Hotpot Dinner Is Hazardous To Cats (2004-11-24)
In cold weather Japanese people like to eat nabe ryuri (hotpot dinner/meal) to keep them warm. They would have a pot full of meat, seafood and vegetables cooking on a portable stove on the dining table and family members would eat from the pot. Others may like to eat their dinner shabu shabu style which means cooking raw ingredients a little at a time in a pot of stock or water. We had our first hotpot dinner at home the other night and it has proven to be hazardous to cats.
Every time we eat, Daifoo jumps up on the table to see what scraps
of morsel he can scam from us. And he has great resolve when it
comes to sharing a meal with humans. It does not matter how small
or crammed the table is, when he wants to get up on it, HE GETS UP ON
IT. And I don't blame him a single bit for doing this
because KL and I are the ones who have been allowing him to do so since
the day he lived with us.
That night we were boiling prawns in the pot on the table.
Being a big prawn fan, the smell brought Daifoo on the table in 0.2
seconds. He was nudging closer and closer to my bowl with the
cooked prawn in it. During the process his head was nearly leveled with
the flame from the stove. But no raging fire or burning pot is
going to stop him from getting to his food. One minute he's fine,
the next minute the tip of his whiskers closest to the fire were
singed! But Daifoo was not at all fazed by burning whiskers, he
was too busy checking out my prawn. If I hadn't pulled him away
from the stove in time, he could very well have lost half of his
whiskers. But I am sure Daifoo wouldn't mind, as long as he's
compensated with one prawn for every whisker he lost!
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