Salmon mousse

A housewife was having several couples over for dinner
that night, so she wanted to cook something special. She
slaved for hours that afternoon and finally created a masterpiece.
Salmon mousse.

Just before her guests arrived, she caught her cat nibbling
away at the dish on the dining room table.  She had worked
so hard that she couldn't throw the mousse away, so she
smoothed it over and served it anyway.

Well, the mousse was a hit. Everyone took seconds or thirds.
Proudly she stood to bring the empty  plate out to the kitchen
and looked out the window.

There, next to the house, lay her cat. Dead. She had to
confess to her guests that she'd served  mousse eaten by the
cat and now the cat was dead.

The entire dinner party rushed to the hospital to have their
stomachs pumped. The housewife, who hadn't eaten any
because she knew her cat had, lay in bed--mourning the
passing of her cat and fearing that the same fate could
befall her guests.

Then, the phone rang. It was her next door neighbor who said,
"I'm sorry about your cat. I should have told you that I ran her
over but I was just so ashamed and saw that you had a dinner
party in progress....So I just put her on your lawn."