12.15.2009

Hunt Week - Ham Safe

Mom stands at the doorway, viewing the bounty within. As soon as I hear her in the kitchen, I get very excited as I know she'll be opening the doorway to our hunting ground. Many of you know it as The Ham Safe.

I run from any corner of the house as I join her for the hunt. I can always tell it's her, and not him, by the tentative and joyously slow way she lingers, surveying her possible kill. The cold wind blows through my floof, as I rest my paws on the bottom edge. I catch the smells of all the possibilities.

"You hungry?" She asks.

"Mew! (Yep. How about a snark of ham lunchmeat?)" I reply.

"Nah. Too... meaty. What about cheese?"

"Mew! (Perfect! I prefer the string cheese.)"

She dives down deep into the meat drawer. Her mighty paws thrusting away the rejected options. She holds her prey up to the light. Victory. She places her foot under my belly and unceremoniously drags me gently back from a kill of my own. The door shuts, cutting off my own hunt.

I lament the cruel injustice of it all, as I watch her try to rip into the plastic wrapper like a bear with a picnic basket. Wait, there's still a chance of victory for the small floofy huntress... will she make a drop? Which do you think I want more? The cheese or the wrapper?

27 comments:

  1. Oh, we get the foot under the belly treatment too, when we are sniffing out prey in the cold box!

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  2. What a wonderful description of your hunting...love the ham safe.

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  3. Well I hope ONE of the two dropped for you! ;)

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  4. I bet you are successful with your hunt.

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  5. hmm, see this is why you need a brother or sister. One of you distracts the mummy, the other POUNCE on the ham safe.

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  6. She should have let you hunt your own cheese! But it might have been hard for you to get through the wrapper!!

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  7. We just have a cheese safe. Do you really like string cheese? As much as I adore cheese, I spit that out. It makes mom laugh. I prefer extra sharp Tillamook Cheddar. I can come over and help you hunt!

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  8. Yoo should be allowed to hunt for string cheese if yoo want. We don't fink a wrapper would stop yoo.

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  9. You should be allowed to have cheese AND ham!

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  10. That's what that drawer is called! We love that too!

    Deli did a Hunt Week Post today

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  11. We'll teleport over and help distract your Mom so you can get the ham!

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  12. Wow, you're lucky Fin...all we have in ours is veg. I suppose it's a Veg Safe *sigh*

    but we'd like to come over and help you pry open the door to your Ham Safe!

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  13. I loved this. The thrill of the Ham Safe hunt!

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  14. The cheese or the wrapper? The chicken or the egg?

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  15. Cheese! We love us some cheese too, Fin!

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  16. Oh yes, the foot under the belly move. We know it well.

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  17. Hate to say it but I think it's a toss up. Those cheese wrappers can be mighty fun!

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  18. I think you want both the cheese and the wrapper, but separately of course.

    I think you want the cheese first and after you're finished snacking, then the wrapper.

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  19. The wrapper ..

    ** please help me find a home for the boys .. stop by my blog and mention them on yours **

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  20. Glogirly is cracking up again. She'll never think of our Ham Safe the same way again!!

    I've got my money on the cheese for Fin. Sure the wrapper is fun, but it will likely be fair game once the cheese is gone.

    So Fin, go ahead and have your cheese and wrapper too!

    mew!
    Katie
    (Glogirly's cat)

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  21. I think that you would love to have both the cheese to eat and then the wrapper to lick and play with. That is my guess at least. But I bet you would have loved to have both cheese and ham - it is a classic combo after all!

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  22. The foot under the belly seems to be universal. I got the cheese out of the fridge once when the door hadn't been shut properly. When mum came to see what we were doing because we were quiet, she found me on one end and Eric on the other end of the cheese chewing through cheese and wrapper together.

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  23. This post, and the one about the Great White, totally cracked me up, you are so funny! I'm going to do a hunt post please come by and check it out. Love you.

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  24. OK, my Hunt post is up, please stop by and check it out.

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  25. If you choose the wrapper, you can have both the plastic and cheese residue on it!

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  26. Great hunting story. The humans are not fair with our access to the Ham Safe either.

    Why do you have to choose between the cheese and the wrapper? Surely you could find a use for both.

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