Do you spoil your dog?

POSTED BY: OPPYH
UPDATED: Monday, March 22, 2010 21:46
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OPPYH

Friday, March 19, 2010 5:58 PM

I give my dog table scraps all the time. It's gotten so bad that when I buy fast food, I usually buy an extra cheeseburger for my dog to munch on. I know I shouldn't, but I think she enjoys the food.

Used to have a Husky that ate everything under the sun. Once she stole my bologna sandwich, and then hightailed it outside(she knew how to open doors when she wanted to run free).

Smart dog.

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MINCINGBEAST

Friday, March 19, 2010 6:14 PM

keep it up!

hell, it aint spoiling. a dog, or any pet for that matter, can do nothing to improve the quality of its life. it is totally dependent upon you for everything. hence, you have a moral oblgiation to spoil it without mercy. plus, obesity is a status symbol in the pet world.

anyway, spoiling the dog beats the alternative--which is having a deprived dog. there is no middleground.

perhaps this attitude is why both of my pet bunnies are chubby, and will probably die young of accute raisin intoxication.

GINOBIFFARONI

Friday, March 19, 2010 9:14 PM

My lab loves cheese burgers...

and sometimes after runs, I take her out for ice cream.

Last Valentines day, my wife and I made sure we brought home Prime Rib scraps for her and my two cats... and all three of them sat next to eat other on the floor and munched away on them as I cut them into small bits...

so I'd have to say... probably

Hell I thought she was a little hot last summer
so I bought her a pool

FIVVER

Saturday, March 20, 2010 4:26 AM

Just be careful with the scraps. We once had a dog that we fed scraps to all the time. One day he got sick and we took him to the vet. He looked the dog over for a couple of minutes and said, "you've been marinating meat and feeding him the leftovers". Anyway, his admonition was that dogs cannot handle highly spiced food like we can. So blander is better...

OPPYH

Saturday, March 20, 2010 7:49 AM

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Originally posted by GinoBiffaroni:
My lab loves cheese burgers...

and sometimes after runs, I take her out for ice cream.

Last Valentines day, my wife and I made sure we brought home Prime Rib scraps for her and my two cats... and all three of them sat next to eat other on the floor and munched away on them as I cut them into small bits...

so I'd have to say... probably

Hell I thought she was a little hot last summer
so I bought her a pool

CUTE DOG.

My dogs favorite 'tablescrap' foods are cheese burgers, velveta sliced cheese, and her absolute favorite.....shrimp. She goes nuts over shrimp.

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THESOMNAMBULIST

Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:19 PM

I dunno OPPYH. Tread carefully with things like cheeseburgers etc. Human food isn't supposed to be for animals. Often it's hardly fit for us! Dogs can't take alot of our foods and although they 'seem' to enjoy it often they have long term effects on your pets.

I'm pretty sure I remember my vet telling me that dogs can't digest bread very well. Certainly no chocolate and I recently heard that onions are bad for them also.

I'd get out of the habbit of giving your dog table scraps. Some oils in human food is poor nutritionally for dogs. The dogs system thinks it's fuller than it is, and they can suffer (especially when young) in growth development. Milk is also something that gives them problems when the age. It's fine when they're puppies, but when they mature they aren't able to deal with milk and so they can suffer from diarrhoea.

So I'd be careful. There are other ways to spoil your dog.

COLORADOCOMPANION

Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:58 PM

I don't have a dog to spoil. Instead I spoil my ducks, my quail and my cats.

As for giving dogs people food, the fewer carbohydrates the better. In other words, take off the bun before you give him that cheeseburger.

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ALIASSE

Saturday, March 20, 2010 11:04 PM

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Originally posted by mincingbeast:
a dog, or any pet for that matter, can do nothing to improve the quality of its life. it is totally dependent upon you for everything... both of my pet bunnies are chubby, and will probably die young of accute raisin intoxication.

And small children too in fact: how can you tell a 2-year-old, who can't even reach the counter yet, that they can't have a chocolate brownie, when you can imagine the utter anguish of not being able to help yourself to whatever you want whenever you want.

And: mb has bunnies! How do they tell you they want raisins?

OPPYH

Sunday, March 21, 2010 2:22 AM

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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
I dunno OPPYH. Tread carefully with things like cheeseburgers etc. Human food isn't supposed to be for animals. Often it's hardly fit for us! Dogs can't take alot of our foods and although they 'seem' to enjoy it often they have long term effects on your pets.

I'm pretty sure I remember my vet telling me that dogs can't digest bread very well. Certainly no chocolate and I recently heard that onions are bad for them also.

I'd get out of the habbit of giving your dog table scraps. Some oils in human food is poor nutritionally for dogs. The dogs system thinks it's fuller than it is, and they can suffer (especially when young) in growth development. Milk is also something that gives them problems when the age. It's fine when they're puppies, but when they mature they aren't able to deal with milk and so they can suffer from diarrhoea.

Yeah, I know. It may have sounded like table scraps(all the time was an inaccurate statement) is all she gets but it is more like a treat every once and a while(maybe once a week). Canned dog food and lots of water(LOTS) is her main diet.

She is healthy and gets plenty of exercise. I actually don't eat fast food that often so she is ok.

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BORIS

Sunday, March 21, 2010 10:31 AM

I don't have a dog. I have a cat well it's my parent's cat but we've been sharing digs for four years while I've been studying so he's family I'm not sure if i spoil him...Is it spoiling him when you let him sneak inside to sleep on your bed even though you know he's not allowed inside overnight due to a compulsion to spray. Was I spoiling him when I stayed awake all night to watch him and make sure he was not too stressed when he came back from the vet (after being in a bad fight) with a draining tube hanging out his side and enduring a plastic cone around his head space to stop him from pulling the drain out? is it spoiling him when I let him wrestle with me and chew on me (hard but not enough to draw blood) even though its not that pleasant an experience just because it makes him happy? Right now he's lying on the lounge room floor staring at me with his paws under his chin a-la cutesy mode willing me to go over and give him a good grooming....and I inevitably will.

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