If you were dead in your house, should your starving pet eat you...

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Poll question: If you were dead in your house, should your starving pet eat you...

to stay alive?

Hmmmm. Would you rather be cat chow or dog chow?

[Parche]

1. pet

That would be very aMEWsing and ruff

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

2. There's a little known movie called "The Uncanny"

Three cat tales (not Stephen King's), one of which featured a neglected elderly woman dying and her multiple cats feasting on her body because they had no food. We used to watch that movie on HBO all the time; my dad would say, "Not that damn cat movie again!" I wish I could find it on VHS.

[Osamasux]

5. I checked IMDB for you

It is only out on a UK version DVD. Sorry.

[nuxvomica]

8. That's the first thing I thought seeing the thread subject

Check eBay cuz I rented the VHS version years ago so you might find a used copy. That was a great little movie and I think Valerie Hobson played the elderly woman.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

9. Does this mean I'm not the first to think of this

obvious question?

[Solly Mack]

3. My doggie is too much of a gourmet to ingest me

I'm old and tough. He'd tut-tut the very thought.

He's not above selling my body to science though.

[Poll_Blind]

4. Should it? No. WOULD it? The uncomfortable answer is yes.

I'm pretty sure this was spawned at least in part by the story about the kid who cooked up a rabbit and guinea pig for his life sciences class. In the thread someone mentioned only feeding their cat 100% complete vegan food (which is dangerous and not a little cruel to the cat) and then some people rightly brought up the fact that the cat is a carnivore by nature. Do animals eat their dead owners? Yes. Will I trouble myself to dig up a news article? No, but it should not be difficult.

Taurine: Deficiencies can occur in dogs and cats fed vegetarian diets, as taurine (or the precursors for taurine) is present in meat but not in vegetables. link

PB

[kittycat1164]

6. of course they would

they only use me now because I can open cans and bags. That would eliminate the middle process for them.

[Patiod]

7. Oh please

I often think The Little wouldn't even wait til I was dead. I've awakened to fell her taking speculative licks then tentative bites to see if I was still reacting.