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The lure of mozzarella
Oct. 19th, 2006 02:00 pmFortunata likes string cheese.
By "likes string cheese", I mean "abandons all dignity and sense of feline propriety to yowl like a small furry banshee at your feet if you happen to have string cheese in your hand".
Now, this is a cat who has annoying you for what she wants down to a science. She'll come and jump up on the back of my chair and mew piteously until I get up and feed her. If she's feeling particularly needy, she'll pat the back of my head to really get my attention. At 2 1/2 years, she still has a kitten voice, and she takes shameless advantage of it to cry like a starving baby until she's fed. (I still can't decide, between her and Button, who has the more pitiful meow. She has the theatrics down and can infuse her every cry with raw pathos, but he has a voice that naturally sounds like the collective anguish of a destitute third-world country.)
(I'm not exaggerating.)
So, yeah, Nanni knows how to make you feed her. She's a shameless beggar.
Her performance for her normal food has NOTHING on what she'll do for string cheese.
Now, she won't come up and specifically request it - she understands it's a treat and not a matter of course, so if she comes over and actively annoys you, it's for either regular food or attention. She'll wait until you actually have some in hand. But once you do, my god, the crying.
If she sounds like a starving baby when she wants food, when she sees you've got string cheese that cat plays a dying operatic lead. She whines with her full voice, issuing prolonged ululations that sound like she's being tortured. If you could hear this cat's give-me-cheese cries out of context, you would think you were listening to a case of horrible animal cruelty. She'll stand up on her hind legs for this stuff, where she'll turn up her nose at any mere kitty snack you offer her.
Yeah. She really, really likes string cheese.
By "likes string cheese", I mean "abandons all dignity and sense of feline propriety to yowl like a small furry banshee at your feet if you happen to have string cheese in your hand".
Now, this is a cat who has annoying you for what she wants down to a science. She'll come and jump up on the back of my chair and mew piteously until I get up and feed her. If she's feeling particularly needy, she'll pat the back of my head to really get my attention. At 2 1/2 years, she still has a kitten voice, and she takes shameless advantage of it to cry like a starving baby until she's fed. (I still can't decide, between her and Button, who has the more pitiful meow. She has the theatrics down and can infuse her every cry with raw pathos, but he has a voice that naturally sounds like the collective anguish of a destitute third-world country.)
(I'm not exaggerating.)
So, yeah, Nanni knows how to make you feed her. She's a shameless beggar.
Her performance for her normal food has NOTHING on what she'll do for string cheese.
Now, she won't come up and specifically request it - she understands it's a treat and not a matter of course, so if she comes over and actively annoys you, it's for either regular food or attention. She'll wait until you actually have some in hand. But once you do, my god, the crying.
If she sounds like a starving baby when she wants food, when she sees you've got string cheese that cat plays a dying operatic lead. She whines with her full voice, issuing prolonged ululations that sound like she's being tortured. If you could hear this cat's give-me-cheese cries out of context, you would think you were listening to a case of horrible animal cruelty. She'll stand up on her hind legs for this stuff, where she'll turn up her nose at any mere kitty snack you offer her.
Yeah. She really, really likes string cheese.