Kitty just brought me a midnight snack. I ate it.

@TheHorse (205760)
Walnut Creek, California
July 27, 2021 2:38am CST
I awoke from slumber. It was midnight. I had been reading Michael Cohen's book, Disloyal, after work. I had fallen asleep with the lights on. Twenty minutes after I woke up, Kitty came in with a midnight snack for me. It was a moth. I grabbed it, gobbled it up, and thanked her profusely. Kitty spent a couple of minutes sniffing around the floor, looking for its remains. Maybe cats are secretly messier eaters than humans. Now she is eating some dry food. What do you do when your pets offer you a delicious treat?
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18 responses
• India
27 Jul 21
Haha she didn't brought that for you
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@vandana7 (98827)
• India
27 Jul 21
We Indians would never eat that.
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@TheHorse (205760)
• Walnut Creek, California
27 Jul 21
You think she was being selfish and I stole her snack?
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• India
27 Jul 21
@TheHorse lol could be
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@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
27 Jul 21
You eat it and thank her with lots of loving scratching... I'm glad you enjoyed your moth. (Cats don't eat the wings. She was probably wondering why you ate those.)
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@TheHorse (205760)
• Walnut Creek, California
27 Jul 21
She has to understand that humans are weird, just as we think cats are weird. Yep, humans eat wings, even if wings have minimal nutritional value. (Of course, I tossed the moth outside when she wasn't looking.)
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@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
27 Jul 21
@TheHorse I already figured that out. You do know that a lot of the moths/insects in the US are good to eat, right? You could have fried that one up and eaten it with scrambled eggs.
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@TheHorse (205760)
• Walnut Creek, California
27 Jul 21
@DaddyEvil What about raw? But I'm not that tipsy tonight.
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@epiffanie (11326)
• Australia
27 Jul 21
Good thing it's not a mouse he brought you.. haha!..
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@ptrikha_2 (45472)
• India
1 Aug 21
@vandana7 I am just worried if the raw moth mutates within Horse, then we might have a MothCovid-21 and then we might have to wear those biological weapon protection masks with eye shields !!
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@vandana7 (98827)
• India
27 Jul 21
He already ate a few of those. He is finding this way of getting meals easier in COVID times.
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@TheHorse (205760)
• Walnut Creek, California
27 Jul 21
That was a few weeks ago. I think she has brought me 1 1/2 mouses so far.
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@FourWalls (62132)
• United States
27 Jul 21
My dogs never brought me any treats, but they always looked to me for some. Funniest thing was I dropped a potato on the floor when Freckles was a puppy. She picked it up and ran off with it. I kept peeling potatoes, assuming she thought it was a ball. When I went to retrieve it, she’d eaten about half of the raw potato.
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@vandana7 (98827)
• India
27 Jul 21
Aw...must have been hungry.
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@FourWalls (62132)
• United States
27 Jul 21
@vandana7 — no, she really liked raw potatoes. She was all attentive at the garbage can when I peeled them.
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@TheHorse (205760)
• Walnut Creek, California
27 Jul 21
Only half?
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@xander6464 (40882)
• Wapello, Iowa
27 Jul 21
None of my cats have ever brought me anything and I'm fine with that but I understand that if you order something from them and they take longer than 30 minutes, you get it for free.
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@vandana7 (98827)
• India
28 Jul 21
What did you order and what did you get free..
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@xander6464 (40882)
• Wapello, Iowa
28 Jul 21
@TheHorse She should be made aware of it.
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@TheHorse (205760)
• Walnut Creek, California
27 Jul 21
I'm going to let kitty know.
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@wolfgirl569 (95190)
• Marion, Ohio
27 Jul 21
I tell them to eat it
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@vandana7 (98827)
• India
28 Jul 21
They do it?
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@wolfgirl569 (95190)
• Marion, Ohio
29 Jul 21
@vandana7 Not always
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@TheHorse (205760)
• Walnut Creek, California
27 Jul 21
I often do as well.
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@BarBaraPrz (45487)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
27 Jul 21
Good Kitty. Were you just really, really tired, or is the book a bit of a snooze?
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@TheHorse (205760)
• Walnut Creek, California
7 Aug 21
Tired. It's an engaging read.
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@ptrikha_2 (45472)
• India
1 Aug 21
Oh you ate the Moth without cooking! I think you should cook Non-vegetarian stuff before eating lest you become the host of a new virus !!
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@ptrikha_2 (45472)
• India
1 Aug 21
@TheHorse Or the Walnut Creek virus? Well I am already tired of masking, social distancing, words like 1st, 2nd, 3rd wave and so and so ...
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@ptrikha_2 (45472)
• India
8 Aug 21
@TheHorse Yes after a few moments of frustration, realization dawns on to us that we need to be careful and practical.
@TheHorse (205760)
• Walnut Creek, California
1 Aug 21
Oh dear. I hadn't thought of that. Will Chinese politicians call it the California Virus?
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@LadyDuck (458091)
• Switzerland
27 Jul 21
Kitty never brings inside "gifts", sometimes he deposes lizards or small snakes in front of the backyard door, I thank, I pat Kitty, but I do not touch.
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@LadyDuck (458091)
• Switzerland
8 Aug 21
@TheHorse I think the two black snakes that live in my garden take care to dispose of them, surely also the hedgehogs. After a few hours it is always "clean".
@TheHorse (205760)
• Walnut Creek, California
7 Aug 21
How do you dispose of your "treats" if you do not touch them?
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@JESSY3236 (18923)
• United States
27 Jul 21
The cat that I used to have, Sneezy, had once brought in a live mouse. Of course I freaked out. Lily had once caught a lizard and ate it. But my uncle's cats don't bring me any gifts.
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@vandana7 (98827)
• India
27 Jul 21
The more I learn about cats, the more I feel dogs are better.
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@TheHorse (205760)
• Walnut Creek, California
27 Jul 21
They're selfish?
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@LindaOHio (156157)
• United States
27 Jul 21
Kitty is so generous! Was it good? lol
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@vandana7 (98827)
• India
5 Aug 21
He dipped it in tomato sauce and ate it.
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@TheHorse (205760)
• Walnut Creek, California
5 Aug 21
I should have added more salt.
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@LindaOHio (156157)
• United States
5 Aug 21
@TheHorse Or a little hot sauce.
@janethwayne (5193)
• Philippines
28 Jul 21
Well my pet mostly got from me not really that they give me one that often but what I do if they give me one is to say nice things of what they have done.
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@TheHorse (205760)
• Walnut Creek, California
28 Jul 21
I had to choose my words carefully when Kitty brought me half of a mouse.
@florelway (23134)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
27 Jul 21
That's so sweet of kitty to give you moth.
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@TheHorse (205760)
• Walnut Creek, California
7 Aug 21
She only brings me presents after I give her wet food. She is a spoiled brat.
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@florelway (23134)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
8 Aug 21
@TheHorse You can't feed her with fellets lol
27 Jul 21
you are lucky to have a pet like her.
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@TheHorse (205760)
• Walnut Creek, California
7 Aug 21
She is a good friend.
@vandana7 (98827)
• India
27 Jul 21
Yuck...you are so ...yucky.
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@TheHorse (205760)
• Walnut Creek, California
27 Jul 21
I actually tossed it out onto my balcony when she wasn't looking. But I did a "num num num" like I do with my littlies.
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@vandana7 (98827)
• India
29 Jul 21
@TheHorse I have only your word.
@allknowing (130066)
• India
27 Jul 21
Delicious? What are you talking about?
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
7 Aug 21
@TheHorse (205760)
• Walnut Creek, California
7 Aug 21
A little salt. A touch of garlic Mice can taste quite yummy. I prefer rice to noodles as a side dish.
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• Greece
5 Aug 21
Next time it might be a mouse. Always turn the light n first...
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@TheHorse (205760)
• Walnut Creek, California
6 Aug 21
It has been a mouse 2.5 times .
@RasmaSandra (73444)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
28 Jul 21
Depends on the treat, You did right making her think you ate that moth, I remember our first cat in Latvia brought in a giant grasshopper. We thanked her but said we had just eaten as if you understood she crunched up the grasshopper and went back outside leaving the legs for us,