CAT’S QUEER DIET: BANANAS, JAM, ICE CREAM, OVALTINE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 92, 8 September 1948, Page 4

CAT’S QUEER DIET: BANANAS, JAM, ICE CREAM, OVALTINE

A member of the Beacon’s office staff came to the editor the other day and said, “You know that story about the fierce rabbit .... Weil, would you be interested in one about a cat that eats bananas and things?” We said we would., 1 if it was ci. _.n, but we didn’t quite see the connection with the fierce rabbit. But to get back to our cat. This cat, its owner says, is white. She added it was neither deaf nor blind, as a sort of assurance that it went about its queer dieting with its eyes and ears open—knew what it was doing, in fact. It has normal feline tastes in that it enjoys a good .feed of raw meat once a day,, and hunts for birds and mice. But it also eats and enjoys bananas, all vegetables, cake, sweets, ’ ice cream, raisins and sultanas, bread', butter and jam, onion, cheese. It drinks Ovaltine (possibly for night starvation?) coffee, cocoa, tea. Naturally, we said,. “Wot— No beer?” We were assured that Pussy’s tastes, though unconventional, are not depraved. ' So we retired, crushed, to write our little “believe it or not” story..