Here is the answer to Cat Food.
The Man on the telivision cable engineer who needed to thread a cable from the back of the house, under the floor, to the front. He realeased the cat with a string attached to it into a hole at the back of the house. The cat was lured by the smell of the cream and salmon to find it's way under the floor to the front of the house. The string was used to pull the cable through.