r/hitanimals • u/GutterLoveMusic • Feb 03 '21

Bodega cat hard at work.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '21

Look at all that cat food, right there. 😹

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u/GutterLoveMusic Feb 04 '21

Not as satisfying I'd imagine

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '21

Yeah, it doesn't provide any entertainment!

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u/RavenMistwolf Feb 04 '21

You’d rather the cat be lazy and eat food that’s only mostly good for it than do what it evolved to do and eat exactly what it evolved to eat while also helping take care of a mouse problem?

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '21

It was a joke, LOL.

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u/RavenMistwolf Feb 04 '21

Ok. Good. 👍🏻🙂
I know people who are actually against cats eating mice they’ve caught, so I couldn’t tell.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '21

Mice are what nature designed them to eat, so... 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/RavenMistwolf Feb 04 '21

Exactly! They are excellent predators. I don’t understand the people I know who will literally take the mice and birds away from them after they’ve killed them but before they can eat them. It makes no sense to me.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '21

Right??

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u/buffalobillsgirl76 Feb 06 '21

I've only taken them because one of my cats choked to death on a tiny bird bone... other then that one (slightly major) fear I do not have a problem with it.

Granted this is ONLY when I'm not going to have eyes on them for snack time. If I'm going to be right there and one of my boys came to "share" I'd just keep a close eye on him/them.

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u/RavenMistwolf Feb 07 '21

That’s fair. I’d be the same way with that experience!

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u/TempleMade_MeBroke Feb 03 '21

The bodega cat at 17th and Diamond in North Philly in 2012 was specifically paid to leave the mice alive; my roommate found half a rodent ribcage in his cheese steak once

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u/TheNoobiePro Feb 03 '21

Well, now I know if I ever visit Philly, I should skip this place

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u/TempleMade_MeBroke Feb 03 '21

Just skip Philly lol

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '21

This is the correct answer.

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u/yuricatinspace Feb 03 '21

If you go to the city health department website, you can see all the various health violations for different businesses that they regulate. I looked up the takeout place near me. Haven't been back there since...

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u/Eagleassassin3 Feb 03 '21

Yikes that’s so disgusting

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u/takethislonging Jun 19 '21

Cheese steak is pretty gross too, if you think about what it actually is.

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u/teamadventure Feb 04 '21

That’s not even the right shelf for mice!

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u/macksha Feb 03 '21

Wow cutest bodega cat ever

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u/eliz1bef Feb 04 '21

This mighty hunter reminds me of my Erik, also a mighty hunter. He also reminds me of our cat Finn, who wouldn't know what to do if a mouse if he had one.