Chick, Chick, Chick, Chick, Chicken!!!

You'll no doubt be alarmed, gentle reader, to learn that I have of late been a little poorly. Relieved also to know that I am now feeling much better, thank you. I'm not sure what the problem was, I've been listless, liverish and off my food. And fair play to the humans, they have tried plenty of different comestibles for me to attempt but I just wasn't eating and I actually lost a little bit of weight. Not that I needed to of course, as you can tell from my photo, but I suppose it all helps to keep me svelte. They tried tuna, salmon (fillet), ham (finest Wiltshire naturally), topside of beef and a wide and extensive variety of sachet cat food. And I turned my nose up at pretty much all of it. That's how poorly I felt. Of course, being a stoic individual I refused to visit that vet chappie though.

Then one night, the lummox decided he was going to make one of those curry things with which he stinks the whole house down with (and I'm talking about after he's eaten it) for him and Ange. Well, it turned out that he bought one too many chicken breasts and between them they managed to reach the conclusion that perhaps they should bake it for me. Well duh! Obviously! And so baked it was and once allowed to cool Ange cut it into bite sized pieces and presented it to me.

My word! I wolfed it down. Every single mouthful and licked my lips for a long while after. They both seemed very pleased with themselves and I was also a little grateful and showed this by waking Ange up at four in the morning for a stroking session. Anyway, the next day the lummox was dispatched to the local butcher shop to procure me another chicken breast which was likewise baked and presented. I gathered from their conversation though that this one was in fact what's known as free-range and corn fed. I'm not sure what all that meant but it tasted absolutely delicious and you can probably guess where I'm going with this. That's right, I now insist on all my chicken dinners to be free-range and corn fed. Apparently it's more expensive than the other sort but it tastes better, I deserve it and that's the end of the matter as far as I'm concerned.

PPP x