# When Cats Eat a Person...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cats-eat-a-person/522515>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 25, 2009, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cats-eat-a-person/522515 "2009-12-25T03:03:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cats-eat-a-person/522515/21 "2009-12-27T00:01:15Z")

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> [@janis\_and\_c0](#):
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> Thanks a heap.. I just had to explain to my mother-in-law why I was laughing hysterically ..:eek:

Give her my best!

Then, tell her “Goo-goo ga-shoob!”

Say it in a _convincing_ manner.

She’ll appreciate that.

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**Author:** ![InterestedObserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@InterestedObserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InterestedObserver)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2009, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cats-eat-a-person/522515/22 "2009-12-27T22:52:48Z")

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> [@Shodan](#):
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> I shudder to think how one trains a cat not to eat the baby. Somehow, shaking a can full of pebbles when he starts munching just won’t do.
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> Regards,  
> Shodan

Squirt bottle. 😉

I suppose if, for some reason, I were trapped in an apartment long enough to be starving, I’d eventually eat my cat (dead already or not!) And I’m a vegetarian.

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**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cats-eat-a-person/522515/23 "2009-12-28T04:15:50Z")

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> [@panache45](#):
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> Best screen name/thread title ever.

Seconded.

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**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cats-eat-a-person/522515/24 "2009-12-29T04:27:03Z")

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> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#):
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> Give her my best!
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> Then, tell her “Goo-goo ga-shoob!”
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> Say it in a _convincing_ manner.
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> She’ll appreciate that.

She did indeed! I AM the walrus!

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**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cats-eat-a-person/522515/25 "2009-12-29T04:51:11Z")

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> [@LilyoftheField](#):
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> okay, okay…so a few babies have to be sacrificed to properly train the family cat! You can always make another baby, but properly trained cats are hard to come by…
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> 😛

I put the fear of Og into our Siamese when I was born. She saw the love lavished on the new giant bald kitten and soon began lying pitifully on the radiator (it was late fall, and the thing was hot). She was euthanized before she could cook herself to death.

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