Im doing a prpject thing for school and I was wondering how much one could sell a dead cat for. Im not exactly looking for the price of one, but something like a 100 or 1000. I also acknowledge how inhumane this could be, but the numbers would help me out, thanks.
Well, the hammer cost me about 8 bucks, and the tarp was a dollar 50… So, that, plus whatever you think my time was worth.
Also, if anyone knows who/where the cats can be sold would also help.
Animal shelters will sell euthanized stray animals to rendering plants.
I assume they sell by the pound.
I dont think my original post made complete sense or at least this part, “Im not exactly looking for the price of one, but something like a 100 or 1000.”. I was trying to say that i wanted to know how much a bulk or large number of cats could be sold for.
Early in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer there is the famous passage in which Tom convinces his friends to pay him for the opportunity to whitewash the fence–a chore he wishes to evade. There is a list of the various things boys paid, and one is a dead cat with a string around its neck (for swinging).
The ultimate proof of the price of a thing is that someone is willing to pay it, and of a market price, that a lot of people will pay it. You might check out the prices of the other things which were taken in exchange for the “privilege” of whitewshing the fence, and see if they encompass a narrow range of prices today. If so, that is one indication of the “market price” of one dead cat, and you can then multiply.
Let me guess?
Grandma was a “cat-lady”,and now she has passed away and left you with a unwanted inheritance?
My post above was premised on the assumption that your “project” was some kind of economics class assignment to find the theoretical price of a dead cat.
If you are actually trying to find dead cats, called animal shelters and ask them if they dispose of their animals by selling them to a rendering plant.
Yea, from the research i have done, it is apparent that animal shelters do sell cats to rendering plants. However, i have been unable to find any numbers on the amount of money made off of such sales.
slipster, no this is not for an economics class… its a biology one.
Hungry, are you?
You could always try the Carolina Biological Supply Company. They sell specimens to schools for dissection purposes. I’d be surprised if your school’s biology department didn’t have a slew of similar catalogs from other supply houses on hand, so you could comparison shop a bit.
Anybody for Chinese takeaway jokes?
[Shrugs]
Have you tried ringing people on the actual phone (not Googling) ? In the past, I’ve found that a slightly navive tone with a touch of deadline panic works wonders at getting information. Just remember “Hi, I’m at school and doing a project…”
Depending on your teacher’s sense of humour you could create a fictious cat fur industry with ballpark figures; likewise with crispy cat snacks , poseable kitty copses, pussy tetherball or cat fertilizer. But he may just brand you a sick lazy bastard and fail you. It’s better to run this by him/her first.
Yes, I don’t like cats and am firmly a dog person. 
You know, one of the professors I work for runs the Anatomy and Physiology lab where they dissect cats so he probably knows the answer to this question, but I’m not going to ask him because I just can’t come up with a good enough excuse as to why I need to know. He probably think I had designs on his kitties. He’s very attached to them. Uh uh, not gonna do it, not even for the dopers.
-Lil
So, I hear that they’re sent to rendering plants…So, er, what are they rendered into?
About $30 for a cat, about $56 if its a pregnant cat.
Going by the web site above.
BTW: a bull testicle is $6.10
Apparently it is the body fat that is commerically valuable; I turned up many references saying that this was used for soaps, cosmetics and pet food, but I don’t know how reliable is that information.
I’ve read that collagen and calcium,and bonemeal are also rendered from euthanized animals,but the main source is waste from slaughterhouses.
I had done some research on this a while back,google for some links and a few not so pleasant pictures.
…And you’d better make sure the bull is dead first.
Has anyone added a cat to his/her cart from that CArolina Biological Supply Company? I think it is a bit weird that one can order a dead cat either pregnant or not just like a book or cd off of Amazon.
Maybe it’s just me. Im finding out this thread is more interesting than i originally planned… thanks for the zany-ness! 
Somebody steered you wrong…