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When your cat finds you dead (Original Post)
LuckyCharms
Aug 2019
OP
Kali
(55,009 posts)1. or even before you've expired
and just can't getting up or reach the phone for help
irisblue
(32,975 posts)2. Kira. Kira it would be
Cartoonist
(7,317 posts)3. Just for a little while
Once the body cools, he's off to a warmer spot.
Throck
(2,520 posts)9. The coroner can tell how long you've been dead by the quantity of cats snuggling you.
Dagstead Bumwood
(3,631 posts)4. My mind immediately went darker.
I imagined my cat hunting around the pantry for the A1 sauce.
Bayard
(22,075 posts)5. Mine would be meowing for me to get up and feed them
IronLionZion
(45,447 posts)6. cats will eat their humans if they get hungry enough
Metro135
(359 posts)7. So will dogs for that matter
Look up the story of Marie Prevost, 1930s starlet
Fla Dem
(23,675 posts)15. I did as you suggested and found that her dachshund did not eat her body.
But bit at her legs to try to wake her up.
In popular culture
Prevost's death was featured in the book Hollywood Babylon, by Kenneth Anger. In the book, Anger claims Prevost's dog consumed her remains over the ensuing days to survive. However, Anger's claims that Prevost's dog made "mincemeat out of his mistress"[24] are false. While Prevost's pet dachshund Maxie did bite her legs in an effort to wake her, the dog did not attempt to eat her body.[25]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Prevost
Prevost's death was featured in the book Hollywood Babylon, by Kenneth Anger. In the book, Anger claims Prevost's dog consumed her remains over the ensuing days to survive. However, Anger's claims that Prevost's dog made "mincemeat out of his mistress"[24] are false. While Prevost's pet dachshund Maxie did bite her legs in an effort to wake her, the dog did not attempt to eat her body.[25]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Prevost
I do not doubt however, if a dog is left long enough with a decaying body, it will eat for sustenance. Even humans. The 1972 Ande's airplane crash with the rugby team who ended up eating some of their dead teammates comes to mind.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)8. I laughed out loud.
Then I realized that it is probably true. My cat would settle on my hip at night, too. I still miss her.
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)10. Sometimes they don't want to wait that long
Laffy Kat
(16,381 posts)11. They say they eat your eyes first.
LuckyCharms
(17,441 posts)12. I can't see that happening.
Get it?
You said they eat your eyes first, and then I said I can't see that happening.
Get what I mean there?
Eyes...see...get it?
A HERETIC I AM
(24,368 posts)13. There's never a 2X4 around when you need one
Laffy Kat
(16,381 posts)14. Yes, I see what you did there.