Here's a poll...

[kt_luvs_kitties]

LOL, if you only knew how many times I have picked up dropped food and ate it I probably have hairballs myself!

Just the other day, I was eating a salad, and I had to check every piece before putting it in my mouth, because as the lettuce was drying on the counter, Penny rolled in it Did I rinse it off? NOPE. Did I make a new one? NOPE. I just picked through it, once piece at a time! It was too late and I was too lazy to make a new one, LOL.


And EVERYTIME I have dinner guest, I tell them beforehand that if the cat hair in their food is an issue, dont eat ANYTHING Extra protein IMO

[Suki Wingy]

Eat it.

Mythbusters proved the 5 second rule is false. The food gets just as many germs after five seconds as if it were sitting there longer. (I forget the exact time)

Still, I'd eat it.

[AdoreMyDogs]

Well, granted my house is quite small and it houses two large (and high shedding) dogs and two long hair cats, I most likely would have picked it up, split it in two, and fed to the dogs. Now, if it happened RIGHT after I dry mopped and/or wet mopped (the whole house is tile) then I would eat it without a problem, just pick the stray hairs out.

Quinn has, in her short life, eaten more pet hair then I care to even think about. She is constantally dropping her food, picking it up and eating it. If it's way too covered in hair for even Miss Quinn, she'll say "dirty" and hand it to me and I must rinse it off (or replace it with a hairless morsel).

I try to keep the floors clean by mopping 4 or so times a week, but even with that, it's still always a hairy mess.

It's funny, I am totally grossed out by human hair but a stray animal hair in my food doesn't bother me much. I was at my friends house a few weeks ago and she made us scrambled eggs. I had to pick a couple of her cats hairs out of my eggs and it didn't even phase me. I wouldn't have eaten them if one of my friends hairs got into the eggs

[Twisterdog]

It's funny, I am totally grossed out by human hair but a stray animal hair in my food doesn't bother me much.

I totally agree with that. After owning a grooming shop for many, many years, dog hair does not phase me much.

DH walked into the grooming shop the other day as I was cleaning a crate that a dog had pooped in. It totally grossed him out, and he ran out gagging. I laughed! However, he will change his grandson's diapers with no problem at all, and there is no way on this earth you could talk me into changing a diaper anymore!

Same with vomit ... if one of the dogs throws up on the floor, I just grab some paper towels and clean it up. No big deal. But if any human being even hints that they might be throwing up any time soon, I am out of the house in about 2 seconds flat!

[Hellow]

Reggie would knock me down getting to it. Like she always does.

[shepgirl]

I'm a slow mover so I doubt it would be there if I tried grabbing it. If it was the very last piece I would yell to leave it and rinse it off (if it needed it) then proceed with the sandwich.

[moosmom]

Shepgirl,

Great minds think alike!!!