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| Thread ID: 53580 | 2005-01-21 08:39:00 | OT: Nuisance cats | manicminer (4219) | PC World Chat |
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| 316632 | 2006-04-12 11:53:00 | I think we should do it just so we can experience the plague of rats..... | Metla (12) | ||
| 316633 | 2006-04-12 12:25:00 | The Christchurch Cat Control Campaign Group has twenty members Wow, that's - like twenty! |
godfather (25) | ||
| 316634 | 2006-04-12 20:28:00 | Blokes ey.... When we're young and full of hormones, what is it we want? When we're old and bitter, what is it we love to hate? Here pussy pussy pussy... :D :p |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 316635 | 2006-04-12 20:34:00 | Well I'm sure there are plenty of recipes for cats floating on the net. Cat has also been eaten in Britain. During wartime rationing, cats found their way into "rabbit" stews/pies and hence earned themselves the nickname "roof-rabbit". With so many city strays and pets abandoned by bombed out families, cats were a substitute for rabbit. A former colleague whose father was in the butchery trade during that time told me that butchers sometimes kept cats as ratters; the cat later ended up being sold as "rabbit". The rationale was simple - a surplus of homeless cats living off of vermin, plus the fact that the supply of wild rabbit from the countryside had been suspended. The following rhyme summed up the keeping of cats in peace-time and the eating of them in times of hardship. Oh kittens, in our hours of ease Uncertain toys and full of fleas, When pain and anguish hang o’er men, We turn you into sausage then. Today, pet cats in the UK are apparently stolen to satisfy the continental fur trade; the skinned carcasses have sometimes offered to butchers as "wild rabbit". A former colleague who controlled rabbits on local farms supplied wild rabbit to a local butcher. In 1993, the butcher asked him to leave the head and feet on the carcass because he had been offered skinned cat by other shooters and wanted to be sure of the true identity of the meat. Once the paws, head and tail are removed, the only way to distinguish cat from rabbit or hare is by looking at the processus hamatus of the scapula. In the cat, this should have a processus suprahamatus. The Spanish expression "pasar gato por liebre" (to pass off a cat as a hare) and the Portuguese expression "Comprar gato por lebre" (to buy a cat as a hare) are derived from this practice and mean "to pull the wool over someone's eyes". In one region of Europe, the traditional Christmas meal is not a turkey or a beef joint, but a cat specially fattened for the occasion. It is served stuffed and roasted. A cat rescue shelter in a French town became aware that a local man who adopted kittens from them was rearing those kittens for food, killing and eating them at six months of age. He considered them a delicacy. more here (messybeast.com) but some of it is sickening. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 316636 | 2006-04-13 05:20:00 | Steve - too much information, ok? :waughh: CATS RULE!! :thumbs: |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 316637 | 2006-04-13 11:06:00 | CATS RULE!! :thumbs: When they are roasted? :lol: :D |
Strommer (42) | ||
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