Di You Feed Your Cats/pets Human Food?

[Jahulaye]

Di you feed your cats/pets human food? I’ve always been of the thinking that I don’t want my cat to adapt to human food and totally go off cat food, also I don’t want my cat jumping up on the table sideboards licking pans etc which I’ve already caught her doing, lol

There’s also the worry that I don’t want to make my cat sick by feeding her the wrong food, best case scenario is diarrhoea everywhere and the worst case is finding a feline corpse.

So do you feed your cat, dog or other pets human food, what types of food and are they now begging, have they been ill and has that turned them off their pet food?

[nailit]

I stand corrected Chris, Thanks for the vid (love ur Halloween avatar BTW...)
LOL, Woof. 'Stinking carrion'... I think that would actually be a best seller ;-)

[murraymints]

all cats kill for Dreamies !

[Togo]

No but I sometimes make a pie for "She who must be obeyed" with Pedigree Chum.













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Joking. :))

[murraymints]

puff pastry ? lol

[Tilly2]

Tilly had dried dog food. She does like fruit though, apples, pears, and the occasional bit of pineapple. Sometimes she has a plate to lick if the meal has had gravy as an accompaniment.

She also likes spaghetti.

[wolf63]

Dreamies

I have just spent the last couple of hours digging holes in Dreamies so that I can hide his steroids in them.

[DTCwordfan]

I had a labradoodle who loved macaroni cheese (of the Kraft sort) and also fresh watermelon - she would go nuts for that when one came out to be sliced up....

[DTCwordfan]

Dreamies and steroids, I'm already hallucinating, wolfie.....

[Islay]

My hounds love peaches and nectarines

[nailit]

Sorry, don't want to hijack ur thread jahulaye, but I'm actually fascinated by the posts of dogs that love fruit. My ex had a dog that loved licking the remains of a takeaway, super hot, curry. She (the dog that is...) would go and then drink a bowl full of water. Found that a bit odd, but dogs eating fruit?? Never come across it before and ive had a few dogs over the years (of the canine family...)

[Tilly2]

Nailit, all the dogs I've had, over the last thirty five years, have liked fruit.

[maggiebee]

Growing up in the 50s I can't ever remember our dogs or cats being fed from tins. Seemed to live long healthy lives on scraps and the occasional boiling of offal from the butcher's.

[maggiebee]

Just seen your post Tilly2. Try to eat a slice of melon when my cat was around and he was right up in your face trying to lick it. He also liked baked beans.

[nailit]

Scraps and offal I can understand, but fruit? Don't all dogs derive/evolve from wolves? Never seen a wolf eating a banana or tangerine.
Obviously just me, but the dogs Ive had over the years have never eaten fruit. Fascinating.

[Buenchico]

With Christmas getting ever closer, I've remembered something else which is not advisable to give to pets (especially dogs): Turkey!

No, it's not harmful to them (and they'll love it) but I wouldn't advise striking any matches for a few hours after they've farted!

;-)

[Tilly2]

It's the turkey skin that's harmful. It's poisonous for dogs.

[DTCwordfan]

Or is it the sprouts and cauliflower?

[Tilly2]

https://www.dfordog.co.uk/blog/dog-christmas-food-safe-avoid.html

[pastafreak]

Caspar( deaf noisey cat )has no interest in dreamies, though his late "sister" loved them. He eats good quality dry, and currently the only moist he finishes are the Gourmet Perle.
In the past he's liked salami and olives...in tiny doses.
Sally the lurcher doesn't do well on many biscuits so has raw doggy grade mince, and good quality trays. She has no interest in veg on their own or fruit. On occasion she gets a raw or dried chicken wing...also leftover meat. She loves pork scratching...so gets few every once in a while.

[woofgang]

Turkey skin is not poisonous to dogs! This comes up every year. The issue with turkey skin is that if its not baked to a crisp, it can be very fatty and too much fat at once of any kind can trigger pancreatitis in dogs and, IIRC in cats. Understanding this is important because the risk is from too much fat of any kind so people have been known to studiously avoid giving the dog turkey skin but given them large amounts of fat from (say) roast pork or roast beef...even chicken...in the mistaken belief that it is safe to do so. Similarly the fat balls that are hung out for birds can be very attractive to dogs and can also trigger a pancreatitis attack.