Ha! [It's a stereotype to be sure, but it still nets a cackle from the young man.]

You could call that accurate. Try that trick and you'll get any cat in the house, though, once they realize there's a correlation between tin cans and tuna.

That may be a trope too, but it's just as accurate. [He snickers.] My cat growing up used to go nuts over the water in the bottom of a can of tuna.