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Cat General => General Cat Chat => Topic started by: Millys Mum on July 11, 2010, 21:06:06 PM
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At the end of last year lola came home with a tasty goldfish (see pic) it was rather cold for a fish that should have been at the bottom of a pond for the winter :shify: :shify:
In the last week we have had 2 goldfish corpses in the garden, assumed hunter is lola. The bodys are mainly eaten, the other reason i think its her as shes back on steroids and has the munchies :Luv2:
Are they safe to eat? I know they can have some raw fish in their diets but not sure if goldfish fit in this bracket?!
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Poor goldfish,,,,,,,,i guess a fish is a fish when it comes to snacking but really dont know
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Well i wouldn't eat one my self, I don't think it's a good idea as their full of bacteria.
My old cat wasn't fond of dead gold fish or koi fish. They don't smell to good
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No idea but I'm very glad this is in the 'general cat chat' section rather than 'non cat chatting' :evillaugh:
Love the photo of her spoils too but poor fish and poor pond owner :-[
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I wouldn't recommend feeding goldfish as a staple part of the diet but seeing as cats eat pretty much anything (rats, mice, birds, insects and anything else they can nick) I doubt it will any harm having the occasional one! lol
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The Clan have all survived the fishing expeditions they have been on!!!
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To answer your question, MM, Goldfish are carp with pretty skin pigments. They will do a cat no more harm than eating a sardine will. There are many hundreds if not thousands of carp recipes available (all of them attempt to address the fact the carp are full of bones and taste like :sick: ). Carp have been a food stuff and valueable source of nutrition for peasants in many cultures for centuries. :tired:
The fact we eat the brown ones and stick the gold ones in tanks and call them names like Jaws or Moby Dick is one of those things which make humans fickle. :evillaugh:
:hug: :hug: for MM...
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This is the Crucian carp, the relation to the gold fish
and Chinese eat them
(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:h_U9yqsIvEWscM::kaleidoscope.cultural-china.com/en/8Kaleidoscope3320.html&t=1&usg=AFrqEzdApPhHUjM2fa9exUIRYg-az7a8FA)
the reasion I don't want my cat eating them due to bacteria in captive kept fish.
I keep koi my self. Rivers are cleaner.
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To answer your question, MM, Goldfish are carp with pretty skin pigments. They will do a cat no more harm than eating a sardine will. There are many hundreds if not thousands of carp recipes available (all of them attempt to address the fact the carp are full of bones and taste like :sick: ). Carp have been a food stuff and valueable source of nutrition for peasants in many cultures for centuries. :tired:
The fact we eat the brown ones and stick the gold ones in tanks and call them names like Jaws or Moby Dick is one of those things which make humans fickle. :evillaugh:
:hug: :hug: for MM...
:evillaugh: Guess it's the same as pigeons being eaten as a delicacy, kept as 'pets' for racing or called vermin.
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I had a Goldfish as a childhood pet. He was called Bob. I didn't choose the name but when we got home from the pet shop I asked him what he was called and he answered Bob, Bob, Bob.... luckily I could lip read. :naughty:
I'll get my coat... :sneakin:
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Can we name said fish Hyacinth
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Hyacinth Bucket by any chance T??