Would they eat us...

[RubbishMantra]

When I hand-feed treats to my cats, they often have a bit of a nibble on my fingers. Sometimes MCat chews on displayed toes sticking out of the duvet, and not in a playful way, more purposeful.

Apparently, their ancestors, sabre-toothed cats fed on our primate ancestors.

So does anyone else have a vague suspicion that our cats would eat us if they could?

Yep I think they would

This sort of story turns up fairly often.

Unless I tasted of roast lamb, not a chance.

Mine would probably eye my dead body thoughtfully for a while..(and pat it a bit) but if my corpse didn't get up and open the cat food tin.. yeah the'd tuck in

What do you mean 'would'...?

every morning, mine bites my head to get under the duvet. Sometimes she doesn't even give a pre-warning swat of my nose before tucking in.

I'm going to go with a very positive yes for this one.

He's practising on dh.

In all honesty, if the choice was your pet starving or munching on you, well, you'd rather they lived wouldn't you?.

They could eat me with my blessing. Post death of course!

My DH attended a sudden death who had been there a while. His cats had started eating him. Grim.

Anyway, anecdotal evidence says yep, they'd eat us.

I'd be happy if mine showed any inclination to do so, as it would mean getting her off dry food

Funnily I've just woken from a nap having a lucid dream that I had to box a human sized cat and it won.