Question from Kate's Mum: If a dog dies, would another dog eat it?

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Or would a dog eat you if you died?
or do canivorous animals eat each other if they get hungry enough?

I don't know why she wants to know this, but I was trying to promote ILE as the answer to all of lifes ills to her, so please help.

― Kate / Productive Pedagog (papa november), Thursday, 28 April 2005 08:47 (twenty years ago)

Marie Provost to thread...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 April 2005 08:58 (twenty years ago)

Yes, in cases where dogs have been abandoned in a room together they have eaten each other.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 28 April 2005 08:58 (twenty years ago)

depends if it's in gravy and full of marrowbone jelly.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 28 April 2005 08:58 (twenty years ago)

http://www.answers.com/topic/marie-prevost

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 April 2005 08:59 (twenty years ago)

It's a dog eat dog world.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 28 April 2005 08:59 (twenty years ago)

Why wouldn't your dog eat you?
We're made of meat, and after a while, we don't smell familiar
any more... :

dog eats owner:
http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/05/15/austria.dog/

adopt one who did:
http://www.nbc10.com/news/3378490/detail.html

― StanM, Thursday, 28 April 2005 09:02 (twenty years ago)

Dogs eat their own puke. A human corpse probably seems pretty tasty in comparison. Maybe this is why dogs are loyal: they stay close to their owners in the hope they'll die (the owners, that is).

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 28 April 2005 09:05 (twenty years ago)

Thanks guys, I will relay these answers post-haste.

― Kate / Productive Pedagog (papa november), Thursday, 28 April 2005 09:14 (twenty years ago)

It's a dog eat dog world.

No fronts.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 28 April 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

Dogs won't eat other dogs if there are better alternatives around -- if there aren't, they'll go for it.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 28 April 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)

or do canivorous animals eat each other if they get hungry enough?

I would guess this to be true, humans have been known to do the same thing so I see no reason why dogs wouldn't.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

The difference is humans make films moralising about it afterwards.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:15 (twenty years ago)

Yeah but dogs lick their own bollocks. which is the same thing.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

except more entertaining to watch, in most cases.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

OH NO, MY MUM IS POSTING TO ILX AGAIN?!?!?

HAVE THE CORGIES GONE ALL HOMICIDAL?!?!? ATTACK CORGIES OH NO!!!!

Oh, wait...

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

Oh yes, any ref. to Kate must be about me, oh yes oh yes, me me me . . . . .

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

Have you forgotten WE ARE THE KATE?!?!?

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

Fortean Times had a whole listing of dogs who have gnawed on their deceased masters. Like, some old dies at home, the schauzer's locked up inside with no Kibbles, and no Bits, so starts in on the thighs in a few days. Can't blame 'em, really.

― andy --, Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

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