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Yesterday, my Cookie>>>>originally my neighbor's barn cat who over the years has adopted me as Mom and comes in and out of our home at will>>>>
she brought down Mr. Wise Rabbit. Yes, he had a name, for he came to our backyard all throughout the summer and showed absolutely no fear. We were even able to walk in the backyard and he just kept on munching whatever he was eating, and didn't run. He grew on us.
Anyways, my Cookie brought him down, which I have seen over the years, is a normal for her when the weather is due to get colder. She ate the entire head, inclusive of both ears, the right leg in its entirety, and the heart. The rest she left but she guarded with her life.
I decided to wrap Mr. Wise Rabbit, my friend, up in tinfoil and put it in a plastic ziplock bag, placing it in my refrigerator. My plan? I planned to clean it, de-skin it, and gut it and put the rabbit in my meat grinder. The plan was for this morning. Just wrapping it made my stomach lurch.
I awoke this morning, at 4:45, with anxiety. I just didn't know if I could go through with "the plan".
One look at Cookie sleeping on our couch, and my mind was made up. Without hesitation, I did exactly as I had planned to. And you know what? It wasn't half as bad as I originally thought it would be.
I wanted to share the meat with all my cats. None except for two would eat the meat. And Cookie??? She had a FEAST. She ate everything! I have never seen her eat so much! Never! Her stomach bulged like a balloon! LOL
The moral of my story: You never know until you try what you can do. If I had stayed with my original feeling of repulsion, and had chickened out, I would have missed the absolute JOY of seeing my Cookie eat with gusto. I knew she knew this was Mr. Wise Rabbit, and the gratitude on her face was worth all my anxiety and the loss of several hours of sleep!
That's cool! Don't think I could have done it though. I always tell my husband that if I have to cook we'll be vegetarians (he does the cooking). I can eat it, I just can't handle the raw part of it. Although I did cook hamburger meat for 1 of my past dogs that wouldn't eat.
Glad all your cats enjoyed Mr. Wise Rabbit
My stomach turned just reading it. reminded me of the time my brother hunted a squirrel and skinned it. It ended up in the fridge in a big bowl of salt water with its eye looking up at me... ewww and double eww.
It looks like Mr Wise Rabbit's wisdom had its limits.
Oh, but, catman, a dare to differ in opinion here. I'd say that Cookie, being who she is, now has Mr. Wise Rabbit's wisdom within herself.
Think about it. She ate the BRAIN and the HEART yesterday when she first brought him down.
Does it not make you wonder??? It does me!
And, seeing there truly is no death, but only LIFE, and Spirit is Infinity, could it not be possible that the spirit of Mr. Wise Rabbit has now merged with Cookie??? Hmmmmm....... You know, she has been sleeping all day....so..... But then again, having that full of a stomach would make her sleep! LOL
Being an animal lover, I cringed at the thought of killing a severely maimed cat. One of our cats was terribly ripped apart by one of our own dogs. It broke my heart to do it, but no vet for 30 miles and a sunday. It had to be done.
It is good that you were able to prevent wasting the meat. What's done is done. Cookie killed it, but the meat didn't go to waste.
Poor wise wabbit
I hit a rabbit early one morning on my way home. It bothered me that it could have been injured so I stopped to see. It was dead so I got it, put it in the car, took it home, cleaned it and that is what we had for supper that night... LOL! Fresh Road Kill! I told my husband I would NOT do that again. The smell of it cleaning it gagged me so many times so I know I couldn't stomach cleaning another one.... (and usually, I have a strong stomach).. He was a hunter and we had rabbit all the time so I thought "how hard can it be to skin and clean this thing?"
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