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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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Reduxrabbit · 10/08/2022 22:26

shrews not munched here either but any suggestions on frog sorbet, which is the current ingredient of choice?

Merryweather80 · 10/08/2022 20:39

My old dear Hugo (now long deceased) used to love ice cream, so much so that he was banned from being in the same room whilst it was being consumed. I may (or may not) have given him a little taste here and there on hot days ( in order to get away to eat mine in peace, from the dear departed mog). He would happily share my ice cream- or anyone else’s.

I’m sure the current four wouldn’t turn it down either. May sample flavours/ cat in the morning.

I must return to the cat stroking, I’m being given the evils by my fur-overlord. Tis a cats life.

nocoolnamesleft · 10/08/2022 19:47

To be fair, cats are hardly known for their gratitude. Do you think pilchards might be too cheap a fish for them to consider edible? Perhaps they prefer succulent juicy prawns, or smoked salmon?

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Bwix · 10/08/2022 18:15

The suggestion that motherhood is incompatible with use of the word 'albeit' is easily dismissed as risible. In contrast, the concept of shrew ice cream merited considerable further discussion, quite understandably.

Also, neither cat ate my amazing frozen pilchard concoction (I tasted it and it was fine) but I have made made them happy by putting a small towel in the freezer and bringing it out for them to lie on.

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Roo4u · 10/08/2022 18:07

Well ill be laughing for weeks over the comments on here ,it's hilarious,I've never read a better mn post , I've been choking, literally ,with laughter,this has made my day cheers🍷to you all,

Roo4u · 10/08/2022 18:01

@KittyWindbag 😂😂😂

Roo4u · 10/08/2022 17:48

@dropthevipers 😂😂😂 I'm lll with laughter

iklboo · 10/08/2022 17:47

I am irritated that I came to it via twitter, where some snotty twat was suggesting MNers wouldn't be able to use words like 'albeit'.

I would reply thusly:

Not only can I use 'albeit', I can also use 'notwithstanding', 'wherewithal', 'happenstance', 'nevertheless', 'outwith' in context. Importantly, I can use...

FUCK OFF TWITTER TWAT. COME OVER HERE AND SAY THAT! WHAT WOULD YOUR MOTHER THINK!

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Roo4u · 10/08/2022 17:43

I didnt like them either @edenhills 😂😂

Roo4u · 10/08/2022 17:38

@Drinkingpop 😂🤣🤣🤣

Bleachmycloths · 10/08/2022 10:03

This has got to be a wind up.

pilkywilkymoansalot · 10/08/2022 09:21

I’m with Bill Oddie, David Attenborough, Chris Packham and the like, the shrews and the song birds are (all native species) cats are (non native species) murdering torturing feckers..

ozymandiusking · 10/08/2022 00:20

I wonder if there could be a market for some fish shaped lolly moulds.
Lakeland may be interested.

Stopcomplainingandsortit · 10/08/2022 00:06

I really don't think the mouse would go well with shrews!! Can't you make a seperate little appetiser out of it? I love the mouse pop idea tho. Classy!!

ErrolTheDragon · 09/08/2022 23:54

Sally090807 · 09/08/2022 18:27

maybe you could bring out a cat range of icecreams

Can't they eat dog icecream? (On this thread I feel obliged to clarify.. icecream made for dogs, low lactose and other sugars. Not dog ripple...Though doubtless some cats would like that, revenge is a dish best served very cold...)

ErrolTheDragon · 09/08/2022 23:47

Where the hell do you live that cats bring in grass snakes. And how big are they

The cat we had as a child once caught a grass snake. I seem to remember it was about an inch thick and two or three feet long, but that may not be accurate. Normal sort of garden in an Essex coastal town.

BooneyBeautiful · 09/08/2022 23:25

Laiste · 08/08/2022 18:56

Is that true?

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Cats are obligate carnivores; definitely not insectivores.

Twiglets1 · 09/08/2022 22:48

New recipe for the folder - tuna bhuna

LittleJules59 · 09/08/2022 22:39

mintlimerum · 08/08/2022 19:00

Hi OP

Tour cats are busy! We only get about one live grass snake a year.

The pilchard sorbet could be a winner? But make sure there's no actual bits of ice in it, as I don't think cats like actual ice. I would suggest just slightly chilled, with a hint of tuna perhaps?

You are mad cat woman extraordinaire with the shrew ice-cream recipe. I think you need a cauldron to do these experimental recipes justice.

But try the lick-e-licks tubes chilled as a starter to establish if they like cold things before you break out with the wildlife recipes.

Where the hell do you live that cats bring in grass snakes. And how big are they? I need a total no-go zone round where you live (general vicinity ~not you in particular ).

Misses point..., but SNAKES

ScreechingEchoChamber · 09/08/2022 21:13

Cotonsugar · 09/08/2022 20:25

Is this a joke post? Shrews, “Can’t taste sugar” even if they could why would you want to give a cat (or any pet) sugar anyway? Shrew ice cream - good grief 🙄🙄🤮🤮

How do you know shrews can't taste sugar?

Maybe we need another wee experiment - set out a humane trap baited with hairybos and licorats allsorts and shrewbet dip and see if they all congregate overnight to stick their pointy little noses into it. Bonus - tomorrow we will have extra rodents for our continuing ice-cream experiments!

Or did you mean cats?

Totorotoes · 09/08/2022 21:10

The famous feline chef Nigella Clawson does a mean 'mouse head and tuna' ice cream, great when eaten with an ice-cold tunatini.

TokyoTen · 09/08/2022 21:06

Lanya virus anyone?

SarahAndQuack · 09/08/2022 20:53

This thread makes me deeply happy.

I am irritated that I came to it via twitter, where some snotty twat was suggesting MNers wouldn't be able to use words like 'albeit'. Cos, obviously, being a mummy rots your brain.

(I am also gobsmacked by the number of people who read it totally straight).

My feline overlords salute you.

AshtonsMummy2017 · 09/08/2022 20:53

Literally what I came to check too 😝

hotfroth · 09/08/2022 20:45

IcakethereforeIam · 09/08/2022 18:34

Tom & Jerry's

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