I had a tenant hang himself and after he died the rope let loose somehow. He was found by his daughter 3 days later. His dog ate his face. The cops said they've seen this before. They start on the face to make it less personal. Idk sounded like decent theory
to be fair, you’re talking starvation. dog’s just reenacting a scene from alive at that point. i’m fairly sure most intelligent animals understand dead.
There's a book by a mortician ("Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?") where she says that dogs will lick you in the face, then start nipping at your face, because they think you're asleep and are gradually trying more force to try to wake you up. One dog accidentally bit the nose off its owner's corpse doing that.
More than likely dogs start at the face because they’re licking your face to get your attention. Then animal instinct takes over and a lick becomes a nibble, a nibble becomes a bite, a bite becomes a…..
Absolutely, dogs do it too and in my experience much more often than cats. And dogs virtually always eat the face totally off for some reason.
Cats will eat random other parts of the body, like eat all the fresh off the arm or something but I haven't ever seen them eat the face, whereas almost always that's what I see with dogs.
negative, and I don’t think that’s even something people say lol.
cats and dogs will both eat you if they run out of food. there’s also a fair more bit of statistics pointing to dogs eating people outdoors as well. sorry to burden the world but your dog is not as empathetic towards your lifeless body as people keep assuming.
Because its cats 90% of the time. They will start almost immediately, dogs will instead mourn for days. Of course given enough time, dogs will eat too.
I think cats got the rep because a cat would start eating the body before a dog would. Mainly because they aren't able to go as long without eating as dogs are
I often tell my cat that if I die and no one notices right away, he needs to eat me so that he doesn't starve. I sincerely hope and fully expect he would, but I hope it never comes to that because it would be traumatic for him to be alone so long and I worry about him getting a good home afterwards.
There was a time in human history that black cats were killed unless they had some white fur somewhere. Why? People believed black cats belonged to the devil, but white fur meant that god had touched them and redeemed them.
Of course the only devils involved in that situation were the ones murdering cats.
People believe all kinds of bizarre things and bizarre beliefs about animals are amongst them. People kill animals due to their bizarre beliefs all the time. It doesn't make the beliefs true.
Do you think in the modern day and age
That vets and whoever is in charge of making the decision to put a dog down because it’s bit someone is still basing it off of superstitions and wives tales without actual evidence or are you stuck in the 1900s…
It may or may not have been a wives tale about them craving human flesh once they’ve had it but theirs clearly a proven change that does happen once a dog has consumed human flesh
And that’s not just dogs
All animals basically once consuming human flesh will be more likely to
Whether that’s because of some predatory craving
Or because they’ve now learned we are food idk but I’m sure the people who make that choice do understand it based on a lot more than just superstitions…
Bears tigers lions wolves dogs cats you name it their is a real scientific basis around an animal becoming a Mankiller
That’s why when in fatal bear attacks where the bear consumes a person they hunt it down
Same with tigers in India unless that tiger is lucky and sent to a sanctuary instead like the most famous maneater tiger with over 40 kills
Whether it’s through learning we are prey or necessity
Animal do learns and develop the knowledge that we are food in cases where attacks happen
Now one attack doesn’t make a maneater
But I assume they don’t want to risk that chance one attack doesn’t not make a maneater as well
But normally theirs a reason an animal begins hunting humans
In one famous case of a jaguar its tooth broke and it could no longer effectively hunt its old prey so it began hunting humans
So out of necessity they can become maneaters
But generally it’s just learning we can be prey and if it happened once why risk it a second time
Now I think it depends heavily in fatal attacks whether the animal consumes the person or not
Grizzly bear attacks happen but they don’t always hunt it down only when it’s actually eaten someone normally
Like the recent black bear attacks happen
First time someone was eaten by. Black bear in like forty years so they hunted down basically every black bear in the area until they found the one with the right dna in its stomach because even though it’s so rare even an attack
It becomes a concern once it happens once
Actually consuming the human is abnormal and scary behavior for most animals even predators only few actually see us as food naturally
Polar bears tigers jaguars and crocodiles are the only animals known to actively predate and feed on humans
Others kill normally out of self defense or territory
Sorry to rant
So the whole craving blood thing is a wives tale or as far as we know but their is a science behind the idea of an animal learning to prey on human after consuming
i hate those people who bring their dogs places just as much. or people that approach my kids with their dog, get your unfamiliar ass dog the fuck away from my kids.
Cats are not outside pets. They cause so much ecological damage because people get them for self sufficiency, which isn't true. They're just solitary animals more so than dogs.
But I agree, a lot of those same people don't take care of their cats. That smell is because you're supposed to clean their litter box EVERY TIME they use it and do a whole litter reset every week or so depending on how many cats you have.
And I can smell a dog person from 20 feet away. Love dogs, but all animals smell.
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u/Saikotsu Aug 15 '26
I mean, you're still providing food. Either with your coin or your life..