A post about cats.

Spice is teaching Hatter (the 5 month old kitten and no relation to her) about what to eat. I've watched her do this a few times now, and it seems the best explanation for her behaviour.

She gets a piece of dropped food he had no interest in (today it was a dropped lump of sausage, last time it was a king prawn he'd already passed up) and takes it to the sitting room, and growls, very loudly (and threateningly) while she eats it. She eats it very slowly, putting it down many times, while giving out this great thundering growl, and while Hatter looks on fascinated to see what the fuss is about.

Then she walks off leaving around half of it to him. He tends to run straight up and have a go to see if it's as nice as it sounds like it is. It had never occurred to me before that there might be any more to a cat growling over its food than the message 'MINE!'.

At the moment both cats are busy romping up and down the stairs very amicably.