Also, while in the kitchen...

[desperance]

These cats will either of them bite me at a moment's notice, and gnaw down hard enough really to hurt, tho' somehow never break the skin (they're predators: how do they do that?) - and yet, they will each take turns to take raw bloody kidney-cores direct from my finger, as gentle as a kiss.

[Yes, yes. You call this organ meats, and would not eat it. I know. I call it offal, and think it offally good.]