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From: kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: fingers as cat food?
Message-ID: <710@tymix.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Mar-86 15:49:19 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 23 15:49:19 1986
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In article <2052@uwmacc.UUCP> wu@uwmacc.UUCP (peter wu) writes:
>*** 
>A few articles back somebody mentioned that his wife stick her
>fingers with food in a cat's mouth and got chewed on. 
>
>What I like to know is exactly how good a cat is in distinguishing
>human parts from food. Is this a born instinct or does it have to
>be taught to recognize fingers?


It goes both ways.  My first cat bit my finger to the bone when I 
extended a finger toward it.  This conditioned me for some years,
but all my cats since then have knwon the difference between food and a
finger.
-- 
Herb Kanner
McDonnell Douglas (TYMNET)
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