RIP Thera

 As Thera's human, I write with heavy heart that Thera died suddenly this morning of an apparent heart attack. She was a friendly and curious soul, and we will miss her deeply.

Thera reaching for the light: 2016-2022

Rest in peace, Thera. 

More Foraged Vegetable Matter

 My human's foraging behavior has expanded. First, as I mentioned in my last post, she went out and hunted wineberries, with which she ruined made ice cream.

Encouraged by that, she went out and found some more! Now she's fermenting their juices with honey to make mead. Basically, fermenting means taking the sugars that are in the berries and honey and converting them to alcohol. For us cats, that means converting something tasteless into something outright poisonous. I mean, why?

Fermentation at work

Next on the foraging list was grape leaves. These don't even smell interesting. My human made dinner out of them, though.

Grape leaves

Humans are weird. 

Hunting Vegetables

 My apologies for not posting lately--things got very boring around here. My humans got stuck in a rut and did nothing new or interesting for a whole year. 

But now they're exhibiting some new behavior. The latest one is Hunting for Vegetable Matter, which they call foraging. They seem to enjoy it. I get that hunting is fun, but vegetation...?! Not worth the effort!

Interesting smell!

My human went out hunting and came back with lots of wineberries. These small, red items of vegetable matter smell interesting, but for us cats the taste just doesn't live up to the smell. The humans seem to like them, though, and have even made ice cream with them. No accounting for taste!

A human taste