Tonight while cooking I made the mistake of leaving the olive oil bottle on the window sill. Mistake, because the cats go there to reach the cat trap on the window behind. Thus, while we were eating one of the cats got up there and made the bottle fall down on the floor. As that happened, the cap fell off from the bottle, and oil spilled on the floor. I asked what I could do to take care of it, but Peter said "Oh just leave it, now we eat, we'll take care of it afterward".
But it turned out that the remaining cats preceded us; they came and licked the olive oil on the floor. These cats will eat just anything. (Julie thinks that if they died, the cats would eat them.) We thought of bringing in all the other eight cats to finish the job.
After supper Peter went to get sawdust outside, and spread it over the oil. Then he told me, "Look, they are eating the sawdust!". The cats thought the olive-oil dipped sawdust was just a delicacy. I ask him if this is really something to recommended for the cats. He tells me that yes of course, there is nothing wrong with eating wood.
So Peter is on his knees, admiring the cats eating the olive-oil tainted sawdust, and he shouts to Julie who is in the other room: "Julie! Look at this, they eat the sawdust!". Julie from the other room answers, "Oh, don't let them do that!" (imagine the Scottish accent here, I don't know how to write it). So Peter says to the cat "Alright, stop it now! Julie says you can't. Come on, stop!" (imagine the British accent here).
(As I write, one of the dogs has happily discovered the stain of olive oil on the carpet, and licks it up frenetically).
