Monday, March 05, 2007
Loftwärmen: It's a Party When Someone Eats the Cat Food
 A big thanks to our over 70 guests who joined us for our first event, Loftwärmen. We hope everyone enjoyed the evening as much as we did. Photos are now posted in the Events section.
You know it's a party when someone eats the cat food. Although, I must say it really is our fault. More specifically, my fault. I should have known that our guests at this first event would not know all the ins-and-outs of our household. People eat from pottery, ceramic, porcelain, and glass. Occasionally crystal. Animals eat from polished stainless steel.
Years ago we discovered that if we fed the cat like we feed the dogs, just once a day, then he would binge eat, which led to obesity. He's already fairly big-boned with our house weighing in with more pounds in cat than in dog. So we started leaving the cat food out all the time for him to just graze whenever. It is like the Old Country Buffet, only with just one Nutro OceanFish flavor.
Of course, leaving the food out, we had to set it up so that Long John wouldn't help himself to the grazing. Once while balancing the checkbook, I realized we were spending an exponentially extraordinary amount on pet food. Upon closer examination, in one month's time, our pet food expense tripled. They were already eating the top-self feed, so it's not like Tony decided they needed something better all of a sudden -- they couldn't get anything better.
When I almost pulled out my back picking up Long John I put two and two together and got fifteen pounds, figuring out that it was he who was grazing so continuously, after learning how to jump onto an end table, and then up on the table where Sheleata's food was. Quite the acrobatics for a dog with just 4-inch legs.
There are not many places where food is totally inaccessible to a dog, save for the kitchen counter. So we have placed the cat's food on the kitchen counter in his polished stainless steel bowl. He drinks directly from the fountain, and not from a bowl, so there is no water dish sitting next to the food that might serve as a sign.
With no sign, the gentleman grazed through the cat food before making a funny face, and well before Tony could scoop up the bowl to place it in a more secure location. Nothing a stiff drink couldn't fix.
Lesson learned: "OceanFish-flavored Sheleata Kanatuna Appetizer" is how we will now label the Sheleata Kanatuna's dish. Labels: events
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