p.s. If you’re one of those whose pets customarily get some leftovers from Thanksgiving dinner, take a photo and send it along. If I get a couple, I’ll post them tomorrow. (And no moralizing about not feeding animals table scraps—except for the dangerous foods that some of the readers mention below.)
Animals and leftovers
November 27, 2014 • 9:30 am
Yay! I hope there are some birds in the mix though I don’t know what you could give them as scraps 😉
My dog gets to lick all the plates & she gets gravy in her dinner when there is some. There’s nothing wrong with feeding your animal scraps they can eat – I tend to avoid giving a lot of veggies as I don’t think she digests these well. I made the mistake of giving her a small beet last week. Of course, she didn’t chew it & a couple of days later threw up the beet in the same condition she had swallowed it in! 🙂
Good move about veggies. D*gs have problems digesting certain saccharides ( like humans in fact – raffinose ) and causes them to, not to put too fine a point on it, fart. Now human farts are bad enough but d*ggie ones … pewwwwweeeeee
If you are interested in sulphides you may like this article
http://sciencenordic.com/scientists-want-make-liquid-manure-smell-bit-better
Update:
Just spoken to a friend of mine who reckons that cat farts are far, far more potent than d*g ones …
If you have psittacines (parrot family birds) you can give them just about anything. And they love poultry. 😉 Somewhere I have some pictures of Pipsqueak, the little (21 grams) Pacific Parrotlet who lived with us for 14 years, digging into a Thanksgiving turkey several orders of magnitude larger than he was. If I remember how to post pics (after all, the cat’s away), here’s Pipsqueak:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/82741306@N03/9110294454/
And here he is having a little fried rice, it looks like:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/82741306@N03/9110293698/in/photostream/
Can you find the pictures of Pipsqueak and the turkey?
What a cute bird!
http://www.lifebuzz.com/thanksgiving-dogs/
(pleeeze don’t embed…)
thank you CC
🙂 I’ll see what I can do. I can barely find my husband around here at times… Also the pics are film prints and need scanning.
Pipsqueak was a force to be reckoned with! We still miss him so much, though it’s been 6 years since he passed away.
So cute!!
Indeed he was. 🙂
Oh, now I really can’t back out of sharing turkey neck with Orson! Too bad there weren’t any gibblets, so there’s no liver and gizzards for him.
I’m sure there were. But they probably went direct to pet food without passing through your hands.
Or they went into soup – for human consumption.
Mabel the d*g would get to lick the bowl if it was used for peanut butter.
Sadly for her, we’re not having any peanut butter for dinner.
I hope this doesn’t count as moralizing, because I give my d*gs scraps, but you have to be careful because some things that are fine for people can be very dangerous for d*gs. Onions, for example.
http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/virtual-pet-behaviorist/dog-behavior/foods-are-hazardous-dogs
Chocolate…?
Chocolate is very dangerous. Also, NEVER give d*gs over-the-counter medicines like Tylenol.
Yup. The strangely named theobromine ( it contains no bromine – the name is derived from the Greek meaning, effectively, “food of the goods” (Wiki)) which is to be found in chocolate is potentially lethal for dogs. Just don’t give chocolate to dogs. You can kill them.
Cats apparently, although as sensitive to theobromine as dogs, are less likely to ingest it because they have no sweet receptors.
This thing again. but as discussed several days ago, there are many anecdotes suggesting that cats (domesticated) sometimes respond favourably to sweet-tasting foods.
More worryingly, there was a news alert going around central Scotland yesterday reporting several local cases of poisoned cats which were thought to be the result of the cats ingesting antifreeze – though it’s not clear if this was deliberate mistreatment or illegal disposal – and there was a specific claim that the animals may have been attracted to the antifreeze because of “it’s sweet taste”.
Now, that could be trash reporting, or an incorrect statement by a bobby (hopefully not repeating a vet). But I’m seeing quite a lot of comments that suggest that some cats may have a liking for something resembling our “sweet” taste.
Yes, I asssumed readers would feed their pets only stuff they’d fed them before. I’ve added a note to the original post about dangerous foods.
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Sorry! Itâs a dog. Chinese Crested. She doesnât even taste her food but is just a canine vacuum. We feed the neighborhood cat as well. No one owns her but she hangs out for a week or so and then moves on to the next house. Previous owners left her and now the neighbors all make sure sheâs taken care of.