How do you calm down a perpetually hungry cat who insists on biting your feet, even when you've given her cat food multiple times in a day? I tried singing some alternate lyrics I'd made up for the first verse of "California" by The Lagoons: "Tried to reason with a cat who bites my feet...She just wants to eat. She'll just have to wait for her food."
Somehow, I thought the mellowness of the song or the reality of those lyrics would sink in with my cat, Collette. Alas, they didn't. Back to the drawing board...