No, not dressing up a cat. How much edible meat can I get from a hypothetical 8 lb 6 oz domestic cat? 
What did Muffin DO to get you that angry?
Long hair or short hair? And do you consider hot dogs “meat”?
If you want an answer to that appallingly morbid question, consider that “roof rabbits” were eaten during the Siege of Paris and similar wartime situations. If you then consider cat = rabbit, a source like this suggests that dressed weight is something like 50% of live weight.
Cats and rabbits are so anatomically similar once you take the head, paws and fur off that it’s been common in many places for one to be substituted for the other in butcher shops. Apparently the placement of the kidneys is the biggest tell.
Not much meat there. Mr.Wrekker often brings squirrels and rabbits for me to butcher and cook. Similar size. You’ll have a better meal with a skinny chicken. IMHO.
ETA,plus there’s that fishy cat taste you’ll have to get by;)
I’d imagine obligate carnivores don’t taste too yummy.
That’s correct but the OP needs to note the 50% is hot carcass, bones in plus kidney, liver and heart. For edible meat, depending on how choosy they are with the offal. Cold and boned out, you’ll have something closer to 30% on the plate.
That’s a disturbingly specific weight for a “hypothetical” cat.
Yeah, Ranger, just go get chicken nuggets. Or eat that old can of clam chowder in the pantry. Don’t eat Fluffy. You wont like it. What will you tell the kids?
And this is why we need food stamps.
Well, I don’t need food stamps, so my 15 pound [del]shithead[/del] cat is safe. But you get the idea.
Not sure, but I know I can’t finish a whole one by myself.
What?
penultima thule, I’m confused by your “hot weight” vs. “cold weight”. It sounds like you’re saying that 50% of the total is edible, but once you remove the bones, then 30% of what’s left after that is edible. But that doesn’t makes sense.
Maybe it has to do with how choosy you are at considering what is edible. Are you going to eat the intestines, blood, brain, etc., IOW.
Regards,
Shodan
We have an excellent buffet in this town. I love the food there, but I stay away from the tray labeled “Meow Mix”.
Use the bones to make soup stock.
My link explains
penultima thule says that if you further toss the bones, kidneys, liver, etc you wind up with 30% of the live weight, not 30% of the 50%.
Ah, gotcha. I suppose that what you do with the viscera depends on where and how you’re killing the animal. You’ve got to get them out quickly or they’ll stink up the whole thing, so if you’re hunting, you field-dress them out and lose them, but if you’re making the kill in a controlled setting where you can quickly clean them out, they might still be usable.
I suppose that there might also be an issue of size: It’ll be easier to use a pig’s or a cow’s intestines as sausage casings or whatever than a cat’s or a rabbit’s.
Cats taste terrible. This is a bad idea.
I’m guessing you haven’t triedbacon wrapped free range cat then.