Ceviche Cosmo

So I was making ceviche for my andean literature class, and despite having avoided giving him raw fish in the past, and despite his not particularly liking it (he rejected the tuna in the sushi I bought for the class when we were discussing Fujimori) I tried him on the ceviche of ono and marlin which I had marinated in lime and lemon juice.  He liked it.  He continued liking the leftover fish which I brought home from the class.  Then this morning he didn't like it.  When I cooked it, he liked it again.  So I believe Cosmo is a little bit peruvian.

Cosmo Had a Little Lamb

Yes, Cosmo had a little Instinct Lamb cat food, more than a little.  This food has a gray color, but a fairly firm paté texture.  And if you are what you eat, he might look something like the cat above, only older, and with a lot more black in his fur, and cuter, and he wouldn't let me put something like this on his head...

Deer Cosmo: Instinct Venison

Cats might chase deer, as this picture shows.  This morning, after racing through a can of Weruva 9 liver,

Cosmo wolfed up some Instinct Venison.

More lives (and liver) for Cosmo

So, since Cosmo had gotten bored with Safeway priority foods, despite their odorousness, and had vomited after eating them, and since they seemed rather adulterated, I decided to counterbalance with 

a rather unsmelly rather unadulterated flavor with a cute name and relatively few ingredients.  The description is also cute.  And any advertising ploy that seems to promise 8 additional lives for Cosmo AND misspells "palate" has my attention.  Although its texture made this formula hard to eat, Cosmo gamely attempted, requesting top-ups when the dregs of the food became plastered against the sides of his dish.

Here's the online spiel

Your cat will enjoy every bite of this boneless, skinless, white breast meat chicken, with chunks of chicken liver in a delicious gravy. Enough to entice every pallet . . . and who knows, your cat might just gain eight more lives! Did we mention the chicken is antibiotic free, hormone free and free range chicken breast? (GRAIN FREE)

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Important Information

Ingredients
Chicken (Boneless, Skinless, White Breast Meat), Water Sufficient For Processing Balance, Chicken Liver, Thickening Agent (Tapioca Starch and/or Potato Flour and/or Xanthan Gum), Sunflower Seed Oil, Taurine, Complete Vitamins and Minerals

Priority Vomiting

So Cosmo doesn't mind these Priority cat foods available from Safeway nationwide.  He even will eat the kind that looks like worms and contains cheese globs, a texture which he usually disdains.  I think he likes them because they smell really bad, always a plus.  They also cause him to vomit, which he doesn't mind but I do.  Vomiting is sometimes a first sign of a contaminated food.  Of course he vomits up free range organic grain free never recalled high priced cat foods too.  He's an equal opportunity vomiter.  While I was writing this, he got on my lap and put his paw on the delete button, so this is in effect a second draft.  

maui tacos okay with cats

The maui fish taco has cabbage drizzled with a creamy sauce, laid on a soft tortilla, with a side of rice and beans.  The cat doesn't care about that.  What the cat likes about the taco is that it contains grilled fish.

He will eat it.

The Chicken Sausage Experiment

So it's not much of an experiment.  You sauté some chicken/herb sausage roundels with maui onions, you mix them in with various colored (pink, purple, yellow) new potatoes and spinach, and then, as you're tipping the potatoes into the sautéed sausage, you kind of just let a piece of sausage fall into a bed of whiskas filet mignon cat food in the cat's food bowl.  Then you  step back and see if he'll find it among the forests of cat food.  I imagine you can guess the results.