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From: "Lillian Alicia"
> It may have been the cat's instinct that alllowed him to eat another
> mammals milk?  Would they instinctively eat grains?  Probably not, yet
> they eat the grains we feed them through bagged catfood.

Back in the 80's we had some free-range chickens that got a bit of grain
mash every evening.  A now-departed cat (lived to be 17, I think it was)
used to follow us to the trough so he could have first dibbies.  We used to
laugh our tail feathers off to see his moist little cat lips rimmed with
chicken feed.  The chickens ate right along beside him.

Theola