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Mortgages and eating Cats after the Economic Collapse
Ferfal Blog Spot ^
| 3/26/14
| Ferfal
Posted on 03/26/2014 3:45:17 PM PDT by Kartographer
The word got around that cat didnt taste that bad and in a matter of weeks you just couldnt find any more stray cats when just a few months earlier they were all over the city. In the country, kids with slingshots and air rifles would go bird hunting so as to bring something home to throw in the pot.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Food
KEYWORDS: prepparedness; preppers
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To: appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...
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posted on
03/26/2014 3:45:33 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
It worked in “Book of Eli”.
here kitty kitty
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posted on
03/26/2014 3:53:21 PM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
To: TurboZamboni
So many cats so few recipes.
To: Kartographer
Along with more recent meltdowns, the Paris Commune is a great cautionary tale (and guide to expedient rations).
To: Kartographer
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posted on
03/26/2014 3:58:54 PM PDT
by
verga
(Poor spiritual health is often manifested with poor physical health.)
To: riverrunner
Cats in the kettle at the Peking Moon...
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posted on
03/26/2014 3:59:45 PM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
To: Kartographer
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posted on
03/26/2014 4:01:50 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: JoeProBono
That’s just wrong... LOL...
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posted on
03/26/2014 4:03:03 PM PDT
by
ForYourChildren
(Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - a classical Christian approach to homeschool])
To: Kartographer
Does it make you feel warm all over in a similar way to eating dog?
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posted on
03/26/2014 4:04:14 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: JoeProBono
An open-cat-face sandwich!
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posted on
03/26/2014 4:04:58 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
To: Kartographer
I wonder if Obongo has any good”Dog Recipes”he’d like to spread around?
To: Kartographer
My late Dad told me about shooting pigeons off the telephone wire with a shotgun for his family's supper during the Great Depression. "The good thing about a telephone wire," he said, "is that it lines them up." He forgot to mention how the telephone company felt about it.
To: Kartographer; blam; Marcella; JRandomFreeper; Lazamataz; null and void
To: Kartographer
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posted on
03/26/2014 4:12:48 PM PDT
by
webheart
(Watch out for the bots! They will disagree with you!)
To: riverrunner
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posted on
03/26/2014 4:13:34 PM PDT
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
To: Kartographer
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posted on
03/26/2014 4:14:07 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
To: Kartographer
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posted on
03/26/2014 4:15:39 PM PDT
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
To: Kartographer
I used to know a woman, a Japanese war bride, who was still very upset (decades later) about the sudden disappearance of her pet dog when she was a child. Seems the Korean family next door was a little hungry....
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posted on
03/26/2014 4:15:53 PM PDT
by
Hetty_Fauxvert
(FUBO, and the useful idiots you rode in on!)
To: Kartographer
There is a computer game called "Dwarf Fortress" that is fairly popular. The graphics are a throwback to old DOS-era ASCII games, but the gameplay is a very complex sandbox-type game where you start with a few settlers and limited supplies in a wilderness location and have to choose from different survival strategies.
So, you can try to farm, hunt, fish, raise your usual domestic animals, or try to mine and build valuable crafts that you can trade for food when caravans come along. However, some enterprising players discovered a trick: cats were very cheap to bring along as starting pets for your settlers, and if you brought at least one male and one female, they would breed like crazy, and you could easily confine them to a safe place in your fortress, unlike the game animals and fish wandering in the dangerous outdoors. You could also butcher cats and get meat, hides, bones, and all the products you would from wild animals, plus your dwarves wouldn't care about eating catmeat, as long as you didn't kill their personal cat.
So it's now one of the "winning strategies" in the game to just bring some cats with and breed them for your food needs, freeing you up to spend time worrying about the other aspects of survival. There's even fan-art depicting the "cat butchering" strategy:
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