We have an old tomcat that was born in the pile of construction waste that was left over from when we built our house in 2007. In March of 2008 we were sorting through the scrap heap, burning the small scraps and sorting out the lumber that was still useful for something.
I saw something fuzzy down in the pile and figured that it was a bunny rabbit nest. Nope. It was a litter of ~2 week old kittens. There were three charcoal gray and one yellow tabby. The yellow tabby went home with one of my 4H ham curing project kids. Two of the gray ones met with untimely ends. Steve went through the serpentine belt on my '99 Dodge pickup and Shanaynay got dog-chomped, but old Snoopy is still kicking.
Anyway, Snoopy absolutely loves raw fish. He will eat fish scraps until he can't choke any more down and if I don't keep them coming at a rate that suits him I'm liable to wind up with a bloody leg because he will literally use me for a climbing tree to get onto the butchering table.
It's quite a nuisance, actually, but he's been here almost as long as we have so I let him get away with pretty much whatever he wants to do.
This new cat stopped eating the raw bluegill once he realized he could get better stuff out of us.
I’ve never seen a housecat, including quite a few strays that have shown up here, act so desperate for food in the 1st couple days. Not in his “begging” but in how he goes after the food and gulps it down once placed before him. The rest of his behavior is so sweet, the contrast is jarring. :-(
So, now, even if not fed for a while, he disdains the raw bluegill, but put a piece of scrambled egg in front of him and you’d think he had not eaten for days.
(We had a very cute stray kitten show up by getting in the belt of our minivan. I thought it was a goner, but it survived - with slightly messed up rear leg. My wife called him “Pingkao”, which in her native language apparently means “broken leg”. Another real sweetie but determined to be 99% an outside cat and thought it owned the road by our house — eventually got run over by someone.)