• Fosheze@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m just wondering how you get enough meat off a cat that it’s worthwhile. Most livestock are herbivores because herbivores are larger and much easier to feed. Cats are obligate carnivores, even if you’re feeding them scrap meat you’re going to wind up with them eating far more meat than they produce and I can’t imagine that they produce much usable meat. It just seems like it would be easier and cheaper to just raise actual pigs than to try and get the same amount of meat off of a bunch of cats.

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        1 year ago

        Even so rounding up a bunch of cats still seems like the most high effort way to get meat compared to literally any other animal. Even just talking about wrangling strays, dogs seem like a better choice because then you at least get a bit more meat. Cats just don’t seem like they would have enough usable meat to even be worth the effort of butchering them. Unless these are some especially chunky feral cats, all the ones I’ve seen are basically just fur and bone.

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          1 year ago

          It’s pretty easy to trap feral cats. Feral dogs are less common and harder to deal with. It really only takes bait as a recurring expense, at about say 10 cents per cage to get 1-2 pounds of meat that is worth at least $1per pound is pretty good return.

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            1 year ago

            They probably also get their children to do it and the cost of meat there is probably a good bit more expensive compared to income than somewhere like the US.