People Food

Good "no-no" list!
 
I give a few samples in my dog's bowl of what we eat, too.
 
I swear all of my dogs have known when it's Thanksgiving day by the smell of the turkey cooking, too! It's a day of special samples! []

Oh yeah we give people food. We're healthy eaters, but we're vegetarian so there's a limited amount of what we make for ourselves that I'd give to the dogs. But a little blue cheese rubbed on the inside of one of their hollow bones is always a crowd-pleaser. I used to cut up the rinds of cheese really tiny and put them in with the training treats. They love bread, so somtimes I'll get a small square of bread and shove it inside their kongs or bones. I buy kibble and dog treats but a lot of the other treats they get are people food.
 
Oh, and Marlowe absolutely adores kale. [8|]

Aside from the toxic list Jean posted, there's nothing wrong with giving dogs people food.  I cook for our dogs (but remove bones - they get fresh ones as treats) and whatever remains on our plates gets mixed in, again, as long as it's not toxic to them.  They get kibble for breakfast, I'm too afraid of an unbalanced diet with only home cooked. 

Growing up, mom fed our dogs people food almost exclusively, including cooked bones.  Our family mutt lived to age 22, and her Springer Spaniel to 17 or 18. 

Dog food only with one exception... a fork piece of pie each day.

It all depends on what type of people food your referring to. I feed my animals homemade pet food with some high quality kibble mixed in it to make sure that they are getting the proper nutrition. My pets get organ meats, pork, chicken, beef, brown rice, pasta, veggies, eggs, and lots more. Its better for your pets and actually cheaper. But before you do it i would research it.

to add to the toxic food list, xylitol, its in "sugar-free" candies, mints, and gums (also found in my daughters non-flouride toothpaste for some reason). i can see someone innocently giving a dog a breath mint for its stinky breath. of course dogs shouldnt eat candy to begin with, but i wont pretend that i've never given my dog a cookie or other useless item. []

People food is fine. I always try to sneak a bit of human food in my dog's bowl. My husband often prepares potatoes, rice, carrots, eggs for him, etc. I think it's a bonding experience too! He knows when you're working at it, knows there is something good brewing for him - he is always excited and well behaved... I mean before he is fed [8D]
He's never been rewarded for begging though, so he doesn't do it.

Of course never any cooked bones.

Really? Never heard. What's in a cooked bone?

Cooked bones splinter and can kill your dog! There are NO safe cooked bones!

My husband however has been caught on occasion feeding them such things as cheezits (sp?)

Ken! How can he resist though? Oh, Bun that is a great picture, I'm coming over.
My guys go to another room, on their own, when hubby and I eat, and then as a "good dog!" they get a little of whatever we are eating, unless it's something they can't have, then it's a piece of turkey bacon, their favorite. It's funny because, we always eat in the kitchen, but on the holidays even though it's just Joe and me, we eat in the dining room and they don't go to another room all the time but they do go to their mats and stay down, so maybe they can generalize when it's really important to them ,like Thanksgiving dinner lol.

Really? Never heard. What's in a cooked bone?

Tina that's any chicken, beef, pork or lamb or whatever other type of meat that has a bone, once it's cooked it  cannot be given to a dog.The meat can be given but not the bone it's attached to. The bone they eat must be raw.

Bun, look at Deva, how can a dog her size get lost in a sea of Poodles? [sm=rotfl.gif]

I feed homecooked, too. I also use bits of liver or cheese for training.

ORIGINAL: glenmar

I homecook for my crew.  Always  buy plenty of meat, fruits and veggies JUST for them.....

Ah yes, the looks I get at the meat counter when I'm buying 30lbs of meat at a time....priceless.

Mirelle is a little scavenger, and will eat anything off the floor, so when crumbs fall she'll eat them. But as far as the things I give to them....when eggs fall on the floor and break the dogs always get to lick them up, and Mirelle eats the eggshells! Good calcium, I guess. [8|] When we cut up steaks they get a treat of raw steak bones, and they like those a lot. Cassidy eats the crusts of my bread for breakfast, and sometimes pizza crusts or something like that. I don't give them any extra food in their kibble, but they do occasionally get  people food during the day, like I've said. They don't get fed from the table though, so they don't beg. It's actually kind of funny the stuff they will or won't eat. Cassidy will never lick up ketchup, even if it's covering a peice of meat. (I don't give them ketchup, because it's not good for them, but if it falls on the floor Cass still doesn't eat it.  Mirelle, on the other hand,  eats things like cauliflour, lettuce, carrots (she likes them better in small peices though).