Posted on 11/22/2019 2:24:32 PM PST by Red Badger
Turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie, all the scents of Thanksgiving food will have your family rushing to the table, even your pets.
Per owners may be feel tempted to treat their pets to some of the leftover but Dr. Michael Mongue with Pace Veterinary Clinic said you really will do more harm than good if you feed them human food.
"Their physiology is different, a dog is not a small human or a regular size human and the way they digest food and their whole system is different than humans," said Dr. Mongue.
Many of the foods we enjoy can be dangerous and even toxic to our pets.
Dr. Mongue said pet owners should not give their dogs or cats...
Fat Trimmings or fatty foods
Turkey skin
Turkey bones
Corn on the cob
Chocolate
Nuts
Grapes and Raisins
Onions and Garlic
"Onions are toxic and could lead to anemia in dogs," Dr. Mongue said.
When your four-legged friends eat these human food they may experience diarrhea, vomiting, pancreatitis and liver damage.
“It could lead to surgery right if they eat a bone it gets impacted into their GI track," Dr. Mongue said.
So what can we give our four-legged friends?
"Really probably the best thing is to stick with dog food and don't give them anything else, if you have to do something maybe a morsel of turkey," Dr. Mongue said.
Especially when he gets a whole turkey.
Oh. Thanks. I’ll never remember that. I’ll just call it her chin.
That is the bone. Not normally visible.
You'd feed a beloved pet Alexandra Chalupa? Expect a visit from the ASPCA any day now.
The nonstick cookware has to get to 500 degrees to outgas, which is where people lose their birds, and it is deadly to them. People forget a pan on the stove and all the water gets cooked out of it and then it outgasses if the temp is high enough. You can use it quite safely if you don’t cook a pan dry at 500 degrees, but if you are forgetful it is better to be safe than sorry and move the birds outside or choose a different pan. Or you can use old Teflon that’s long been outgassed already. I’ve used Teflon just fine with no losses to birds, but as a precaution when using a new pan the birds go outside.
But Teflon’s not just found in pans ... toasters have it, hair dryers can have it. It shows up in odd things, so be careful.
Our birds have their own room; it’s right next to the kitchen, but the door is always closed because we also have two cats. We use nonstick cookware all the time, and it has never bothered the birds because they aren’t exposed.
Except for one Budgie that I had for a few years, I don’t keep exotic birds, and maybe it’s different with those; but I’ve had wild sparrows that lived ten years, and two pigeons now that are going on ten. You just have to keep them isolated from the area where you are cooking.
Why the no fat trimmings?
Also don’t see a problem with turkey skin but maybe I’m missing something.
Seems like the rest are commonly known no no’s for pets any time of the year.
When you see the ingredients in dog food it makes you wonder about giving them delicious baked turkey. You know that through all kinds of parts and pieces into that gruel.
My cat is picky....Turkey only....
Throw not through.
They forgot Oat Bran!
Dogs in the wild would NEVER eat Turkey. /s
I give my cats bits of the meat, chicken or fish I’m having for dinner sometimes-just a few little bits in their bowls-the only other human food they get is to lick the sides of the 1-serving size yogurt container after I eat the yogurt for breakfast-my vet thinks that is okay as long as it is not a spoonful of yogurt or a whole bowl of meat-I gave my Siberian Husky the same things all her life and she lived to be nearly 18-so I guess it is okay...
“Dogs in my childhood and earlier survived almost solely off of table scraps and appeared in some ways to be healthier than modern dogs.”
Meat and vegetables are good for them.
Heavy starches can be tolerated in small amounts, but it’s better than starving.
Most other stuff you should pass on.
give kitty some turkey, cut up into small pieces
Loves it
Yknow that little barrel of liquor on a St Bernards neck? Despite the stories we are told, Im beginning to suspect that the barrel is the animals personal stash. Of all of the dogs Ive owned through the years, the St Bernards and Newfs (descendant in part from Bernards) are the ones always seeking liquor to the point of not just drinking what is in an unsupervised glass but to the point of trying to steal a bottle including carrying off bottles of beer. The other dogs have shown no interest or actual revulsion.
They get a little taste of anything I’m having that isn’t known to be harmful to dogs. They get meat scraps but not bones. Other than that, it’s a decent lamb and rice dogfood, one of them is apparently allergic to corn, which he doesn’t get in any form.
One of my St Bernards had a rather unusual ability. I could put a loaded taco in her mouth and after a few moments of crunching and swirling she would spit out just “clean” lettuce. I swear its the truth. Try it yourself, its impossible. I have no idea how she did it.
My cat is partial to a nice dry Chardonnay, maybe a Cabernet or Shiraz from time to time, but he prefers dry white wine. He even makes the weird breathing in face (Flehmen) every once in a while. I was going to video it, but figured weirdo animal people would yell at me so nope!
It just seems wrong to invite your birds to turkey dinner.
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