Sandbox / Emergency Food Supply Animal

Examples pruned from Emergency Food Supply Animal in need of evaluation:

• In Cowboy Bebop, Spike speculates on eating the crew's pet super-intelligent Welsh Corgi Ein when he first meets him in "Stray Dog Strut". In the live-action adaptation, it's Faye who does this.
• Darker than Black:
  • In an episode, Hei's landlady finds Mao (a human in a cat's body) wandering around the apartment complex (so he could relay orders to Hei) and she inquires if cats are eaten in Hei's home country, China. To Mao's chagrin, Hei jokes that it wouldn't be a bad idea.
  • In one of the gaiden episodes, there's a Contractor who is a human in a dog's body and she gestures to a nearby meat market to explain why she feels uncomfortable staying in an area. This scene is set in China.
• Desert Punk:
  • Kosuna cooks and eats a dog she is walking to get revenge on her boss Kanta for getting her crappy jobs. In the anime the dog is replaced with a rare giant bug. According to Kosuna, dogs are commonly eaten as food and actually keeping a dog as a pet in this setting is considered an extremely strange thing only done by rich people.
  • The manga also has Kanta responding to a story about a stray dog attacking him when he took a crap in a bush by saying he also killed and ate the thing (thus, he "won").
• Dragon Ball:
  • At least in the dub, there is an ongoing joke among the cast about eating Oolong, who is a talking shape-changing pig. He is also defensive when people look at him funny since he assumes they're thinking about eating him.
  • Goku muses briefly about eating Turtle after saving him from someone who did want to eat him. He decides against it, saying Turtle didn't look that tasty.
• When Kain Fuery of Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) finds a dog he can't keep, Jean Havoc jokes that he'll take the dog. After all, they are considered delicacies in some countries. He was kidding, but Fuery still won't let him have the pup.
• In one episode of GUN×SWORD, Wendy puts her pet turtle in a turtle race in a casino. When Van finds out she bet all of her money, he starts shouting out threats to cook the turtle, causing it to move faster and win. There's good eating off a turtle.
• Pokemon:
  • When Meowth was bonding with the egg that eventually hatched into Misty's Togepi, James spent most of the time hungering to cook it. At one point, he tried to serve Meowth scrambled eggs.
  • A later episode had Ash catch a Krabby (no prizes for guessing which animal inspired its concept...), and it's sent to Prof. Oak's lab. When Ash contacts him, he has a plate of crab with him. Krabby's fine, though. The 4Kids dub changed it to steamed tofu.
• One of Ryōga's chief motivations to rid himself of his curse in Ranma ½ is so that he can stop being on someone's menu. Instants after first falling into the Spring of Drowned Piglet, he is picked up and nearly boiled. (Who boils a pig alive anyway?) Then Shampoo, who hasn't met him yet, runs into him and prepares him as a meal for Ranma (but he is still alive and whole, to Akane's relief). Then Cologne, Shampoo's great-grandmother, nearly slices him up for dinner before Shampoo (who knows better now) stops her.
• A Monty Python sketch that's only on one of their record albums has doctor Graham Chapman talking with pepperpot housewife Terry Jones, who offers him some more dog. He declines, she says "I'm just having one more!" — we hear barking, a gunshot, sizzling on a stovetop, and talking with her mouth full.
• Dutch Comedian Herman Finkers has a musical bit about where Lassie saves a couple caught on a mountain from starvation. "Zijn daad heeft ons echt geraakt, geen hond die zo lekker smaakt." Quite literally, his deed touched us, not a dog that tastes as good.
• In book two of Enemy Ace: War in Heaven Von Hammer and his wingman are having dinner, with the wingman complaining that being an officer in Luftwaffe should not mean having to pick whiskers out from his cat stew.
• When Groo the Wanderer first meets the dog Rufferto, Rufferto thinks he's found a caring new master, but what he sees as Groo's affection is really just hunger.^note Groo does come to Rufferto's rescue a couple of times early on when others attack or attempt to steal him, but what's actually on his mind is not "don't hurt my dog!" but "hey, I was saving that for later!" Soon afterward there's a story where Groo thinks he has eaten Rufferto, and is overwhelmed with guilt. When Rufferto finally shows up alive and well Groo really does become a caring master.
• Luck Y Luke: In Alcatraz, Rantanplan ends up mistaken for a coyote by a Chinese restaurant (Rantaplan, naturally, mistakes it for a pet beauty salon and thinks the oven is a sauna). He's pulled out before he can be turned into Peking-style coyote.
• The Lizard Lady in Negation names the last surviving Kaliman Retriever something that translates to "delicious treat" in her native language. Saurians are very indiscriminate eaters.
• Tintin: In King Ottokar's Scepter, Tintin is snooping around a Syldavian restaurant and ends up ordering a meal to keep the cook from getting suspicious. After finishing, and enjoying the meal quite a bit, the cook tells him it's a Syldavian specialty made from the leg of a young dog, much to Tintin's horror, who only now notices that Snowy is missing. Thankfully, Snowy is fine... and took the opportunity to ransack the kitchen while the cook was keeping an eye on Tintin.
• It would be a heroic labor to list all the unorthodox things people eat in the future of Transmetropolitan, from caribou eyes to Welshman legs. Most of it is cloned or replicated, however.
  • On one occasion Spider tosses a thug through a window and he crushes a sad looking puppy. Spider, shown abusing canines frequently, then announces that he's having that dog for dinner.
• Garfield
  • In an early strip, Jon's parents cook his old pet chicken Nadine into soup, causing Garfield to exclaim, "She was family!"
  • Another time, Jon receives a letter from home informing him that his pet hog Earl has passed away, along with a package of sausage patties.
  • A later strip:
    Jon: I had a pet named Henry back on the farm. Then one evening there was Henry on the dinner table... I loved that snake.
    Garfield: Times were tough.
  • In yet another strip, Jon informs Garfield that in some cultures they eat cats, after the fat tabby dumped a can full of spaghetti on him.
    Garfield: Not from the can I bet.
• Rudi: After being badly bitten by a dog, Rudi buys a Korean cookbook and invites the owner and his dog for "dinner", while preparing everything.

Fan Works

• In Xanauzumaki's Twilight Princess abridged, Zant LITERALLY ate Midna's dog when they were kids. He thought it was an animal cracker.
• In BAMF Girls' Club, Katniss kills and cooks Jacob.

• More than one person suggests eating Moana's particularly stupid pet rooster Heihei, including Maui who attempts to fatten him up.
• A Deleted Scene in Pinocchio had Gepetto and Figaro contemplate eating Cleo, but they come to their senses before going through with it.
• Beetlejuice finishes up a tv advertisement for his services hollering along to a jaunty hoedown tune: "I'll eat anything you want me to eat, I'll swaller anything you want me to swaller, so c'mon down, I'll... chew on a dawg! OWOOOO!"
• Barking Dogs Never Bite: Yun-ju goes to the basement of the apartment complex to liberate the dog that he locked into a closet to die, only to find that the janitor has killed the dog and made it into a stew. Later, his wife's dog is kidnapped by a homeless man who intends to eat it.^note Some Koreans eat dog meat, although the practice has grown very controversial there, especially among younger Koreans. See Real Life below.
• One of the most infamous scenes in Count Yorga has the character Erica, who was recently bitten by the title character. Feeding on her pet cat as her vampirism starts to take hold.
• In The Deserter, Kaleb claims that the reason Dog is following him is because an Apache once tried to eat him, and that Dog is looking for payback. It is unclear if he is joking or not.
• The first Fantozzi film features the titular clerk taking the co-worker he's infatuated with to a Japanese restaurant (in 1970s Italy they were uncommon and seen as extremely exotic), where because of a mistake the chefs take the woman's beloved Pekingese dog, cook it and serve it to her. Needless to say, the date is a total failure.
• Memorably, the protagonist eating a dog is the way both the novel and film version of High-Rise opens.
• Invoked by the Gyro Captain in Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior:
  Gyro Captain: It's my snake, I trained it, I get to eat it!
• In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Robin's minstrels have to be eaten during a particularly desperate winter. And There Was Much Rejoicing. (Yaaaaay.)
• Despite providing the page quote, [[Averted Trope this does not happen in The Patriot (2000). In fact, Benjamin Martin uses the dogs as a bartering tool with General Cornwallis (they were a gift to him from King George himself), and then whistles for them as he's leaving parley, keeping them for himself as pets.
• Pirates of the Caribbean:
  • Almost in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. The group barely escapes an island of cannibals, except for that dog carrying the key. The cannibals chase after the dog and After the Credits he is shown to be have been made their chief. As we saw with Jack earlier, they believe their chief is a god trapped in physical form and want to free him from that "fleshy prison." Go on, guess how.
  • And then he appears in the third movie with Jack Sparrow's father, with the only explanation given for the dog's escape being "Sea turtles, mate."
• The Sun's Burial is an unrelentingly grim tale of criminals and prostitutes in the slums of 1960 Osaka, Japan. It seems like the first moment of something not-terrible when one of the hoodlums brings out a puppy, and the other says it's a nice dog. The owner then answers "They're great when roasted."
• The Swarm (2020): Two examples.
  • First, Laura ends up letting a bunch of flesh-eating locusts loose when she trashes one of the tents containing them. The locusts attack Gaston and Huguette, carrying off the latter, who's later found half-eaten and covered in locusts.
  • The second example is more like feed the dog to flesh-eating locusts, which is what Virginie does to her neighbour's dog at one point.
• There are a number of The Three Stooges films set at a cafe where events make it look like a dog is caught and cooked (usually into hot dogs).
• Discussed and subverted in Stephen King's 11/22/63. Al's Famous Fatburger is called Al's Famous Catburger because it's priced well below the wholesale price of ground beef. Al later reveals that the price is so low because he has been using his ability to travel through time to buy meat at 1958's prices.
• This is the driving point for the entire plot in Charlotte's Web. At least, after Wilbur's told by the goose that's what's going to happen to him eventually.
• Discworld:
  • A running gag in Small Gods, when a deity is trapped in the form of a lower animal. There's good eating on a tortoise....
  • Also played with in The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, when Malicia pretends to hold this view so she can provoke Maurice into talking again.
  • And in Interesting Times, the barbarians are rather shocked to discover that the Agatean word "chow" isn't a general term for food...
    "There's nothing wrong with it," [Teach] said hurriedly, with the sincerity of a man who had ordered bamboo shoots and bean curd for himself.
  • In Making Money, Moist and Adora very briefly think that a golem who is crushing on Moist (It Makes Sense in Context) has, in a fit of jealousy, cooked up for Moist's dinner a small dog whose well being is incredibly vital to Moist's cherished state of not being assassinated. Fortunately, this turns out to be a false alarm.
  • In Men at Arms it's implied dwarves will do this if they can't get hold of rat,^note and since the book is set in Ankh-Morpork, it's unlikely any nearby dwarf has ever had to settle for dog, although in Feet of Clay Gimlet pads his stock with steak, beef and chicken instead.
  • In Soul Music, one of the other boarding-school girls accuses Gloria Thogsdaughter of having this intention when she catches the dwarf student looking at the outraged girl's pet pony. And salivating.
• The Hunger Games: "No one in the Seam would turn up their nose at a good leg of wild dog."
• Letters Back to Ancient China: The narrator protagonist (a time traveller from medieval China) has to find out that sadly, in today's Germany you won't get Pekingese's liver and such.
• Make Room! Make Room! has a scene where a character visits a black-market butcher shop and is offered "leg of dog" as a sought-after delicacy.
• Angela Wright's Potato People plays the trope straight.
• In some versions of Puss in Boots, the titular Intellectual Animal begins assisting the protagonist after hearing the latter's plans to eat him and sell his pelt.
• The titular raven in Raven of the Inner Palace, the Raven Consort Shouxue has thought about doing this to her golden chicken companion, Xingxing, multiple times, from the time she was taken in for training. She suspects that this is why it keeps her at arm's length most of the time. At one point, to get it to shut up when she's sneaking out, she grabs its beak and threatens to roast it whole. Xingxing, being attached to living, promptly retreats back into the Yeming palace.
• In David Gerrold's The War Against the Chtorr novels, it appears that, at best, this might be the role assigned to humans in the invading Chtorran ecosystem. It's already the role assigned to the cute Chtorran bunnydogs.
  • Not to mention the captured Chtorran worm that's fed with stray dogs.
• Neverwhere: When Richard is with the group of Rat-Speakers, Anasthesia asks him if he likes cats. When he says he does, she asks, "Leg or breast?"
• Stalin's Nose by Rory Maclean has the author, his aunt, and her pet pig Winston doing a road trip through Eastern Europe. Winston ends up disappearing at the end of the book after they make the mistake of leaving him in the care of a Russian who had expressed a repeated desire to buy Winston to sell his meat on the black market.
• In an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David believes that his Korean bookie kidnapped and ate Jeff Greene's dog.
• Joked about in Elementary when Sherlock adopts a tortoise named Clyde after its owner is killed, claiming that he's going to make soup from him once he's fat enough. Joan's not sure if Sherlock is joking until he says he actually loves the reptiles and could never eat them. Clyde instead becomes a Team Pet who appears throughout the series.
• Star Trek: Enterprise: In "Babel One", the Enterprise is hosting a delegation of Tellarites, and Hoshi warns the captain to keep his pet beagle Porthos out of sight as their species consider canine to be a delicacy.
• The Goodies: In The Goodies and the Beanstalk, the grand prize is 5000 puppies which, if no-one claims the prize, will all be given to Indian restaurants.
• The Mandalorian. In "The Siege", a gang of Aqualish criminals are shown to have a ferret-like critter in a cage. Their leader says, "Won't you be delicious", grabs it from the cage and slams it on the table to be gutted. Then Cara Dune turns up to shoot it out with the gang, and finds herself being adopted by the critter.
• M*A*S*H:
  • Not explicitly dog, but Col. Sherman Potter has as a Berserk Button, the eating of horses. He delivers a rant about it in one episode, where he basically says that cows are such ugly wretched beasts that when people eat them they're doing them a favor, but horses are noble and beautiful animals. Might have something to do with the fact that he was in the Cavalry at one point.
  • Invoked by Pierce in an episode where he's been forced to take shelter with a Korean family (none of whom speak English). At one point they serve him some stew. He takes a bite and says something like "Meat? Where did you get meat? ... [looking around suspiciously] Where's the dog?" After a moment, the dog barks offscreen, to Hawkeye's visible relief.
• Sam on NCIS: Los Angeles once claimed this was one reason he'd prefer pet fish to having a dog or cat: if it didn't work out, there's always the "sushi" option with a fish.
• In an episode of Roundhouse, the focal boy imagines visiting the home of his crush from a foreign country. It doesn't become nightmarish until he asks to feed the cute little dog and hears, "Of course; we are fattening him up for dinner!"
• John Sheppard of Stargate Atlantis offered to eat Beckett's pet baby turtles in one episode and McKay's whale buddy (It Makes Sense in Context) in the next. (He's mostly joking.)
• Referenced on The Young Ones:
  Vyvyan: That's what we agreed when we first came: you do the cooking, I'll look after the plants and the goldfish.
  Neil: Yeah? And what did you have me cook on that first day?
  Vyvyan: Sausages! It was a Tuesday.
  Neil: Sausages and...?
  Vyvyan: [sigh] Sausages and plants and goldfish. Look, I've discharged my responsibilities, Neil - now you discharge yours.

Puppet Shows

• In the Muppet audio-drama version of The Frog Prince, Sweetums the Monster and the Witch have captured a frog (Kermit's nephew Robin):
  Witch: He could be your pet, your friend, your —
  Sweetums: Breakfast!
  Witch: That, too!
• Toyed with on The Muppet Show; Miss Piggy asks the Swedish Chef if he's seen her dog Foo-Foo, to which Chef responds that the dog is in the pot. He means that he's making hot dogs (meanwhile Foo-Foo was locked in a cabinet backstage), but Miss Piggy assumes the worst. HAI-YAH!

• A running joke is that a wizard's familiar is only useful for emergency rations.
• The Complete Book of Villains, a supplement for 2^nd Edition, featured a warlord called Bakshra the Dog Eater as a demonstration NPC. As a child, Bakshra had been tricked into eating his beloved pet dog as a cure for a curse-imposed illness, and he obsessively continued the practice as a grown man.

• Warhammer/Warhammer 40,000:
  • In 40K, the goblin-like Gretchin, or Grots, serve as the weak but brainy backbone of Ork "civilization", working as unskilled laborers, farmers, merchants, bankers, and assistants to Ork Meks or Painboyz. In appreciation, the Orks use the poor Grots as cannon fodder, minesweepers, ammunition for some of their more twisted weapons, and of course, snacks.
  • Their fantasy counterparts, the goblins, in Warhammer are in pretty much the same boat. It's treated indifferently by the goblins themselves, since they readily kill and eat one another all the time.
  • Likewise, in both games, squigs. Admittedly, since a squig is a carnivorous Planimal fungus monster that's at least 80% teeth and bad attitude, this is more of a case of Eat the Dog Before the Dog Eats Me.
    • There's even a specific breed of particularly toothy, ill-tempered squig used for the specific sport of "Eat the Dog Before the Dog Eats Me". To play, you take the squig, face it towards yourself, and take a bite. If you weren't the one eaten, congratulations, you win.
• In Dragon Age: Origins, if the player gives Leliana a pet Nug (an animal used as foodsource for Dwarves), Oghren tells her that if it doesn't leave him alone he might just get hungry. However, he's promptly disgusted that she names it Schmooples.
• Dwarf Fortress allows your dwarves to literally eat dogs. And cats. And horses. Really, they'll happily hunt or butcher just about anything that moves and doesn't talk back (and even then, you can edit the raw files....).
  • This is usually considered one of the best ways to control cat populations.
  • Averted in the case of specific animals adopted as pets. The rest of the fortress won't care about them any more, but the ones that took it as a pet will go on a giant Roaring Rampage of Revenge if their beloved kitty is slaughtered. Matt Boyd once told of how one of his fortresses collapsed that way; since the source cats were pets, he couldn't slaughter them, and even after he curtailed all activity not related to controlling the cat population, they were simply being born too fast to really put a dent in the population.
  • And now that herbivore animals have to graze on grass to survive, it is actually more convenient to use cats and dogs as livestock, as feeding mechanics for carnivores haven't been implemented yet.
• Usagi, Pleinair's rabbit (and in Disgaea 2, the one who's actually reading the news in place of Pleinair), is referred to as such. In Disgaea 2, he is joined by a shark in this regard—or is it a shark-like demon?
  • Zombies are apparently used in some Netherworld recipes. There is also mention of "Prinny Juice", though whether acquiring it involves killing the Prinny is unknown.
• Fallout: In the 3D games, you can cut meat from fallen dogs. Some of these dogs are domesticated dogs. Then again if you kill dogs belonging to a faction that's an enemy to you (or to everyone, there's an infamous raider raising a large pack of dogs in Fallout: New Vegas and she just shoots anyone not from her gang on sight), why not grab the meat? Better than letting the vultures take care of it.
• Early on in Genshin Impact, the player has the option of introducing fairy Mascot character Paimon as "emergency food". It's become a minor, albeit somewhat Overused, Running Gag in the game itself, and a major meme to the fandom. Later on, another character asks if Paimon is edible, and the player has the option to respond with "Dig in." Word of God even states that about 2/3 of players call Paimon 'Emergency Food' in the first dialogue they could do so.
• One of the TV stations in Grand Theft Auto V advertises a reality cooking show called Dude Eat Dog, a parody of "extreme" food shows like Man v. Food.
• The Lost Crown gives you the option of befriending a pig named Cairon, which grunts happily each time you share your lunch with it. Try not to grow too attached to the animal, because there's barbecue on the menu for the May Day Fayre....
• In NetHack, you get a pet at the beginning. Eating/Sacrificing it is probably not smart. Actually the game will punish you for eating any cat/dog corpse, even if it wasn't your pet, unless you are playing a caveman/cavewoman or an orc of any class. Sacrificing anything that died while tame is still a bad idea even for those characters however.
• In Organ Trail, one of your party members may find a kitten while driving and ask you if they can keep it. Replying "yes" gives you the message "Obtained 10 oz of food."
• In Rule of Rose, the bunny that Wendy takes care of is implied to be this. While most inhabitants of the orphanage probably see it as livestock, it is left ambiguous, if Wendy thought of it as that or a pet. She sees it as worthless lifestock.
• A Running Gag in RuneScape is the lack of horses. In the quest "Bringing Home The Bacon", Eli Bacon alludes to a species of "hornless unicorn" which was hunted to extinction for its meat....
  • The player character's reaction to eating pigs' meat suggests this trope as well, though their only other purpose is apparently greased pig wrestling.
• Rosarita ("Rosita") Aries of Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love treats her pet weasel Niccolo like this.
• Vermintide II: Played for Laughs regarding the other heroes' bemusement at Bardin's Extreme Omnivore tendencies (the dwarf also eats paintbrushes). When Bardin reminisces about fighting alongside the Duke of Parravon, who graciously gifted him a pedigree pony later...
  Sienna: Oh, I think I know where this is going.
  Bardin: Roasted a treat, it did!
• Channel Ate has this happen in one strip. Its implied that this was completely unnecessary and its owner was just being cruel... or was just very hungry.
• Schlock in Schlock Mercenary is an Extreme Omnivore, and has no problem eating animals most people think are cute.^note For that matter, he has no problem eating people most animals think are cute, either. A particular running joke is that when Schlock says he loves kittens he doesn't mean it in the same way most people would, though we've never seen him actually do it.
• You can eat your virtual pets in Sluggy Freelance.
• Monsters in the world of Step Monster have pretty strong predatory instincts when it comes to small animals, so they tend to eat cats and dogs without thinking about it if they're peckish and there's nothing else to grab. Matilda herself eats someone's dog without the Millers seeing it in the first volume, and in a Black Comedy Brick Joke burps up its collar at the volume's end before noting that pets aren't a good idea while she's living with them.
• Played for laughs in Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal (2022), where Pizza Dog Pizzeria boasts that their pizzas are made with real ingredients like real cheese, real tomatoes, and real dog.
• Whateley Universe:
  • Sara/Carmilla sucks the souls from dogs and other animals with her tentacles, for most meals. Yes, she's one of the good guys, at least at the moment... But the way she eats cause her tons of grief, especially early on. She very blatantly had puppies in her box at least once. And a lot of times old, worn out dogs who suffered more by living, and seemed to want a release from it. Right from the local pound in Dunwich.
  • For that matter, the school cafeteria, having to deal with the dietary needs and occasionally odd tastes of hundreds of mutant teenagers, seems generally able to provide pretty much anything if given sufficient notice in advance. In one Heyoka story, one Jerk Jock is forced to literally eat dog (though not a live one) in front of all the other students in order to break a curse he's brought on himself.
• Sokka of Avatar: The Last Airbender tends to want to eat every animal smaller than him he comes across, of course, he never gets a chance to do that. In fact, the first animal he tried to eat ended up becoming the team's pet, Momo.
  • And when Momo goes missing, Sokka angrily accuses Appa of eating him.
    • Also averted by the Foggy Swamp tribe; when Sokka asks why they don't eat the catfish crocodiles, they are disgusted at the notion and say that they regard the creatures as being like family.
• In one episode of The Fairly OddParents!, the Yugopotamians are invaded by a race of ultra-cutsey aliens, thanks to the Yugopotamians being freaked out by anything "nicey". The Giggle Pies, as the invaders are called, use their fluffy-wuffy looks to charm Cosmo and Wanda until Cosmo, in one of his usual fits, eats one of them and disgustedly remarks that they taste just like manure. Manure happens to be a delicacy on Yugopotamia, and the Yugopotamians aren't exactly happy about being enslaved....
• Family Guy does this in a Star Wars parody:
  "Hey Luke, whatever happened to that dog we stole from the Death Star?"
  "I KILLED IT AND ATE IT!!"
  • In "Dog Gone", when everyone ignores Brian's PSA and complain that they can't go vegetarian, Brian angrily tells them that dogs are eaten in some countries. Unfortunately, this just makes everyone curious about how dogs taste and they decide to try eating some... starting with Brian!
• Futurama:
  • In a what if episode, Leela went berserk and killed everybody, except Fry. After killing Zoidberg, the next morning you see a plate with chopped and boiled Zoidberg on it.
  • This actually happens quite often in Futurama, since in the future we apparently have less strict diets and eat animals that are considered off-limits today, such as parrot and peacock (the gag is that 21st Century preservation methods worked too well, and now the animals are overabundant). Nibbler also devours any animal indiscriminately^note and by "indiscriminately" we mean "it doesn't matter if the animal is many times larger than Nibbler himself is", and so does Zoidberg, though Zoidberg usually sticks to small animals. It's established that humans find it acceptable to eat any animal that's not intelligent. That means individually. A particularly stupid family of dolphins is mentioned as being fair game.
  • In the Christmas Episode, Fry buys a parrot to give to Leela for an X-Mas gift. The parrot escapes its cage, is blown up by one of Robot Santa's missiles, and served by Bender as X-Mas dinner.
• In an episode of Jimmy Two-Shoes, Heloise inadvertently ends up insulting a lava worm, who insults her back. At the end of the episode, she serves Jimmy a meal, saying that she hopes the lava worms aren't too chewy. At this, the lava worm's friend (seen earlier in the episode) walks by, looking for his friend.
• In King of the Hill, the Soupanousinphones (who are Laotian) move into the neighborhood and after not being able to find Ladybird or Doggie (Hank's and the Soupanousinphone's dogs) Hank thinks he was served the dogs at a barbeque. But they weren't. Bobby and Connie let the dogs off their lines and they ran away (but came back in the end.)
• Emperor Belos from The Owl House maintains his health by cracking open and feeding on the magical bile of palismen (familiars carved from a special type of wood). Not only is this particularly cruel due to the fact that palismen are shown to be completely sapient, but the trees used to make them are incredibly rare and he's been doing it for the better part of four centuries.
• In The PJs, Thurgood wishes to eat Miss Avery's pet dog because the dog has eaten his last little blue pill and he wants to be intimate with his wife because it's their anniversary. He even says "Think, Thurgood, there's a perfectly logical way to eat that dog."
• Total Drama
  • In World Tour, Cody is challenged to eat donkey meat after having spent the first part of the episode riding a donkey to victory. It isn't clear if it's the same donkey, but Cody suspects so, and refuses to eat.
  • In Pahkitew Island, Clucky is last seen being taken away Hannibal Lecter style after having gone insane and subjecting Team Kinosewak to Electric Torture. When the challenge winners don't seem too keen on eating the episode's sponsored meal, Chris adds a second option: chicken made by Chef.
• In The Venture Brothers Season 3 finale, Sergeant Hatred bragged that he "ate a whole Labrador Retriever once" during a bragging contest with Doctor Venture.