We had a cat when I grew up, a lovely female cat with completely black fur, short but compact, with tuffs of hair on her ears.

I remember the first time I gave her some ice on a plate, it was summer, 30+ C in Sweden, she lay in the shadow under a table on the deck of our house, seemingly completely exhausted.

So I got an ice cube and put it on a plate and brought it to her.

She was interested and sat up straight and looked at the cube, gave it a sniff and a small lick, and clearly was interested, but a bit confused.

It wasn't long before she realized that if she just waited a bit she could drink some cool refreshing water, and got excited.

She looked intently at the ice cube and then gave it a few licks, then back to looking and so on.

It was quite interesting to see.