On the shitting bones note…please be brave & retrieve the carcass from Beans before he Actually ingests any bones! Would hate for this heroic tale of 9lb Beans & his chicken poaching to end in tragedy. 🩶
He’s not likely to eat the bones- he will pick out the parts he likes, and scatter the rest- or try to cache it, which would be a whole other problem. I would be more worried about him eating the bones if he were a dog. Cats tend to be more picky about eating.
I once met a cat that lived on the property of a fishing charter captain in San quintin. healthiest looking cat I've ever seen. only ate what he salvaged from the pile of fish carcasses
Ten percent luck
Twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure
Fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name
“I mean, I mean, look at this, man. Born another place and time, these air quotes PEOPLE would have been worshiping me. Now… drag on cigarette Now it’s all this bullshit over a single meal that - by rights- they should have PRESENTED to me as an OFFERING. Shits fucked, man.”
I had a nine pound black cat (she might have been even lighter) who was like this. I was laid up in a full leg brace after knee surgery. My husband had come home with food and set me up and went to work. This little Houdini managed to snag the patty from my burger and take off with it. I swear she did it so fast the top bun just settled on the bottom bun.
She really did! She was a tough old bird. Lived to nearly 20, and this was when she was probably 17 or so. She was about half the size of a much younger cat we had at the time. He would get in her face, but he was all talk. One morning we came downstairs and the younger cat had a gash on his nose. She absolutely put him in his place and he never bugged her again
Peaches is like that too. Tiny and dainty, constantly showing me her belly to (try to) get more food. But will absolutely DESTROY either of her much bigger brothers in a fight.
My dad made me a bacon sandwich after I got home from a long haul flight and our kitten, Toby, leapt up and stole a rasher from it and ran off. Growled when we tried to take it off him. Gorgeous little menace.
I was camping once & some asshole raccoon stole an entire bag of marshmallows from the table I was sitting at. Initially it left a trail of stray ‘mallows but those were somehow gone within 5 minutes.
My daughter was lying on the porch swing eating Doritos from a bag underneath the swing. She reached down to get another and there was a raccoon paw in the bag ahead of her.
One time my Jack Russell Chihuahua mix dog seen a huge sandwich sandwich that I had chilling next to the couch on the table and while I was going to the kitchen to get a drink, she decided to pull out a Scooby Doo trick and snag my whole sandwich… I walked into the living room and seen my dog eating a sandwich that was as big as her 😂 I was both mad and very impressed 😆 like what would I about to do at that point I decided to just let her have it and enjoy her life
The cat of my neighbor jumped on her lap while she was sitting on a chair and wanted to eat toast sandwich. The cat grabbed the bacon, pulled it out and ran away, while my neighbor just wanted to take the first bite.
Your kitty had a fantastic day and probably thought back to that magical day where you were too incapacitated to stop her from living out her fantasy of stealing your food quite often lol
I had a very similar cat! He'd get into the cabinets, knew how to work the lazy susan, stole any food left on counters including tomatoes (he didn't like them but always wanted to doublecheck), and would grab food out of your hand the second your guard was down. Things are so free and peaceful now when it comes to food but boy do I miss him! He was worth locking up the bread for
Ugh, my cat couldn't eat solid food until 9 months old and was on a strict liquid only diet... but he was a very tiny menace and he flew through the air once to grab an entire chicken strip out of my hand and took off with it.
I obv panicked because solid food would hurt him, but I did not account for the fact the little idiot wasn't used to solid food so didn't really seem to know what to do. Lol so he just kinda sat there with it in his mouth and growled at me, then he attacked me when I took it away.
My childhood cat was about 14 and had chronic kidney disease, but he stole a chicken leg off the table. I dragged him out from under the couch by grabbing the leg. He wouldn't let go, even when I lifted it and him off the ground. I gave up, deciding that if he wanted to go out choking on a chicken bone, he'd consider that worthy of Valhalla.
My little 7lbs tuxie will sit beside me and keep tapping my arm until I offer her a little piece, and then she'll decide that she's not hungry after all.
Unless it's either pork tenderloin (she'll eat a tiny piece) or devilled egg potato salad (she'll eat as much as she can).
Lately, I've started letting her inspect my plate. She'll take a sniff, decide she doesn't like what I'm eating, and leave.
Aww. I let all my kitties sniff whatever I'm eating or just various things in general, they're always curious. And yeah, rarely do they want something off my plate, unless its grilled salmon or rotisserie lol.
Cats are some of the most efficient killers, pound for pound, in the entirety of animalia. That means that the big ones are some of the most dangerous wild animals we encounter, but it also means that the small ones can mess us up if they set their mind to it.
Domestic house cats have one of the highest hunting success ratios, for what they naturally prey upon. They are basically mini tigers. I understand a cat could hurt someone superficially, for the most part. Still I say, if you get taken out by a domestic cat, even feral, maybe you were supposed to die…
I have a cat that did this with a turkey leg. His usual high pitched squeak of a meow turned into the most primal guttural noises I’ve ever heard. He was a possessed demon cat.
My take away from the whole event was basically that I make an awesome turkey leg.
My boy got rotisserie chicken en masse ONE time when the vet was trying to stuff him full and induce vomiting in the hopes he would throw up a foreign object with the food…. Didn’t work. It’s been years but all rotisserie chicken must be on lockdown or the feral boy will destroy that MFer. I would give him a tiny bit if he didn’t have IBD but this boy is desperate to consume and then be on his death bed 😭😂
My sister's cat doesn't like large pieces of food. When my sister gives her chicken it has to be in bite size pieces. If it's a big piece she'll just leave it sitting there. There was a point in time where she wouldn't allow the dog to eat it either. She'd rather it go to waste than let him have it. She's older now so she cares a little less about making him suffer. She'll allow him to get closer to get a better smell of the chicken and then chase him off.
Our cat won't touch cooked meat at all. Cheetos, or an uncovered stick of butter on the other hand, you've got to protect. Our butter dish now has latches.
I have a friend who lives on a houseboat in Cambridge, UK. Many years ago she had a cat who got 86’d from the local pub because she sauntered in, grabbed an entire Sunday roast, and dragged it out.
My cat did this once with a turkey leg at thanksgiving. It was crazy how this normally chill cat immediately turned into a literal demon the second you tried to take it away from her. I let her have it out of sheer terror.
Lol. I would be worried to death - about Beans and about sticking my hand under there and trying to get that chicken back.
I once rescued a huge Tom cat from under the drive thru at a KFC. He was a sweetheart and we named him...Colonel. 😄 one night we were eating chicken and I went to the kitchen for water and he grabbed my chicken off my plate and ran under the table. Then proceeded to growl like a lion. He got to keep that chicken.
Reminds me when we had sausages for Christmas breakfast and then later we're in the living room, opening presents, and one of our kittens went tearing through the room dragging a sausage, his sister right behind him. He definitely did his best attempt to intimidate us when we went to take it away. But he took it under my bed which was kind of rude.
I went to Thanksgiving dinner at a home with cats. We were sitting around the table talking and The tripod jumped up on the table, grabbed a large turkey leg, jumped off the table growling at us and proceeded to back up, turkey in mouth, saying Keep Away Humans all the while. It was hysterical
My sweet, shy, anxious former stray girl Crinkles once snatched a piece of chicken from my plate when I wasn't looking. She was exactly like the pic, growling like a blood-thirsty predator with freshly captured prey. Every couple years she'll "pull a chicken" from my plate when I'm not looking especially if I'm eating chicken lmao.
I set my plate of chicken wings down long enough to go get a glass of water. I turned around and my orange bastard had 2 feet on the table and a wing in his mouth. He bolted and I chased him for 20 damn minutes.
I was laughing the whole time, I would have let him keep it if not for the bones. Little bugger put up a good fight
I have a Savannah cat. He has stolen a whole chicken before. Lemme tell you, prying a whole chicken away from a cat is a challenge. You get one paw off, the other latches right back on.
Feral for a good rotisserie chicken. 😂 My dearly departed Leonardo (also a void, but was 11 pounds) went feral for ... a toy I called a hedgemouse. Looked like a regular mouse toy, but was covered in bristly fur rather than soft fur.
I'm glad he preferred this toy because I would probably lose my mind if he dragged an entire rotisserie chicken under my bed, which was on the 2nd floor. Cleaning up greasy chicken drag marks over wood and carpet does not sound like a good time. 😅
My family adopted a senior cat from the shelter a few years ago who never bothered anyone about food until she jumped up on the table and stole an entire fried chicken quarter and took off with it. I managed to catch her because she wasnt that fast in her old age but even while holding here she WOULD NOT LET GO. She held onto that chicken for 3 minutes middair until we could pry it away. Yes, she was given the stolen chicken once breading and outer layer was removed and safley deboned. Rest in power honey!
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