Usually my helper, Ibu Sri, buys a bag of dried minnows at the market, chops them up, mixes them with rice, then feeds that to my cats throughout the week. Nobody can say my cats don’t eat enough carbs. They are very used to this diet. This is the diet of most Indonesian house pets – dogs and cats alike. Even Indonesian animals live on rice! In fact, if I ever try to feed them anything else, like a saucer of milk or some chicken scraps – things American cats would love, they usually turn up their noses and look at me with slightly distrustful eyes, like they don’t believe they should actually be eating that stuff. Bags of dry food can be found here, but only at very specific places, and usually at a relatively high cost.
Before I went to Bali, I was in a local grocery store and happened to find boxes of dry cat food for only $2 (cheapcheap)! And since our helper was on vacation and my neighbor would be taking care of the cats, I thought I’d simplify her life and buy a box. I had no idea if the cats would eat it or not, but my neighbor is definitely not the type who would mess with stinky fish if she could avoid it, so I figured that dry food was better than no food. And for the record, I bought the fish flavor. Anyways, when I got home from the Bali trip, the box of cat food was left inside my front door with very little of it used. I assumed the cats didn’t like it, and I stuck the box by the back door.
Later that night, my cats came inside and were sleeping on a chair in my bedroom. Then they spotted the box of food. The following ensued.
Then they both cried for some food, so I poured them a bowl. Pretty sure it was gone in seconds… Finally! I found a food my cats really love!
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