NaturallyResilient

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A number of years ago, I was lactose intolerant and was using soymilk  on my cereal. However, I really wanted to drink milk with my cookies, that being one of the simple pleasures in life. I just was not sure about drinking the soymilk. It was fine with the cereal camouflaging the taste and texture, but to actually drink it?

I decided to give it the cat test. We had 7 cats living with us at the time (that is what happens when you have a cat door so anyone can move in). One of the cats, Hobbs, was young and all stomach. If Hobbs were around the food bowl, none of the others would have a chance. This is a cat that if you left a large loaf of bread on the counter over night, in the morning it would be ripped open and half of the loaf would be eaten. So for this experiment I made sure that Hobbs was outside. The other six cats got curious and followed me to the kitchen. I poured some of the soymilk into a bowl and put it on the ground. The other cats came up to it, sniffed, and then looked up at me. I could imagine them asking, “What are you trying to do? Poison us?” About that time, Hobbs got wind that something was in the kitchen. He came tearing through the cat door, around the corner and into the kitchen. He did not stop to ask the other cats why they were not drinking the milk. He plunked he head down and started lapping it up. About the 5^th lap, it hit him. His head shot up and he started spitting, trying to get the taste out of his mouth.

It took him 2 weeks before he would forgive me. The whole incident scared one of the other cats, Barney, so bad that he never trusted me with an offer of milk again. And needless to say, I never tried the soymilk with my cookies.