Current Events > Research confirms your cat would eat your corpse if given the chance.

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AsucaHayashi
01/17/20 1:42:08 PM
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https://www.mic.com/p/your-cat-would-eat-your-corpse-new-research-confirms-20517894

New research shows that, under the right circumstances, yes, your cat would eat your corpse.

To be fair, the researchers who conducted the study werent trying to give cats a bad name. Instead, they were studying the effects of natural decomposition on human corpses at a body farm, a place where scientists study dead bodies, in Colorado. But when they looked at the overnight video footage was that local feral cats were squeezing in behind the fence and feasting on the decomposing bodies. The two cats came most nights for 35 days to feed, and they ate right down to the bone, the Washington Post reported. Say what you want about cats, but they get the job done.

The corpse-eating cats didnt want just any bodies, explained Sara Garcia, lead author on the paper, which was published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences. Cats are picky eaters. Once they find a food that they like, theyll stick with it," she said in the study Even though there were 40 corpses to choose from in the body farm, each cat kept coming back to the same body, proving their weird, ironic, loyalty.

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MC_BatCommander
01/17/20 1:42:59 PM
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Dog probably would too, they gotta eat something

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SSJKirby
01/17/20 1:43:36 PM
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Animal wants meat what a shock

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Silver Bearings
01/17/20 1:44:22 PM
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Under the right circumstances, you would also eat a human corpse.

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Freddie_Mercury
01/17/20 1:44:41 PM
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dogs would eat your shit if given the chance

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specialkid8
01/17/20 1:46:30 PM
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You ever have a cat randomly nibble you when you're sleeping or laying down? Theyre just checking, always waiting.
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coh
01/17/20 1:49:35 PM
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Dogs will stay by their owners grave until they die

Cats dgaf
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Notti
01/17/20 1:57:55 PM
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VandorLee
01/17/20 2:02:37 PM
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We have slaughterhouses....just sayin.

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s0nicfan
01/17/20 2:03:52 PM
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It depends on the dog:
https://www.newser.com/story/253759/dog-refused-to-leave-its-dead-owners-side-for-weeks.html
https://metro.co.uk/2017/10/30/chihuahua-ate-his-dead-owner-to-stay-alive-7038018/

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rexcrk
01/17/20 2:04:53 PM
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Aw good kitty

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spikethedevil
01/17/20 2:05:43 PM
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CloneTheHero posted...
only if theyre starving and you live alone. of course theyd eat you. theyre animals not intellectual souls with free will and thought.

They are sentient beings with free will and thought and are much smarter than you think.

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LostForest
01/17/20 2:06:08 PM
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Cats are shitty, more at 11.

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BlackSheep715
01/17/20 2:06:41 PM
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Not my cat. He's a good boy.

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MarthGoomba
01/17/20 2:16:09 PM
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feral cats

My cat isn't feral, so this "research" is useless
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s0nicfan
01/17/20 2:18:03 PM
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MarthGoomba posted...
My cat isn't feral, so this "research" is useless

Is it a rescue? If so, it probably is.

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Feetish
01/17/20 2:19:33 PM
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Carnivorous animals will do what carnivorous animals do to survive.

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Irony
01/17/20 2:29:09 PM
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This is common knowledge

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Typhon
01/17/20 2:29:14 PM
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Wasn't this already widely known? My cousins ex wife spent nine days dead on her bedroom floor before she was found. Her cats had eaten most of her face and were starting on her arms.
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s0nicfan
01/17/20 3:00:22 PM
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Crono99 posted...
Imagine the epitath on that guy's grave.

Lived life to the fullest
Was eaten by a chihuahua

https://youtu.be/4zay94P-l0k

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Jiek_Fafn
01/17/20 3:04:35 PM
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I'm pretty sure that my cat looks at me every morning and weighs in his head whether I'm worth letting live another day. I've made it this far but he's got high standards. Idk if I have the stamina to live up to them for the rest of his life.

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darkphoenix181
01/17/20 3:08:52 PM
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This doesn't prove that assertion.

Randoms cats sneaking in to eat humans they never met bodies does not mean they will eat their owners.

Hungry dogs would have ate those bodies as well if they could get in the building. Fyi, cats are smaller than dogs.
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darkphoenix181
01/17/20 3:09:54 PM
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Crono99 posted...
Imagine the epitath on that guy's grave.

Lived life to the fullest
Was eaten by a chihuahua

Yo queiro, Taco Bell.
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Anticyclonic
01/17/20 3:16:02 PM
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Who cares? I'll be dead.
Might as well provide nourishment to a beloved companion.

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01/17/20 3:19:07 PM
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"Feral" click bait /endtopic

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Shablagoo
01/17/20 3:24:10 PM
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I figure this is common knowledge but on the other hand I wonder what percentage of housecats could actually physically do it. They arent used to eating raw flesh. Im sure theyd try once they got desperate enough, but.

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Thunder_Armor
01/17/20 3:26:50 PM
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Cats will eat any dead animal including other cats. They are programmed to.

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specialkid8
01/17/20 8:13:05 PM
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Shablagoo posted...
I figure this is common knowledge but on the other hand I wonder what percentage of housecats could actually physically do it. They arent used to eating raw flesh. Im sure theyd try once they got desperate enough, but.

Unless your cat is strictly an indoor cat they are very used to eating raw flesh.
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spikethedevil
01/18/20 4:34:19 AM
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CloneTheHero posted...
wrong. they operate on instinct.. they do not have free will.

they do however have participatory will

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11998687

Cats have free will and as someone who owned a cat for 19 years I can confirm they do and are in fact very intelligent.

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evil_zombie11
01/18/20 4:36:37 AM
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Notti posted...
https://twitter.com/moxieswagger/status/1210665232810618881

haha awww

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Evening_Dragon
01/18/20 4:37:46 AM
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@CloneTheHero I'm not familiar with participatory will, and google isn't getting me results. I'm coming across participatory theory, from psychology, but that has nothing to do with this. Where's that term from?

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BlingBling22947
01/19/20 5:04:26 PM
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Your cats love you.

They definitely arent waiting to scavenge your corpse.

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Wewillrocku
01/19/20 5:08:30 PM
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don't care

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KogaSteelfang
01/19/20 5:10:35 PM
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"What happened to aunt Helen?"
"Cats ate her face, here Dewey knows more about it."

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Doe
01/19/20 6:12:32 PM
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Notti
01/20/20 11:52:03 PM
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Mistere Man
01/21/20 12:16:42 AM
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Notti posted...
https://twitter.com/moxieswagger/status/1210665232810618881
I want to adopt it!

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thronedfire2
01/21/20 12:19:35 AM
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yeah and I'd eat my cat if I was starving to death. she's fat as fuck

circle of life, bitches

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BlingBling22947
01/22/20 6:29:55 PM
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. . . at least my corpse wont go to waste?

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Notti
01/22/20 6:49:09 PM
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Hairistotle posted...

Holy shit how grating


I thought he was doing grate job begging for our love and attention. (or, according to OP, maybe just desperate for human flesh. hard to tell. I'd be willing to risk it)
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Notti
01/22/20 7:21:31 PM
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Hairistotle posted...
The word you're looking for is "great"

"Grating" means it sounds hella annoying


No, I was too busy enjoying the kitten climbing the grate.
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Dark_SilverX
01/22/20 7:28:31 PM
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at least that pussy is gettin fed

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Notti
01/22/20 7:29:50 PM
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Hairistotle posted...
Oh I see, you think this is what humor is


I thought your initial post was you showing some humor. I overestimated you.
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Shotgunnova
01/22/20 7:30:54 PM
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By eating me, I will live on as part of Shmoopy Goopy.

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