Home-Cooked Pet Food Not Always Safe

Science Daily ^ | 4-3-2007

[jerry639]

LOL

[bannie]

I want that dog!!!! What a genius!!!

I love smart dogs...I love dogs.

[Redcloak]

You can substitute cat into pretty much any recipe that calls for chicken.

[LucyT]

What a smart dog!

Thanks for the link; I’ve sent it to a dozen people already.

[jerry639]

Reason being is most stews have onion in them and onion can kill dogs also.

Today is the first time I had heard that onions were bad for a dog. Also, did not know that grapes were bad for them. While not doubting the experts, I do have to wonder how my minature long-hair dachshund has lived to be 13 years old since she eats pieces of onion and grapes all the time. I will stop feeding it to her though.

[little jeremiah]

On another thread I mentioned we make our catfood. Anyone who wants the general recipe and a couple of links with natural supplements and medicines for animals (which we’ve tried successfully), freepmail me.

[Utilizer]

Yep. My post #12 mentions this. *smile* Learned about it many years ago and never forgot.

[berdie]

Makes me wonder. My pampered pups and kitties eat expensive food, are inoculated annually and “we” follow all the “rules”.

My animal friendly neighbor who has rescued many a pup and kitty..has enviously healthly pets who eat table scraps, cheap kibble, annual rabies shots only and the run of his yard.

Things that make you go hmmm.

[rintense]

Duke was an amazing dog. He rode my moped with me... his favorite thing in the whole wide world- other than Hershey’s kisses and dumb dumb suckers.

[miliantnutcase]

My dog ate all my Halloween candy one night- wrappers and all. We called the vet the following morning, said she would be fine because she puked it all up.

[rintense]

My dog Chloe at a whole bag of Charms Blow Pops. The only thing left were the wrappers and sticks. LOL.

[miliantnutcase]

rofl

[Slings and Arrows]

Ping!

[sweetiepiezer]

I don’t need a new dog food brand, I have no dog now. Cannot believe it, look for him all the time.

Will let others know, thank you.

You are right it was a fungus, sorry about that mistake, why wasn’t that played up more, they say 100 dogs died.

[sweetiepiezer]

Thank you very much for your kind words.
Have lost pets before but loosing him is really tough, to think it was his food.

((((hugz))))

[Don W]

Some dogs are sensitive to chocolate, some are not.

When he was 18 weeks old, my dog ate a whole Costco double chocolate, chocolate chip muffin. (I had left it on the bedstead to go to the loo.) The muffin was at least 10 ounces, and Zipperhead weighed 5 lbs at the most.

He’s 7 years old now, and just fine, although his personality changed a bit after he fell off the trestle, but that’s a whole ‘nother story.

[GOPJ]

The CMVA says a healthy recipe for dogs includes cooked meat combined with potato or rice and a mineral supplement.

Hmmmm, sounds a lot like leftovers...

[Brad’s Gramma]

I’m so very sorry to hear you lost your baby...so very sorry.

[Hildy]

I had a great AH HA moment myself with all the people who yell at me for feeding our dogs human food. We mix it up..but, honestly...once a dog gets a taste of steak, he has a hard time going back to kibbles and bits.

[tubebender]

I think you are right about feeding them young. Did that start with the natives up there? Our black Lab, Spook, recovered from the raw salmon but a few days later he became paralyzed. It was a Sunday and I called on our radio phone and the Vet was in. I thought it was the Salmon poisoning but he asked me a few questions and then told me to look between his rear legs for a Tick. Sure as heck there was a fat Tick sucking blood. I smothered it with Vicks and then removed it. A few hours later he was up and begging for us to throw a stick...