Given the way those dogs were spoiled with their food, I just assumed Alcmene was too much of a foodie to go near something like Fritz' corpse unless she was truly starving. :) More seriously, I do hope it takes a bit longer for pets to see their owners as food, yes. Mind you, whether or not I'm right about the casts and dogs mentioned by Heinrich being owned by the Comtesse de la Roche-Raymon, he was obviously unsentimental enough to assume they could have a go if not hindered. I'm not up to hit right now, but I do recall there are some gruesome stories about gnawed at royal corpses where no one was around keeping watch...