A man and his dogs

Dr Strange · 11-07-2019 7:00am #1

Missing man was eaten by his own dogs, who only left behind bone fragments

"Never have we ever, or anyone we've spoken to, heard of an entire human being consumed," says a deputy who dealt with the case.

Deputy Pitts made an important observation regarding some of the dogs which were offered for adoption.

The dogs were said to be well-fed and cared for, and Pitts added, "This man loved his animals."

Link: https://news.sky.com/story/missing-man-was-eaten-by-his-own-dogs-who-only-left-behind-bone-fragments-11760718

kneemos · 11-07-2019 7:09am

Pack behavior presumably. Fairly wild anyway by the sound of it.

11-07-2019 7:11am

Some of these dogs have been put up for adoption... And yet

Mr Mack had serious health problems and it remains unclear whether the dogs killed their owner

You wouldn't catch a horse doing this. One more reason to prefer our vegetarian friends

McMurphy · 11-07-2019 7:14am

Leave me the fcuk out of this.

branie2 · 11-07-2019 7:16am

Tragic

Graces7 · 11-07-2019 7:17am

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Some of these dogs have been put up for adoption... And yet

quote that there is no proof that he was alive

he would have been dead. And that then is understandable. I lived in a council flat in england and when an old lady in the same block died. they found her feet and legs had been eaten by her cats. she had been there days.

If I die alone my cats are very welcome to eat the meat of my body ; it is only meat . This man would have felt the same.

Former Observer · 11-07-2019 8:27am

Graces7 wrote: »

If I die alone my cats are very welcome to eat the meat of my body ; it is only meat . This man would have felt the same.

Would you not be worried that they'd interfere with you?

s7ryf3925pivug · 11-07-2019 8:31am

We’re they starving I wonder? He was hardly able to keep them well fed and cared for if he had died.

When I was a kid and one dog died, our other dog lay by her, and then lay by her grave for weeks.

Interesting story.

Graces7 · 11-07-2019 8:33am

Former Observer wrote: »

Would you not be worried that they'd interfere with you?

If I am dead I am dead. I am sure coroners and attached medics are well used to anything. They have seen it all, bless them

Graces7 · 11-07-2019 8:35am

Maren Raspy Recorder wrote: »

We’re they starving I wonder? He was hardly able to keep them well fed and cared for if he had died.

When I was a kid and one dog died, our other dog lay by her, and then lay by her grave for weeks.

Interesting story.

exactly. He would not begrudge them what he no longer needed. They would have been starving and humans will turn cannibal in a situation like that as they did after an air crash in I think Brazil

Former Observer · 11-07-2019 8:38am

Graces7 wrote: »

If I am dead I am dead. I am sure coroners and attached medics are well used to anything. They have seen it all, bless them

I mean the animals might pull down your pants and start nibbling at your genitalia. We have no idea what death entails, you may still have ghost sensation, you may even enjoy those feelings, but if you knew those animals it might also feel wrong?

s7ryf3925pivug · 11-07-2019 8:39am

Graces7 wrote: »

exactly. He would not begrudge them what he no longer needed. They would have been starving and humans will turn cannibal in a situation like that as they did after an air crash in I think Brazil

You might be projecting your own views there. Most people would be disturbed to think their dogs were going to eat them.

lawred2 · 11-07-2019 8:44am

Dogs in acting like animals shocker..

Despite what many delusional owners see them as.. they aren't mini humans and are always capable of reverting to basic instinct at any point

11-07-2019 8:44am

yeah that's weird, a FF advisor, the minister for finance and then the big man himself (reported to be dying), all circa "bank guarantee" year!

all dying young...

Gimme A Pound · 11-07-2019 8:44am

Maren Raspy Recorder wrote: »

You might be projecting your own views there. Most people would be disturbed to think their dogs were going to eat them.

Would most people? I don't know. Perhaps.

The idea doesn't bother me either as I'd be dead.

lawred2 · 11-07-2019 8:47am

Gimme A Pound wrote: »

Would most people? I don't know. Perhaps.

The idea doesn't bother me either as I'd be dead.

Unless they started munching before you were dead

Former Observer · 11-07-2019 8:48am

Gimme A Pound wrote: »

Would most people? I don't know. Perhaps.

The idea doesn't bother me either as I'd be dead.

I suppose you wouldn't mind either if your dead body was wedged inside a kind of conga line orgy of old fat blokes for a marathon session of drug fuel sexed.

Rituals around death are very important to people historically.

11-07-2019 8:50am

Former Observer wrote: »

I suppose you wouldn't mind either if your dead body was wedged inside a kind of conga line orgy of old fat blokes for a marathon session of drug fuel sexed.

Rituals around death are very important to people historically.

What do you think happens when you're buried, that you lie there, uncorrupted, until Judgment Day?

We all get eaten in the end. And cremation ain't for the squeamish either.

blinding · 11-07-2019 8:52am

A Dogs Dinner.....Sure what harm if you are Brown Bread .

JohnnyFlash · 11-07-2019 8:54am

You’d always get delusional dog owners saying their beloved pets wouldn’t eat them if they had the misfortune to drop dead. And that cats would be tucking into the ribs within 5 minutes of you passing. Turns out survival instinct and being an animal knocks silly anthropormorphism out of the park.

Gimme A Pound · 11-07-2019 8:56am

Former Observer wrote: »

I suppose you wouldn't mind either if your dead body was wedged inside a kind of conga line orgy of old fat blokes for a marathon session of drug fuel sexed

Yeah because that's so comparable to an unfortunate situation where the pets have no food and no other option.

blinding · 11-07-2019 8:57am

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

You’d always get delusional dog owners saying their beloved pets wouldn’t eat them if they had the misfortune to drop dead. And that cats would be tucking into the ribs within 5 minutes of you passing. Turns out survival instinct and being an animal knocks silly anthropormorphism out of the park.

A dog /cat has to eat .

Occasionally when I get Peckish I eye up some appetising humans . Sure we are just Long Pigs . Any Pork recipe would work Scrumptiously .

Former Observer · 11-07-2019 8:58am

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

What do you think happens when you're buried, that you lie there, uncorrupted, until Judgment Day?

We all get eaten in the end. And cremation ain't for the squeamish either.

Ah yeah but if the dog is nibbling away at your ball sack it's a bit different.

The Ancient Egyptians believed very firmly that 'the image' was transcendental. That the body needed to be preserved (in their case mummified) in order to secure passage to the next life. This is also why they decorated the inside of their tombs with images of the deceased, and indeed the sarcophagus itself.

If you've a miniature pinscher sucking and chewing on one of your testicles like one of those golf ball chewing gums I reckon it might send any transmittal process awry.

Odyssey 2005 · 11-07-2019 9:01am

Yet, in the political world rats eat their own and its deemed acceptable.

11-07-2019 9:03am

Former Observer wrote: »

Ah yeah but if the dog is nibbling away at your ball sack it's a bit different.

At least someone would be.

Former Observer · 11-07-2019 9:04am

Gimme A Pound wrote: »

Yeah because that's so comparable to an unfortunate situation where the pets have no food and no other option.

I don't follow your line of thinking. You suggested that you don't care what happens to your body after death, even now, as you claim to be alive. I'm not convinced.

100% comparable.

whisky_galore · 11-07-2019 9:07am

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

You wouldn't catch a horse doing this. One more reason to prefer our vegetarian friends

You might just end up with a broken neck or trampled.
Horse riding is a risky activity in terms of deaths and injuries.

Former Observer · 11-07-2019 9:07am

whisky_galore wrote: »

Horse riding is a risky activity in terms of deaths and injuries.

Indeed. Massive tools on the beasts.

whisky_galore · 11-07-2019 9:09am

Former Observer wrote: »

Indeed. Massive tools on the beasts.

You would know alright.

11-07-2019 9:10am

whisky_galore wrote: »

You might just end up with a broken neck or trampled.
Horse riding is a risky activity in terms of deaths and injuries.

I see my plan to set horse people against dog people is working. Good.

But be warned, you dog people. Nobody has ever taken a dog into battle.

Former Observer · 11-07-2019 9:12am

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

But be warned, you dog people. Nobody has ever taken a dog into battle.

The Romans did surely? Mastiffs or something similar. Probably only for a very short period of history. Or is that just Hollywood stuff?

El Tarangu · 11-07-2019 9:30am

Maren Raspy Recorder wrote: »

You might be projecting your own views there. Most people would be disturbed to think their dogs were going to eat them.

If you don't get eaten by the dogs, you won't be escaping the worms. I'd rather the dogs ate me than go hungry for the days it took to discover my body

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

But be warned, you dog people. Nobody has ever taken a dog into battle.

Former Observer wrote: »

The Romans did surely? Mastiffs or something similar. Probably only for a very short period of history. Or is that just Hollywood stuff?

Every army in the world has dog units, insofar as I am aware. I used to live close to a military academy (not in Ireland), and would see them exercising their dogs in the public park regularly.

gozunda · 11-07-2019 9:38am

This thread has gone to the dogs...

kneemos · 11-07-2019 9:38am

They were probably used to eating carcasses. Yer man was living wild,no doubt killing his own and the dogs food.

El Tarangu · 11-07-2019 9:52am

kneemos wrote: »

They were probably used to eating carcasses. Yer man was living wild,no doubt killing his own and the dogs food.

Happens an awful lot - https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/pets-dogs-cats-eat-dead-owners-forensics-science/

I’ve reviewed about 20 of these published cases, along with a 2015 study that pulled together 63 cases of indoor scavenging.

In 24 percent of the cases in the 2015 review, which all involved dogs, less than a day had passed before the partially eaten body was found. What’s more, some of the dogs had access to normal food they hadn’t eaten.

s7ryf3925pivug · 11-07-2019 10:00am

Former Observer wrote: »

I suppose you wouldn't mind either if your dead body was wedged inside a kind of conga line orgy of old fat blokes for a marathon session of drug fuel sexed.

Rituals around death are very important to people historically.

Thread needs poll

blinding · 11-07-2019 10:14am

Maren Raspy Recorder wrote: »

Thread needs poll

Or a Needle .

Hobosan · 11-07-2019 10:18am

The real tragedy here is that in Ireland, in 2019, an elderly man was dead so long without anyone checking in on him that the dogs got the best cuts of meat.

Gimme A Pound · 11-07-2019 10:19am

Former Observer wrote: »

I don't follow your line of thinking. You suggested that you don't care what happens to your body after death, even now, as you claim to be alive. I'm not convinced.

100% comparable.

I was clearly only referring to being eaten by a pet. That's specifically what I said I wouldn't care about.

Blergh: "Most people would be disturbed to think their dogs were going to eat them."

Me in direct response to above: "Would most people? I don't know. Perhaps.

The idea doesn't bother me either as I'd be dead."

I don't see how you could have grounds to misrepresent what I said. The scenario in question is one due to necessity, for survival.

The extreme one you suggested isn't.

blinding · 11-07-2019 10:20am

Dogs are the True re-cyclers . Way ahead of Humans .

They don’t let Prime Protein go to waste .

Graces7 · 11-07-2019 10:20am

Maren Raspy Recorder wrote: »

You might be projecting your own views there. Most people would be disturbed to think their dogs were going to eat them.

Well, yes they are my views. Why not? Not when we are alive. Of course.

Gimme A Pound · 11-07-2019 10:23am

Hobosan wrote: »

The real tragedy here is that in Ireland, in 2019, an elderly man was dead so long without anyone checking in on him that the dogs got the best cuts of meat.

This always gets said but I wonder do those who say it, check on the elderly folk in their neighbourhood.

The story in the OP is from Texas too - unless there was a similar recent case in Ireland?

kneemos · 11-07-2019 10:24am

El Tarangu wrote: »

Happens an awful lot - https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/pets-dogs-cats-eat-dead-owners-forensics-science/

So now we know what they're really thinking.

Graces7 · 11-07-2019 10:26am

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

You’d always get delusional dog owners saying their beloved pets wouldn’t eat them if they had the misfortune to drop dead. And that cats would be tucking into the ribs within 5 minutes of you passing. Turns out survival instinct and being an animal knocks silly anthropormorphism out of the park.

Not immediately, only when they were starving. ie the owners had died days before and not been found.

IF they were starving, as in the case here and the one I mentioned re the old lady in the council flat. Both dogs and cats grieve for their owners after sudden death and both will sleep on graves.

we feed our pets and companions... . and their welfare matters to us. i would not begrudge them what I no longer need... not tha t I would be in a position to do so.

Oh and cats start with feet and legs...

Hoboo · 11-07-2019 10:29am

13 dogs put down due to aggression.....they ate him.......yet it's claimed he loved his animals.

Not having it.

Graces7 · 11-07-2019 10:29am

Gimme A Pound wrote: »

This always gets said but I wonder do those who say it, check on the elderly folk in their neighbourhood.

The story in the OP is from Texas too - unless there was a similar recent case in Ireland?

The case I mentioned was in England in block of council flats. Old folk can go weeks without anyone noticing. Myself included

the beer revolu · 11-07-2019 10:30am

Maren Raspy Recorder wrote: »

. Most people would be disturbed to think their dogs were going to eat them.

Most people would not be disturbed at this thought. See, my assertion is just as valid/stupid as yours.!

My cats, or any hungry animal are perfectly welcome to my body.
My wife wants to be eaten by lions or vultures - not sure I'll be able arrange that if I'm still alive, though.

blinding · 11-07-2019 10:31am

Graces7 wrote: »

Not immediately, only when they were starving. ie the owners had died days before and not been found.

IF they were starving, as in the case here and the one I mentioned re the old lady in the council flat. Both dogs and cats grieve for their owners after sudden death and both will sleep on graves.

we feed our pets and companions... . and their welfare matters to us. i would not begrudge them what I no longer need... not tha t I would be in a position to do so.

Oh and cats start with feet and legs...

Cats have great Manners and Class . Such good etiquette to start with the feet and legs .

blinding · 11-07-2019 10:33am

Hoboo wrote: »

13 dogs put down due to aggression.....they ate him.......yet it's claimed he loved his animals.

Not having it.

They can get a bit testy when here is no gravy accompany-ment ( on the side )

Hobosan · 11-07-2019 10:34am

Gimme A Pound wrote: »

This always gets said but I wonder do those who say it, check on the elderly folk in their neighbourhood.

The story in the OP is from Texas too - unless there was a similar recent case in Ireland?

No, it's technically illegal, but you can always plant a dog at the scene and nobody is the wiser.

Former Observer · 11-07-2019 10:40am

Gimme A Pound wrote: »

I don't see how you could have grounds to misrepresent what I said.

Your thinking is muddled and you need to work on your reading comprehension.

There is no sense in which I "misrepresented" what you said.

Learn the meaning of words. Bye.

A man and his dogs

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