![]() This quickly makes him the official “poison sniffer” at home, a job that leaves him unfulfilled. ![]() In his spare time, Remy sneaks into the kitchen at the human’s home where he stays and watches TV. The human in the house sleeps while a cooking show hosted by Parisian chef Auguste Gusteau (voice of Brad Garrett) blares from the TV. Gusteau constantly preaches his belief that “anyone can cook” – which is also the name of his cookbook. Remy first wants to share this love of good food with his brother. Unfortunately, Emile’s standards aren’t quite the same. In an effort to show Emile how good food is different from garbage, Remy shows Emile the kitchen. They begin taking food while Remy experiments with different combinations of foods and herbs. In the middle of one of their food runs, the human in the house wakes up, discovers the rats, and in a particularly violent scene (my children were scared) tries to kill them. ![]() ![]() The human destroys her house in the process. This raises an interesting question: should this qualify as a casualty loss? You can usually take a “casualty loss” on your tax return if there is the destruction of, or damage to your property from “any sudden, unexpected, and unusual event.” This is clearly unexpected and unusual, but probably not considered sudden.
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