Dog's Eating Human Food

[billybeau]

Does your dog eat human food? How much does he/she get? How far would you go to make sure he/she ate human food?

Boyfriends families dog gets not just left overs, but the family will cook extras so the dog gets.

When they've gone out to eat at a reasurant, they bring home food for the dog

When they've gone to a party with a buffet, they bring home food the dog. This included 17 chicken legs at a recent party.

Please please do not give dogs cooked bones especially cooked chicken bones. Or any chicken bones. They splinter and dogs do die from this!! The bones splinter and can perforate the gut, block the guts, as well as damage teeth.

A good quality complete dog food is nutritionally balanced to ensure dogs get what they need.

Lots of human food is poisonous to dogs, onions, garlic, raisisns, grapes, chocolate, macadamia nuts, xylitol an artificial sweetner in a lot of human food. Lots of foods are dangerous to dogs even in very small quantities.

Plenty are ok in moderation, bits of raw carrot, meat, cooked pasta. But if a dog is getting a good complete diet it really doesn't need these but ok as a treat. Obesity is commonly seen in pet dogs who are simply fed far far to much.

My own dogs will have the odd slither of cheese or cocktail sausage for training or piece of meat or half a raw carrot to chew on but these are rare treats rather than every day diet.

Dogs have very different nutritional needs to us.

Hope that helps.

I brought home an entire tray of chicken legs from my grandfather's funeral buffet. My nan insisted as otherwise they'd be chucked away.

(Meat stripped off the bone and cooked bones thrown away, obviously).

They eat a raw/BARF diet so their food is effectively all human food anyway.

Raw chicken bones are fine and the staple part of their diet, incidentally.

I'm not sure about raw chicken bones now. I did feed wings to my Greyhound, 2 with every meal he had, so 4 per day. I stopped giving them to him after I cut my finger on his poo (now there's a sentence I never thought I'd type :o). It was that sharp I worried about what it could do to his insides.

My 'indoor dog' gets the odd slither of meat, the odd chunk of cheese or left over carrots, potato and rice/pasta.

The 'outdoor dog' gets a few more bits like cooked meat and the odd raw piece (if we have a couple of boneless chops, for example, that are about to go off he'll get them) I'd rather give him proper dog treats though but the odd 'human' food treat has never harmed him! He is a 6 yr old st bernard and is fit as a fiddle!

The vet did recommend that we give both dogs the odd raw egg to help with their coats and its worked wonders for them, they are shiny and glossy and they have one every other week!

Raw eggs? Bleurgh. I give the grund sardines in tomato sauce every couple of days, he's black and shiny like an otter, sardines do wonders for smooth, black coated dogs :o

The dogs love them! The labradoodle (indoor dog) gobbles it up quicker than anything else! I have tried the sardines with my labrador who was put down 2 yrs ago and she didn't like them at all, she loved raw eggs though! Looks like the labradoodle might be the same!!

have two shih tzus and eat human food every day, usually titbits at tea time.

I keep chickens, so my pup gets a raw egg a few times a week. He also gets meat scraps, pasta, potato, veg etc sometimes. Plus whatever he can scavange from the dishwasher.

when he was very poorly my dog would only eat tinned tuna and Almondy pudding.

Gosh, my dogs eat better than us. They get dog food, but tbh, I am not that impressed with the ingredients in most. I use it mostly for the trace elements added that I am not sure I can give them through normal food.

Mine get sardines, raw eggs, scrambled eggs, cooked chicken, duck, beef, lamb and occasionally pork. They also get chicken liver, tripe and lovely big bones from the butcher. As a treat they get salmon or tuna. I mix the meat with either pasta or rice or kibble, and occasionally with french bread if I am feeling lazy. The meal is then drizzled with extra virgin olive oil.

Lovely soft coats and excellent immunity. My dogs almost never get ticks or fleas, although we live in the country and most dogs get these despite advantix. They have strong bones and are generally super healthy.

Forgot to add, they also get carrots, especially the carrot fiber left after we have squeezed carrot juice for ourselves. And beans and occasionally broccoli, spinach and courgette. I know there is a debate about garlic, but I give them garlic in their food and it really helps, imo, with a shiny coat and resistance to worms.

mine has human food. not dog food.

raw meat, bones, veg etc. the odd raw egg.

do your dog not do the ahem "prewash" before plates go into the dishwasher

course he does. and the hoovering o the kitchen floor after toddler meals

ah yes - didnt get our dog until kids were well past that age. It must be FANTASTIC to be in a household with a toddler if you are a dog, assume they soon clock on to toddler meal times

he waits outside the kitchen gate for his 'in you come' and goes straight under the table to clear up. i remove anything that is harmful first.

Mine gets a dry dog food to keep his poops firm plus raw beef bones and various leftovers. Never any oniony sauces - I have been known to pick out lumps of meat if DD hasn't finished something and rinse them off for him. DH has a bad habit of opening a can of oily fish and leaving half of it, the dog (black and shiny, as it happens!) approves.

I've got a load of fish in the freezer which is past its best, he's going to gradually dispose of that for me.

Its a matter of balance - if there's lots of mixed leftovers, less dry food.

and the hoovering o the kitchen floor after toddler meals

DD's former nanny once commented to us that she really noticed the difference with her new charge in a dogless household how much more floorcleaning she needed to do after meals

our ddog stands directly underneath ds2 high chair. Not good when bits of spaghetti and the like land directly on top of him. Good for the bits that dont though!

Human grade fod is fine for dogs but with exceptions, dogs do not need refined carbohydrate so no cakes, biscuits, crisps etc.
Do not give human food as an extra to their diet

Raw feeding in my opinion is the best way to keep a dog healthy and happy.
So raw meat, raw bones, eggs, fish, liver etc.

Do not mix other food with kibble as kibble is a complete food.

I would say it is perfectly fine to mix human food and kibble, just cut back on the kibble. I find that human food makes my dog stronger and lean and her coat glow. Kibble makes her bulk out and gives her the trace minerals that I am not sure she is getting in normal food.

I agree that a raw diet is probably the best, but I just cannot get myself to give my dog raw meat. I tried giving her raw fish once, fresh from the fish counter, and she turned up her nose till I cooked it for three minutes on both sides, and then she wolfed it down.

MuttDog has mainly raw meat mixed with a little dry food. She has Liver at least 4 times a week. We do slightly cook it, just seal the edges - but only because of the bloody mess (literally!) when we don't.

She has tuna quite often and loves sweetcorn and carrots. She also has DD's cereal milk every morning.

If we are down our caravan she has more exercise, so she often gets pasta mixed with liver, or chicken and rice if we are running her a lot.

Duffymoon - I've got my hand up - our boxers 'job' is to get all the burnt bits off the roasting tins or pudding bowls that have been in the oven before I wash them.

They get leftover veg, rice or pasta mixed in the food but not everyday.
They definately don't get anything spicy, that would be a big 'boak' in the garden the next day.

Agree about cleaning dishes. BUT, my darling boy died from eating onions in a takeaway dish he stole, he had massive liver failure and I have been absolutely devasted and can't believe I didn't know how dangerous they were. he was 30kg as well. A bit of human food is fine though in my book, otherwise who cleans the kitchen floor?