I'm wanting to feel sorry for these folks. I just can't seem to do it...

Los Angeles Times
Nine people who ate a neighbor's dog are being monitored in a hospital isolation ward in the southern Philippines after the canine's owner died of rabies, a local official said.

Farmer Teresita Estanol, 48, died Friday, said Mayor Efren Pinol of the town of Magpet.

The dog bit Estanol in mid-August, and days later her angry neighbors, apparently unaware that it had rabies, killed the animal and ate it, the mayor said.

Dog meat is a delicacy in some parts of the Philippines.