yes, poor people eat dogs, and cats, and mice, and all sorts of things.
And not just in Asia: My sons in South America ate guinea pig, and one of German sisters who worked in our hospital remember eating their puppies during the hunger times during World War II.
As my son told me when I was aghast at one of his stories when the villagers cut up a dead horse that had fallen off a cliff to eat: Mom, sometimes you get weak and you need meat...
And how many Freepers have eaten possum? Or Squirrel?
If you have seen feral dogs that roam the garbage heeps in the third world, you would understand why some Muslims dislike dogs as pets (although they do allow them as watchdogs and to hunt). They not only bite people, sometimes attacking people in a pack, they spread rabies... at least one dog that was befriended and brought home with a soldier in Iraq developed rabies and had to be killed...
be glad you live in the good old US of A!
Damned straight.