Is it ok to serve human food to dogs

[eRobin]

I know there’s a number of things dogs can’t have and to beware of stock and things in sauces, but is it healthier for them to have mini versions of what I’m having? Could I give them a mini fish pie? Is there a cook book for dogs?

My dog ate rabbit poo today. So no. I'm pretty sure she's okay with the dog food I buy her.

Altho apparently it could be seasoned with bunny turds to enhance the flavour.

They will, but it doesn't mean they should. My black lab loves chicken and pizza crusts. Chicken makes him itchy and scratch all night, and wheat gives him a rumbly stomach and then the shits. And no, he would eat anything with onion or garlic in it without knowing it could be bad for him. Labs have been known to eat dirty nappies and plastic. Other breeds are not so food driven, but as far as I have seen will eat things like chocolate and onions etc.

My doggy has fresh mince, chicken, dog food. She is thriving.

Just make sure you keep toxic stuff out. Eg, do not give them mushrooms, plenty of info on the web of what to avoid.

Shop bought mushrooms aren't toxic to dogs.

I'd assume I'd have to be eating a very bland diet to offer my dog some of my own food every day as their main meal. Personally I don't have the time to worry about supplements etc and prefer to offer a complete food where this has been already been done for me.

No 100% no.

Butternut box.

I make my dog a big batch of broth every week which I then add a few spoons of to his meals, here’s what I put in it:

• meat (I change it weekly, could be marrow bones, turkey, lamb, chicken, or any cuts of waste from the butcher- (you need to remove ALL bones very carefully before or after cooking)
• carrots
• parsnips
• butternut squash
• peas /green beans / broccoli
• lentils / brown rice / pasta

I basically add any of the above to a croc pot with some water and I simmer it on the hob for a few hours until the meat is really soft. Then I pick out all the bones and keep it in a big Tupperware giving a bit with each meal.

You need to do some solid research on what is poisonous (grapes, chocolate, onion, all toxic to dogs amongst other things) and then you can make them something yummy!

My dog is 17, and blind and deaf with a few health issues. He literally
lives for this. It’s his favourite part of his existence 🤣♥️

if you make your dog a fish pie (no onions remember) he will thoroughly enjoy it. Agree with you that most commercial dog food is crap quality.

For the pp who mentioned eggs - yes dogs can eat eggs and they’re really good for them.
A soft boiled egg when they’re ill or under the weather is a great nutritional boost for a poorly dog. An animal shelter I know give the elderly and sick dogs a boiled egg a day (alongside veterinary treatment!!)

My dog won't touch onions, and he will eat absolutely everything if it falls down on the kitchen floor. So there's some instinct there.

Definitely not the case with mine - he will eat anything that falls on the floor, toxic or otherwise 😂

You can't rely on a dog to know what's good for them - otherwise thousands of them wouldn't end up at the vets each year having swallowed socks or tea towels or bits of plastic!

You're right... I guess onions is just a fluke, but still a nice one. But I just remembered that one time when he ate a (luckily empty) poo bag, so yeah... Hungry hippos, the lot of them.

@GelatinousDynamo - yep, mine is regularly referred to as a walking dustbin!

He seems to have a stomach of steel but we are very careful with what we have in the house, so anything he has stolen has been dog "safe" thankfully!

However I do know dogs who have become really unwell from snaffling human food so you do have to know what you're doing if you're going to home-cook their whole diet imo.

Same with one of mine - she will loiter looking for crumbs as you consume a mince pie and would pounce on any raisin to hit the deck. She once ate some homemade chocolate brownie, sending me off to the chocolate toxicity calculator.* I am sure she is secretly part Labrador...

*There is one here where you don't have to fight past cookies:
www.petmd.com/dog/chocolate-toxicity

I've used that calculator more times than I care to think, lol. He's such a gannet.