What is blue and lives in a Mouse?

[Colibri]

@JBDivmstr

And just what color is ‘liver colored’?

Liver (color)

[johnpost]

@Musicat

You’re lucky. Our cats used to catch at least one mouse per night when we vacationed in the north woods in the summer, but since they were well fed, they weren’t really hungry. Almost every morning we’d find a headless mouse at the front door. We could only assume the head was the tastiest part.

a cat will swallow a mouse whole in about 15 seconds. they do crush the skull first wit a couple chomps.

they do focus on destroying the head or decapitating animals because then the meat holds still.

[dogbutler]

@johnpost

they do focus on destroying the head or decapitating animals because then the meat holds still.

That explains why the one cat was trying to chew a hole in my skull at 3:00a.m. the one time.

[JBDivmstr]

@Colibri

Liver (color)

Thanks, Colibri!
I truly didn’t know, as liver is not on my list of favorite things to eat.

[slowlearner]

My old tom eats 4-5 cotton rats every week, he brings them in from the fields and dines on the porch right outside the back door. He eats every single delicious bite of the cotton rat except for that one danged organ which I throw over the fence for the fireants, and all these sixteen years that damn cat has owned me I’ve never identified what it is a cat won’t eat.

[Qwakkeddup]

@Siam_Sam

Smurf remains?

Good Kitty. Saucer of milk to wash it down?

[kayT]

@slowlearner

My old tom eats 4-5 cotton rats every week, he brings them in from the fields and dines on the porch right outside the back door. He eats every single delicious bite of the cotton rat except for that one danged organ which I throw over the fence for the fireants, and all these sixteen years that damn cat has owned me I’ve never identified what it is a cat won’t eat.

Nice user name/post combo!

[Maserschmidt]

@Musicat

Quote without comment.

Me-ow!

[brujaja]

@Leo_Bloom

[nitpick]
Feets
[/nitpick]

[nitpicknitpick] *** they tiny feet*** [/nitpicknitpick]

Cite.

[Bumbershoot]

Perhaps the mouse was a meth addict and had consumed a lethal dose of the stuff made by that Heisenberg dude.

[Peregrine]

I grew up with rodent-eating cats, and was mildly fascinated by what they wouldn’t eat. Apparently mice and voles were tasty, but rats were regarded as inedible. Rabbits were evidently delicious with the exception of their ears, nose, and hind legs (plus of course the shiny pouchy thing). I had one cat that ate every bit of its prey, but always barfed it up again soon afterward. Biology classes in high school and college leave me thinking the part rejected by cats who know what they’re doing is the cecum. It’s not typically spherical or turquoise and usually looks more like a bean than a pea, but hey, language is imprecise and innards can vary in appearance. Here’s a link to a relevant discussion, with pictures:

name that organ

[Leo_Bloom]

@Colibri

Liver’s aren’t blue (or spherical). They’re liver-colored.

@JBDivmstr

And just what color is ‘liver colored’?

@Colibri

Liver (color)

@JBDivmstr

Thanks, Colibri!
I truly didn’t know, as liver is not on my list of favorite things to eat.

Loosely speaking, mummy brownis the same color.

And you said you don’t like to eat liver…

[nearwildheaven]

@Peregrine

I had one cat that ate every bit of its prey, but always barfed it up again soon afterward

Poor creature gave up its life for nothing.

My cats are indoors-only and don’t hunt, but I’ve heard that the mouse liver has too much vitamin A for the cat to process, and they instinctively don’t eat it for this reason.

[Richard_Pearse]

@Peregrine

I grew up with rodent-eating cats, and was mildly fascinated by what they wouldn’t eat. Apparently mice and voles were tasty, but rats were regarded as inedible. Rabbits were evidently delicious with the exception of their ears, nose, and hind legs (plus of course the shiny pouchy thing). I had one cat that ate every bit of its prey, but always barfed it up again soon afterward. Biology classes in high school and college leave me thinking the part rejected by cats who know what they’re doing is the cecum. It’s not typically spherical or turquoise and usually looks more like a bean than a pea, but hey, language is imprecise and innards can vary in appearance. Here’s a link to a relevant discussion, with pictures:

name that organ

That’s actually quite similar, apart from the colour.

[Peregrine]

nearwildheaven:

Except they do eat the liver.

[NoCoolUserName]

@brujaja

[nitpicknitpick] *** they tiny feet*** [/nitpicknitpick]

Cite.

That is, quite possibly, the coolest Web site I have ever seen. Kudos to Kliban.

[Mama_Zappa]

@dogbutler

That explains why the one cat was trying to chew a hole in my skull at 3:00a.m. the one time.

Stoopid cat.

Yeah, tasty gooshyfood (i.e. braiiiins) might result… once… then no more gooshyfood and no more scritchies.

;).