Years later I read where a mob family had gotten a hold of 400,000 lbs of dead, dying or sick animals. The meat had been sprinkled with charcoal to mark it as unfit for human consumption, but they just dug it up and scraped it off and used it.
Hamburgers and Hotdogs - Yum!
If there were anything to this story the cats would be frozen and served as stir fry at the Olympics. At the very least they'd be sold to North Korea.