Imogen is a complainer. She will register her disapproval of food, but it will be food that she isn’t even being offered. The hard-food left out for anyone to have seems to be her particular bête noire - ironic, for a black cat. Also, she almost never eats hard-food. She will as well show her disregard of leftover soft-food that I sometimes put down on the floor between meals.
Imo will complain for an extended period, scratching at walls, at furniture - not to scratch, not damagingly, but in that imitation of burying something unpleasant that cats perform over food they dislike. She will scratch and scratch, pause, consider the offensive substance again, then scratch and scratch some more. Then she will look at it a second or third time, perhaps sniff it, move to another surface, and complain there.
This is not done at meal-times; it is not done with food given directly to her. It’s as if it is a dislike of the food even being generally on offer with which she takes issue. Eventually she stops, though she may return later to complain further. I sometimes hear her when I am in the bedroom or downstairs, mildly scratching her dismissal of what has been given.
Then later, she will complain if her food is late at dinner-time…
She is a funny girl! At least she is not making a mess with it. If Flynn had something he didn't approve of he would hook it out with his paw then flick it all over the fridge door.
ReplyDeleteMaybe she just wants to practice her right to freedom of speech.
ReplyDeleteWell, it certainly gets her point across.
ReplyDeleteAh, there's no pleasing some kitties! 😆
ReplyDeleteShe is like my human Aunt Eugie in attitude...though to Mom's knowledge she never scratched the walls etc.
ReplyDeleteI can't help but laugh at this. She is certainly showing her true colors for food choices.
ReplyDeleteI love it when they try to cover up what they don't like.
ReplyDeleteGive her a shrimp everytime she does that!
ReplyDeleteHahahaha...
Celestial Zarathustra is probably nodding with approval.
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