Tuesday: Hili Dialogue

October 22, 2013 • 3:11 am

Cats don’t want no stinking apples—they want meat!

Hili: Are you really going to eat this?
A: Sure, the apples are delicious.
Hili: For humans, maybe.
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In Polish:
Hili: Wy to naprawdę będziecie jedli?
Ja: Oczywiście, jabłka są bardzo smaczne.
Hili: Chyba dla ludzi.

17 thoughts on “Tuesday: Hili Dialogue”

    1. Well, not really. But she is eager to share whipped cream which goes with the warm apple pie. Vanilla ice cream is also appreciated.

    1. We do not know. There was a gardener living here for decades and he planted all those fruit trees. After his death the place was sold and we bought it but there was nobody left who knew what kind of apples (and plums, and apricots, and pears) he planted. We have four different kinds of apples and do not know any of them.

      1. Most likely these are old and mostly local cultivars. Modern orchards have no use for those, so they become rare, despite the fact that they taste better than comercial cultivars.
        If you speak German: http://www.boomgarden.de/index.htm
        This guy collects old cultivars to keep them alive.
        If you don’t speak German I can ask the guy about pomologists in Poland, perhaps he can help.

        1. Unfortunately, I do not speak German. But I know that there are people in Poland collecting old varieties of fruit trees. I could contact one of them…

          1. That might be the only way to find out what grows in your orchard. And perhaps you have some old, rare and yummy variety that others might enjoy.

  3. 🙂 It really does look like Hili is saying this! What an adorable expression – I want to kiss her face (damn the allergies!).

  4. My dog Madison knew his apples. And pears, too. He’d happily sit out back working on an apple or pear. And in the spring, particularly in his youth, he’d pick black raspberries with his teeth from the bushes out there.

    1. My dog does the same thing – she goes out and eats apples from the apple tree that have fallen on the ground (you have to be careful as she asks out just do to this then gets gas). She also picks mulberries with her teeth. I suspect she learned all this behaviour because she was a stray that was very underweight for a time.

      1. Cool – that makes two canines like that. Madison would also eat watermelon rinds, and if I’d hold it for him so he only ate the almost-red parts, there were no aftermath issues.

    2. Our dearly departed dogs used to love gathering pears at my mom’s house, especially the fermented ones on the ground! Talk about drunken happiness! The Rottie used to steal pears from the smaller dog’s pile – no even-stevens for her!

  5. My mother had a cat who wanted to smell everything she ate. He wasn’t terribly fond of any sort of human food, even the meaty or dairy kinds, but he wanted to make sure we weren’t sneaking cat food on the sly.

    OTOH, my friends’ cat stole a (very strong-smelling) piece of onion last week from the trash, apparently because he wanted to smell it some more. I have come to the conclusion that many cats are not aware they are complete carnivores.

    1. “My mother had a cat who wanted to smell everything she ate.”

      My tabby Winston does that–I’ve created a monster.

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