Claim: A serious prospectus inviting investors to become part of a cat-and-rat farm was once circulated, the basic premise of which involved skinning cats for their fur, feeding the cat carcasses to rats, then feeding the rats to the cats being raised for their fur
Fact-check: Cat and Rat Ranch Hoax
Verdict: false
Organisation: Snopes
Author: Barbara Mikkelson
Date published: 2000-01-06T12:00:00