please stop giving your dog those treats from the leftovers..

HappyMJ

What's wrong with the xmas dinner leftovers anyway? It looks a lot like the homemade chicken dog food that I've made in the past anyway. I wouldn't give the dog any sweet stuff I'm just talking the turkey mashed together with the veggies. Isn't it very similar to the dog food but a higher quality meat. Have you actually seen what goes into dog food it's much worse than human food. yuk... if you've seen it you'd never give your dog that remanufactered stuff ever again. It's so remanufactered that they need to fortify it with vitamins and minerals just to bring it back to what it was originally.

Kaelea

viktory wrote: »

No its not. Try Dogsey - now that is a truly brutal forum! If you don't give up your day job to care exclusively for your dogs, walk them for 2-4 hours a day (off lead), feed them the finest raw diet in the world and take them to the best training school ever (oh and actually like Cesar Milan) then you are less than human and should not be allowed within 5 miles of a dog.

I like Cesar Milan .. he's like my guilty pleasure *blush* not sure I should confess to that

altho I guess I should move 5 miles from my dog :eek:

I still say this forum is brutal tho .. or maybe I'm just getting fed up .. cos I'm fed up of seeing people ripped to shreds .. not just in pets corner but all over this site .. *shrugs*

viktory

Kaelea wrote: »

I like Cesar Milan .. he's like my guilty pleasure *blush* not sure I should confess to that

I like him too - just don't admit it on Dogsey

bramble1

I personally fail to see anything wrong with feeding my dog my left overs. Meat and vegetables. ? only difference is that the left overs are cooked and he is normally on raw meat and veg.

sarabe

We try to eat healthy food so don't have a problem giving left overs to the dogs.

Like others on here my dogs don't eat dog food anyway.

On the odd occasion that we have a less than healthy option such as a chinese takeaway then I would prefer to put the left overs in the bin than in the dog though.

foreign_correspondent

Sagz wrote: »

Having done just a little research it would seem that having an unspeyed female dog is much more a risk factor than poor diet.

Absolutely - diabetes in dogs is different to diabetes in humans, and entire, older b1tches are at the highest risk - this, combined with the high risk of pyometra are two compelling reasons to spey.

Table scraps can be very healthy for dogs anyway, so long as they are the right ones - lean meat, potatoes, vegetables... these are all the sort of ingredients you would pay top whack for if they were in dog food...

Frugalista

Table scraps are OK - if they are fed in moderation. Nutritionally, scraps do provide calories to the dog in addition to a few vitamins and minerals. Some scraps, however, should be avoided - such as rich, fatty foods, and any kind of chop or cooked poultry bones. Cooked poultry and chop bones can splinter and lodge in the intestinal tract - with dangerous results.

Fatty foods like bacon grease, etc, can cause diarrhoea and trigger other more serious digestive upsets. A large percentage of dogs are also allergic to pork and pork products.

For balanced nutrition, it is best if table scraps comprise less than 10% of your dogs’ total daily food intake. Treats from the table should never be offered to the point that your dog avoids his regular food.

CFC

Frugalista, what do you believe dogs should be fed, then? I find it hard to believe that pet food is actually better for our animals than home cooked food? I don't give him bacon but I do give him chicken and he has any out of date ham lying about, with either potato, slice of bread or rice. The only advantage of pet food that I can see is that it's easier to get veggies into him. If you ask me dogs could untie knots with their tongues, they are so adept at leaving behind the veggies no matter how tiny they are cut...!

Agree about the small and dangerous bones, though, that's just common sense.

bramble1

CFC my lab loves veggies!! He will happily sit down and chew on a raw carrot instead of a bone!

Harry_Flashman

My pooch does pretty well from our left overs - doesn't seem to harm her in any way (and makes her happy)