Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for November 25, 2022

There you go using logic again.

No guts, no gravy!

I think he polished them up and saved them for you instead of a lizard or some other recent kill.

He ate the best part and was saving the rest for later.

With cats it’s all about ways to drive the human crazy. At least that’s my excuse.

He probably thought the giblets were pills.

My cats used to lick all of the gravy off canned food and leave the solids. Beats me.

Our outside cats had a technique with field mice. Eat the mouse (head first) and leave a little green organ about the size of a small cherry. How they carefully ate all around that and never bit it I can’t imagine. Years of practice I guess. I convinced myself it was the spleen, but don’t really know.

our inside cat just licks the gravy from his wet food and leaves the chunky bits. The outside feral cat eats everything but the feathers when she manages to catch a bird……which is not that often.

I buy the canned cat food with “extra” gravy, and put the dish in the microwave for 4 sec to enhance the ambiance. Never anything left over.

I used to have a cat that caught mice and birds and baby bunnies, but she never ate them. One night she brought a live baby bunny in the house and it was screaming, poor thing. Scared the crap out of me! you’d be surprised at how loud they can be.

One Thanksgiving about twenty years ago, we were in Mexico and a hotel had a sandwich board on the sidewalk outside telling us of the TG dinner they were serving for us ex-pats. It included “Gilbert gravy” and we’ve never been able to call them giblets ever since.

Uh, leave it there until he eats it. If he don’t, don’t give him more food.

When I had to change shift for a few weeks to work on a project, my cat stopped eating his food and would only lick the gravy. So I added a bit of broth and blitzed it in the blender so it was all gravy.

Gee Arlo….gee!

Some mysteries remain.