A quick search of certain legal sources has not yielded any specific laws against consuming dogs or 'companion animals'.
The best I can find currently in the Ohio Revised Code staes:
(B) No person shall knowingly torture, torment, needlessly mutilate or maim, cruelly beat, poison, needlessly kill, or commit an act of cruelty against a companion animal.
The key word would be 'needlessly'. If one were starving in the woods with no hope of immediate rescue is different than just wanting to see what Fido tastes like.
Every other reference refers to companion animal consumption merely as a social taboo in the US, although there are laws about selling them as food products.
If I find something more specific, I'll post it.
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