I don’t remember why I was searching for this but earlier this week I was wondering the chances of my cat eating me, should I unexpectedly die and nobody notice for a while. According to a Straight Dope article: very good. “In a day or two”.
It seems your dog would wait several days before feasting on longpig, but your cat is obviously going to toss aside any pretend feelings towards you and consider you dinner, should they run out of regular cat food. Which seems like incentive to make sure the pet food dish is always topped up, though really, what would you care, you’d be dead.
I’m actually more worried that given my cat’s sensitive stomach, she’s unlikely to digest me that well, as I’m hardly Grade A meat. And being found half-eaten by your pet somehow doesn’t sound as bad as being found eaten and then puked up again.
I hope my family members, upon hearing of my death after the landlord finds me due to my nasty corpse smell, wouldn’t mistreat my cat for eating me. It’s “postmortem predation”, yo. The cat’s gotta be fed. Consider it my dying wish.
Honestly, I’m not in a morbid mood. It was just a weird question that had an answer online, that I’ve given far too much thought to. Happy Friday, people. Have you pet your animal today?
Never fear Gill, we’ll take her in. If we can find her.
That is a very touching sentiment; they will always be able to keep you with them, even if in an absorbed feline manner.
I have no doubt that one of my cats would not hesitate to begin snacking, no, ‘feasting’ on me. I’m strangely reassured by the fact that other have had similar thoughts!