How does it taste?

 

Like cat of course :

 

It always tastes good on the Chinese buffet with sweet and sour sauce on it.

 

have you eaten any of your cats yet?

 

You can market it as "Alley Rabbit".

 

When I was in the Marines, and stationed in Japan, out in town in Kinville, there where these little shacks that sold food right outside the base. We'd always stop there after a night of drinking and whoring.

One of the best places sold this barbecue chicken. It was great. We'd sit by those ditches, benjo ditches, I think they were called, and eat our chicken.

One night, this dude asks us what we're eating. We replied, "Chicken dude."

He tells us that ain't chicken.

"Well, what is it then smartass" we answered.

"You ever seen a stray cat anywhere in Okinawa?"

Us... "No."

Him... "There's your answer."

 

I refer to my cats as "fluffy food storage."

 

Or mouse to mouth conversion kitties.

 

I've heard that mtn lion is pretty good stuff.

In some areas there are large populations of feral cats and a person could do better hunting them than hunting traditional small game. Be aware though that cats are way harder to put down than similar size animals like rabbits.

 

I have problems with eating cats......just can't seem to get them out of the bear traps in one piece.

 

http://catrecipes.com/pekingmoon.html

 

I will affirm, mountain lion is delicious. No matter how you cook it.

 

So that got me thinking...

Come SHTF, End Of The World type scenario, I'm going to make a fortune selling cat meat. I'll be the cat meat king of eastern North Carolina.

Thoughts?

Usually the older the animal is, the tougher the meat. Keep that in mind when trying to build your customer base.

In my experience, after a certain age tom cats tend to wander off while the female cats tend to stay on the farm. You mostly never see the tom again.

Learn how to cure and prepare hides.

In the movie The Book of Eli, the protagonist of the story claimed that cat oil was just as good as Chapstick. Might be worth looking into.

Catgut was used for centuries to make strings for musical instruments. While it wasn't made of actual cat, it is made from animal intestines. Since animal intestines will be a byproduct of your business, it might be worth looking into. Here's a link to get you started

http://gamutmusic.squarespace.com/making-gut-stings/

Catgut has also been used for surgical sutures so it'd be worth looking into that as well. It has the advantage of being naturally absorbed into the body. (If used for surgery, make sure the source animal was healthy. Most diseases won't transfer but there's no need to take chances. There was a scare that mad cow disease might make the jump from catgut sutures but there's no known case of that happening.)

And of course intestines have also been widely-used as sausage casings. If you have more fresh cat than you have customers at any point in time, it'd be worth preserving the meat for future use. My university makes an outrageous amount of money during homecoming week selling "sausage on a stick" with a roll stuck onto the end of the sausage stick.

If you are into weaving, you might try harvesting the cat hair as they grow and mixing it with angora or wool to get a softer product.

I'd highly recommend watching your clowder* and pick out any cats who exhibit high skill in hunting and keeping them out of the stew pot. I've had several cats throughout the years who not only killed rodents, birds, and small game but also brought those kills to the back door to give to me. That could be an excellent source of additional protein and would be much faster than waiting on a new litter to grow up. And what's better, a female cat with great hunting skills tends to teach those skills to her offspring. So you can easily end up with several generations of superior hunters before those skills disappear from the progeny.

(* "Clowder" is the correct name to refer to a group of cats. That would be a good thing to know. Since you intend to have one.)

 

http://gamutmusic.squarespace.com/making-gut-stings/


(* "Clowder" is the correct name to refer to a group of cats. That would be a good thing to know. Since you intend to have one.)

Mmmmmm... Clowder chowder I'm thinking of a Rue base, onion, garlic, okra, seasoned to taste... . Clowder Cat' catorri tomatos,mushrooms,
both over rice

 

there is a high end chinese restaurant in our town it was inspected by the health dept....they found frozen cat meat/bodies in the freezer...it was only for the workers they claimed and they never ever served it to the customers...so they claimed tests were done questions asked and nothing was done it wasnt illegal so they got no fines 'murica!

 

I heard a long time back that the super markets that sold rabbit meat had to make sure the feet were left on so people could know for sure that they were getting rabbit and not cat. I had an uncle that told me you couldn't tell the difference from cat and rabbit once cooked. He had eaten cat during the war and liked it.

 

I had an uncle that told me you couldn't tell the difference from cat and rabbit once cooked. He had eaten cat during the war and liked it.

My Granddad used to tell us a story that during the depression years, they'd have what they called a Bunny Bop, where everybody would hunt down and kill all the rabbits they could find, they have a big dinner for everybody.

Afterwards, they say you couldn't find a stray cat anywhere in town.

 

Ha ha. I've heard stories about the bengi ditches. Ever heard of "Bengi fever". AKA herpaghonnasyphilaids.

 

Just because people can and do eat cats, doesn't mean you should.

Obligate carnivore mammals are too high in the food chain to be of much nutritional value. Plus they have a higher concentration of heavy metals, biohazards, and other toxins.

It's called biomagnification. Each step along the food chain requires more to get the same level of nutrition. You can Wiki that word for an expansive explanation. It is easiest to explain with the Rule of Tens.

Plant energy - 10% passed onto herbivore, 10% of that passed onto carnivore, 10% of that passed onto 2nd level carnivore, etc...

So you have to eat a lot more cat to get the same nutrition you would get from a ruminant, like cow.

Also in the same manner of the food chain the higher you go the more toxins reside in the tissues. If you think fish had a mercury problem then know that your outdoor kitty is far worse. Heavy metals, radioactive compounds, and carcinogenic compounds, Fluffy is a toxic waste dump. Plus with highly developed immune systems that comes from being a meat eater the cat has a much higher incidence of bacterial infection. Did you know that your vet has to take your dearly departed pet and follow strict biohazard procedures?

Let's also consider one point. Almost no sharks bother to eat humans once they take a "taste". We just taste bad because of our diet of meat. (Take that you Vegans!) Yet even with our high meat diet we are still omnivores and derive most of our energy from plant sources. So think about a cat with that view. It's not going to taste very good without a lot of Hoisin Sauce.

Fluffy isn't your best choice for dinner. Taste, toxins, and poor energy source.

 

Cows don't have litters of six twice a year or bury their own waste so you don't step in it or exist just fine in a 1' x1' space for extended periods of time or let you pet them while sitting on the couch.

And who is talking about "best"? The thread, and site, is about surviving. It'd be best if civilization never fell apart in the first place.

 

How about storing some food. That way you don't need to be eating random critters.

 

Well if your going to eat cats then the population of rodents, amphibians, birds etc is going to sky rocket. Then you have to think about what age your going to slaughter, if your going to tame them and if not how your going to catch them and keep them still long enough to kill them. Then you have to cure the meat, and skin the body, unfortunately in some countries they still skin the poor animals alive (just give me one minute with those baskets is all I say).

The number one thing is, if your going to farm any animal then show that animal respect in every aspect of its life, and that includes killing it. If said animal has had a good life, killed humanely by you (don't coward out like the majority of farmers do these day) and then do the butchery yourself. Only then can you be sure the meat is going to be good.

I buy meat regularly from a local farmers market with a locally sourced stock, and you can tell when a animal has suffered in it's last moments, the meat is just not up to scratch compared with those who have had a good life and a quick/humane send off.

NB My grandfather and many relatives of mine have been gamekeepers.


PS: Personally I think a cats talents is going to out way any use as food unless it is the last resort. The rodent population is going to go through the roof as the food dies down in the cities they will move out into the country. It's a bit like shooting all the foxes and then complaining you have a rat problem -duh!

 

Ive worked and visited all over Asia for the past 8 years. i just spent 2 years in South korea and I will say that I have not had cat but i had dog on 2 occasions (probably more and didnt know it) and gotta say I would have it again in a second.....I see no difference in eating a cat, dog, vs a Pig or cow....Am I going home to kill and eat My German Shepard, No, but would I BBQ him to feed my 3 kids and wife, without a second thought..its about surviving

 

Why does the phrase "easy as herding cats" come to mind here?

 

This thread is grossing me out as I pet my kitty! Just the thought of eating a cat...

 

Pity the opposite isn't the case, too...

Cat meat?

Come on… Who dosen’t love some General Meow’s

I like tuna, I like liver,
Meow Mix, Meow Mix, please deliver!! :thumb:

 

Cat meat?

Come on… Who dosen’t love some General Meow’s

 

Honey Badger is right. The percentage thing is only about how efficiently the primary source of energy from the sun is used as it goes up the food chain. It is most often used to show how much energy is lost by eating cows rather than eating plants. That energy is lost because of all the processes that the cow goes through to maintain life. Energy is lost at each step, but that doesn't mean that meat isn't nutritious, or cow meat is more nutritious than cat meat.

 

If you take in account the radiation from the sun and the amount of grass that a full grown Black Angus Cow carrying twins eats every 13.7 hours you will realize that if you Light a Cats Ass of fire and chase it down and then eat it you burn more calroies vs the cow if it was only carrying 1 calf...In an emergency situation that is..Now if you wnat to really get technical I can explain this using a Tidle wave and a Goat and the alignment of the stars but when i do that people seldom understand the math

 

Ive never eaten cat but Im sure they dont taste good. Desperate times make people do desperate things though.

 

Nothing desperate about it... it's an animal, nothing sacred to it. Just like a horse or a dog. There are people all around the world that won't eat things because it disgusts them. And disgust is one emotion that is taught.

There are good arguments not to eat them. But many people do. I myself have unknowingly eaten cat. A little thai place had cleared the city of them before getting found out and quickly closed down. Kinda like greasy chicken. or maybe stringy beef...

If I'm hungry, I won't hesitate to bag a few.

What else am I supposed to do with the meat while I'm collecting furs for my giant garfield suit??? :