Christmas and Pets

chris_n_tj

Why is it at this time of year all these do and dont come out? What about the rest of the year? Doesnt anyone have chocolate, sweets, turkey, nuts. I think you know what I mean. These rules should be thought of 12 months a year not only at Christmas.
As for TJ`s Christmas dinner, it will be they same as any other day, his rations plus fresh veg. Maybe as a teat he will get an extra sprout lol.
Chris n TJ

beachbeth

chris_n_tj wrote: »

Why is it at this time of year all these do and dont come out? What about the rest of the year?

Because its this time of year that people overindulge and can be tempted to give their pets extra treats too. Plus if you haven't taken care to keep all dangerous items out of the way and you fall asleep in an alcoholic stupor you might not notice Fido in the corner scoffing all your Quality Streets!:D

cyberbob

beachbeth wrote: »

I did say in the first post that it was the turkey skin that you shouldn't give your dog. Its only if your dog isn't used to turkey and always just has the normal pet foods that you shouldn't risk giving him/her any turkey meat as they won't be used to it. This goes for any new food.

No what you said in your first post was

beachbeth wrote:

No turkey for dogs - Turkey skin can cause pancreatis (if thats how you spell it!) and turkey is a fatty meat and can cause stomach upsets and diarrhoea.

The problem was your original post had the blanket statement No turkey. This was incredibly misleading and badly thought out. As I said before any High fat meal could trigger Pancreatitis not just Turkey skin (not that i'm saying you should give dogs Turkey skin). As others have pointed out Turkey is a lean meat.

I as others (and by the sounds of it you also) will give my dog and cats a small piece of Turkey on Christmas day as a supplement to his diet not a replacement

beachbeth

My message is simply to be careful at Christmas when there are lots of food and treats hanging about. If you choose to dissect my whole post in order to create an argument then thats up to you. Some dogs find turkey hard to digest and it will give them diarrhoea. So if you're not sure then don't give them any, thats all im saying.

beachbeth

cyberbob wrote: »

The problem was your original post had the blanket statement No turkey. This was incredibly misleading and badly thought out.

Not badly thought out if it saves someone having to take their dog to the vet over Christmas. :rolleyes:

shiningdove

my bruno will enjoy his scraps of turkey with a little amounts of veg with a cut down on his dry food. Its his favourite time of the year.

foreign_correspondent

I can't understand why people are getting so het up about this - I think it is a useful reminder posted to try and be helpful - yes, there may be some points which could be more specific, but it has got people talking and thinking about the issues, and it may save someone an expensive out of hours vets visit or worse.

I think that at Christmas we all tend to relax the rules a little, and have different foodstuffs around the house - it is not unknown for dogs to get into wrapped boxes of chocolate etc... I guess Christmas is the only time many of us will have several boxes of chocolates on the floor! (under the tree)

beachbeth

Thats it exactly, fc. A few years ago I noticed that our Cavalier King charles spaniel had gone 'missing' and searched the house for her. She adored chocolate and could sniff it out anywhere (Im not sure her previous owner didn't give chocolate to her!).

When I found her she had gone into my bedroom, reached up onto my dressing table and got a box of quality street out of a plastic carrier bag. She had eaten the lot, including wrappers and half the box!:eek: I thought Id put this chocolate well out of her reach. Luckily she suffered no ill effects at all and had really enjoyed them! We now have a stairgate at the bottom of the stairs and I go mad at anyone who leaves anything like this lying about.

Talk about sparkly poo though. Her poo was very festive and colourful that Christmas!

loulou123

My dog used to always have his own little xmas dinner - small piece of turkey, little sausage and few vegtables with gravy. Ok so it properly wasnt a great idea, but it never did him any harm.

Mind you this was the dog that once ate a whole king size marsbar, choc xmas tree decs (still in their foil) and a whole block of cheese (not all at the same time!) and suffered no ill effects either.

I think it all depends upon the dog and if they get an upset tummy easily or not.