Pet owners: At what level of desperation would you decide to cook and eat your pet?

Does your species eat its own?

That is how we procreate.

I guess if I was starving, he had already died, and I had reason to believe that the sustenance I get from his body would be enough to get me out of whatever predicament I’m in—and I wouldn’t survive otherwise (whether I need a few more days to be rescued, or that much more energy to make it to a populated area, etc.). Then maybe. Same with human partner. (And if we’re going there, I’d probably ask them to eat me if I die first and they need my meat to survive).

It is funny you ask this. When I got my fish they were tiny. Now they are at the point where Bear Grylls would consider them a solid meal.

And I will never starve. I will eat your cat and you before I would eat my fish. But I promise something is on the menu if the apocalypse takes out all the Pizza Huts.

^Yeah. I’d rather eat other people (strangers anyway, )than my pets.

More to the point, I guess it would take some pretty cataclysmic circumstances. But I’d eat my pets, if I had to.

It’s all in the sauce :)

My chihuahua would provide little more meat than a medium sized squirrel. They are so plentiful in the area I don’t think it would ever come to that.

I have a pet salmon named Grilled. I’d have to go at least 3 hours without food before I ate it, I mean him, or whatever sex it is. ;-)

I’d rather starve than kill a pet for food. If the pet happened to be dead already, and I was starving and had no other way to get food, and someone else would prepare it (I have zero skinning/cleaning skills), then maybe.

Idealism is so cute.

We’ve discussed this and we know we’ll eat Bear before Spot. You should see Bear’s thighs! This dog is 70+ lbs.

You surprise me, @ragingloli. Cook it?

I’d kill myself if it got that bad. Really. Killing myself is not that big of a deal.

Agreed with Tinyfaery— I would kill myself first— actually probably would euthanize my pet and myself. Our relations with our companion animals would not make eating a pet an option.

Mercy killings and euthanasia—yes.
Eating your pet? That’s like eating your child, lover, parents, etc etc.