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Uploaded By: Andrew Hawkley. Added on: 23 January 2010.
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That is interesting. Do you use any nutrition supplements such as vegedog?
I heard a story about a mexican family who were too poor to afford meat and their dogs got on fine just eating rice and beans. Added nutrients such as taurine are essential for cats but dogs seem to get on fine just eating regular human food.
I heard a story about a mexican family who were too poor to afford meat and their dogs got on fine just eating rice and beans. Added nutrients such as taurine are essential for cats but dogs seem to get on fine just eating regular human food.
My Dog is Vegan. Not that she has a clue! She'd eat anything you gave her in reality! Although not mushrooms or raw cabbage!
That's probably the best decision. I think reducing the number of ingredients a pet eats is the best approach. It is best to stick to ingredients known to work rather than testing everything under the sun. There are sites that say garlic and lemon are toxic to cats (they probably are to dogs as well). I'm just wondering how people went about finding that out. Did they feed them raw lemon and garlic and discover it burnt or stung their mouths? Personally it just wouldn't occur to me to bother with such foods.
Cats and dogs are quite similar to humans, using bulk products like wheat and soya works fine and avoiding intense flavours is recommended.
Cats and dogs are quite similar to humans, using bulk products like wheat and soya works fine and avoiding intense flavours is recommended.
I don't know enough about dog physiology to really be able to comment. I acknowledge that dogs are scavengers and when given a chance probably eat things far worse than the odd fresh grape. My own dog has on more than one occasion scoffed a bag of chocolate buttons left lying around by my daughter. In looking it up to make sure of my previous comment I also read that dogs are not supposed to have broccoli and I've given that to my dog many times. I'm not even sure how much veterinarians know about dog nutrition beyond the basics. For my own animals, however, I prefer to play it safe and avoid those few foods that seem to pop up again and again on published lists of known toxins.
Well nuts kill some humans but people with that allergy can train themselves out of it. My personal feeling on dietary evolution is that every creature should evolve their digestive system to tolerate anything. There is countless lists of things that things cats and dogs shouldn't eat but I doubt small amounts of any food do any harm. Comfrey is banned for human consumption in Australia because idiot animal testers force fed rats nothing but the herb and after a while they developed liver problems. If tomatoes were discovered today they'd probably be banned because of the bad effect they have on lab animals.
Dogs aren't supposed to eat chocolate but many owners ignorant of this theory must get away with feeding them the odd chocolate biscuit. Dogs are supposed to vomit or get diarrhea when eating it but this probably comes as a result of force feeding them nothing but the stuff in labs. Surely anybody would vomit or get diarrhea if they ate nothing but chocolate.
I knew someone who had a seriously bad reaction to bananas. If he was the test model for them I guess we wouldn't be allowed to have them now.
Dogs are individuals and one off tests cannot be relied upon. I think the "too much of anything is bad for you (and your dog)" is the philosophy to stick to.
Dogs aren't supposed to eat chocolate but many owners ignorant of this theory must get away with feeding them the odd chocolate biscuit. Dogs are supposed to vomit or get diarrhea when eating it but this probably comes as a result of force feeding them nothing but the stuff in labs. Surely anybody would vomit or get diarrhea if they ate nothing but chocolate.
I knew someone who had a seriously bad reaction to bananas. If he was the test model for them I guess we wouldn't be allowed to have them now.
Dogs are individuals and one off tests cannot be relied upon. I think the "too much of anything is bad for you (and your dog)" is the philosophy to stick to.
That is so adorable and what polite little dogs!
I did think that grapes (and raisins) were toxic to dogs, though??
I did think that grapes (and raisins) were toxic to dogs, though??
