the WEIRDEST thing about the pet exchange was him ending with "and that's a shame."
You are telling me there is MASS PET EATING and that's a SHAME?
If people were experiencing having their pets eaten in large numbers we would absolutely know about it. Because homes would have burned to the ground. People would be in the streets with pitchforks. Hell would reign down on Springfield.
People like their pets more than they like their neighbours. I literally think we'd be more chill about cannibalism and we aren't a big fan of that, either.