quick question

So, if we bolt out the door after dinner to get Maria to choir practice, and upon returning home, when I go to the kitchen to clean up the leftovers I find that one of the cats has attacked a piece of ham steak and dragged it to the kitchen floor, it would be *wrong, wrong, wrong* of me to pick up the steak, use kitchen shears to trim away the chewed on edges, rinse the steak off, and return it to the plate to be feed to my husband when he comes home. Right?