Well, since you brought it up, I actually already know how cat is prepared. I saw the instructional video on The Learning Channel a few years ago.

Disclaimer:
1. Do not EVER try this at home. Don't even think about it!
2. If you have a weak stomach, perhaps you shouldn't read any further. Really.
3. If you read further, don't send me hate mail. You cannot say that you were not warned.

Are you sure you want to know the rest? I don't think you do.

First of all, you should know that cats and dogs are often eaten regularly in the far east, and it is not considered taboo like it is over here. Cats are kept live, I presume for freshness. Your chef enters from stage right. He grabs a set of tongs about two or three feet long and plucks a cat (a/k/a "dinner") from a cage. Your "dinner" is alive, but immobilized by the tongs that grip it loosely around the neck. It is turned a few times over a flaming grill to sear off the loose fur. Your "dinner" meows a little bit from the heat, but it is still pretty much unharmed at this point.

Next, our chef tosses "dinner" into a pot of boiling water, and swirls him around a bit with the tongs. "Dinner" flounders around for a little bit, but he is only kept in there for a few seconds, so it doesn't quite kill him. It just heats him up and causes the skin to expand. Still in the tongs, "dinner" is then tossed into a bucket of cold water. The hot skin tightens up suddenly and is quickly peeled away from the body like a banana. The entire process from grill to hot water to cold water only takes only a few seconds. Despite being burned, boiled, cooled, and then skinned, your "dinner" is still very much alive. In fact, it is the cool water that kills him, as he's left in the bucket to drown.

The video was probably the most horrifying thing I'd ever seen. Unless you've seen it for yourself, you can only imagine the sight of that poor skinless cat, flailing around in a bucket of water, gasping for air, wondering just what the hell had happened to it.