AIBU Re Bringing Home Human Food For The Dog

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MIL feeds her dog dog food plus human food - dog gets 2 meals of dog meat and kibble a day plus 2 or 3 meals of human food, not just leftovers, she cooks extra so the dog can have

If MIL goes out for a meal to a restaurant, she takes a bag with her and empties leftovers into it.

If she goes to a party with buffet food, she nicks a load of food for the dog (she once brought home 17 chicken drumsticks)

AIBU to think this is unacceptable and to be embarrassed by it

What breed is the dog?

I always take left overs for my dog and I cook him a boiled egg for his breakfast. Because I luvs him.

I'm a vegetarian but if we go to a carvery MIL makes me get the meat anyway so she can take it home for the dogs

My DM's dog has his own biscuit cupboard. The cat gets porridge on cold mornings and a cup of tea (milk and one sugar apparently). In summer, it's milk and cereal.

The last dog used to get his own take away. He liked garlic butter on his pizza and my DM doesn't so he got his own. He also preferred milder curry to the cat so DM shares her vindaloo with the cat and DF shared his bhuna with the dog. Current dog doesn't like curry so he just has some garlic sausage and a few chips.

They also get bacon sandwiches (cat prefers brown sauce on hers), their own crisps and a sunday roast each.

DM denies having empty nest syndrome ...

I'd just like to say that glenthebattleostrich's post above is the greatest thing I have ever read anywhere on the internet.

And I thought my cats had me under the thumb...!

glenthebattleostrich I needed that laugh!

When I make the occasional cooked breakfast for me and ds, I always make enough for 3, so my dog gets one too.
I also buy three ice creams if it's hot. He loves ice cream.

Our dogs regularly get a jumbo sausage each if we go to the chippie (we're vegetarian, but this tradition was started by the chip shop woman insisting on giving them to us for free), and if we go out for the day and take a picnic, they get a pork pie each or a packet of cocktail sausages between them. As long as a dog is fit, healthy, happy and not overweight, and isn't getting cooked bones/onion/chocolate or anything with xylitol in, where's the harm? Given the relish with which they will devour sheep poo, a bit of chicken drumstick is fine, and surely this is where the term 'doggy bag' originated anyway.

glenthebattleostrich That is priceless! Bless :o

Meh, MIL is happy, Dog sounds OK.

The dogs we had growing up never actually got dog food I think, they lived on a diet of kitchen scraps and raw meat/bones.

They also appeared to live forever.

Why should your embarrassment change her life?

spiderlight you missed out grapes/raisins!

is her dog over weight that is an awful lot of food for a dog is it a great dane

my mum used to boil chicken and veg for a yorkie we had , and grill liver and pork belly for him , he would turn his nose up and pedigree chum ,

My god Id think you were related to dh but he's an only child! Mil does this, it's so embarrassing. Last time she came for Sunday lunch, I cooked a beef rib, there was quite a bit left uncarved and some bits on plates. She asked if she could take some home for the dog, I said yes, assuming she meant bits from plates, but no, she ignored the left overs and started wrapping up the uncarved joint! I was like um, no, that's sandwich filling for next 2 days for me and dh actually! Offered her the bits off plates instead, she didn't want that, said why should dog have people's leftovers, I said quite right, she's a dog she should be eating bloody dog food not best rib joint! She can have the leftovers and think herself bloody lucky or tough shit its bakers complete.

Yup, that's what 'doggy bags' are for, op :)

I bring suitable leftovers home from restaurants for my dog DH dies a little inside when I ask the waiter for a doggy bag.

I once carried a whole catering tray of ribs home for my dog, from a party, that wasn't going to be eaten.

I sometimes bring things home from other people's houses and restaurants, for her.

I cook for my dog, she has freshly killed rabbits and newly caught fish, she eats better than the families that i live amongst.

'Human food 'is a lot better than some of the crap sold as dog food.

I wouldn't give mine chocolate etc, though.

She should ask, first, other than that, it's up to her.

Onion! Oh shit, I think I have read that before. If he has a bit of left over stuff like coq au vin will it kill him? Actually, not it won't cos it hasn't.

Agree with others - isn't that what a doggy bag is for. I mean Royal Canin is so, just, boring isn't it? He likes a few left over bits scraped on the top. He runs to the Aga when the timer goes off.

As long as the onions are not eaten more than twice a week, the dog will recover in between so there isn't a serious reaction, but until your dog eats onions or grapes, you won't know how much they can eat before/or until it kills them.

I can understand people loving their dogs to bits (I used to work evenings in a meadery when I was at college and always kept back leftover chicken to take home for my dog - and there was lots of it) but cooking extra so that the dog can have some is a bit imo. Does your mil know that chocolate is toxic to dogs and could harm it?