Seems like it would be better than rat...and I can easily foresee circumstances where I might have to do that, short-term I hope!

 

Just another case of the government telling you what you may or may not put into your body. So long as he was not taking peoples pets, I don't see an issue with him having feline fajitas for supper.

 

i hear they taste like chicken. wait.. that's the spotted owl. nevermind.

 

Reminds me of a joke I heard once:

Punch line goes like

Just then, the judge called out, "Oh, by the way, what does a Spotted Owl taste like?"

The man's face came alive as he turned around and said, "Your honor, it's hard to describe. Sort of a cross between a Bald Eagle, a Whopping Crane and a California Condor."

 

Did he have a chinese restaurant?

 

Are there really a laws in this country about eating cat, or dog for that matter? Talk about over-regulation!

 

Can you see the headline "The SHTF and local prepper arrested for eating family cat" When interviewed he said "It was that or starve" The governor of California ex-PETA CEO commented "After the Animal Bill of Rights came into effect you would think people would learn, animals first!"

Blah.

 

In south east Asia -- I've had dog / cat and rat :thumb:

Like like anything else -- depends how its cooked and if any spices are used

Snake on the other hand seams greasy to me

And yes none of it was Kosher

 

You ever eat a street taco on the Mexican border? MEOW

 

Well yes, actually just south of the border in Nogalas......more than once too.

Also, I am quite sure the "beef" they fed us in Cabo was maybe horse or something else!

 

"First they came for my right to eat cats...and I let them because I didn't..."

 

Well poo!

There goes my plan B for fresh meat!

Seriously though, I bet this gets thrown out eventually. Unless they switch it over and charge him with slaughtering animals without a permit or hunting out of season...something bogus like that.

I've never seen a law (doesn't mean there's not one out there) that says you can't eat cat or dog and killing things doesn't always mean he was treating them poorly before hand.

 

The article say's its a misdemeanor in California, Bakerfield that is.

 

Charged with using a pet or domesticated animal for food, is a law in California....a misdemeanor. Seriously? Over regulation at it's finest. If it's his, and he wants to eat it, so what. I've eaten cat, dog, horse, and many other things. If that's all I could afford, I'd eat it again.

 

Ever see a cat near "Happy-Happy-Luck-Kitchen"

 

I've always heard you needed a good crockpot and a lot of time because cat can tend to be stringy. If you cook it on low for MANY hours it's suposed to break downd the meat better. That being said, I've never actually tried to do it.
I wonder what the best way to season a cat is???? guess that depends on if you want Vietnamese, Mexican, Greek, etc,,,,,

 

Pressure cooker for the win

 

Amazing the things this place makes you want to Google...LOL

But here's an interesting article about eating your cat and where it is and isn't legal.

 

Does this surprise anyone?

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-01/13/content_14435762.htm

China's thriving cat meat industry.

 

If you do harm to a cat/dog/domesticated pet, you can be charged with animal cruelty in most states. Unless this person was starving and had no other food source, he should be ashamed.

If you have no choice, it is one thing, but I doubt he could not find food anywhere else.

Plus he had no idea if the cat was a pet. It could have been lost or even roaming.

 

Why should he be ashamed? A lot of the world outside our small part considers our "domesticated" animals food. Just because you don't believe, or weren't brought up with it as food, doesn't mean there is anything wrong with eating it.

Don't want your cat getting eaten? Keep it in the house, yard, or on a leash.

 

During the depression in the 1930's I heard they called cats 'Roof Rabbit" and were eaten when needed. It lookes more and more like we are in a depression again. I will honestly addmit with no problem when the SHTF and I need some protien you better hide your cats and dogs. I will put it in a pot with the beans and some hot sauce and live a little longer.......I am a chef by trade and have eaten many different things.

 

whats the difference between a cat/dog and say a

cow
goat
chicken
pig
deer

other than it is cute and fluffy and people keep them more as pets than livestock but the fact is its still cooks the same and if its legal for me to eat a cow it should be legal to eat a cat
of course as long as there treated and killed humanely i have no issue with it

 

I raise lots of ducks and almost everyone will come up when I go out and gather around me...some will climb up in my lap if I sit down on the ground. They get eaten just like all the rest eventually.

People need to stop looking at animals as their "buddies" and realize that they're food and if you're hungry that cat or dog will fill your belly just as well as any other piece of meat.

 

They need a better definition of "domesticated" and "pet".

Growing up, there were always a dozen or so cats that lived in the barn that would scratch the **** out of you if you so much as looked at them wrong. They weren't my pets, and they sure as hell weren't domesticated.

That said, I could walk up to the cows and pat them on the head and feed them hay out of my hand.

And I can't even count the number of 4-H livestock animals that were raised and given names, special attention, good shelter, good food, and grooming (tell me that's not a pet) and then turned around and shot and butchered after the county fair was over and done with...

 

As I see it. Meat is meat. I don't see much of a difference. As long as it's not someones pet, I say fair game.

 

Sure doesn't sound like the ppuuurrrfect meat. And now that he is in jail it was not the ppuuurrrfect crime..

 

Perverted joke not placed here in an attempt to preserve any tiny bit of respect for myself on this site.

 

HaHaHa! I get it.

 

We shoot the cats and feed them to the gators in our lake.

Gator meat is good.

 

All my cats are kept in a cat-proof fence, and I would defend them as I would one of my kids.


The article states that his neighbors heard the cats screaming. In other words, he did not even have the decency to kill them quickly and humanely. If he needed to eat them for food, he could have killed them as quickly as possible.

I was a DV advocate for years and dealt with LE and such. They are not arresting him "just because he ate a cat", they are going after him because case after case shows that humans that take pleasure (prolonging an animal's death just for the thrill of it) in causing pain to animals are prone to being very violent to other humans.

 

It appears he went after other's pets.

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/man-arrested-for-eating-cats.html

 

It appears he went after other's pets.

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/man-arrested-for-eating-cats.html

That's all speculation. Negligent pet owners have their pets disappear all the time and for good reason. The man should be left alone to eat whatever animal wanders onto his own property and people should keep their pets at home. As far as we know, at least he isn't shooting the trespassing animals and leaving the remains to rot in a ditch somewhere.

Also, maybe you should spend some time near a slaughterhouse. There's lots of screaming and carrying on there. It is the way it is. If we don't like it, we can stop eating meat. However, if any of us want to live something has to die, even the plants on your salad plate. Plants have feelings too, ya know.

 

From what I read and the location in which this guy lives in looks more like a case of animal cruelty or mental disease than him starving and needing to eat whatever was nearby. Perhaps he has a fetish for cat meat; however, the fact that the cats were screaming and wailing meant he wasn't killing them in a humane way. Sounds like he was torturing them with the end product being food - and that's the nicest possible scenario.

Cruelty is cruelty, no matter how you want to dress it up with "rights" and prepper bull****. Yes, bull****. As far as I can tell California isn't a third world country, nor is there an apocalypse or a 1930s style depression taking place there. The guy was living in the suburbs and chose to torture and eat cats. Methinks there would be more of an outcry if it were dogs he was torturing and killing; most men don't like cats.

 

not nessesairaly true you ever killed an animal where another could see it? they all make a hell of a noise and without knowing how he killed em its impossible to say weather it was cruel or not.

and who cares if it was a dog or a cat honestly have you seen how your steaks in the grocery store are made? ok so the cat did not die quietly most things do not. you ever hear a rabbit scream when a cyote gets it? ya nature isn't humane either

fact is its none of our damn business what he chooses to eat

im not a peta fan but they do have good vids of your humanly processed foods you buy at the grocer

not saying i agree with eating cats but its what it is