Times are hard. Needs must. My dog ate the Christmas cake.

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AIBU to cut off the bits that have been in direct contact with his mouth and use the rest?

He was very neat. He ate one side, so it kind of looks the side of a 50p piece IYSWIM. He only ate about an 8th of the volume of the cake. How wasteful it would be to ditch the rest!

However, I've been told this may be skanky and gross.

BTW, my poor dog has been in the vets on a drip for 24 hours due to this little escapade. But he's fine now we hope.

*looks like the side of a 50p piece

Yep, use the rest. I would. In fact I did when the cat had a bit of a nibble on the defrosting turkey.

Just read your other thread and so glad your dog is ok. But no - please do not eat the cake.

If you live near me - I'll happily give you all the ingredients to make another one.

I wouldn't tbh. He may well have licked or slobbered over the apparently untouched areas. Also did the cake land up on the floor during this incident?

I'm not massively keen on Christmas cake, so would use this occurrence as a handy excuse to buy a buttercreamy-y chocolate yule log instead (much cheaper)

p.s. hope your dog is fully recovered xx

oh boy - poor dog, raisin poisoning I assume? nasty - bet it won't deter him though!

my take on this would be that christmas cake keeps for ever without going off - the reason being the high concentration of sugars basically kills bacteria (otherwise it would go off rather than just hard!) so ... once you've trimmed it a bit there is very little chance of any nasty bacteria surviving to cause problems

Isn't dog saliva very clean? Go for it ;)

Heck, go for it. Just make sure you cut off all the doggy bits.

What does Christmas cake do to dogs that means 24 hour drips?

Good soaking in brandy should sort out any saliva issues.

go for it, only because i don't like xmas cake so i know i won't be eating it

hope your doggy feels better soon. you know you're going to just cut off the slobbered on bits already though don't you?

though i do like klad's brandy idea

Dog bacteria is not clean - how clean can any mouth be when it licks it's own butt?

As said on the other thread - do not use it. It is vile & disgusting! Buy a cheapy one if your Mum doesn't want to make another one.

Times will be hard if you're about to take out a second mortgage to pay the vet's bill. Buying a cake will be the least of your worries!

Hope dog on mend but think I wouldn't want any.

Our car once took a bite out of one of my birthday cakes. My mum just iced round the bitten bit. Looking back that was probably unreasonable (ESP to serve Cake to bunch of kids at a party).

It is vile and gross I'm afraid. I wouldn't want to eat it myself like that and I certainly wouldn't feed it to my family. Dogs have all kind of skanky germs in their mouth from licking their arse, surely? Ecoli and all that sort of stuff?

Cat not car - although come to think of it my mum did have a thing about foxes biting the tyres on her car and giving her flat tyres (just to continue the animal bite theme).

LOLOL. We didn't say it was gross until after Dog was home :)

Having seen what my dog eats and smelt his breath... not a chance.

Glad to hear he's recovered and back home. Not sure about the cake; can you be sure he didn't slobber over the bits he didn't eat?

Bin it. My show organised a surprise party for my 21st and his aunt made my cake. She came up to me at the party and told me her dog had eaten some of it so she'd filled the gap with icing. I thought she was having a laugh until I cut into it...

TooImmature, grapes and their dried form of raisins, sultanas etc) are poisonous to dogs, along with chocolate, onions and various other common foodstuffs.

Show? Dh. Stupid predictive text!

Eew. I have only one word for you.

Toxoplasmosis.

Have you seen where dogs put their tongues?

Well now. It's not like I'm suggesting that I pad out the gaps with the bits that he reproduced at the vets!

Imagine that the cake is the globe. He ate most of the north pole, maybe nibbled at Greenland, Canada, the UK, parts of Russia - all untouched. It didn't fall on the floor. He pushed it back towards the wall (it was on the work surface). I'm almost 100% sure that he didn't touch the rest of it.

Should I mention that I'm an Environmental Health Officer

Oops. There should be a full stop after Greenland ^^

:o