Cat has licked our food, would you eat it?

Ida_Notion

At that price, I'd have washed it off, cooked it to the point of disintegration and eaten it anyway, but if it had already done one roast meal then I might have reasoned that I'd already got a good bit of my money's worth out of it and the rest just wasn't meant to be. I would not have dished it up to the unwary and sat it out myself as I have never fed the family anything that I would not be prepared to eat too. Neither would I have given what remained to the cat, as it just gives the cat the message that you don't mind that kind of thing and the end result makes it well worth trying again, even if you do screech a bit.

I don't have animals these days as current husband isn't an animal lover, and I don't think it would be fair to the animals as they sense these things (his killer scowl probably clues them in a bit!), but in the days when I did, cats were never allowed on worktops, tables or upstairs. I'll never forget the first time I saw mother-in-law MKI casually open the kitchen window and let her cat in across her worktop. I didn't really catch the other times, as I was biting my lip and looking the other way. Yuk.

I've had lots of animals over the years and it was not unusual for them to eat our leftovers (once they'd specifically been put down in a bowl for them!), but one that really sticks in my mind was a particularly boisterous dog with a love of potato peelings. I was forever finding the contents of the kitchen bin turfed out over the floor after she'd been trying to extract another fix, and I had to shut her out of the kitchen while I peeled the spuds otherwise I would feel the weight of flying dog against my shoulder with every potato that I picked up. As soon as I let her back in again she'd strip the place of potato peelings like a tank of pirhanas stripping flesh from bone. Yet if I was preparing meat she'd just look at me hopefully and skulk off if it didn't get her anywhere. Odd

Justamum

superflygal wrote: »

I would NEVER EVER let an animal lick my face or mouth (that is just sick).

What I am about to tell you might make those with delicate stomachs want to heave :eek:

We were on a train a few years ago, and there was a rather drunk man with his dog. Not only did he let the dog lick his face, but he let the dog lick INSIDE his mouth _pale_

squeaky

This cat was truly amazing! But then, they all are.

The day I arrived at my digs at the university he arrived through the window and settled down for a nap; and when he woke up he demanded food!

But the real eye-opener was the day I made myself a lasagna. He arrived in the kitchen not too long before it was cooked and used every means at his disposal to let me know that he was hungry, and not just any old hungry but desperately hungry for that!
I fed him some of his usual stuff but he wasn't the least bit interested. Anyway, I served up, and went off to my room. Eating off my lap while listening to a record I discovered was not such a good idea. A paw idly stretched over the plate and a single claw neatly hooked a sheet of lasagna and dragged it to the floor! He'll never eat it, I thought to myself, but he did; and came back for more...
It got to the stage where the only way I could have lasagna in peace was to serve him his own helping seconds before eating mine. It was quite a while before I caught on to the fact that he was eating only half of his, raiding me for as much as he could steal, and only then polishing of the rest of his own!

With chilli he was an even bigger pest!

In the end I was making the darn thing so HOT to try and discourage him that I could hardly manage them myself!

Did it stop him?

Justamum

Squeaky - I always thought it was only Garfield who liked lasagne!

squeaky

If you've ever seen a stray cat raiding a bin you'll know that they can/will eat pretty much anything. It's why strays in cities are so successful.

I'm going through the process of being adopted by a long time stray right now and even after three months he first mooches around looking for anything he can pick up before he starts trying to get my attention and point out that his food bowl is empty

Cats are like marmite, methinks - you either love them or hate them

Dando83

Cavemen ate crap off the ground for millenia and the human race survived. Wash/reheat/eat I say.

squeaky

Dando83 wrote: »

Cavemen ate crap off the ground for millenia and the human race survived. Wash/reheat/eat I say.

When it comes right down to it there's hardly a living thing on the planet that human beings "somewhere" don't eat. Snakes, grubs, insects...

..we even cheerfully eat "bee sick"!

Otherwise known as honey.

Bird spit? (Birds Nest Soup)

Emuchops

Eat it-the cat probably has less germs on it than the average child and many parents happily hoover up their offsprings dribbly half chewed food .....Give me that cat any day.

AnnaMonkey

I'm in the eat it camp!

My new kitty woke me up the other day my licking my mouth _pale_ and i'm still okay! grossed out yes, but not ill :rotfl:

S_Wales_Saver

Yep I'm for eating it too. Love some of the stories. Two of our four cats sleep on our bed. They use the bedroom window for access to the house, so we don't get a choice lol. :rotfl::rotfl:

Cats I find are very dexterous when it comes to getting food. Ours were very good at getting saucepan lids off when they were younger!