Cat milk and other random thoughts

While making morning coffee today, I was struck by a few random thoughts. I was frothing up the milk when I began to wonder about Cat Milk. For those of you not in the know, Cat Milk is marketed as an alternative for milk for your pet cat. According to some, regular milk isn’t good for a cat so the marketing genius’ came up with Cat Milk.

Now, being the curious type, I began to ponder where cat milk comes from.

Do they milk cats for it?

Is there a nice little farm where free range cats are kept?

Just how does one milk a cat? Very, very carefully I suspect. Do the farmers wear full body armour when they go to milk the cats?

Imagine the farm, with acres and acres of land for the cats to roam – herds of cat as far as the eye can see! Is it a herd of cats? A range of cats? A pack of cats?

“Be careful there ma’am, that one is the Tom and he’s a bit frisky today”.

Is the milk sorted according to tabby and non tabby brands?

Do you get different flavoured milk by feeding the cats different food? This week’s special “Seafood and Mouse Milk”

Just how much kitty litter is used at a cat farm?

One thing for sure – there won’t be a rodent problem at the farm.

I made the mistake of looking up just what is in cat milk. I’m very disappointed – it’s made from malt and other such things, but no real cat milk. Malt! How utterly shattering! I  had conjured up this wonderful image of cats running in herds across the landscape, coming into the barn at dawn ready for their milking. All that meowing and mewing as the cats are herded into their pens. Reality really does disappoint sometimes.

Hmmm…. don’t they put malt in beer? Perhaps a bit of beer instead would be nice for Cat? On second thought, he  has a bad enough attitude without a drinking problem.