Pre digestion vore?

[Miridium]

Here's something I never really see: the pred doing something that digests the prey externally before the actual vore takes place.

Spiders and many other animals in nature do it. They basically puke up digestive fluids that break down the prey into a soupy substance and then the predator sucks it up.

Would this be its own category or would it fall under digestion as a subcategory?

[unicorn]

Ah, like in The Fly when Jeff Goldblum puked on that guy's leg. Good times

It's pretty gruesome so i think it'd probably fall under the hard vore category, personally

[Siuddithsi]

Well,
Starfich have eversable stomachs, that they insert in clam shells for digestion.

But spiders inject digestive venom. I've fed them minnows, and they don't liquefy the prey, once they suck the juices out the prey looks mummifieed. Except for the spiders who mash their prey to a pulp to get every drop, those are just a ball of undigestible bits.

Either way, I'd say hard vore.

[TSaPA]

Aside from the aforementioned hard vore the closest thing to this I've seen involves CV or BV where the prey is churned into milk or cum (or a still-living "slime" made of the aforementioned) and then drank to be digested properly in the stomach.

Or if you want to get really obtuse one could include Buu-type situations where the prey is transformed into some kind of foodstuff before being eaten.

[threk]

I feel like this is going to be the result of an overlap of vorarephilia and emetophilia, and even then it's a specific interpretation of that combination, so it's a niche within a niche within a niche.

[threk]

Well,
Starfich have eversable stomachs, that they insert in clam shells for digestion.

Oh boy, now I'm remembering the Bikini Bottom Horror webcomic.
"Do you know how seastars feed, Spongebob?"

[Cowrie]

I've occasionally seen this sort of thing done with spider-like preds. I quite enjoy it.