Cocoa takes on the question of our pets’ food:

“Dear Cocoa,

I am a young feline trying desperately to learn the ways of my human pets.  Today, the first day I was strong enough to begin exploring my new home, my nose picked up the delectable odors of raw meat.  I raced to the room where the scent was the strongest and was hit with a horrible sense of heat and danger.  My pets, I’m sorry but this is what they were doing, they were sticking that beautiful raw meat into a box that was so hot I could feel my fur begin to smoke.

WHY?  Why would they ruin a beautiful piece of meat by putting it into that hot box?  When the meat came out of the box it was brown and smoky and smelt burnt; totally ruined!  But my pets ate it and seemed to like it?!?!?! 

Can you please explain this to me?

Signed Loss of Good Meat”

“Dear Loss of Good Meat,

I was confused as a youngster myself when I saw my pets putting perfectly good meat into a hot box that ruined it; however, I have since learned that their systems cannot process the raw meats (whatever that means) and so they are forced to put it in the box before they can eat it.  You might want to go on an online site called Wikipedia and look up the word 'cooking'. 

You will not be able to change this behavior in your pets, so you might as well just learn the warning signs so you can stay as far away as possible until it is over: 

1.      The smell of raw meat fills the room with the hot box

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2.      Someone is in the room with the hot box and they are using weird utensils that they call pans

3.      Someone is placing the meat on a ‘pan’

4.      Go hide as far from the room as possible because the smell will make you sick!

Hope this helps,

Signed Cocoa”

Cocoa thought that you might be interested in a few cooking ideas, so he wishes to suggest eBay or Amazon for cookbooks that you will love to use over and over again.  His favorites are the Betty Crocker Cookbooks , which can also be found on eBay and Amazon, because they give you ideas on how to do the things suggested in each recipe.