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I don't get saying that is has legs and body like a dachshund and then conclude that its not the body of a hunting dog. Dachhunds whole layout is how it is to facilitate hunting.
Yeah, have these people never heard of ratting? Perfect size dog for that.
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Romans simply didn't eat dogs if there were other sources of food around. If they would have, chances are we still would do it today.
it is true, as far as i know, that we have no records of the romans eating dogs but nothing about the romans is simple there are many foods the romans commonly ate (in rome, during at least some of its near-millennium of culinary change) that few or none of their modern descendants do. these include silphium, garum, liquamen, mallow leaves, marinated sow udders, peacock, flamingo, emmer, lamprey, lamprey semen , sea…