Dogs and 'people food'

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Do you feed your dogs any 'people food' either as a treat or scraps left over from dinner? Or are they strictly only eat dog food?
Just wondering as my eldest weimeraner (the one who is poorly) has always eaten what we've left or had the odd packet of crisps etc and I'm wondering if that has contributed to his liver damage now
Don't want to risk the same with my youngest one so he is strictly on dog food only (my bitch doesnt get anything except dog food)
The only exception is if they need to have chicken/ fish and rice for any reason
 
I'd be amazed if the odd bag of crisps had an effect on his liver tbh, I think most 'pet' dogs are fed tipbits at some point and as an occasional thing I can't see a problem.

My dogs eat human food ( stuff I eat ) but not rubbish so they'll have salmon steaks, diced beef etc etc and veggies with their biscuits.

I would never feed a total diet of human food though ie no dog biscuits but pasta, rice, potatoes etc etc.
 
I don't, but thats cos im greedy and eat all my food:D:D
If at work I share my oranges with my rotti she loves oranges) and never begs for food, but if you peel an orange she starts to drool:D
Other than that, maybe if there are yorkshire puddings left from sunday dinner they may get dished out. Nothing else though, I never share crisps/choc or me meal:p
 
My aunts dalmation who is sadly now deceased at the age of 15 (never had a thing wrong with her just one day couldnt get up) never ate a dog biscuit or a tin of dog food in her life. She had whatever the humans had but this was in a household where you didnt eat ready meals etc, aunt cooked meals from scratch every day, always remember making up her sunday dinner in a bowl and putting on the window sill outside to cool :) But then she also ate chocolate regularly and we know how bad that is for dogs.
 
slinkyunicorn said:
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Unless its a bacon sarnie.......;):D:D:D
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Lol, I actually thought about that in this post:D:D (cos I never feed them food they don't beg from me) hence why they where not near me at bbq and where sitting near you:D;) who was obs slipping food in on the sly:eek::rolleyes:
AND when I did tell her off and came over for her, "I got the, "oh, she is ok, she just wants to share from a certain SU":p
 
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They get scraps in their bowls (on the rare occasion I leave some :p ). My exBILs dog is fed solely on what he eats and shes a barrell but then so is he :rolleyes: My dad saves two pieces from whatever he's eating - one for each dog. You can guess which end of the table the dogs sit at :p
 
Our dogs get any raw meat/bone trimmings in their bowls as part of their meals. Occasionally they get left over meat in their kongs at bed time. That's it.

Never, ever get fed tit bit whilst we're eating & don't know what a crisp packet russell means!
 
Well I am just back from Tesco and most of the stuff I got from the meat aisle was for them :p
They're allowed to lick out yoghurt pots, get old eggs, bacon etc (that's what B is getting tonight!)
Also never allowed near the table when we are eating.
 
Oh dear. I actually buy a little bit extra when getting fish and meat, so there is a little nibble for the cats and dogs once we have finished eating.

The dogs also lick out the yogurt cartons.
 
Pretty much everything mine eat is human grade meat (perhaps not the green tripe :eek:) except the carcasses, beef bones and Prize Choice blocks, I suppose, so it's a bit of a trick question as they don't really eat dog food at all except the odd bit of Fish4Dogs.

I believe that some kinds of dog food actually cause long term damage.

They are allowed to lick yoghurt pots, eat leftover poppadoms and prawn crackers once in a blue moon, any meat/veg/eggs that has gone off, any milk left in a cereal bowl. On Sundays they have a 'takeaway' of the ends of the roast, cooked meat scraps, more meat/eggs that's about to go off, cooked veg and gravy from the kitchen at work.
 
Very rarely,we never leave anything:D, they are not allowed in the room when we are eating ,there is nothing worse than a dog that watches every mouthful:eek:

They do get the yoghurt pots to lick out but its really like giving a donkey an oat as there is hardly 2licks in there.:D
 
Hmm, well our dogs have always had bits and bobs I guess, although our older dog thinks most human food is 'poison' anyway so he doesn't tend to want human food so doesn't beg for food anyway (give him abbit rotting away in a filed though and it's gourmet!). The other dog has her 'habits' shall we say and these are falling grated cheese when you're having pasta etc (she stands by you waiting for any bits to drop on the floor) and my dad's empty muller rice pots or anything similar - she has this great knack of lying on the floor and holding them using her dew claw as a sort of thumb so it doesn't move. I certainly don't think the odd bit of human food would have a serious detrimental effect on a dog's liver to be honest, it's just one of those unfortunate illnesses.
 
My dogs only get scraps, unles we've eaten everything in which case we have a stash of dog food cans. Every dog I'd ever known had been fed on scraps it must be so expensive feeding can after can of rubbish!
 
Creatures get nowt cooked from us usually. They might have trimmed off bits of steak and crusts off pizza/sandwiches if we're feeling generous, but I don't like giving them cereal containing food.

They go to sleep on their bed while we eat, strictly no begging. I really hate dogs begging. :(

They get human grade chicken wings, yoghurt, otherwise raw food from a company.

Anything we'd normally bin like bits off cabbage or fat off a chicken goes to them as we're cooking.
 
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CaveCanem said:
Well I am just back from Tesco and most of the stuff I got from the meat aisle was for them :p
They're allowed to lick out yoghurt pots, get old eggs, bacon etc (that's what B is getting tonight!)
Also never allowed near the table when we are eating.
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If a yoghurt pot is opened in this house, Dylan can hear you doing it from outside. Dylan gets the pot, Teal gets the lid :) Like most of you lot we eat all out dinner and OH eats for two anyway. The dogs did quite well when staying with my nan as she never finishes a whole dinner. But they get whatever but not a every day occurance.

They always get egg shells too if im using them


Cayla, she also gets quite cosy if you drop the doggy biscuit tin out of the landy and the lid falls off, my OH found out ;) But Hector or Dax (not sure who) beat her to the bacon sarnie my OH was eating that morning which he left on the bonnet when he had a pee and then the sarnie was gone !!
 
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If it's any kind of meat/veg/gravy/potato or pretty much anything that will do him good or at least no real harm then it goes in his bowl. He isn't allowed it straight away mind, it's left for an hour until the excitement of 'human meal time' has worn off (dishing out dinner in our house is massively exciting because SOME people, no matter how often they are TOLD, continue to slip treats straight from their plate. Hence dog rushes from room to room and gathers everyone up as soon as 'TEA' is yelled from the kitchen. Of course, this certain person is the only one that has to suffer a dog begging treats/shoving his nose towards her food. And then she complains about that, whilst wondering why he doesn't bother to try it on with anyone else :rolleyes:).

Got to admit, I do like watching him eat his bowl of mash, gravy and sausages. The sloppy mash/gravy mix is licked up first, and then the pieces of sausage are savoured at the end.... :D:p
 
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If a yoghurt pot is opened in this house, Dylan can hear you doing it from outside. Dylan gets the pot, Teal gets the lid :) Like most of you lot we eat all out dinner and OH eats for two anyway. The dogs did quite well when staying with my nan as she never finishes a whole dinner. But they get whatever but not a every day occurance.

They always get egg shells too if im using them


Cayla, she also gets quite cosy if you drop the doggy biscuit tin out of the landy and the lid falls off, my OH found out ;) But Hector or Dax (not sure who) beat her to the bacon sarnie my OH was eating that morning which he left on the bonnet when he had a pee and then the sarnie was gone !!
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Dear lord, she must have though all her Xmas's come at once at that bbq:eek:, she obs thought mam==== NO FOOD, other people=FOOD:rolleyes::D
LMAO at the bacon sarnie:eek:
 
Yep! My boy was rather ill over summer with a pericardial effusion and after surgery he was only fed chicken, then slowly introduced his regular diet of tinned dog food and James Wellbeloved. On the Saturday/Sunday when we haven't done our weekly grocery shop yet, we'll often have brunch and he'll have any leftover scrambled egg from that - which he goes insane for! Never seen a dog like it before, his ears prick up if he hears eggs being broken :D It's always a little amount occasionally, and he absolutely loves it! He never really gets anything else though, he has his food and we have ours xx
 
Mine don't usually get table scraps. Very very rarely if there's a bit of steak left over, they MIGHT get a wee cutting from it. They do lick the yogurt pot (glad to know that it's not just me that does this!) and I will share the odd bit of popcorn now and again.

However, when I'm chopping away at the chopping board, they get the ends of the veggies (carrots, broccoli, beans etc) raw as a treat.
 
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