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Originally Posted by TAPPY
In fact no food left on the counters or table is really safe !!!!
Nerak- I know what you mean about Cat Toys, no use spending $$$$ on them, just throw a few large paper bags on the floor and some plastic caps off milk cartons....(mine really like Cherios- they dont eat them just bat them around)
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My parents had a part-Maine Coon named Phoof. One holiday while entertaining the relatives, we started out in the living room and then we all ended up in the den (always seemed to happen that way). My parents would always buy a big plate of shrimp for these get-togethers. At some point my mother moved the shrimp tray from the dining room buffet area to the coffee table in the living room where the group had intially gathered. As mentioned, we all gradually moved the celebration into the den.
A while later we hear "Phoof!!!! No!!!!!" shouted by Mom from the living room. Phoof had had the greatest feast of his entire life. Polished off probably close to $30-40 worth of large cocktail shrimp, spitting the tails all over the rug, as he sat on the coffee table and helped himself, unattended and unnoticed. (I'm not sure if he dipped them first in the cocktail sauce. Might not have been his brand.) Every holiday after that, the shrimp tray stayed high and dry in non-Phoof territory - on the dining room table.
Then there was the day my dad made a roast beef and cheese sandwich and left it on the kitchen table to go to another room for a moment. When he came back, Phoof had lifted off the bread, removed the roast beef, and was happily whoofing down the last of it when dad discovered the crime in progress. Apparently Phoof didn't care for the cheese Dad has selected.