Doesn’t matter. Your girlfriend will get just as upset about any of the ways.
Hopefully not for fun, but definitely for profit.
Skinning a cat and selling it as rabbit has a long tradition among unscrupulous butchers. Honest butchers will usually leave the hind feet unskinned as proof that they are not trying to sell you a skinned cat.
Actually…Old school Angora fabric is made from cat hide…though Angora is a rabbit. People are sensitive to pets in some cultures, so they fudge the origin. Most Angora garments are made from cats.
My wife will be much more upset about me having a girlfriend. However, my wife has real furs already, she’s not going to mind.
There’s also a saying, “There’s not enough room in here to swing a cat” but I’ve never heard of anyone swinging a cat. Lots of sayings are like that.
Those wascally wabbit butchers! :mad:
Having run a lot of Anatomy labs, they certainly are not.
Once to save money the head of the Anatomy lab section bought up some barn cats a farmer wanted to get rid of instead of buying them from a biological supply house and prepped them himself. My lab got this enormous fat old tabby that was a bitch to skin. Loads of subcutaneous fat under the hide from drinking milk. Yech.
My guess is that saying refers to a cat o’ nine tails, not a mammalian cat.
It refers to catfish. They do not have scales so you have to “skin” them
It’s a common theory, but the origin is uncertain. The idiom dates from before 1665, while cat-o-nine tails isn’t recorded until 1695.
Certainly not the origin. The earliest version is “there are more ways to kill a dog than hanging” in 1678. Other versions include “There are more ways to kill a cat than choking it with cream (or butter).” “More ways than one to skin a cat” appears in 1854, but in a book about New England.
From here.
My ignorance has been fought.
an apparently lucid discussion of cat swinging here
Sometimes an adventurous cat will swing itself: example.
I cant find the news story for this but i remember it from about ten years ago. There was a small fad for curled up cat toys, in small baskets like a real cat, thousands were bought. People thought they looked like real domestic cats, felt like cats…smelled like cats… someone opened up a few and found that some where indeed made from domestic cat skin.
Why?
Because she wants to eat every hour? Because her idea of fun is to go behind the sofa when the dog is laying there and scratch at the back of it, to make the dog bark? Because she horked all over my brand new bedspread?
The question should be, why would anyone NOT want to skin a cat?