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...
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. :)
Well, now that I've seen the descriptions of the various roasts, the cakes, the buttery rolls, and the milk, I think you've got it, by Jove! :P
I like the idea of Alcmene as a foodie. :D Her modern AU counterpart can have an Instagram feed where she posts pictures of her food.
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...
Ooh. Well, when you are, you know we want to hear them! I know of stories from modern news articles (and of course scavenging dogs on battlefields--they're in the first few lines of the Iliad for a reason!), but am not thinking of European royal examples off the top of my head.
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Re: Various questions from Mildred
Date: 2021-02-28 05:29 pm (UTC)Dog diets
Date: 2021-02-28 06:43 pm (UTC)Well, now that I've seen the descriptions of the various roasts, the cakes, the buttery rolls, and the milk, I think you've got it, by Jove! :P
I like the idea of Alcmene as a foodie. :D Her modern AU counterpart can have an Instagram feed where she posts pictures of her food.
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...
Ooh. Well, when you are, you know we want to hear them! I know of stories from modern news articles (and of course scavenging dogs on battlefields--they're in the first few lines of the Iliad for a reason!), but am not thinking of European royal examples off the top of my head.