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Can I make ice cream from shrews?

287 replies

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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EarringsandLipstick · 09/08/2022 20:29

@IcakethereforeIam

'Tom & Jerry's' 🤣🤣🤣🤣

MN at its finest, this thread.

It's all over my Twitter feed today, from all sorts of sources. I usually have pretty dry tweets on academic-related matters so it's been great seeing this pop up in unlikely places!

hotfroth · 09/08/2022 20:25

A previous cat of mine would happily eat shrews - if the heads sometimes left on the back doorstep were anything to go by. Mind you, this was a cat who would catch moles and stoats, so she was game for anything.

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 🙄🙄🤮🤮

MarthaMayWhovier · 09/08/2022 19:30

megletthesecond · 08/08/2022 18:48

Shrews wasn't a typo then.

Grin I clicked on thread to see what the the OP actually meant because I knew "shrew" was OBVIOUSLY a typo. Envy

Atomicspider · 09/08/2022 19:15

Oh this is going to turn really bad when you’re accused of dabbling with langya virus 😩I can imagine the posts already 🙈

Shehasadiamondinthesky · 09/08/2022 19:03

Cats get ice cream headaches you know. My cat had one the other day when she pinched my ice cream. She didn't know what was happening. Wish I'd had a camera 😅

Harls1969 · 09/08/2022 19:00

Sorry OP, the shrews/mice are gifts for you, otherwise the cats would have eaten them already (and let's face it, they already have much nicer food available). So unless you've got a hankering for shrew sorbet, I'd give it a miss 😂😃

HaveYouAnyDreamYoudLikeToSell · 09/08/2022 18:52

I'd hold off on the ice cream.......

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11095995/Langya-virus-Warning-brand-new-virus-detected-China.html

IndiaRose22 · 09/08/2022 18:49

IDontDrinkTea · 08/08/2022 18:42

God, I thought penis beaker would be the most disgusting thing I’d ever read on mumsnet. Shrew ice cream 🤮

I feel the need to ask.. What is penis beaker? 😳

IcakethereforeIam · 09/08/2022 18:34

Sally090807 · 09/08/2022 18:27

maybe you could bring out a cat range of icecreams

Tom & Jerry's

Gingernan · 09/08/2022 18:32

Mm sounds yummy,I think I'll just stick to the cold chicken stock and the spring water from the tuna. One of my cats has kidney disease so it's extra fluid with everything.

Sally090807 · 09/08/2022 18:27

maybe you could bring out a cat range of icecreams

Kentucky83 · 09/08/2022 18:20

Sounds gross, but then zoos do give frozen meat to big cats on hot days as a treat, if you're comfortable doing all this in your kitchen then go for it as long as you're using cat friendly milk/cream.

Claruz · 09/08/2022 18:20

My (now dead) cat was an absolute murderer when in the garden and no bird, rat, mouse, squirrel, rabbit or shrew was safe when she was about. She would eat them after killing them but she would NEVER eat the shrews so I guess they are poisonous or just taste bad

EarringsandLipstick · 09/08/2022 13:43

yay! delighted this is now in Classics. Brilliant thread.

JaninaDuszejko · 09/08/2022 10:16

Knowing that cats hate the taste of shrews puts a new light on them presenting them to us. It's less 'here's a gift to thank you for everything you do for me' and more 'here slave, this disgusting foodstuff is all you are worth'.

Leafy3 · 09/08/2022 10:06

ScreechingEchoChamber · 09/08/2022 09:57

'Just one Brown Ratt-o
Give it to me'

🤣🤣🤣

ScreechingEchoChamber · 09/08/2022 09:57

'Just one Brown Ratt-o
Give it to me'

IncompleteSenten · 09/08/2022 09:18

This is really typical cat isn't it?

These creatures are fucking revolting. You can have them. They are my gift to you
🤣

EarringsandLipstick · 09/08/2022 07:14

This thread ... brilliantly bonkers OP & hilarious replies from posters.

Have reported for a Classics nomination.

MrsWooster · 09/08/2022 07:07

ours eat everything, including squirrels (minus the tails) but never shrews.
They KILL lots of shrews but leave them
on the doormat like psycho Hermes couriers.

Twiglets1 · 09/08/2022 06:46

Bwix · 09/08/2022 06:19

It's a shame that shrews aren't tasty as I woke up with the word shrewflé on my lips. I have fed boy cat his usual breakfast and girl cat is out on the town and will stagger in at about 8am with yet another shrew in her mouth.

If a shrewfle isn't to their liking how about a nice fly pie? Cats seem to find them tasty

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Bwix · 09/08/2022 06:19

It's a shame that shrews aren't tasty as I woke up with the word shrewflé on my lips. I have fed boy cat his usual breakfast and girl cat is out on the town and will stagger in at about 8am with yet another shrew in her mouth.

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KittyWindbag · 09/08/2022 04:32

They walk among us ffs

SheilaWilde · 09/08/2022 01:27

Could you not just give them Dreamies and leave the shrews out for the owls? Or but them some chicken?