Can I make ice cream from shrews?

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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.

Am I the only person who just feeds my cat Whiskers cat food? 🤷‍♀️😂

(And perhaps the occasional tin of tuna when I'm feeling generous)

Not poisonous, just minging then 🤣

Shrews taste terrible. That's why the cats didn't eat them.

Ice cubes to lick would surely be easier but liking the fish sorbet ideas. And this thread is mumsnet gold.

Shrew ice cream with a pilchard sorbet amuse bouche? OP you are a genius and my cats want to move in with you.
I really should have flambeed the recently murdered goldcrest and served it on top if a crepe for them...

cats are lactose intolerant so can't eat mice cream

mice cream 🤣

Ratonastick. 😟🤢

There's cat slaves and there's Cat Slaves. You, op, are the capitalised version.

Make them a tasty tiramashrew instead , less fiddly .

Why do people say girl cat and boy cat? I don't hear this about dogs??
I would say female or male cat.

I dread to think you got your nose close to that mouse to ascertain that it smelt fresh. Just yuck.

Wasn't Kat the main character in The Taming of the Shrew?

😂😂😂

Oh brilliant.

What about pigeon? My cat eats them. Not much left, apart from feathers, after he's got hold of one. Which is why I don't have a cat flap.
Nice pigeon ice cream.

I thought I had all the ingredients for shrew ice cream in the house already

Sentences I never thought I'd read on MN ...

Please warn your family if you put it in the freezer <<visions of bird seed fat balls being eaten as a scotch egg >>

And therefore might not appreciate a food they weren't keen on that was boiled, blended, frozen and served up as a summer treat?

😂😂
The comments are just brilliant!

👏👏👏👏 bravo!

Shrews are purely for entertainment value and then as a decorative item, they're not edible.

Consider voles, mice, rats or if you want to get really exotic, glis-glis (edible dormouse, not be confused with our native Hazel Dormouse which are protected and must not be made into sorbets, icecreams or any other confection).

If you had a rat you could make a three rodent roast.
Stuff the mouse in the rat and the shrew would tuck nicely inside the mouse.. nom nom.

Love it. I don’t care if OP is serious or not, I’m off to tell DD12 my new Mum-joke! She may dislocate her eyes, rolling them at it, though!!!

Also, ice cream makers can be a faff to clean OP. If you have a blender and a few ice cubes, it's literally seconds to whip up a fresh shrewthie. Keep it simple in the heat.

Yup, we have accessed a whole new level of Mumsnet weirdness