For better or worse, we've been recently asked about whether you can eat dogs (or pets) in Washington, DC.  We are not experts in animal eating cases, so we actually looked this up.

DC Code 22-1002 says:

§ 22–1002. Other cruelties to animals.

Every owner, possessor, or person having the charge or custody of any animal, who cruelly drives or works the same when unfit for labor, or cruelly abandons the same, or who carries the same, or causes the same to be carried, in or upon any vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel or inhuman manner, or knowingly and willfully authorizes or permits the same to be subjected to unnecessary torture, suffering, or cruelty of any kind, shall be punished for every such offense in the manner provided in §22-1001.

Our legal database shows no reported DC Court of Appeals cases where DC Code 22-1002 was ever cited for cruelties to animals.  Apparently this section of the code used to be related to criminalizing fornication and now it relates to animal cruelty.

Theoretically, it might be possible to defend a case if you ate a dog without causing it unnecessary torture, suffering, and cruelty.  But please don't.

Here's a link to an animal shelter if you're considering eating your dog.

https://www.luckydoganimalrescue.org