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Who has eaten cats or dogs?

I have no idea about cats, but couldnt dogs be better used by helping catch bigger stuff like deer or something?
 
me2 said:
I have no idea about cats, but couldnt dogs be better used by helping catch bigger stuff like deer or something?
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I'm not a dog owner currently. Had one as a kid. I wouldn't eat a dog for the quoted reasons. My (future dog) German Shephard, Adolf, would be much more useful as a defensive asset than a meal.
 
I've had dog in Korea and in The Phillipines. I think I had cat in SE Asai, but I'm not sure...it looked like cat. Dog's pretty good and much better than the horse I ate in the Balkans (horse is really good if prepared correctly).

When I was in the Balkans I was told by the locals that the cats were the first things eaten in the siege of Sarejevo and then the dogs. I never saw any cats there and few dogs. They also ate a lot of rat there. They were masters of eating food of desperation and improvisation and some of the best survivors I have ever seen. They even formed a partial cookbook called The Sarejevo Cookbook or something along those lines that described how to prepare and cook rat, snails, etc.

I'd eat other people's cats and dogs but not MY dog, unless I was in an isolated situation where he's no longer useful. He's useful as a deterrent, watch dog, etc. so I wouldn't want to lose that tool.
 
I've had dog and monkey in the Philippines. I suspect that I ate cat as well but the San Miguel got in the way of an exact i.d. I hope I never have to scavenge my own pets. I'll probably raid all of the neighbors first.
 
Cats and dogs really aren't all that bad. It's the Opossum that sucks that's what you want to avoid if at all possible!
 
It would take more than I have to put one in either one of my little girls.

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Like you, they are very close to me, and my ladie. they would be much more use as protectors, they are now. Pyrenees and rotties' are about as protective dogs as it gets, there great to me, and I would like to think Im good to them.:thumbup:

I feel bad for those poor kids trying to sell cookies, we need a beware of DOGS sign.:D
 
My dog is my friend, so I'd never eat her. Not even if she died. I would not starve her though and would probably put her out of her misery.

To much fish up north to eat my dog.
 
"More than one way to skin a cat" starting to wonder where this saying started.

After seeing this thread I wouldn't mind trying some cat food (pun intended)
 
Little known history: Shortly after WWII, the US shipped tens of thousands of cats from US animal shelters/ponds to Europe because most cats there had been eaten during the war. The French called cats 'roof rabbit' and they were a desired meat item when available. Anyway, rodents took over and the best solution was cats and lots of them. I've always wondered how those seaman coped with a cargo of 10,000 plus kitties on board? Even Noah probably didn't have it that bad on the ark.
 
I ate bogogi in Korea. Dog stew. As I recall it was OK....after a few lefties and a half dozen beers.

I killed a red fox back around 1980 and my buddy had the bright idea to cook it over the fire.
Even the flies couldn't take the smell and left.:thumbdn:
 
I would eat both if I were in a place were it was dinner. I know that in Hawaii some of my friends friends or friends family ate dog, not cat (pilipino). If I were in a foreign country I would eat what was served unless I absolutely could not swallow it down. I have heard of snake-guts-shooters in china -that I probably could not do.

I would never kill and eat my own pet though
 
I don't have to bug out far but when you're alone in the backcountry a good dog is an invaluable resource. I'd make sure she ate as good as I did.
 
Read somewhere that larger carnivores tastes better than the smaller ones and that the meat from the larger parts such as the hind quarters was preferred as it has a less "gamey" taste. I guess if you have a high survival instinct anything is game. Would I eat my cat? Probably not... Too much emotions involved and at 14 years old she won't make much of a meal anyway. Fishes, bugs and such would probably be my main sustenance as that I've tried and they don't have a soul anyway; unlike cats and dogs.
 
If it's feral it might be food.
Our buddies in our home not likely. Heck our kitty brings me headless squirrels:), kind of like..."lookee what I got for you dad..."
When the doggy gives them goo-goo eyes I can't resist giving good chow from MY plate ;)

Gotta feed that possum corn for a bit and they are ok.

Mark
 
I only could if it was literally life or death. I'm not even sure if I could then. My pets are like my children...I don't think I'm capable of that kind of betrayal.
 
Never ate cat or dog that I know of. I would keep my pets alive, everything else in shooting range would be fair game for the pot. Like humans, animals can go a long time without food, it's water that is essential.

When I was in Korea (61-62), we'd often see a dog tied up to a hootch, he was being raised for food. Stray dogs would sometimes make their way onto our compound and hang out around the messhall, they somehow sensed they were safe with GI's.

Today, politically correct people will deny that Koreans or any other Asians ate dog meat, but its BS. There's a situation in China today where pet dogs are disappearing from urban areas and showing up on the menu in the rural outback.

Chihuahua's were originally raised for food in Mexico and South America.

Back in the '70's there was a scandal up here about sick and disabled horses being trailored into Quebec for a one-way trip to the pet food and glue factories. Horse meat is not unusual to continental Europeans. My wife and I went to a Belgian restaurant in Montreal a few years ago, and horse meat was on the menu. I wanted to try it but she wouldn't let me.

Those of you who have read Patrick O'Brien's novels (Master and Commander) recall that sailors would eat fresh rats (it's a squirrel without a pretty tail), probably preferable to the pork coming out of the barrel. They didn't call it "rat", they had another name I can't recall.

Archaeologists have found that the ancient Anasazi culture in New Mexico had a fairly regular diet of mice, along with everything else. Why not, protein is protein, and they know from bones and teeth that the Anasazi were almost constantly on a starvation diet.

We've been conditioned by Walt Disney & Co. to humanize creatures. I would never eat my dog, and I especially would never eat one of those damned Filipino duck eggs, those things are just perverse! :D
 
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