1. Spices are not good for cats.I've seen Betty finish the feeder before. I think the reason she doesn't finish it now is that she doesn't need to. By the time I booked her calories this morning, she had 180 yesterday even leaving half the overnight feeder. I mean, honestly, if this was really a whisker stress thing, she's not above eating with her paws. I'll take her to an Ethiopian restaurant sometime. She'll fit right in.
2. That wasn't random. Nothing is, really. There's enough of that in my life that I've come to know and accept this as gospel.
3. No, I didn't automatically assume that because I know how fast stuff happens and how fraught the moment is when it does. If he doesn't get caught and made to pay up, may that happen to him somewhere else, sometime, and may it cause him to examine his (tiny, shrivelled) conscience. *And hopefully, his depleted stores of filthy lucre.* Hit-and-run is a very personal issue to me as my uncle was hit-and-runned, and killed -- years before I was born, but he was by all accounts a really brave and good kid and it would have been great to have him in my life as my uncle. Oh well.