SPOONING WITH DANI

Even though Dani came from a Maine Coon Cattery, she was not born with a silver spoon in her mouth, or any spoon for that matter.

Right from the start Dani was, shall we say, PURRticular and her picky nature hasn't changed one iota since then.

Dani has always been finicky about her food, especially the wet stuff.  Dada has gone above and beyond keeping notes about what she will eat and what she won't.  Lately Dada has threatened to stop buying the canned food, but being the softy he is, hasn't carried through.

So instead of just giving her the dry food, Dada gave something else a try -- and it worked!

Believe it or not, Dani will eat her food off a spoon!  She actually licks most of it off, but when the spoon is piled high she'll try to sink her teeth into it -- normally resulting in it falling to the surface below.  And then she licks it from there.  Needless to say (but I'll say it anyway) she's quite the messy eater.

However, the upshot of all this is that her wet food gets eaten.  She usually eats most of it, but of course, being the PURRsnickety kitty that she is, she is duty-bound to leave just a bit behind.  To her credit, she will finish this off the next time, as long as it's on a spoon.

  "Dada tole me foods is reely good inna greasy spoon ...

Dani is quite exhausted after all of this spoon business.

"So I is gonna make like a spoon an' rest." says she.

"Heer fishy, fishy -- now doan be koi."