Cats are eating little wet food at present; they pester David, he gets food out, they have a little. then leave.
They're just training David.
Always fun to watch a well-trained cat owner. I remember coming home from university after the first term (I was still sort-of welcome at home at that point):
Squirrel: *appears at window*
Cat: *perks up, runs to window* *chirps at squirrel*
Cat: *runs to other room, chirps at Dad*
Dad: *follows excitedly chirruping cat back into room* *picks up bag of nuts, posts a couple out through upper window to squirrel*
Cat: (in full bog-brush tail mode) *returns to window, makes further barking noises at squirrel on other side of the glass*
Dad: *gets camera, takes photographs of conveniently still squirrel at point blank range*
Squirrel: *finishes nuts, sticks tongue out at cat, runs off laughing*
Me (to Mum): They've got each other well-trained, I see.
Its the dolphins that you need to be wary of.
Ocean safari park somewhere in leftpondia, the dolphins have been trained to collect litter from their pool.
Which is a good thing
Every time they give their keeper a piece of litter, they get a fish as a reward.
But the dolphins have got wise to this. Now, when they find a discarded wrapper, the bite off a small chunk and put the remainder under a rock at the bottom of the pool, and exchange the small chunk for a fishy treat.
Rinse and repeat.
The dolphins are training their keepers!!!
One day the dolphin caught a seagull in the pool.
He gave this to the keeper, and was rewarded by being given lots of fish.
Which he ate, but he kept the last fish and hid it under a rock at the bottom of the pool.
And used that as bait to catch another seagull.
If dolphins ever learn to communicate, we'll all be f*cked, I tell you.
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