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.

As long as Dog's not eating Human Poo, you're fine.

I am really passionate about this food because it made such a difference to the Hound of Poe - now a dear old lady of eleven that no-one expected to see her 2nd birthday!

my Mothers dogs are all super healthy and fed on BARF.

no diagnosis - she got very sick after vaccinations (so, no more of those either) and although the symptoms looked much like Addisons, she tested negative (though possibly a false neg as is not uncommon). She is very vulnerable to stress but now lives apart from other dogs, has company all day etc etc so has been well.

i would think you'd have to be getting the ethos of BARF pretty wrong to get those problems - it doesn't mean 'feed your dog any old crap' (although my dog is ever dedicated to finding 'choice' morsels of week-dead rabbit or fish whilst on walks to poison herself with)

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i don't mind shamelessly plugging them because they have been so good for my doggie!

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My dog has dried food for breakfast and leftovers for tea.

She has everything we have (no chicken/turkey bones).

It was the only way to stop her getting obese - we have to put her out or the DCs feed her their tea.

Flatbread how dare you say I am talking rubbish when you know as much about dog care to let your dog get pregnant......and think a dog has no dignity...... there are hundreds of studies that discuss the speed that kibble is digested and that is slows down the digestion rate that other foods are absorbed. I really can;t be bothered to waste time on your posts if you want to know you can find out for yourself but as usual as you are just spouting the usual bumf I will leave you to it.

No point in posting a reply I will not be around to read it

Snoopy, you are talking rubbish, I am afraid. You cannot back up your so called 'scientific claims' and frankly, it only takes common sense to know that dogs can eat kibble and normal food together, just as humans can eat food with different digestive speeds in the same meal.

Not sure how my dog getting pregnant and a neighbour's dog being needy for attention is relevant, it simply comes across as desperate as you can't make an argument.

Frankly, don't see the big deal with my dogs having pups, at least I am not pumping out litters for money. And we are taking care of our neighbour's dog. What exactly is your beef? And how is it relevant to this discussion?

I don't know how any of you manage to be so hard-hearted as to feed your babies nothing but dry kibble. How do you live with yourself when they look at you with their little sad, desperate faces every time you cook a chicken?

Cruel, cruel dog-mummies.

How would you like to live on dry bran flakes and water your whole life?

Why does every thread about feeding dogs have to end up like this, why cant we just accept that we each feed our dogs what we choose to feed them and its no one else's business.

Personally I thought you were all going to go off on one about those of us who admitted letting our dogs touch human plates, roasting tins etc.

Flatbread I guess it is fine to disagree but your manner comes across on this thread as very insulting and rude.

SnoopyKnine is correct re the digestion time of kibble and "normal" food. As kibble requires liquid to rehydrate it (hence why dogs drink more on a kibble diet) kibble can take many hours to digest. If your dog has ever been sick many hours after being fed you will see the evidence of this as kibble is regurgitated still in the kibble pieces, although a little fluffy!

This is why it is also vitally important to not exercise a dog for a couple of hours after eating kibble and also why bloat is more commonly seen in some dogs.

There has been many scientific papers on this and I have tried to link to them but they are Cambridge journals where you need to be an academic member and need permission to site them - however I will work on that if you require.

The problem with eating "normal" food at the same time is that it can ferment in the digestion system of the dogs and can and has caused nasty infections to the dogs of course not every time and not all dogs but enough for the research paper to be funded by dog food manufacturers.

Our dog used to get the gravy from a casserole poured over her dried food. Raw carrot as well, sliced up especially . When she was poorly I recall her getting given rice and cooked chicken.

On another note, she once ate a whole stollen! It was on the side in a wrapper and everything, came downstairs the next day to find part of the wrapper on the floor. Little beast.

but enough for the research paper to be funded by dog food manufacturers

And of course research funded by dog food manufacturers that states that kibble is best for dogs and not to give normal food with kibble is unbiased, of course? [ hmm] Yes please do link to this body of research or is it a single article? Would be very interested to see the data.

You do know that dogs are scavengers and hence have strong digestive systems and eat different foods at the same time? It is nonsense and irresponsible scare-mongering to state that people who feed dogs kibble and meat/vegetables at the same time are somehow poisoning their dogs!

And Snoopy was the one who was offensive and hysterical about this...if you want to feed your dog the lazy option of just kibble, fine do it. But to turn around and tell others who actually make an effort to feed their dog a thoughtful, balanced and enjoyable diet that they are poisoning their dogs is petty and stupid.

Don't take everything so personally Flatbread and don't shoot the messenger I had thought you may want to know the truth but if you want a fight then I am not the person. I was just clarifying the facts.

However you have got a bit mixed up Flatbread. It is mixing the different types of food in one meal that is the problem not giving them "normal" food. Personally my dogs would never ever be fed kibble.

Gosh you are uptight but I will explain more that the funding by the dog food manufacturers was a legal requirement to prove that kibble was not damaging dogs but the outcome was that kibble can harm dogs digestion so hardly in the dog manufacturers interest.

There are dozens if not hundreds of articles about the digestion speed of assorted foods through assorted types of dogs, and the quality and quantity of stools produced thereof. (Imagine that as a job, chief dog shit examiner!).

One of the reasons dogs have such strong digestive systems is because it's different than ours ... they don't start digestion with saliva in the mouth (hence how they can seem to inhale the food), they have much stronger stomach acid, and stuff like raw meat passes through very quickly (hence they can eat things that would make us ill with salmonella etc). So you can't make analogies based on human digestion. Since every dog is different, ymmv, but there is the potential for a problem.

It's not irresponsible to let people know that there might be an issue (it's the responsible thing to do, in fact), just as feeding kibble isn't 'the lazy option' but hopefully an informed decision about what people think is right for their dog.

I am not taking this personally, Snoopy was trying to make it personal by somehow trying to discredit me because my dog had pups (wtf? Are only puppies bred for profit/sale allowed now?)

I am not shooting the messenger, but the message. And frankly, let's see this research about dogs being poisoned by giving them kibble and normal food at the same time. Food digest at different rates, so what? We humans manage it fine, eating carbs, red meat and fat in the same meal, with very different digestive rates. We don't do 'mono-food' meals, do we?

Dogs have stomach acids that are much stronger than humans, because in nature they need to digest anything from grass to bone, at the same time. So why exactly is kibble and meat/vegetables combined in a meal 'poison' to a dog?

Let's see the data...how large was the sample size and how many dogs were poisoned by food and kibble in a meal? And is this research only funded by dog food manufactures or are there other independent studies?

I feed my dogs Royal Canin and don't see it as lazy. It is up to all of us what we feed our dogs, I freely admit to having worked for RC in the past and I am sure that no exclusive diet is perfect but my dogs eat anything they can get their paws on, sometimes we give them cooked chicken or sardines as a treat and I do agree that sardines are great for their coats. The fact is both Flatbread and Snoopy know what they are talking about in my experience from previous threads and Ithink they both agree that feeding, walking and loving your dogs in a forever home is the most important thing.

Flatbread is right about stomach acids though, I once found a part digested child's sock in a poo!