The Cocoa Diet
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Clever, Curious, Caring Cat
By Kate Dorsey

The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal — or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
~Elizabeth Peters

We should have known life with Cocoa would be different when he refused to eat anything but mixed vegetables. Every morning, we had to take frozen vegetables out of the freezer and cook him a plate, or else he would not eat. In our experience, this was unusual behavior for a kitten. None of the other cats had done anything like this. If only we had known what was to come.

You see, Cocoa was a thief. A food thief. Nothing was safe. Thankfully, Cocoa did learn to eat both dry and wet food. The dry food was left out all day. He would stick his head in the bowl as I poured, getting the food on his head as well as in the bowl and on the floor. (Keep reading)