Did you know that the Corps of Discovery frequently ate dogs?
Puppy chops haven't made it into any of the recent cookbooks offering recipes from the Lewis and Clark expedition, but the Indians ate dogs and so did the members of the expedition when nothing else was available.
In the dry areas of eastern Washington, where there was little if any game and the only other choice was dried salmon, usually stuffed with sand, the men came to prefer dog.
Their favorite foods were always elk, beaver tail, and buffalo, and when they were struggling up the Missouri the men ate lots of it, up to nine pounds of meat per man per day. But dogs would do if dogs were all that they could get. Only Clark abstained. He couldn't bring himself to eat dog meat.