Here's a poll...

[Medusa]

I'd rinse it off and kiss it up to God (remember that as kids?) and eat the flippin' sandwich.

[moosmom]

AMEN Mary!!!! Cat hair is a condiment in my house. Boy did it hit the spot! I had sweet pickles with it! YUMMY!!

[k9krazee]

Well...considering the amount of dog hair in this house (and we do clean, I swear!), I would feed it to the dogs and make myself a ham sandwich.

[lvpets2002]

Well now if I got to the piece of cheese first then I would wash it off & eat it.. Now if one or so of my babies got to it first then it would be theirs..

[Twisterdog]

Well...considering the amount of dog hair in this house (and we do clean, I swear!), I would feed it to the dogs and make myself a ham sandwich.

Agreed. I think the "five second rule" becomes null and void when one has six dogs.

And, the whole thing is moot point in my house anyway. I assure you, a dropped piece of cheese would never have the chance to hit the floor around here. It would be headed toward Miss Vanilla's belly about three feet off the ground.

[jenluckenbach]

I'd examine it and see if it had a tolerable amount of hair on it, and eat it! Heck, I probably eat more hair than that without dropping it!

[Casper]

I would pick the cheese right back up and eat it on my sandwich.. after I ditched the ham, that is.

It reminds me of a time when a good friend was over for lunch about a year ago. He found a cat hair in his food and asked what he should do... I told him to pick the hair out and just keep eating. Luckily he was a good sport and did exactly as I suggested. :-D

[Randi]

We PTalkers are no sissies are we! I'd pick it up, dust it off and eat it. I do keep my kitchen floor clean!

[Alysser]

It would have to depend on what floor it was off of. School cafeteria floor= hell no. My own kitchen floor= Let's not waste some good cheese!

[Pam]

I would never have to make a decision like that as it would be scoffed up probably before it hit the ground! LOL! My dogs stand right next to me whenever I make food just waiting for something like that to occur!

[Freedom]

I would apply "the 10 second rule," also from when we were kids. Which means, as Pam said, I would not be the one getting to the cheese first.

[pomtzu]

I would never have to make a decision like that as it would be scoffed up probably before it hit the ground! LOL! My dogs stand right next to me whenever I make food just waiting for something like that to occur!

Yup - that's the way it works here too! And if by some remote chance they weren't right there and I could retrieve it - I sure as heck would rinse it off and proceed...........

[moosmom]

Well, well, well, now I don't feel so bad!! Thank God for the 10 second rule.

[cassiesmom]

I'd rinse it off and kiss it up to God (remember that as kids?) and eat the flippin' sandwich.

Almost the same here - pick it up, rinse it off; give a piece to Cassie Cat, who loves cheese; and plop it on the sandwich. Cat hair is par for the course at my house.

Edited to add: Cassie was probably in the kitchen anyway the second she heard the cheese being unwrapped. String cheese, Kraft Singles or slices of cheese from the supermarket deli counter - she's there.

[cyber-sibes]

Star & Jack would get to split it! I don't eat food that hits the floor, period. Hubby uses the 10-second rule. He's have dusted it off & eaten it anyway.