Can I make ice cream from shrews?

[Bwix]

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.

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

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

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

Any sentient carrot is ruled out of veganism.

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.

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.

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)

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.

Some vole-au-vents?

Haha, or River Cottage man

Vegan squirty cream? For the shrew dessert?

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