Snookered

Ever heard the saying "won the battle but lost the war"?


I had left the tuna steak in the little frying pan, covered, to cool enough to put in the fridge. When I came back, the lid was in the sink and the empty frying pan was on the stove so I thought George had packaged the tuna up and put it in the fridge.

After Fire's medication, I fixed his special food mixture of pumpkin, canned cat food and sunflower seed oil and went to get the piece of tune treat. It was nowhere to be found in the fridge so I called for George. He thought I put the tuna steak away as he found the lid on the stove and the frying pan empty.

Needless to say, we were raided. The cats got the whole tuna steak without knocking the frying pan down or dropping the lid. Trouble has been seen on the stove before and apparently he has refined his technique.

I had to fry a salmon steak for Fire and this time, I sat and watched the frying pan the whole time. There was no point in tempting fate or cats as we call it.