Eat your heart out.

[Nic Name]

DOVER, Del. (AP) -- Several flesh-eating pet lizards
were found feasting on the corpse of their owner
in his apartment, police said.

Again -

You really don't want pets that may like to feast on you. Monitors can get to be pretty big. That looks like a Nile Monitor - you can find care information at http://www.anapsid.org/nile.html

[Nic Name]

Philly steaks out this story.

Man. That's an awesome article. Very well written.

Nile monitors too. Man.

It mentions he had a cat - I wonder if it had to live its life in fear or what? It's like "ah, think I'll take a nap.... FUCK! Goddamn lizard on me again! I'll scratch him, that'll teach him... Oooh, maybe not. Ow. Good thing my paws are tough... Guess I'm sleeping up on the counter again."

Badly damaged his face... I guess he shoulda died face-down...

Wouldn't surprise me if some guy killed him and left them there with the lizards as a sort of revenge...

An officer who helped evacuate the lizards, when questioned about their health, said "Oh, they appear to be very healthy. He fed them well. Wait. Shit, strike that from the record. 'He <b>fed</b> them well' sounds really bad, considering they ate him. Hmm. I don't know how to say it. Just say that they appear to be very healthy. Yeah."

[Nic Name]

I sent the story to my son, who's in funeral services.

His comment was that the lizards make this a weird news story, but it is actually quite common that pets, especially dogs, regard their deceased masters as food.

His advice ... either get a cat, or leave extra kibble where fido can find it if you won't be getting up to feed him.

[russotto]

Originally posted by Nic Name
His comment was that the lizards make this a weird news story, but it is actually quite common that pets, especially dogs, regard their deceased masters as food.

His advice ... either get a cat, or leave extra kibble where fido can find it if you won't be getting up to feed him.

Cats are evil. They will kill you and eat you, then they will frame the dog.

[jeni]

cats are not evil! -my- cat is too fat and lazy to want to rip me apart after i die, anyway.

and everyone HERE knows that our dog would never eat one of us. he's such a sweetheart that they would immediately blame rabies (one of the cats) because...well, okay. she is evil. shaddup.

this is harry.

My cat is awesome. She's not evil either. She's very laid back. But she definitely has it in for Joann and Howard.

[tokenidiot]

After hearing about Howard's numerous attempts to kidnap Jeni's cat, I'm not terribly surprised that animals would fear and loathe him.

[jeni]

i most certainly hope that shadow would not stoop as low as to let howard kidnap him.

but i've said it before and i will say it again, as true as ever, my cat will make love to anything that shows him affection. anything, anyone. despite smells and looks.

Howard moving out at end of month. Hopefully cat will still be here. If he touch Tinkerbell, I murder.

[tw]

Originally posted by jeni
... my cat will make love to anything that shows him affection. anything, anyone. despite smells and looks.

Geeehh... even whores have higher standards than that.

In case you don't know, she's referring to a man that lives in our basement. He smells awful, he's inconsiderate, and he wants to play with others' toys without offering up any of his. He doesn't try to be friendly at all. Yet he plays with the cats. Shadow, my sister's cat, was suffering from not having her around as he has for the entirety of his life. Howard showed him affection (after all, Howard doesn't get any affection, so something as simple as a cat "loving" him makes him feel special), and Shadow took to him. We're slowly breaking that habit, of course. But yeah. That's what it referred to, in case you hadn't picked it up.

Update on Howard: his application for the place he was moving into was denied. So it'll be another month, it looks like.

[jaguar]

............how did he end up there in the first place, and how does tokenidiot know dham?