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.

LittleDog shares ice cream and pretty much anything else edible with me. 44 years of living with dogs and cats has not killed me yet.

I also want to know!

Dogs are fully and frequently wormed. Anyway, don't parasites add flavour and protein?

I would trim, ice and eat. But probably only for consumption by close family. My cat has a nibble of anything left out. I remove visibly nibbled edges but eat the rest (and feed to DH and occasionally to DS). she is impossible (my fault) and will drink out of my glass and would lick food off DS's face when weaning.

So IMO YANBU

I'd probably eat it.

Mum caught me sharing my ice cream with the family pet as a four year old. The dog was licking the ice cream from bowl, and I was putting my spoon in at the same time. Apparently I didn't understand what the problem was.

LittleDog eats off my fork.

WTF did halfterm say? PM pretty please.

The last time a dog gave me a wet and sloppy kiss on the mouth, I was sick for three days after.

It may very well be that what you have got there, is a fabulous slimming Christmas Pud!! Eat it.

Yeeuurch at letting the dog lick your tongue - my friend used to let her dog do this to her and her children. Our old dog used to fight me for dc's dirty nappies sometimes ... enough said. Bin the cake.

I've been deleted! Shocking ! I just mentioned that Op might end up with shit dripping down her legs if she ate the germ fest cake etc, lol.

Quite an image.

YABU but not sure why

On a practical note - rich fruit cakes are designed to be kept. They are full of sugar and dried fruit which helps to keep them from spoiling ie from attack by micro-organisms. That's why you can keep one just in foil etc for months.

So, my question is, can dog germs actually live in/on a fruit cake, given that most other micro-organisms seem to be unable to colonise this kinds of cake?

Any micro-biologists out there??

kind of cake

I doubt it, it's just not the right growth medium for bacteria.

SarahS, that's what I'm thinking. But I still wouldn't fancy eating the cake...

I posted something similar a while ago when my dog had eaten part of a tuna pasta bake. The resounding verdict was that I should bin it.

To my shame, I ignored the MN Jury, froze it and fed it to my DD at a later date. She suffered no ill effects.

Chuck some brandy over it. It will be fine.

I would eat it, and I studied microbiology at university. But I have 3 dogs sharing the house with us so am a lot less fussy than most. Have once before cut the corner off a lasagne when the dog got her nose in it and then serve it up for tea

I'm guessing they deleted because it alluded the another thread where an MNers child was left very upset

Well that is mental. It was nothing to do with the other thread. It was a joke about yule tide logs, fgs! There's no festive fun in Xmas toilet humour these days it seems . It's as if the groundbreaking Mr Hanky never existed.

It did sound an awful lot like you were taking the piss out of the other thread...

By the time you come to eat it any remaining germs will be long gone. As an EHO just have an inward chuckle at those who wouldn't touch it and remember that they will have eaten much, much worse without realising it evily cackle

I have read the other thread earlier today and sympathised with the op. My deleted post made no reference to children and was not in any way intended to mock the child on the other thread. It did not even occur to me when I posted. Maybe Hully has successfully lobbied the Towers and all discussion of shit is now banned.

But you mentioned shit running down legs which was pretty much the crux of the other thread.

I have no idea. I assure you I didn't report the comment. MNHQ usually send an e-mail if you have a comment deleted I believe which should tell you why.

I've never had an email telling me why a comment has been deleted, and I've had plenty deleted.

Lots of Mumsnetters have admitted to shitting themselves in supermarkets etc, there have been threads on the topic. The joke was not at all intended to make fun of a 4yr old. And no, I have not had an email telling me why it was deleted. I also mentioned in my post that the op was a minger for considering eating it . Maybe that is the reason it went up in smoke. I did not think Minger would be considered a serious insult though!

Thanks Bree, I'll do that.