WHERE ARE CATS EATEN?
Jean Bungartz referred to cat-eating in China and other parts of Asia in his 1896 book “Die Hauskatze, ihre Rassen und Varietten” (Housecats, Their Races and Varieties) in ” Illustriertes Katzenbuch” (An Illustrated Book of Cats). He wrote that Chinese Hanging-Ear cat (Chinese Lop-eared Cats) were bred for meat and considered delicacies with noodles or rice. Bungartz wrote the Europeans were often revolted at the creatures the Chinese ate. The cats were kept locked in small bamboo cages and fattened like geese on plentiful portions of food (the image below shows these cats in their cages). These were traded with other parts of Asia, but the canny Chinese would not allow tomcats to be exported in order to prevent interference in this lucrative form of income. The cats were longhaired and usually cream in colour and were larger than housecats. One exported to Hamburg by a sailor was described as languid and only the sight of milk or food animated it. Cat and/or dog eating has been docume
