It's a familiar sight to every pet owner who has sat down to a meal
with their dog in the room: Your furry friend scoots as close to the
table as he can get. His big, pitiful eyes stare longingly - first at
you, then at your plate. He licks his chops over and over again,
hoping to get just one bite of whatever you are eating. As hard as it
is not to give in to those sad, soulful eyes, there are many reasons
NOT to feed your dog table scraps.
The most obvious reason is because many of the foods that humans eat
are just not good for dogs. The best diet for a dog is a consistent
diet. Talk to your vet about how much food to give your dog, and then
feed the same amount at the same time each day. There are ways to make
his meals more interesting, such as adding gravy that is made for
dogs, without sacrificing his good health.
Dogs that eat a lot of table scraps tend to be overweight. If you are
eating a steak and want to give your dog a treat, what part of the
steak does he usually get? The fat. Eating pure fat isn't good for
your dog's weight. Dogs that are overweight have less energy and are
at greater risk for developing health problems such as cardiovascular
diseases....

http://groups.google.com/group/dogfoodmave

On Feb 24, 4:03*am, ashley ross wrote:
It's a familiar sight to every pet owner who has sat down to a meal
with their dog in the room: Your furry friend scoots as close to the
table as he can get. His big, pitiful eyes stare longingly - first at
you, then at your plate. He licks his chops over and over again,
hoping to get just one bite of whatever you are eating. As hard as it
is not to give in to those sad, soulful eyes, there are many reasons
NOT to feed your dog table scraps.
The most obvious reason is because many of the foods that humans eat
are just not good for dogs. The best diet for a dog is a consistent
diet. Talk to your vet about how much food to give your dog, and then
feed the same amount at the same time each day. There are ways to make
his meals more interesting, such as adding gravy that is made for
dogs, without sacrificing his good health.
Dogs that eat a lot of table scraps tend to be overweight. If you are
eating a steak and want to give your dog a treat, what part of the
steak does he usually get? The fat. Eating pure fat isn't good for
your dog's weight. Dogs that are overweight have less energy and are
at greater risk for developing health problems such as cardiovascular
diseases....

http://groups.google.com/group/dogfoodmave

I realize this is an old post, but........ there's nothing wrong with
giving your dog table scraps (as long as you use common sense). Fat
isn't bad for dogs, just too much fat. Fat is an important part of
their diet. I don't even feed my dogs dogfood and I don't feed at the
same time every day. I feed them when I have the time to do so.
Sometimes it's 4 in the afternoon, sometimes it's ten at night,
sometimes it's noon. All my life we've given the dogs table scraps and
I don't have fat dogs and never will. I have very athletic dogs. You
have to use common sense, if they are getting good table scraps then
you don't feed as much of their regular food.

Lauralyn
Raw fed agility dogs
Shylo, Cheyenne, Lakota, Apache

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LL wrote:
I realize this is an old post,

The guy's a spammer.
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LL wrote:
Shylo, Cheyenne,Lakota, Apache

The name "Lakota" gave me a weird image of "dog eats dog". LOL

I don't think non-Indians will get that joke.