[desperance]

...Or maybe I'm wrong, maybe all cats harbour a secret yearning for baked goods. The girls were fond of toast. Preferably buttered, and extra-preferably spread with Gentleman's Relish, but the dry bready crunchiness would always do on its own.

Barry, it transpires, hath a passion for croissants. His antennae are sensitive enough to detect the buttery flaky goodness through three layers of packaging, and his wrinkly-wet-walnut brain is smart enough not to be defeated by the zips on my bag. Which is why he had First Breakfast sometime in the night, and I was half a croissant short this morning.

(PS - yes, he still got Second Breakfast, undiminished. One does not diminish Barry's breakfast. He would sulk, for values of sulking that - well, you wouldn't want to go there.)

Comments

[synedrian.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just that he's French? And now he's found a way to tell you that?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

*prowls house, searching for berets, onions and bicycles*

*finds two out of three - not bad*

*what's French for Barry?*

[synedrian.livejournal.com]

Barry must be his nom-de-plume. (Seriously, it means "fair-haired": an obvious, blatant lie ;) ) Finding out his true French name will give you power over him.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

A cat who can handle zips? The world is not ready for this!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

My world is certainly not ready for this. O my ducats, O my daughter...!

[fjm.livejournal.com]

But he can do the Zip back up?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Why would he bother? He is anti-Pavlovian: no point in being clever, unless there's a reward.

[pogodragon.livejournal.com]

How is he with pasta? I used to have a cat that begged for his share whenever I cooked any. He insisted on it dry and crunchy.

A cat looks very silly wandering around the house with his prize of a piece of spaghetti hanging out of his mouth until it's all gone. Some kind of Italian yokel thing going on in what passed for his brain I expect.

[fastfwd.livejournal.com]

Miss Kitty Calgary has a definite sweet tooth. And a salty one. God forbid that we should make popcorn and not invite her.

I think it's one of those the-Queen-gets-a-taste-which-is-her-due sort of things.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I've noted before that Barry would kill for that packing material that is apparently made from popped or otherwise processed corn. On the other hand, that's neither sweet nor salty. You'd think they'd flavour it, one way or the other...

He's not normal

[poesmother.livejournal.com]

My Djuna once ate a blueberry - but I suspect only because she'd been playing football with it & got it stuck on her claw. She's very fond of sweetcorn niblets though.