To throw it out

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I have just chopped up some vegetables and ham and put it in a pan for mine and DH's tea later. I left DD doing her homework in the kitchen so didn't think to shut the door behind me to keep the cat out as the cat doesn't go in there when people are around.

As I was putting DS to bed I realised that DD had stopped doing her homework and was messing around in her bedroom. Cue me going downstairs to find the cat with her head in the pan. Although I love my cats, I am very particular on where they go. I don't allow them in the kitchen unattended, definitely not on the worktops and not in bedrooms, on the couch etc.

I am now contemplating throwing it all in the bin but as we go shopping tomorrow, there is nothing else to give DH when he gets in.

AIBU

Skim the top and feed it to him anyway?

I'd leave it, tell him what happened and give him the choice to eat it or not. He might not be bothered. I know my dh wouldn't if he was hungry enough.

I have to eat it too and I already know. He would probably eat it, its me who is grossed out by it.

There isn't that much to skim off as I was putting it with pasta and a stir in sauce.

It isn't cooked yet.

If you're going to cook it then it will be fine.

I am usually the first to say 'eat it', but I'd never be able to rid myself of the image of the cat with its head in the pan.

Cats are pretty filthy, and hairy. You probably find a whisker stuck in your teeth half way through the meal.

God no I eat pretty much anything but I would bin that. Yuk.

Takeaway?

And they eat mice ... Nahhh I couldn't even look at it!

Can you not just eat the pasta and sauce?

Bring it to the boil and horse on! Twil be fine :)

We had takeaway last night as I was out most of the night with DD. My cat doesn't eat mice. She is pretty old and only goes outside in the garden for about 10 mins before she is meowing at the door again.

I am fuming with DD as she was supposed to be doing her homework. Having such a bad week and was really looking forward to my tea :0(

Takeaway here, too. A different one than you had yesterday.

Pasta with sauce would then be for me... Even if your cat doesn't eat mice they use their tongue to wash themselves... A bit like a sponge!

This is why I couldn't even think about eating it, but go ahead and eat it if it doesn't bother you...

Its going in the bin. In my rational mind, I think any germs would be killed off during cooking but my irrational side just thinks...uuurgh.

I've had cats all my life, and this sort of thing has happened loads of times.
I'm afraid I too would throw the food away (or let the cats eat it all!)
I know full well that cooking would kill any germs, but I just couldn't fancy it.
They lick their bottoms, which is enough reason for me....

Yuk. Fish and chips please, not toxoplasmosis.

YABU

Feed it to the cat, don't chuck it away!!!

Why waste it?

I took four pheasants out of the freezer late one Christmas eve / early Christmas morning to thaw out overnight . They were wrapped in clingfilm.

Woke on Christmas to discover one of the cats had dragged it off still half frozen and still in clingfilm to his bed where it was uneaten. I retrieved it, thawed it out and roasted it.

I do have very low standards, have long given up pretending the cats don't jump up on the table. This would not bother me.

I had a cat many years aog, who did exactly the same thing OP.

It was totally out of character for her to ever do that but it turned out, she had worms and was ravenously hungry.

I wonder if it's worth checking her?