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The Velveteen Ocelot

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10. I was away from home for a few days, left the cats

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Dec 29, 2012, 07:14 PM

Dec 2012

with plenty of food and water available. Or so I thought.

When I got home all the food was gone. And so was all the butter, which I had left out in a covered butter dish - not thinking it would be vulnerable. Silly me.

I found the butter dish knocked over - the lid on the floor, the top on the counter; and the whole stick of butter had been eaten, except for bits that were smeared all over the floor.

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Twilight knocked the package of cat treats down onto the ground and ripped it open [View all] applegrove Dec 2012 OP

What you should do is secure the cat treats better next time... n/t PoliticAverse Dec 2012 #1

Will do. applegrove Dec 2012 #2

Atticus says give her the rest, and buy her more. Hoyt Dec 2012 #3

Have her post in Meta Paulie Dec 2012 #4

That is not punishment! Lady Freedom Returns Dec 2012 #13

How do you discipline your pets? abolugi Dec 2012 #5

Me too! LeftofObama Dec 2012 #7

More concerned about volune eating than discipline. hollysmom Dec 2012 #6

Cat on drugs! That sounds like descriptions in the news sometimes marzipanni Dec 2012 #8

you should have seen the place hollysmom Dec 2012 #9

I was away from home for a few days, left the cats The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2012 #10

They did have plenty of food, the butter thing was just to punish you... PoliticAverse Dec 2012 #12

Wouldn't do any good to scold her at this point. Don't feed her the rest! She could get sick. Honeycombe8 Dec 2012 #11

So far she has not gotten sick from too much of the treats. There are still a tiny applegrove Dec 2012 #14

I don't know how to discipline a cat. LWolf Dec 2012 #15

I put the tiny bit that was left in a wicker basket drawer. They are gone. Why that little %&*^#&*&! applegrove Dec 2012 #16

You hang a sign around their neck and post the picture Major Nikon Dec 2012 #17