Do you feed your pets vegetables?
POSTED BY: Succatash
UPDATED: Monday, September 6, 2004 14:19
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Ok, I'm about to perform an experiment. I'm going to lay a piece of carrot, cauliflower, broccoli, and celery down on the kitchen floor.
I will let my female dog inside and let her choose.
Place your bets! What will she eat first? What will she eat last?
God, the suspense is killing me.
"Gott kann dich nicht vor mir beschuetzen, weil ich nicht boese bin."
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BARF diets are the best, at least as a supplement to processed foods like kibble. Think of regular pet food as being the equivalent of McDonald's--full of fillers, sugars, excess carbs, and overly processed proteins. If that were all we ate, we'd be in crappy shape, yet we expect our pets to do well on that.
I feed superpremium pet food, supplemented with pre-prepared raw meat and vegetables (i.e., I buy it pre-made, as there are several now available). I also feed raw egg, plus supplements like green foods (kelp, etc.), flaxseed oil, etc. My pets shed little if at all, and are much more active and healthy than others their ages. And my arthritic dogs are functional without being on expensive, health-destroying antiinflammatories.
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Okay, the veggies you described are fine, but a general note; NEVER FEED YOUR DOGS ONIONS, GRAPES/RAISINS OR CHOCOLATE. These foods are toxic to dogs and in sufficient quantities these items can kill.
My dogs are garbage guts and will beg for anything you have. I think the strangest thing one of my dogs has eaten is a banana. However, one of them is a carbohydrate addict. Several times she has eaten an entire loaf of bread.
Also, we had to switch cat foods due to one of our cats developing a sudden, allergic reaction to the established food. What have we done with the remainder of the old food? We keep it around as a snack for the dogs. We'll take a handful and throw it on the floor and let them search out every little piece of kibble. We call it "free range" snacking.
The more I get to know people the more I like my dogs.
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I don't know about actually feeding them vegetables as a meal but the last time my cat raided the fridge - which he did frequently before I put a lock on it - I found him halfway down the hall with a lettuce! I thought this was a bit odd since there was cheese, cold meat and other stuff in there and he made off with the lettuce. I have discovered if you actually put it in his food bowl he wont eat it but if he raids a fridge or a cupboard apparently anythings game. (And I second the whole Chocolate thing, makes them very very sick so don't give it too them)
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My (no longer with us) cat used to love spaghetti. Not just the sauce (that would've made sense; it was homemade and had lots of gound beef), but the actual pasta. He could actually slurp it, almost like a human. He was also quite fond of ice cream, and potato chips, and had been known to go after the occasional dropped cornflake.
By contrast, the first time he killed a chipmunk he didn't seem to know quite what to do, and ended up giving the thing a proper burial. 
Obviously, he was a city cat. 
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