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

Tom Yossarian Joad

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Sun Jan-23-05 05:33 PM
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Poll question: If you were dead in your house, should your starving pet eat you...

Edited on Sun Jan-23-05 05:33 PM by Tom Yossarian Joad

to stay alive?

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

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Parche

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Sun Jan-23-05 05:35 PM
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1. pet

That would be very aMEWsing and ruff

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DeposeTheBoyKing

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Sun Jan-23-05 05:35 PM
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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.

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Osamasux

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Sun Jan-23-05 06:06 PM
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5. I checked IMDB for you

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

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nuxvomica

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Sun Jan-23-05 06:24 PM
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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.

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Tom Yossarian Joad

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Sun Jan-23-05 08:12 PM
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9. Does this mean I'm not the first to think of this

obvious question?

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Solly Mack

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Sun Jan-23-05 05:37 PM
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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.

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Poll_Blind

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Sun Jan-23-05 05:41 PM
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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

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kittycat1164

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Sun Jan-23-05 06:11 PM
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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.

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Patiod

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Sun Jan-23-05 06:12 PM
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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.

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