My little Salum has just developed a new VERY annoying habit of licking the jelly off his cat food then demanding another fresh pouch and leaving his bowl half full.
He is 17 and he has the loudest most high pitched miaow that turns into a howl until you are forced to give in, I usually put my loops in and ignore him till he eats the rest but my autistic DP really struggles because Salum will carry on with this caper for a good few hours.
We agreed we had to be strong and break the habit and carried on ignoring him till we noticed he was eating the food without the shenanigans so assumed it was a phase. It’s been so hot we just can’t leave food in the bowl and keep adding more or it stinks and makes me retch.
Yesterday the kitchen absolutely stank of rotting meat but I couldn’t understand it because Salum has been eating all his food and not just licking the jelly off, I had to tear the kitchen to bits to find out what was causing the smell.
Well… the little arsehole has been licking the jelly off then getting the meat and hiding it under some storage drawers with a small gap underneath. There were several rotting piles of cat food that had obviously been sucked clean then he’d carried the meat in his mouth and hidden it so this left an empty dish we would then fill 🤢.
I was literally sick when I discovered his stash and he’s now on supervised eating schedules, we have to wear earplugs to drown out the howling and if he doesn’t finish it both him and the dish go outside!
On a totally separate matter I noticed the use of “counter” instead of “worktop” or “kitchen side” in the OP. I have been telling DP off for saying counter as he’s not American. English is not his first language so I do occasionally correct him, he insisted lots of people in the uk use counter now.
I googled and came across a strange phenomenon of lots of people who call the kitchen worktop/counter/side etc. a bunker!
I wondered if anyone else had come across this or if it was just me who was completely blindsided by this revelation?! To me a bunker is what we are creating in my friends cellar with water, dried and tinned food and a Geiger counter of all things (apparently you can buy them on amazon, I’d like to hope it’s pointless but she’s quite proud of obtaining it. Our location would hopefully deem it unnecessary in the case of nukes but if it makes her happy… ) in the case of WW3 breaking out, it’s not a bloody kitchen surface you prepare food on.
Who are these mysterious people who call it a bunker? Is it just me who has never come across this strange turn of phrase?