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Can I make ice cream from shrews?

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Bwix · 08/08/2022 18:39

The cats need a treat on a day like this. My boy cat looks very hot and bothered. Girl cat has brought us 4 shrews already and I found a mouse corpse behind the bin, which smells relatively fresh.

Do you think the cats would like it if I froze them, perhaps mixed with a bit of cream? I know they can't taste sugar, so I was thinking of boiling cream and leaving the shrews to infuse at that stage, then making a sugar-free traditional custard (albeit shrew flavoured) and putting that in the ice cream maker.

The shrews are already dead so I'm assuming IANBU.

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Mysa74 · 29/03/2025 15:07

Zombie thread, full of lots of zombie shrews.... Kinda hope this takes off again, it was very funny last time round Grin

BlueFlowers5 · 28/03/2025 09:29

Vegan squirty cream? For the shrew dessert?

Mazanna123 · 27/03/2025 17:57

nocoolnamesleft · 08/08/2022 18:41

Heston Blumenthal probably has a recipe.

Haha, or River Cottage man

IcakethereforeIam · 26/12/2022 10:51

Some vole-au-vents?

FavouriteDogMug · 26/12/2022 08:17

Just reading this thread now as MN have been posting some classics on FB for Christmas. It makes me wonder what festive treats OP is whipping up for her cats, probably a nice plate of mice pies.

Scepticalwotsits · 20/12/2022 09:03

TroysMammy · 20/12/2022 08:57

Isn't honey just bee vomit? (I like honey regardless).

Sort off. But the reason most vegans don’t consider it vegan is around the fact that most bees now are commercially harvested and often only the queen is protected and the rest are left to starve, they remove the honey and replace with sugar water which isn’t really enough.

now I have no real knowledge of apiary practices so I have no idea how they are managed in the whole, but the above is what a few vegan friends have told me when I queried why honey as I would assume it was.

(we have a once a month board game group with a few people and two of them are vegan so when it’s our turn to host I make sure the food and drink is suitable for them)

TroysMammy · 20/12/2022 08:57

Isn't honey just bee vomit? (I like honey regardless).

Scepticalwotsits · 20/12/2022 08:46

GimmeBiscuits · 08/12/2022 08:34

I suppose if they have been grown in soil fertilised with "fish, blood & bone" (or whatever disgusting sounding stuff I used to see over at the local allotments), then technically they may not be.

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That gets into a level of nuance most vegans apart from vocal extreme vegans wouldn’t enter.

Honey by most isn’t considered vegan however following the logic to its extreme that means plants pollinated by bees are not vegan, soil tilled causes huge damage to insects there for not vegan, essentially you end up being fruitarian.

GimmeBiscuits · 08/12/2022 08:34

ErrolTheDragon · 08/12/2022 00:33

Back up a minute... who said 'vegan carrots'? Are any carrots not vegan?Confused

I suppose if they have been grown in soil fertilised with "fish, blood & bone" (or whatever disgusting sounding stuff I used to see over at the local allotments), then technically they may not be.

category12 · 08/12/2022 06:54

Kevin the carrot and his family can't be vegan.

Any sentient carrot is ruled out of veganism.

ErrolTheDragon · 08/12/2022 00:33

Back up a minute... who said 'vegan carrots'? Are any carrots not vegan?Confused

ErrolTheDragon · 08/12/2022 00:32

Tbh it wasn't vegan shrew ice cream, which might have been the problem.

Ice cream made of shrews can't be vegan by definition, and vegan ice creams for shrews (cf 'dog ice cream') is pointless as shrews are insectivores

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Bwix · 07/12/2022 19:50

Vegan carrots you say? I tried to share a recipe for shrew ice cream this summer and that didn't land well.

Tbh it wasn't vegan shrew ice cream, which might have been the problem.

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category12 · 22/08/2022 08:52

Claruz · 22/08/2022 07:38

Several posts here complaining that cats are a non-native species which makes them, put politely, persona non grata. They have been here for years (hundreds of cat generations) so they are now established here to such an extent that there are "British" breeds of cat. How long does a species have to be here before these silly people stop this pointless narrative.

Also, British wildlife is under far more pressure from loss of habitat than cats (fake grass people, I'm looking at you).

Claruz · 22/08/2022 07:38

Several posts here complaining that cats are a non-native species which makes them, put politely, persona non grata. They have been here for years (hundreds of cat generations) so they are now established here to such an extent that there are "British" breeds of cat. How long does a species have to be here before these silly people stop this pointless narrative.

Twiglets1 · 22/08/2022 06:39

pigsDOfly · 20/08/2022 19:37

Three words; label, label, label.

Clicked on this thread again when I saw the above as I thought it was by way of marketing advice in the event that OP had decided to start producing Shrew Ice cream on a commercial scale.

Disappointed to see this is not the case.

I can see the marketing campaign now:

"Because shrew are worth it"

pigsDOfly · 20/08/2022 19:37

Three words; label, label, label.

Clicked on this thread again when I saw the above as I thought it was by way of marketing advice in the event that OP had decided to start producing Shrew Ice cream on a commercial scale.

Disappointed to see this is not the case.

JaninaDuszejko · 20/08/2022 18:07

Three words; label, label, label.

All MNers know that after the great Fat Ball / Artisan Scotch Egg mix up of 2014.

Therewere5inthebed · 20/08/2022 08:04

Three words; label, label, label.

My 7 year old daughter throughly enjoyed the pilchard cake that I made for my dogs as treats and cut into handy snack sized squares. Apparently she thought they were for an upcoming picnic.

The thought of anyone having a shrew snacksident is beyond the pale.

Twiglets1 · 11/08/2022 20:29

Love it

ilovesooty · 11/08/2022 18:54

This is brilliant.

Leafy3 · 11/08/2022 12:26

IcakethereforeIam · 11/08/2022 10:48

Make ice cream from milk suitable for cats. Liquidise frog, pour it over ice cream,

Affrogato.

🤣🤣🤣

IcakethereforeIam · 11/08/2022 10:48

Make ice cream from milk suitable for cats. Liquidise frog, pour it over ice cream,

Affrogato.

wildchild554 · 11/08/2022 09:20

Shouldn't give cat's dairy as they are lactose intolerant unless it's cat milk, I didn't know myself till I had my first own cat, the one we had when I was younger used to occasionally have milk. :O

ItsJustLittleOldMe · 11/08/2022 08:30

edwinbear · 08/08/2022 18:51

I don’t think I could use my entire kitchen again after boiling shrew and mouse corpses in it. I’d have to move.

This…. I even wash up my cats bowls etc with a cat sponge. The idea of me and my cat sharing anything makes my brain fry a little 😅

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