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A New Scientist note (points to PNAS paper):

I hate to say it, but aren't forensic science journals sort of like cheating? Half the articles, you can just hear someone going "and you won't BELIEVE what happened to THIS one."

@LeftWingFox:

In my forensic training, we were repeatedly told that dogs of dead owners will generally wait a long time before beginning to consume said owner. I'm not sure whether it's been tested, but it was taken as a decent rule-of-thumb starting point that a dog-chewed decedent had been down for at least a couple days.

Cats, on the other hand, begin to dine pretty much immediately after the first missed feeding.