(I don’t have any recent pics of the cat, but I’ve posted what I have elsewhere, earlier.)
Roomie’s cat is weird. He doesn’t like ‘people food’. He doesn’t even care for tuna. He’ll have a taste of smokes salmon, but he won’t just chow down on it. So it’s getting around lunchtime, and I get a big mug of tomato soup and some chicharrónes (the crunchy kind, without meat) I got from the Mexican market. Why not? Cat wants food. I broke off a little piece and put it in his bowl.
crunchcrunchcrunch
Hm…
Did a little work, sipped on my soup, snacked on the ol’ pig skins. Cat was hanging out by the back door. I got his attention and threw a little piece of chicharrón at him.
I wouldn’t give him those, or at least not more than a bite or two every few days. Fatty snacks are no better for kitteh than they are for you, and he’s a lot smaller than you are. Also, that kind of stuff can give cats some rip-roaring diarrhea that smells like the fires of Hell crossed with the primordial ooze crossed with old gym socks. Roomie will not thank you if that happens.
No, I know that cats need cat food. He only got two small pieces about the size of my thumbnail. I’ll spoil him with petting, but we won’t have begging.
Fried pork rinds (essentially, pig skin fried until it’s light and fluffy and crispy). Damn good, in fact, kinda like piggy potato chips; I’m craving some now.
Try feeding him nori (the seaweed for sushi). One of my cats will go wild for it, two of my sister’s cats liked it. And that’s no worse than grass for them.
You know, I don’t think I’ve ever had the Mexican kind, but in Northern Thailand they are super-fond of their deep-fried pork skin (they make yummy dips for it, including a kind of pork-and-tomato sauce, like this: Authentic Thai Recipes | ThaiCookingHouse). You’d see people carrying giant bags of them onto the plane back to Bangkok. I never saw any Siamese kitties enjoying them, but now I’m wishing I had given some to the Three Stooges (the three boy cats that hung out around the lobby of our apartment building). They luuuurved them some dried bonito flakes, I’m betting they would have gone for* kaeb moo* too.