While we're still on the subject of dairy, I have noticed that my cat who
for the last 3 of his 4 years has eaten only raw, organic beef and a little
thawed out, frozen, organic peas or corn, is VERY attracted to a salt-free,
raw, feta-style goat cheese that I eat sometimes. I'm having a tough time
accounting for this attraction by appealing to his instincts, although
perhaps there is a component of the cheese (the fat, perhaps, although can
fats be "foreign" like proteins) that is an analogue to some "original"
feline food. Whaddya think?

BTW, my cat also very much enjoys raw corn-on-the-cob - he and I eat it
together, he on one side of the cob and I on the other.

I also learned recently that in the 1940's in England, some variety of bird
"learned" how to peck at the tops of un-opened, freshly delivered milk
bottles that had been deposited on doorsteps so as to get at the layer of
cream on the top. This behavior too seems hard to account for by appealing
to instincts.

david
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