Taking two comments at once, no, I have never eaten a dog or a cat, in fact. I've also never eaten a horse or a cockroach, and these are the four animals to which the allergist who performed my long-ago scratch tests told me I was allergic (in descending order: cat, dog, horse, roach; also most of the grasses, most of the trees, a lot of the weeds, and a fair number of the molds and dusts -- I am one allergic child, helas). I wonder if I could come up with a complete list of animals I've eaten. Probably not, because the fish and the birds would do me in. Mammals should be easy, though -- cow (and calf), pig, sheep (and lamb), bison. ... I really think that might be all of them. Or else I'm just having an incredibly vacant moment, and someone will say "dude, haven't you ever eaten _____?" and I'll go "d'oh!"

If-n-when I start seriously considering a place in Laurel, can I deputize one of you to check it out and tell me a) if the neighborhood is good and b) if the place is up to snuff?