Couple Taking Care of Cat Allegedly Eat It

[Blackmane]

Originally Posted by Link1130

You know, if the couple had eaten someone's cow (or pig or chicken or turkey), I'd doubt it'd be such as big of a deal...


* Link1130 shrugs and walks away

That is a highly different situation. Wherein the animal in this instance is used almost primarily for a domestic partner, a cow/pig/turkey/chicken is almost exclusively used as a source of human sustenance. Even if said couple did have a cat/pig/turkey/chicken in use at their residence primarily as a domestic pet and said housesitters did in fact consume the domestic pet, such an act would not have generated a significant amount of media attention because such a pet is commonly used for the sustenance of humans, especially Americans, wherein a common domestic household cat is not known for such uses.

[Ginkasa]

I can understand a little bit of disgust, but eating a cat is no more animal abuse than eating a cow/pig/chicken/turkey.


/me shrugs and walks away

[Teuthida]

Well, a pig is closer to a dog in personality and intelligence than a cat is. Turkeys are dumb animals...but we shouldn't hold that against them. I'm pretty fond of chickens. Dunno if I ever mentioned Afro Chicken here. Living in NYC and having a neighbor with a yard full of exotic chickens kinda makes them all the more special. And in class we hatched little chicks, and they're just so cute you wanna eat em like little fuzzy McNuggets that peck on the way down...

My friend's father used to catch stray cats and cook them...including ones he found with collars...I don't see this friend anymore...

[GameMaster]

Originally Posted by Danchastu

My friend's father used to catch stray cats and cook them...including ones he found with collars...I don't see this friend anymore...

Is it because the friend has been consumed or common sense told you to run and never look back?

[Teuthida]

That and hacking into AOL (back went I naive about the internet) and almost getting me in trouble by them, threatening my life, and other such things. Yes, a supreme hacker who dressed like he belonged in the CIA with a black suit and sunglasses (every single day) with a cat-eating father...the people I associate with...*sigh*

[Typhoid]

In a way I agree that its no more harsh than eating another animal, because animals are just that. Animals. Would it be different if it was a cat bred for eating purposes?


Im sure if this was a domestic cow or pig, it would be no different than eating a normal cow or pig. So just because it is a cat, its different? Im not trying to be an ass, but animals are just animals. Survival of the fittest. This cat, obviously, wasn't in the "fittest" catagory.


But, on the other hand, it is f*cking sick and disgusting. Even though is aid animals are animals, I cant see anyone bringing themself low enough to kill, and cook a cat.

[jeepnut]

All this conversation about how it shouldn't matter because it was an animal is all fine and dandy but it misses the main point...

it wasn't their cat to eat in the first place.