AGS show choices for 20th March 2010

[Lesley Cox]

I guess cat stew would be a favourite of yours Michael, the more meat in it the better!

[ranunculus]

I guess cat stew would be a favourite of yours Michael, the more meat in it the better!

Catatouille?   

[art600]

I guess cat stew would be a favourite of yours Michael, the more meat in it the better!

Catatouille?   

Even as a cat owner and lover I can appreciate this 

Have never eaten cat, but once ate dog in China - nothing special.

[ranunculus]

I guess cat stew would be a favourite of yours Michael, the more meat in it the better!

Catatouille?    

Even as a cat owner and lover I can appreciate this  

Have never eaten cat, but once ate dog in China - nothing special.

Probably a bit 'ruff', Art?  

[Eric Locke]

Have not tried cat or dog but Fruit Bat is tasty.

Eric

[Lesley Cox]

Catatouille?   

Love it! The joke, that is.

[Lesley Cox]

So pleased dog is nothing special, in case anyone gets any ideas.

[Ragged Robin]

So pleased dog is nothing special, in case anyone gets any ideas.

Special but not a speciality Lesley    - who could resist that look of contentment just waiting for a tickle - Teddy looks so replete I wonder what his special dish is?

[Lesley Cox]

You'd be surprised and probably horrified at what the darlings consume during a day. Some hard biscuits and some dogroll for dinner at night; frequently an egg in a little milk (free range of course, from the Market when one of my vendors insists I take a dozen extra now and then, donated); when they've been expecially good (Teddy learning at last not to chase our neighbour's car when he goes to work) a piece of hard and crunchy dried liver, courtesy of a group of Australian vets who market the stuff as a training aid. They adore it. Then a small piece of toast with honey at breakfast,; a bite each from my lunchtime sandwich; a sliver of cheese if I'm grating some for something, etc, etc. I draw the line at chocoalet but they don't and they usually mange to wheedle a small piece from me. As for muffins, choc cake or anything like that..... these are very tightly rationed but sometimes a little piece finds its way.....

Oh yes, then there are the rabbits, a hedgehog recently, some hare leg, again from the Market.....

[Ragged Robin]

A very varied diet then   

a hedgehog recently

Surely not whole    If this is so, I hope they recycled the prickles as toothpicks Lesley

[Lesley Cox]

Teddy killed it, to my dismay as I like and approve of hedgehogs in the garden, then once it was relaxed he attacked its underparts which are soft. The remains Roger had to bury, deeply. Sorry, this is not a pleasant conversation and the smell too, was pretty nasty. I'm surprised that Teddy had no prickles in him as he rolled it around a lot before tackling it.

It has been so dry lately that I think the hedgehogs are coming out in the day time to look for water, instead of keeping to their usual evening walks. But Teddy will frequently tear outside at night too, to harrasss one. I learned recently that his mother actually taught her babies to hunt hedgehogs, her owner not liking them which is odd as she (the owner) has a smallholding which is strictly organic and I would have expected her to appreciate the hedgehogs' depredations on slugs, snails and other such eaters of organic lettuces etc.