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

[ObviouslyOblivious]

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.

Stick it in the freezer post-trim? That should kill all the germs.

ah risk assessment - excellent! all OK then!

Christmas cake is not an environment in which bacteria survive - if it were then they would go mouldy and they don't (wondering if the one in the cupboard from last year will still be edible?)

this is why I dont eat christmas cake

If you do decide to throw it away, can you send me a chunk to give to my cat. She is a cake thief, she tends to steel lemon drizzle or carrot cake given half the chance.

Ach go for it. I'd eat it, just give it a good alcoholic soak if you're worried. Actually, just give it a soak anyway.

I'd take an inch off all round, re-ice and eat my smaller cake, and I don't think I'd be eating bollock lickings.

If the dog had pissed on the cake that would be entirely different.

Agree with soaking it in booze before re-icing.

You could always eat the dog.

How about this...

Trim it, soak it in booze, ice it and put it out to eat but tell everyone what happened to it before you offer them a slice.

Then bin the uneaten cake after Christmas.

I had to drag my dog away from his tasty snack of a mahoosive pile of horse shit yesterday. No way would I be eating that cake. Toxoplasmosis, worms, eurgh. No way.

I organised a fundraising cake sale. Five minutes to opening time a dog ran in the open door and took a bite out of a coffee cake I had made. I chased the dog out to its owner who neither apologised or offered to pay. I simply cut off the side of the cake that was touched by the dog and told everyone that that side of the sponge got a bit burnt in the oven. It was the first cake to sell out!

It's CATS you get toxoplasmosis from, not dogs.

err no..dogs eat poo. End of story.

hmm I'm not sure. My cat once licked all the icing off a birthday cake. We threw that out...however, I sometimes let him share my ice cream using the same spoon. In conclusion, I have no idea

Yup, I'd trim off all the way around the cake, ice and eat it too.

Gross maybe? Ever walked past one of those 'open' sweetie counters? How many people have coughed/sneezed/shed any numberof skin cells across those same sweeties given to children? Yuck - I'd choose dog germs over human any day...

Sous it in alcohol (bung it in the freezer for a few days first if it'll ease your conscious), it'll taste fine. Hope your poor dog's feeling better soon.

Use it, it will be fine. Christmas cake costs a fourtune to make, it would be a massive waste to chuck it.

If it were mine, I would trim it, ice it, but then before it was presented to anyone else, I would cut the missing bit iout like a slice iyswim, so it just looks like the cake has already been started, then you don't need a reason for it being an odd shape.

I took a crumpet out of the dogs mouth this morning and gave it back to ds who happily ate it (wasn't the first time either).

We all let the dog 'kiss' us, at the weekends dn was sticking his tongue out for the dogs to lick, nobody batted an eyelid.

Dog germs are actually more harmful to humans than human germs.

Human germs are not keen to kill off their host, they need us to survive in order for them to survive.

Dog germs, on the other hand, have no such qualms about killing us off, their interest is in their main host (ie the dog) surviving.

That's why dog germs are so disgusting.

And yuk! to sharking food with the dog, I don't care how hard times are neither I or my children will be sharing crumpets with the dog >

Now I love my dog about as much as it is possible to love some one thing and I wouldn't touch it with someone else's!

But then I'm the person who makes a cake for the cake stall at the school fete and buys her own cake back. still treble wrapped

^Dog germs are actually more harmful to humans than human germs.

Human germs are not keen to kill off their host, they need us to survive in order for them to survive.

Dog germs, on the other hand, have no such qualms about killing us off, their interest is in their main host (ie the dog) surviving.^

Yes, what programme was that quoted on last week QI? Argumental? Something like that, was in conjunction to dogs sleeping on beds.

There is quite a list of comunicable canine to human diseases, but in 36 years of dog snogging I seem to have miraculously escaped all of them, kids now seem to be doing pretty well too.

I think it was the one show Gobblers

Iam with lostmymind, here. The salad counter at the supermarket makes me want to retch, and I know for a fact that a certain neighbour, who regularly bakes a cake for local bring and buys, etc lives in vile squalor, so i wouldnt eat that, but when its YOUR pooch and otherwise the cake is fine (barring the nibble) I would eat it.

Have you recently wormed your dog OP? Thinking about it (as I too have a Christmas cake sitting on my kitchen work surface as I type) that's the only caveat I might place on this, most common zoonotic transmission being parasitic.

..but surely freezing and alcohol would destroy any (unlikely) worm egg/larvae that might be present??

I have no idea [runs off to put cake in tin immdeiately]

My labrador managed to eat an entire xmas cake a couple of years ago - had he managed to eat only a portion of it, I wouldn't have eaten the remainder; I know where he sticks his snout

We got the fruit back the next day, in a steaming pile at the bottom of the stairs. Dh discovered it...by stepping in it (it was dark). The swearing was quite impressive!

ooooooh what did halftermhero say ...... ?