Mortgages and eating Cats after the Economic Collapse

Ferfal Blog Spot ^ | 3/26/14 | Ferfal

[Kartographer]

The word got around that cat didn’t taste that bad and in a matter of weeks you just couldn’t find any more stray cats when just a few months earlier they were all over the city. In the country, kids with slingshots and air rifles would go bird hunting so as to bring something home to throw in the pot.

[Kartographer]

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!!

[TurboZamboni]

It worked in “Book of Eli”.

here kitty kitty

[riverrunner]

So many cats so few recipes.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Along with more recent meltdowns, the Paris Commune is a great cautionary tale (and guide to expedient rations).

[verga]

Great article.

[TurboZamboni]

Cats in the kettle at the Peking Moon...

[JoeProBono]

[ForYourChildren]

That’s just wrong... LOL...

[Jack Hydrazine]

Does it make you feel warm all over in a similar way to eating dog?

[PLMerite]

An open-cat-face sandwich!

[bandleader]

I wonder if Obongo has any good”Dog Recipes”he’d like to spread around?

[Billthedrill]

My late Dad told me about shooting pigeons off the telephone wire with a shotgun for his family's supper during the Great Depression. "The good thing about a telephone wire," he said, "is that it lines them up." He forgot to mention how the telephone company felt about it.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

[webheart]

Tastes like chicken.

[outofsalt]

http://catrecipes.com/

[Carriage Hill]

[outofsalt]

Do not click this link.
http://catrecipes.com/pekingmoon.html

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

I used to know a woman, a Japanese war bride, who was still very upset (decades later) about the sudden disappearance of her pet dog when she was a child. Seems the Korean family next door was a little hungry....

[Boogieman]

There is a computer game called "Dwarf Fortress" that is fairly popular. The graphics are a throwback to old DOS-era ASCII games, but the gameplay is a very complex sandbox-type game where you start with a few settlers and limited supplies in a wilderness location and have to choose from different survival strategies.

So, you can try to farm, hunt, fish, raise your usual domestic animals, or try to mine and build valuable crafts that you can trade for food when caravans come along. However, some enterprising players discovered a trick: cats were very cheap to bring along as starting pets for your settlers, and if you brought at least one male and one female, they would breed like crazy, and you could easily confine them to a safe place in your fortress, unlike the game animals and fish wandering in the dangerous outdoors. You could also butcher cats and get meat, hides, bones, and all the products you would from wild animals, plus your dwarves wouldn't care about eating catmeat, as long as you didn't kill their personal cat.

So it's now one of the "winning strategies" in the game to just bring some cats with and breed them for your food needs, freeing you up to spend time worrying about the other aspects of survival. There's even fan-art depicting the "cat butchering" strategy: