We love our furry friends. Our history with cats and dogs goes back thousands of years, and in both cases, the domestication process was more or less mutual – although there is an argument to be made that cats tamed us and not the other way around. The famed science-fiction scribe and feline aficionado Robert Heinlein was known to have observed that “dogs have owners, and cats have staff.”
But what happens with our furry friends if we die suddenly and leave them to fend for themselves? It turns out that, despite the millennia of bonding between species, our pets may well snack on our remains.
Australian police probably expected a gruesome scene when they checked on a 69-year-old man suspected to have been dead for days. But when they opened the door to his home, they didn’t expect the approximately 30 cats that came flooding out. Inside, they found the man’s body on the floor,…
