Eating pets after they've died

I've neer heard of this practice and I certainly couldn't consider if for any of my pets - those alreay dead and those still snuffling around me as I type.

But as a cultural concept it's really interesting to read that for some people it is a way to show respect for the departed pet. Before cannibalism was banned in Papua New Guinea (in the 1950's I think), certain tribes used to eat the brains of their recently deceased relatives as a mark of ancestral respect.