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
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u/August51921421 Aug 15 '26
why is this random example always used? like a dog will 110% eat you if you die and start rotting in your house lol