As I understand it, scientists believe that the SARS virus is one endemic to civets that "jumped" to humans.

I was in a production of Sweeney Todd last summer. Mrs. Lovett introduces herself with a song in which she complains that she hasn't seen a customer in her pie shop for weeks, while a neighboring business uses cats in its pies. And she goes on: "Just the thought of it's enough to make you sick! And I'm telling you them pussy cats is quick..."

I suspect cats would taste of whatever they had been eating, meaning the best a diner could hope for would be tuna and a little grass.

Liz