JaredIn a surprise Inspector Clouseau twist, I now have an extra thing to investigate for Spooky Kitties Sciences!
I was doing a quick scroll through the evenings secondary camera video, when I spotted a curious The Inspector standing on the trunk of the tree near the feeding station. Kept jumping around, finding him near where the magpies had been, so I initially suspect(edit) he was simply chasing them as they sometimes let him do, until I randomly chance stop...
There Inspector Clouseau was, rolling around like crazing about 2 meters NE of the tree, mostly hidden by the unfortunate placement of the awnings east post. Still, there he was for 5 minutes, at which point he ran back up the tree, walked across the lawn to the hill, flattened himself at the bottom, and then ran off camera, presumably in the middle of The Zoomies.
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Now, as some of my Spooky Kitties Sciences readers may know, the motivations behind that tests are not just to entertain the kitties. While the most important aspect is the genuine curiosity I had seeing the kitties rolling around in the snow, I really wanted to find something that The Inspector liked. I came out of the initial testing with only a single moment to hint that he liked something. What that was is still a mystery.
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While I don't think I will be able to answer that first hint, his actions today suggests that there is in fact something he will go crazy for. Thus, in addition to the other testing I will be announcing soon, I will also be doing a dedicated Inspector Clouseau investigation that I will be calling "The Pink Panther." Also have a candidate: Violet Flowers(checked, they are non-toxic to cats).
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