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(6–ounce) package frozen peas
    2 cups potato chips
Bake the piecrust at 425°G F. until lightly browned. Take out of the oven and reduce the heat to 375°G F.
In a saucepan, melt the butter over low heat. Stir in the flour until there are no lumps and add the milk. Stir until thickened.
Drain the salmon and mix with the sauce.
Stir in the frozen peas and pour the mixture into the prepared piecrust.
Lightly crush the potato chips and spread evenly over the salmon mixture.
Bake for about 20 minutes, or until bubbly.
    I F YOU DON’T want to bake a pie, you can leave out the peas and potato chips, roll into small balls, and eat immediately. Humans won’t eat it that way.
    If you don’t like salmon, and some cats don’t, you can substitute lamb, beef, or tuna. Personally, I don’t like beef except for organ meats, but other cats crave beef. There’s no accounting for taste.

Cat
VEAL KIDNEY
    1 fresh kidney, washed and diced
If your human won’t dice the raw kidney, have him or her put the kidney in a pot, cover with water, and boil. After 15 minutes, turn off the heat and let cool.
Remove the meat and cut into small pieces.
You can pour this over your crunchies cold or warm it up.
    I ENJOY KIDNEY any time of year but Mother won’t make it in the summer. The aroma overpowers her.
    As you’ve noticed, humans have a peculiar sense of smell. Their olfactory sense is underdeveloped. To further impair their noses, they smoke and wear perfume or cologne. But the scent of kidney in summer is too much for Mom, who has a good nose for a human.
    I was reading
The Intelligence of Dogs
the other day, and I quote, “The scenting ability of hounds is truly remarkable. The average dog has around two hundred twenty millionscent receptors in its nose, as compared to only five million for humans.” And just think, a hound has a better nose than other dogs.
    On the issue of scent, I concede that dogs are far superior to cats.

Horse
MOLASSES MASH
    ¼ cup dry molasses
    ¾ bucket beet pulp
    Warm water
Mix the dry molasses through the beet pulp, then add warm water almost to the top of the pail. Allow to sit overnight.
When you come into the barn in the morning, reach down in the pail with your hands and turn the mixture over again.
For a 16-hand horse, add ½ cup of the molasses mash to his or her regular feed.
    S OME PEOPLE FEED their horses beet pulp daily and no sweet feed. We use it as a treat since most horses enjoy the molasses taste.
    Mom’s grandfather used to make a bran mash: ¾ bucket high-quality bran, ½ cup dry molasses, warm water, and 1 ounce brandy.
    If a horse is stall bound, the last thing you want to do isfill them up on bran. He used the mash as a reward, feeding it once a week out in the pasture.
    Horses’ digestive systems are very different from cats’. The best thing in the world to feed a horse and keep it from colic is good-quality hay and lots of water. If you live in an area where the grass has plenty of nutrients, like Kentucky, with all that limestone in the soil, that’s the best of the best. Of course, turn a horse out on new spring grass and they’ll eat themselves sick. Remember what I said about horses being stupid …
    Horses are grazers. Their ideal situation is to eat and walk, eat and walk. My ideal situation is to eat in one spot.
    Pewter likes to sit on the fence post and call the horses to her. One day she was sunning herself on the fence, eyes closed, dozing, when one of the babies, Sidekick, snuck up. He tiptoed almost like a cat, got right behind her, then blew air out of his nostrils. Pewter shot three feet straight up in the air. Scared the horse as much as he’d scared her.
    She raced to the house and he ran down and jumped into the pond.
    He’s not a baby now, he’s 16.3 hands, half Thoroughbred and half Dutch Warmblood. His sense of humor has grown with his size. He likes to steal hats off humans’ heads. He pulls bridles off bridle hooks, carries them to the other end of the