Stirring up controversy

Like dogs shouldn't be given choclate

Level spoonful of decaff in a mug. Suitable quantity of oat milk.

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Boil kettle and fill mug, stir, drink. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

This is correct. Ours only drinks water (from a tap), and only eats dry food (biccies) - oh, and mice.

This is also correct. It's fairly toxic to IIRC most animals (except humans).

Thats never ever happened to me yet...

That is correct as the cat's digestive system cannot digest Lactose (because their livers do not produce the enzyme required (Lactase) to break the Lactose down)

undigested lactose will stay in their intestines rather than passing into the bloodstream, and end up fermenting,? says Dr. Richter. ?Whole,

You can buy milk that has had the lactose removed and thus the cat can drink this. Otherwise its water

S.

Theobromine, formerly known as xantheose, is a bitter alkaloid of the cacao plant, with the chemical formula C?H?N?O?. It is found in chocolate

Humans can break down the theobromine but most animals cannot break it down

I prefer decaff coffee too (L'OR Decaffeinated Instant Coffee) but found if I used soya 'fake milk' it went funny, sort of coagulated. So went back to 'normal milk' then by accident and then a little test I discovered if the temprature of the coffee was below ~62C when adding the soya it didn't coagulate. This came about after I was trying to work out why soya 'milk' was OK with tea but not in coffee, I guess with the tea bag in the cup for a few mins allowed the brew to cool to about 60C before I added the 'milk'

Had fun using my 'laser' gun thermometer, which I also use for checking the bath water temperature and soup and as many things I can find to use it on.

I've had the volcano experience after heating a mug full of skimmed milk in a microwave for a couple of minutes and then trying to add drinking chocolate powder. As soon as the powder hit the surface of the milk much of the contents of the mug rapidly ended up on the work surface.

Yes I agree with the above, I read a similar post about this where the person said that after thier cat had drunk milk it had a dire rear. I assume he meant diarrhea , but it seemed so apt, correct and funny. Poor kitty

Even my in-laws find coffee a vile smell drink like my wife and I do.

The MIL drinks camomile tea, the FIL drinks hot chocolate, wifey drinsk green tea and I drink very strong fruit tea (4 fruit tea bags in one mug)

The smell of coffee is so vile I cannot physically enter a Costly coffee or a Starsucks shop.

I cannot even carry a mug of hot coffee that someone has asked me to take to so and so due to the smell.

I can even smell it on people's breath hours after they have drunk it.

I wouldn't say I prefer decaff, it's just we were advised to cut back caffeine.

Yeah, that's why we use oat milk for hot drinks. ;-)

Yeah, I've found that but oat is a bit creamier (and I can't taste the oat in it etc).

Yeah, that sounds right ... and why I put the instant coffee and milk in first for coffee, so I don't scald the coffee and milk in last for tea (because I want it brewed).

Yeah, they can be 'fun' for all sorts of things (I've used them to measure oil temperatures for cooking popadoms etc). ;-)

Cheers, T i m

Cats however thrive on cream which is nearly all fat..

Doesn't mean they don't like to eat it though.

In a pub i used to go to (over 40 yrs ago), the owners dog loved Maltesers, it's party trick was to sit near the bar and when someone came to order a drink would paw their leg to ask for some. (It was quite and old dog so had no obvious ill effects)

Yeah, when I was working I sometimes encountered nutters.

Bill

And old men shouldn't be given beer or gin.

Bill

One year our dog raided the chocolates under the Christmas tree. He went completely wappy, running round at mach 9, for the rest of the day.

Bill