There was a case in NYC a while back. A woman who had a big dog had just given birth. She had no money for three days, and no food for herself or the dog. She went out to get her welfare check, leaving the dog and the baby alone.
When she got home, the dog wasn’t hungry anymore. :eek:
If your dogs and cats are used to eating kibble, it may take them a few days to get hungry enough to realize that the pile of meat that was you is actually edible. I know my dog looked at raw meat when I first offered it to him and refused it.
Raw fed pets… probably a lot quicker to start in on your corpse.
I knew a guy in college who’s mom passed away alone and wasn’t discovered for several days. Her dog ate part of her. The guy was the only family member willing to take the dog, and still had it when I knew him. It was a little weird.
Then there’s this guy Bad doggie.
I’d think I’d eventually eat them if I was starving so it be no suprise if they’d do the same.
When my dog licks me, she is doing it to show me affection. When my cats lick me, they are just testing to see if I taste good.
This is why you should keep your ketchup bottle on the kitchen counter and not in the fridge …
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What do you think would be my fate? (Have shown this image before, but it fits in here.)
If it makes you feel any better, cats make sure their prey is dead before they eat it. Dogs, not so much.
On the other hand, I’ve heard cats don’t like meat that’s starting to spoil. So they’d do the job quickly.
Oh, wow, that is an extra-special brand of stupid right there. Good to know Darwinism is still chugging along, cleaning up the gene pool as best as possible.
I can’t watch it here at work so someone else with have to vouch for the veracity but I believe Jenaroph is talking about this here video.
It’s not the question of my corpse being eaten by my cat that keeps me awake at night.
It’s the question: ‘‘If he were suddenly 6 feet tall, would he eat me alive?’’
I think the answer is yes. 
Yea, that cat is already sizing you up, Have a nice day 
I think you mean if he were suddenly 6 inches tall…
I’m sure the cats would eat me if I shrunk to chipmunk-size, without hesitation.
I am equally sure that the dogs would too, but it might take them longer to get around to it. I have a friend about my age, also single, also lives with a demonized breed (raw fed, yet) of dog…we have a loose arrangement that if one of us can’t reach the other for several days, call the authorities. In case the dogs have finished us off and are getting hungry again.
Being dead, I can’t see how I would be concerned about it though. Just happy to be useful. 
Just sometimes?
Living alone with cats, I’ve always assumed it’s a possibility, but I’ve never seen it as something to be especially upset about–nor see it as a lack of loyalty on the cats’ part. They have to eat something once the kibble bowl is empty. And once I’m dead, I’m food for worms anyway (not to mention flies, ants, and other household bugs); I have no sentimental attachment to them, so why shouldn’t the kitties get first dibs?
Keep fish. Just saying.
Yep, that’s the one. And the link’s labeled two ways; the page title says Komodo dragon, but the video says monitor lizards. And they look like monitors, so I guess I misremembered. Maybe he had both.
