eating the family pet

so back in the day i worked kinda as a logger. a guy i knew was a vet and bought wood lots up in the colorado mountains and would drop me off with a saw and my pack for a week and id knock down pecker poles and scatter slash, stack logs. alone. it was awesome. about third trip out he picked me up after 6 days and we loaded logs and head back to his place. i had kicked the logs off the trailer and he came out with his daughter and had to go to town. they leave and as i was blocking up the pile i saw a cotton tail, looked at my watch, yep its lunchtime. so i pop the bunny and boil it up. when i take a rabbit i get all the skin nose to tail and stretch it on newspaper to dry. whiskers,ears, all of it. they come back just as i am finishing off the last back-strap,,,, i wave. couple minutes later kid comes out screaming. how the fuck was i supposed to know they named said bunny and have been hand feeding it. id been eating grouse and bunny's for a week. shit.
sooooo uh yeah. iv been know to eat the family pet.

 

Now that's funny,,,

Years ago ,, my grandpa bought a couple small hogs ,, was gonna raise 'em up and butcher them ,,, they lived by a swamp ,, a storm was coming thru ,, and the pig pen was on the low end of his lot,, in bad storms the water would get in the area where the pig pen was ,,, so grandma said bring'em in the house for the night. Grandma was hand feeding them that night ,, and she named them ,, then grandpa had to keep'em as pets ,, grandma wouldn't let him butcher them after that ,, grandpa was pissed .

 

Oh no. You are a bad bad man. I bet it was delicious.

 

Rabbit is so so, a properly cured and smoked ham or bacon or a side of rib in a good sauce would tend to make me overlook the pet pig idea. Heck I will even draw the line at a good donut fried in a good fresh lard. Gives it a flavor that is better than cotton seed oil.

 

Dad told me cat was stringy, so I never looked at Coleman as much of a meal. He's a ten pound killing machine. If I let him hunt outside we can share his kills.

 

i am a bad man. poor kid.

 

wild bunnys and hare are dry. boil till they fall off the bone then pan fry in butter. i totally get a pavlovion response just looking at bunnys.

 

,,,,someday il share my cat story.

 

I've seen lots of bunnies raised in third world places, eating left-overs and fed from the garden. They really are a good source of meat, breed rapidly. I've never tried breeding or keeping them but definitely would if things went bad.

 

Kinda bad manners to go to someone's house and act like you own the place. Don't break nothing, use nothing, etc. without asking first! Gotta leave that Mountain man sh*t in the mountains!

 

And sure as hell don' kill anything that isn't trying to kill you! You might even want to let it chew on you a bit before killing it!

 

i was in the mountains,, eating what i ate every day.

 

Did you take a dump on the man's front yard too?

 

your indignation ignores several key points of the story. if it was a domestic bunny i would have left it. domesticating wildlife is always a bad idea,,, im glad it was me that got fed and not a fox, coy ect. maybe folks who drop you on a remote wood lot alone and pay you with a bag of pot are not really friends. i dont get food stamps and miss meals because of it. when the opportunity to get fresh, wild meat presents itself i took it. yes i did shit in the woods away from his house. while i do feel bad for the kid at no point was it my intention to disrespect him or his property. not the first time my intentions were misunderstood.

 

you got me there,,,,,, the bunny was not trying to kill me.

 

Someone in our semi-rural neighborhood often walks his pet hog down our street. Hmmm. I wonder where he lives.

Edward

 

I call my cat the "emergency food source". It's just a joke though.

... Most of the time.

 

i always thought szechuan would be a good cat name, joking. kinda.

 

They say cat is a little stringy ,, seems like a 2 fer 1 deal ,, nutrition,, and dental flossing at the same time.

 

When the chickens stop laying eggs it's the stew pot next.