In a story that will make everyone call up their grandmother, an elderly woman who lived – and later died – alone was found to have been devoured by her twenty cats after they went without food in the woman’s absence.
The cat-breeding woman’s apartment was eventually discovered by local authorities after two weeks, but not before her 20 Maine Coons had feasted on her decomposing corpse. It is believed that police finally encountered her after her employer contacted them following the fortnight of not seeing or hearing from her.
The incident is said to have occurred in the Bataysk region of Russia, located near the northeast corner of the Black Sea.
As morbid as the situation sounds, and notwithstanding the presumably grisly scene, it’s at once a frightening and understandable prospect. No one necessarily wants Granny to turn into catnip, but what else is an animal supposed to do for food? Survival might not be the name of the game anymore for Memaw, but it is for the felines.
The New York Post quoted one of the alleged Russians who captured and later cared for some of the surviving cats. “The cats were left alone on their own for two weeks, there was no food, so what else to eat?” the Post quoted the person saying. “It’s understandable right? They ate what there was.”
Apparently, some of the litter were later sold for the equivalent of around just $30 USD. It is unclear if the new owners were aware of their pets’ history of, and penchant for, human flesh. Don’t let them catch you napping, lest they take a quick interest in a snack.
Perhaps more incredible than the story itself is the fact that “researchers” have spent untold government dollars on this exact phenomenon. It calls to mind a recent Rand Paul rant on the Senate floor in the moments before his colleagues passed the debt limit deal reached between RINO Kevin McCarthy and Joe Biden, where he outlined several instances of wasteful, tax-payer-funded ventures that could best be accomplished via private industry – or simply not at all.
Among some of the wasteful ventures related to people, such as grants to find out what makes people fall in love or how they feel about seeing a selfie of themselves, Paul notes that more than $1.5 million was invested into studying the mating call of a Panamanian frog “to see if the mating call of the country frogs was different from the city frogs.”
Continuing, Paul shared of another research effort, funded by you and me, to see if Japanese quails were “more promiscuous” when hopped up on illicit narcotics. That study cost over $1 million.
So, as shown by Paul, the government has no issue doling out hard-earned money from regular folks and either proving what we already know or seeking to learn things that have no bearing on real life.
“Your cat could EAT you if you die as study shows felines feast on human flesh,” the U.K.’s Sun headlined in a click-bait story. The study, based out of Colorado, followed a pair of cats that had happened upon a set of decomposing corpses housed within a research center. Allowing the break-ins to continue over several weeks, the takeaway from the study was that cats are “picky eaters” and would not comb over the array of various bodies, but instead return to the same person they had tasted previously. It also found that cats prefer the soft tissue of the lips and nose as well as the arm, chest, shoulders, and abdomen.
What was learned from this study, and who is helped by it? Hard to say, but that’s what some scientists did with their time and your dollars.
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