You believably know by now that your dear pet cat will happily eat on you if you die .

cat are fussy about eating the same luxury tins of food you ’ve yield them M of times before , but   little Brad Kitt will have no qualms about chowing down on momma ( that ’s you ) the second there ’s no pulsation .

" Yes , your pets will eat you when you die , and perhaps a bit preferably than is well-situated , " forensic anthropologist Carolyn Rando toldBuzzfeed Newsin a 2015 story on fauna consume their owners , imply that these jerks are n’t eventhathungry .

" They tend to go for the neck , look , and any exposed area first , and then , if not discovered in time , they may proceed to rust the rest of you . "

Oneparticularly horrible caseshe foreground   saw a man ’s body found Clarence Shepard Day Jr. after he had die , in 1994 . His fountainhead , neck and part of his arm had been defleshed " in good order down to the pearl " . Nearby , his 10 cats also lay idle . The constabulary image out he had perish of a prescription overdose , which had also poison his ducky when they waste him after his death .

At a present - twenty-four hour period consistency farm   – facilities where forensic scientists contemplate decomposition   – researcher monitoring scavenger natural action on human body got an up - close and personal look at feral cat doing just that , which they document in a study published in theJournal of Forensic Science .

At   the Forensic Investigation Research Station in Whitewater ,   Colorado , human remains are placed out of doors and document , photographed , and take note , just like at any other facility or a serial slayer ’s house . At this readiness , magpie activity is monitor with secret plan cameras , which conquer two exceptional cat sneaking into the body farm to feast on a number of corps over the course of several week .

The first cat made its path onto the farm and began to eat the body of a 79 - year - old cleaning woman , focus its attention on soft tissue paper and layer of fat . The organic structure was then placed under a John Cage for a week for an unrelated enquiry project , during which time the cat could n’t access it . When the cage was take away off the donor , the same cat returned   to the same char almost every Nox over the course of 35 daylight to eat . Again , it focused on soft tissue paper , eating part of the boob area and exposing the bone in her upper left arm .

The second computed axial tomography focus its care on a 70 - year - one-time man , returning for 10 out of 16 night then leave the physical structure alone for a month , before return to devour more of the donor for another two serial nights .

" What appear to be the same cat-o'-nine-tails was see on plot television camera throughout the readiness but showed no sake in any of the other 40 - plus adjacent conferrer , " the research worker wrote in the study , in particularly alarm detail . " The cat did not scavenge unexampled donors placed around the time of scavenging and in a similar stage of putrefaction . "

The squad point out that such guinea pig of feral cats ( the squad conceive they were not domesticated , but were born and exist in the wild ) scavenging is rarefied , as they favour to hunt   – though it is not unheard of . They desire that this report will help oneself us to interpret the doings of these scavengers , which are prevalent in the US , and serve   investigators to distinguish between perimortem and postmortem tissue damage .

" In both case describe here , the savage cats targeted areas where the skin had been previously fathom , " the researchers write . " Both cats showed a druthers for torso in comparatively early decay . Scavenging begin when the bodies showed early augury of decomposition and ended at the attack of moist decay . The cessation of clean at the onset of moist decomposition may be explain by felids ' preference for sweet tissue paper . "

Still prefer them over frump ?