Some people will eat anything, it seems

[Roundabout]

Just like we were talking about in a thread a month or two back, some people will eat anything. Guess it's not so bad at Wendy's & Starbucks after all...

Couple taking care of cat allegedly eat it

WINDSOR, Ont. - A woman who left her home in the temporary care of a couple returned to make a gruesome discovery in the refrigerator: a pot containing the remains of what appeared to be a cooked cat.

"It is strange, there is no question about it," Windsor police Staff Sgt. Ed McNorton said Monday about the alleged killing and eating of the pet. "We've seen animal abuse before ... but nothing like this."

Officers were called to a west-end duplex Sunday night by a woman who had left her apartment in the care of a 24-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman.

The tenant came home to find the place abandoned and in disarray. Then she looked in the fridge.

"It was absolutely disgusting, I couldn't believe it," said neighbor Sherry Hughes, who entered the apartment and saw the animal's remains.

Police suspect it's all that's left of Prowler, who lived with the Hughes family and went missing less than a week earlier.

"It's very upsetting, very, very heartbreaking," said Hughes, adding her children and grandmother are extremely distraught.

Flyers of the missing cat remained posted on utility poles in the area Monday.

"Even the bums in downtown Windsor don't lower themselves to that," said Jen Birdgen, whose family lives in the adjoining duplex unit.

The act of eating an animal isn't illegal, said John Roushorne, general manager of the Windsor-Essex County Humane Society, but how it got into the pot is an entirely different matter.

McNorton said police believe the animal was killed in the bathtub and then hung from the showerhead.

The couple that lived temporarily in the house were interviewed by detectives Monday morning and released pending further investigation.

McNorton said police could lay unlawful killing of an animal charges, a summary offence punishable by up to six months jail and or a $2,000 fine.

Roushorne said if cruelty can be proven, more severe penalties can be sought independently by the humane society.

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[zzyzzx]

That's why I plan on leaving my cats home alone with an auto feeder, sink faucet dripping, and a littermaid litterbox. I bet the people who cooked the cat were Chinese or something similiar.

[AlecWest]

I bet the people who cooked the cat were Chinese or something similiar.

I won't mention the restaurant's name since it still exists (but under "new" management). But a few years ago, a Chinese restaurant in my neighborhood was shut down following the complaints of a street bum. In sifting through the restaurant's dumpster, the bum came across a number of cat carcasses ... and upon investigation, it was found that the restaurant had substituted cat meat for pork. My ex-wife (Oriental, but not Chinese) was aghast at the revelation ... and when we'd go out to dinner, I'd occasionally tease her if we ended up in a Chinese restaurant. I'd say, "Hmm, they've got a great price on the Chow Meow Special today."

P.S. I'm less worried about eating cat meat than I am about a cat eating MY meat, hehe. My cat, Velcro, was feral when I got her. And, she loves to attack me at regular intervals. I've woken up sometimes, with my arm hanging over the side of the bed, to find my cat chewing or clawing my hand. And, she does lick a lot ... but I suspect it's not because she's being sweet. She's just "tenderizing" the meat to make it easier to bite or claw her way into it, hehe. If I die in my apartment and no one finds me for a while, they might not find me at all. My cat would just eat me.

[Kunta Kinte]

That's why I plan on leaving my cats home alone with an auto feeder, sink faucet dripping, and a littermaid litterbox. I bet the people who cooked the cat were Chinese or something similiar.

I bet your post is bigotry or something similar.

[greymalkin]

how far will we go...the assumption that it may be a chinese person is not a meritless accusation.

[ed_mc7]

Singeling out China is assuming a lot, Many Asian countries consider Cats and Dogs as food. In Haiti dogs roam freely and cats are a delicacy making them the bottom of the food chain cuz everything hunts and eats them.

AlecWest wrote:
I won't mention the restaurant's name since it still exists (but under "new" management). But a few years ago, a Chinese restaurant in my neighborhood was shut down following the complaints of a street bum. In sifting through the restaurant's dumpster, the bum came across a number of cat carcasses ... and upon investigation, it was found that the restaurant had substituted cat meat for pork.

I remember that, a quick management change within the family during the investigation, a few $$$ advertising "New Management" and hope for buisness as usual

[vitualis]

Yes, Chinese (well mainland China anyway) eat cats as do lots of cultures in SE Asia.

It's not really so strange. Indians would probably consider eating cows barbaric and if movies are to be believed, Americans in the Southern states eat all sorts of wildlife.

The accusation that this couple was "Chinese" is somewhat unjustified, however. Surely it isn't so much the eating of the cat that is disgusting, rather the slaughter of someone's pet inside a house. Would this crime be any worse if the family pet was a chicken?

BTW, I'm Chinese.

Regards.

[ViRaL1]

I don't see what the big deal is. How many of us here haven't eaten...

On second thought maybe I'm thinking of something else.