Cat's Meat (Spoilers all Hobb books and short stories)

[Farseer]

Was it me, or did anyone else take special note of the fact that Pell's father wanted to drown kittens in a sack?! Any connection to what took place with the sack of drowned kittens Kennit found on Others' Island? It was all I could do not to jump out of my plane seat mid-flight and scream "Drowned kittens in a sack!"

Kitten Thick's colouring changed from black to orange and white stripes once Nettle saved him, with the orange and white not unlike Marmalade's colouring? Robin, you trickster...you joker you... Why do you DO this to us??!!

I loved Marmalade as a character by the way!

Also when did the story take place? Most likely prior to the Forging events in the Farseer trilogy, or even after those in TM, as Tarsha and Rosemary speak about Rosemary's aunty and cousins living at Forge, and the possibility that Rosemary could flee to safety there. I think I can say for certain that nobody had yet re-settled Forge at the end of FF...

I also don't believe that this Rosemary has any connection to Kettricken's little Rosemary/Chade's assassin Rosemary. Again, our Tangle Leader is just toying with us, with this name-linking business eg as has happened with most other books and characters such as Just and Lord Just, Hest and Hest etc!! The timing isn't right and a trained assassin would have plenty of deadly options up her sleeve to rid herself of an unwanted visit from Pell...this Rosemary was initially too clueless in this respect. No connection as far as I can see.

Just adding here that Robin did confirm some time ago that Cat's Meat chronologically "would predate Assassin’s Apprentice"...that confirms that the Rosemary in the story is not little Rosemary in the Farseer trilogy.

I also can't help but be stuck on this practice of drowning kittens in a sack...and that the practice itself also predated (if not continued into) the stream of time when Kennit found the kittens on Others' Island.

There is something here, and I want to know what it is!