Jennie...my gosh. I cut up chicken thigh last night. As I pulled the skin off I placed it in the sink. Before disposing of it I sprayed the skin heavily with vinegar (to control odor in the trash). Then, using a paper towel, I picked it all up out of the sink and put it in the half-gallon milk carton I keep on the back of the sink for yuck disposal (coffee grounds, carrot peeling, drain contents and so on)
In the bottom of the milk carton were coffe grounds, then carrot peelings, then this vinegar soaked chickn skin wrapped in paper towel. My mistake: I forgot to remove the milk carton to the trash bag in the cupboard. But really, since the fat was soaked in vinegar it should have been safe from cats.
Wrong.
This morning I got up to the carton tipped over into the sink, carrot peels and coffee grounds all over the floor and paper towels with holes chewed in them..and not a trace of chicken skin. Not a trace.
I have no idea when she did it. It was after 3 a.m. because that is what time I got up and fed Mazy cat her middle of the night meal (didn't go to bed until 1:30 because I was reading in bed).
She was in bed, sound asleep, when I got up at 7.
She shows no gastric distress at all. I hope and pray she did not eat any coffee grounds, they WERE the bottom layer. She shows no signs of caffeine poisoning either.
But, my gosh, what kind of a cat eats chicken fat soaked in vinegar?
I searched the house for vomit..none. No diarrhea (yet). I am going to feed her very lightly today. And I gave her an extra probiotic.
I know it was Jennie because neither Mazy nor Queen Eva would do such a thing, and even if they did, they would be sick, very sick, from it.
PS Jennie once ate a paper towel soaked in hamburger grease, stolen by the same method.