One of our cats, Sasha, has discovered the microwave. When she hears the alarm, she materializes, jumps up on the radiator cover next to the oven, and tries to crawl inside to get a piece of whatever we're thawing or heating up.
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You might think it would save energy or time or something if she just materialized inside the oven, but I'm not a cat, so I don't know about that.
"Birdses?" says that look in her eyes. "Please?"
"It's just coffee, Sasha. You don't like coffee."
"Oh." She jumps down and dematerializes.
Tuesday morning, having earlier disposed of a dead chickadee I'd found on the kitchen floor, I caught Sasha, with a live robin in her teeth, slinking through the kitchen, bound for the microwave.
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