And if your cat is like the ones I’ve had, you’ll just wake up to flowers and water on the floor.
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Oh, yeah. He’s got his own cat grass (fresh every week from Wegmans, natch, cuz his highness don’t like old grass 
), but he’s OBSESSED with basil and anything green on the counters. WTF is it with cats?
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Mine had their own catnip plants on the screened in porch. It never stopped them from knocking over every plant in the house. And God forbid we put anything on the wide windowsill of the bay window in the living room . . . that was their perch for outdoor viewing.
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I love flowers and have grown up enough to accept a bouquet from a dinner guest. But I always think back to, as a young bride and very novice cook, opening the door to a guest who thrust a gigantic armload of3 foot tall flowering quince into my arms. It completely threw me as I scrambled to find any container other than the bathtub that eoukd hold them.
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that’s way less thoughtful imho.
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Dinner party = Giant Toblerone bar. Especially if there are kids. Muahahahahaha
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I would find it very hard to be offended is someone brings me a gift 
Or wishes me well
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I love flowers but I think they’re a risky choice whether for those who do not want another thing to deal with or, more importantly, the possibility they are toxic to our cats (I know many dummies who’d chew on them).
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And if your cat is like others I know, you can also wake up to chewed up flowers and the sound of a cat headed to a rug or carpet to get sick all over it.
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My mom used to have a cat that liked to steal asparagus off the counters during meal prep. Our little dude loves his dried nip, but otherwise hasn’t developed an affinity for vegetables. On the other hand, we have to wave him off pepperoni pizza (likes the grease, weirdo), fried chicken, bacon, donuts from Dunkin Donuts (specifically, the butternut ones), and pita bread. The pita bread is the only thing in nine years that he went out of his way to knock off a counter and try (semi successfully) to eat while unattended.
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There’s a classic picture of our late Dude longingly eying the lamb kebabs my PIC had threaded and laid down on the kitchen counter. He also had a thing for roast beef & chicken.
Chonky isn’t interested in human food one bit, save for licking the remnants from inside of a cheddar stick wrapper. Weirdo 
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Have we all forgotten the old, but true saying … it’s the thought that counts?
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Is it, though?
Mine head to the most expensive, hard to clean place or object to do their hurling. And yes, they “announce” it quite loudly beforehand.
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I think so. I’ve received quite a few gifts that I have either passed on to folks who I think would appreciate them or donated to charity thrift shops. And I’ve never thought to check to see if gifts I’ve given have been used. I generally bring candles, chocolates or wine–things that are easily enjoyed and are gone or can be given to others to be used and are gone.
I had a cat that would attack you for chocolate chip cookies. No matter how quietly you tried to open the cookie jar, he always heard you. And he loved Bloody Marys. Well maybe just the tomato juice, but who drinks tomato juice without booze.
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Two of the three cats I’ve had as an adult had no interest in human food at all. Unless you consider tuna to be people food. Though come to think of it, Mole did have an affinity for bacon.
The aptly named Malgato would eat anything. One day she even took the end of my Italian hoagie. She was a bad cat. And my best bud
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Yes, in both good and bad ways.
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Indeed.
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I think you bring some sweets or dessert.
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