WELCOME

I think I'd better begin with an explanation of my blog title.

Shortly after kitten Tizzy came to live with me,

I found him licking a banana slice on my morning

bowl of cut up fruit. So I chopped up his banana slice

into kitten size bits along with his kibble and he scarfed the lot.

So we began to share our morning banana.

As Tizzy grew older he demanded new fruit

samples, globe grapes (peeled and seeded).

a bit of peach, a pinch of pear and most recently

a taste of bing cherry (again with pit and skin removed).

Neither he nor Freddie will eat real chicken,

fish (including tuna or salmon) or

any normal cat food just their prescription

kibble and a few Whisker Lickins crunchy treats

before bed.

Well actually there IS one other treat they both

enjoy. Housefly! And I mean Housefly on the wing!

We don't get many flies way up here. We hardly see

birds, we are up so high, but every once in a long

while there's a sudden bzzzzzzzzzzzz followed at once

by the tinkling of cat collar tags and a flash of fur blur.

As the fly hits the window (thinking it a way out)

he is thumped and swallowed. There's nothing like

live prey!

Here's a poem I wrote on the subject:

My cat eats bananas and flies.

Though you might think I'm telling you lies.

It is true and I swear

That he also likes pear

And most other fruit that he tries.

Banana, he likes just a slice.

Which I cut up and carefully dice.

With a grin on his face

He leaves not a trace.

You might think he was dining on mice.

As odd as bananas may seem

For a cat's gastronomical dream.

His other delight

Is a fly caught in flight.

Which he relishes better than cream.

My cat will lie patient for hours.

Asleep on the sill with the flowers.

He hears the first buzz

I watch what he does.

Swatting that fly he devours.

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