Feline dementia and daal

It is so cold here.  Driving my son to work because he missed his bus this morning, I first had to defrost the car's windshield.  The temperature outside was 2.5 degrees.  Not too cold if you live in northern Scandinavia or Alaska but cold enough here, especially if you have just returned form southern Spain where the average daytime temperature was in the middle to high 20s.  It is so cold here even the cats are complaining and meow piteously to be let in through the kitchen door whenever their little paws begin to ice up.  Although the older of the two cats regularly meows out of context because of her feline dementia and so it's difficult to know exactly what she's thinking.  She's also taken to leaping, slowly, onto the dining room table to lick any plates or bowls inadvertenbtly left behind.  So it was I discovered today that cats seem to like daal curry with onion, ginger and garlic.  But that could have been the dementia of course.