Is it true if you die your cats will eat you?

If you're about to die, get a goldfish from Hospice.

dogs will not, they continue to recognize you. cats absolutely will, you become just a hunk of meat

Both dogs and cats will eat your corpse if they get hungry enough.

Sorry, rescue-chick.

Cats will start nibbling on you as soon as your body cools. Dogs will, at first, stay with you and guard your body, but once you start to decay and they get hungry, they'll have themselves a feast.

Will they eat your corpse only if they get hungry and don't have any food or will they eat you even if they have access to a full bag of food?

Can someone have ever really loved you if they will eat your dead body?

[quote] Will they eat your corpse only if they get hungry and don't have any food or will they eat you even if they have access to a full bag of food?

You mean, just for shits and giggles?

People will eat you if they're trapped with you and have no other food.

I think it’s just nipping to wake you up.

I swear to God, I learn something new on Datalounge everyday. I have three chihuahuas and a toothless Schnauzer, so the news that dogs will eat you doesn't surprise me in the least. Goldie Hawn (the oldest Chihuahua) has four teeth left and would start chewing at the slightest provocation.

We have a complicated relationship.

[quote]Is it true if you die your cats will eat you?

It's called irony.

Dogs will wait til they are literally starving, just like a human would. Cats will chow down on you right away.

Is that you, China (@ R11)? My last cat was named China.

Rub bacon and peanut butter all over your body just before you're about to go.

I think any pet will eat you if they have no choice, and let’s face it, if they are trapped inside with your dead body, unless they know how to use a can opener, they probably have no choice

OP, if you are looking for faster disposal of your remains, have you considered ferrets?

I’ve kept them in the past. They’re adorable and endlessly playful, and I harbor no doubt that they would disembowel my carcass within minutes of my passing.

Gene Hackman and his wife were laying dead in their house for a couple weeks and their dogs didn't eat them

R17, Their dogs had access to the outdoors, so they likely were feeding on the critters outside. Had they been trapped indoors, the situation would've been different.

You’ll be dead so what difference will it make? I mean seriously.

Cats and dogs are not that different. Humans project these weird anthropomorphic traits onto them: “Dogs are loyal! Cats are aloof!” Drives me nuts.

Whether or not one would eat you depends upon how hungry the animal (any animal) is.

R17 I was going to write about that. Didn't one of the dogs die in the house with them? He/she didn't even take a bite out of Betty or Gene. Good doggie.

Cats will kill birds, mice, rabbits and other small animals even when they are not hungry. I'm a cat person but I'm not sure I trust them anymore.

One might try to trip me so I fall down the stairs and die and then LUNCH!

Yes.

Pet ferrets (and gerbils) are illegal in California

Don’t get a pet, OP, you’re too dumb to live.

R21, the dog that died of starvation and dehydration was locked up in its crate in the closet. The two other dogs had free rein of the house and yard and survived.

R22, despite what Kenneth Anger claimed, Marie Prevost's dachshund did not eat her remains. He did, however, nip at her legs to try to wake her.

That's why there are no cats or dogs in hospitals

I guess this is why I have a slight preference for dogs. If they have to be starving to do it, that seems reasonable I my book.

Maulface thread.

We have a rule: I don't eat pussy, and pussies don't eat me.

Of course dogs and cats will eat you if they're starving--ho matter how much we desperately want to anthropomorphize our pets, in the end all of them are just animals, and they don't have the sorts of squeamishness we do about corpses.

What do you think they're going to do... put coins over your corpse's eyes, and recite the rosary?

EAT. MY. PUSSY!

Why do you care? You’ll be dead.

Oops, just saw R19 beat me too it.

I feel like the Hackmans' dogs should be top interviewees on this podcast.

Woof. Woof. Wooooooof! Bark. Growl.

My beautiful little Persian cat Sissi LaRue could never eat me. She doesn't even eat dead flies she finds on the floor. She'll stay by my corpse and call an ambulance.

Waste not want not

[quote]Woof. Woof. Wooooooof! Bark. Growl.

You left out: "BURP."

Women get eaten first because cats love the smell of tuna.

What about boars? That have been trained to dine on cadavers

Asking for a friend

R32 Would you want someone to find your half eaten cadaver?

If my pooches get a chance to live by the time my body is found, then, by all means, eat away.

The cast of Alive make cats blush.

What a waste of a meal....

R23

Really? 🤯. Oh damn 🐹!!!!

R23 Why are they illegal? I bet dangerous pets like snakes are legal.

If you get a komodo dragon they prefer you alive.