However, after millennia at the heart of Polynesian culture, eventually the Poi fell out of favour. Western colonists brought over their own dogs to places like Hawaii – and as they interbred, native ones began to disappear. At the same time, these new settlers led to a change in attitudes, until it was no longer considered acceptable to eat your pet. The last Poi lived in the mid-late 19th Century – and there are no surviving paintings, photographs or other artworks that can be definitively linked to them.