You are fine. It's better to be yourself and find

someone totally accept the way you are.

regarding dog, american men should not be scared of such things.  You were telling him some facts, so what?  He needs to learn accpeting some truth in China history.

I told my hu*****and when we were dating, I did eat dog meat at childhood, back then, food/protein was not like now, readily available, so it's better for Chinese to survive.  Just like he learned in military training to survive on eating grasshopper, bugs.

 

Even now, I still joke with him, he better be super nice to me, otherwise, you might find something surprise at dinner table.  Of course, he knows I am joking.