Although Keller’s father enlisted his brood to tend the land—working them so hard that a neighbor once reported him—the family constantly teetered on the brink of bankruptcy. To put meat on the table, Keller’s mother once stewed up one of the cats the family kept on the farm. Another time, she gave an older daughter some fresh “mutton” as a gift—in actuality, Keller’s butchered pet dog.
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That family should rightfully be cursed.
I don’t think I could ever eat a dog or a cat I owned. Someone else’s pet is another matter...if I were hungry enough.
The Keller family sound like a right pack of total weirdos. If they had to kill their cats and dog to feed their kids, Old Man Keller should have kept his darn lederhosen ZIPPED.
Some say the reason the Norwegians succeed in Polar exploration... An Englishman would NEVER eat his dog.
It’s called survival.
Hey, maybe they're related to Elizabeth Warren, or Chinese..