# Is eating a kitten immoral or just bad manners? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 15, 2002, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-kitten-immoral-or-just-bad-manners/123957 "2002-08-15T03:27:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2002, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-kitten-immoral-or-just-bad-manners/123957/21 "2002-08-15T18:07:27Z")
I can’t believe this thread has gone this long with no “pussy-eating” jokes… ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2002, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-kitten-immoral-or-just-bad-manners/123957/22 "2002-08-15T18:12:56Z")
I kinda made one. 🙂 Kinda. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2002, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-kitten-immoral-or-just-bad-manners/123957/23 "2002-08-15T18:14:06Z")
Although you can eat whatever the hell you please, it still disgusts me to think about it. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2002, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-kitten-immoral-or-just-bad-manners/123957/24 "2002-08-15T18:16:25Z")
You’re one to talk! You eat the entire **world**! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2002, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-kitten-immoral-or-just-bad-manners/123957/25 "2002-08-15T18:26:40Z")
I probably wouldn’t do it… unless I needed some more guitar string. ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2002, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-kitten-immoral-or-just-bad-manners/123957/26 "2002-08-15T18:40:33Z")
Or your tennis racket had a big hole in it. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2002, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-kitten-immoral-or-just-bad-manners/123957/27 "2002-08-15T19:24:41Z")
Kittens? Too scrawny. They don’t call them furballs for nothin’. Now a full-grown cat, that’s another story. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2002, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-kitten-immoral-or-just-bad-manners/123957/28 "2002-08-15T19:37:21Z")
“When the game of life makes you feel like quittin’ It helps a lot if you kill a kitten Mark my words cause from where I’m sittin’ You can’t go wrong if you kill a kitten” – Stephen Lynch Ya gotta admit, it makes a lot of sense. ---
**Author:** ![AndrewL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@AndrewL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndrewL)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2002, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-kitten-immoral-or-just-bad-manners/123957/29 "2002-08-15T20:51:23Z")
So, anyone got any recipies? ---
**Author:** ![RadioWave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@RadioWave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadioWave)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2002, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-kitten-immoral-or-just-bad-manners/123957/30 "2002-08-15T21:07:32Z")
Astro, requests for recipes go in Cafe Society. 😉 And just like eating beef would be bad form in India, eating kitten would be bad form in most kitten-luvin countries. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2002, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-kitten-immoral-or-just-bad-manners/123957/31 "2002-08-15T21:34:56Z")
Well, considering all the kittens that God kills when people masturbate, it would be a shame to let them go to waste. Plus, you could [make a musical instrument of of it](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=120726) while you’re at it… ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2002, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-kitten-immoral-or-just-bad-manners/123957/32 "2002-08-15T22:50:01Z")
Hmmph. I’d really like to get to know you a little first, but as long as we both enjoy it, it’s bad manners **not** to. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-kitten-immoral-or-just-bad-manners/123957/33 "2002-08-16T00:40:44Z")
Holy cow! You are a rare breed indeed… ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-kitten-immoral-or-just-bad-manners/123957/34 "2002-08-16T01:32:51Z")
☹ Although, we could get a LOT of meat out of our Misty-she’s huge. But I say immoral, since cats are our superiors. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-kitten-immoral-or-just-bad-manners/123957/35 "2002-08-16T01:44:55Z")
According to Douglas Adams, they’re not. Only dolphins and mice are. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boo_Boo_Foo)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-kitten-immoral-or-just-bad-manners/123957/36 "2002-08-16T02:04:30Z")
Down here in Australia, pet cats have escaped into the wild and have bred into feral cats the size of mini lions. Some of 'em stand 18 inches high and are over 2 1/2 feet long. Every animal in the continent less than “knee height” is now an endangered species thanks to feral cats. They’re the ultimate lethal killing machine on the Australian landscape. There are billabongs down here now in the Outback totally devoid of life and the last skeleton to have laid down it’s bones was the local feral cat which had killed off everything else and then died itself from starvation. Is it good manners to eat a kitten? Ask the Australian environment! (smile) ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-kitten-immoral-or-just-bad-manners/123957/37 "2002-08-16T02:10:09Z")
Would it be immoral to take money for [eating a pet](http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~petersm/mark/pets.html) ? > [@](#): > > If a complete stranger asked me if he could eat my beloved pet it would take about $57.37 so that after he was done I could go buy a banana and some ducks. ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-kitten-immoral-or-just-bad-manners/123957/38 "2002-08-16T02:31:53Z")
It’s bad manners if you didn’t bring enough for everyone to eat. ---
**Author:** ![chula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@chula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chula)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-kitten-immoral-or-just-bad-manners/123957/39 "2002-08-16T02:44:14Z")
I must cross-reference **astro** ’s other post, [Insanely fat pussycat](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=130944). I think it explains a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Sivalensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Sivalensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sivalensis)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-kitten-immoral-or-just-bad-manners/123957/40 "2002-08-16T03:15:37Z")
I would say that in our society, yes it immoral. We have cats as pets and they are dependent upon us. We don’t need them to survive, we have plenty of options at the supermarket already prepared for us. For someone starving in the middle of nowhere, or in a very poor country or whatever, I have no moral quandry with their eating cat. That’s a clear cut case of natural selection…you eat it or you die. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-kitten-immoral-or-just-bad-manners/123957.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-kitten-immoral-or-just-bad-manners/123957.md?page=3)