I hate visiting people who don’t feed their dogs “human food” as if that’s not what they ate for most of their evolutionary history. “Dog food” is a modern invention.
Meat, bread, cheese, potatoes, and just about every veggie is fine though. The exceptions are short enough that most dog owners should be aware of them. Onions, chocolate, grapes, garlic, and tomatoes.
But so fucking many snotty pet owners practically brag about their dogs not eating human food or claim they get pancreatitis if they eat a pretzel.
My dogs beg politely off to the side and always get the last bite of everything.
A lot of small breeds really can’t handle the same wide variety of food that other breeds can. My husky is a garbage disposal with an iron stomach. My chipoo gets an upset tummy just being shown a picture of cheese.
Kibble is a WW2 invention, yea. But you can feed a dog human grade food without training them to beg from your table. Just like the guy above, it goes in the dog bowl, not the floor.
I feed from the table after I’m done eating and they patiently wait for it. They’re pretty smart creatures. If they fuss or whine, they don’t get the last bite.
We have cats, if they start associating human food with their food they’ll be all over the counters and tables when you turn around or up in your face when you try to eat. It’s just easier to not associate our food with theirs in their minds at all.
We give them stuff sometimes but it’s a treat, one goes absolutely mad for grocery store rotisserie chicken, and we don’t serve off our plates.
Yup. I made the mistake of trying to switch an older cat to raw food and followed the internets advice of searing the outside so to get them used to it. From that day on kitty knew anything we cooked was edible and you couldn’t turn your back for more than 10 seconds.
My dog begs because I don’t think that’s a bad thing. My dog also leaves a slice of sausage on the floor when I leave the room. Those are two very different things. I just taught him, that food is only what I give him, so he doesn’t accidentally eat anything dangerous to him.
They know when they’re handed food it’s their food. If it’s not hand fed to them, they ignore it. I’ve never had a dog steal food? I’ve had eight dogs over the past 26 years and they don’t take what isn’t theirs.
Yea that is exactly the behaviour I find undesirable. But I was raised around large dogs that could take your dinner from you. As such they were raised to have zero connection between humans eating and them eating.
I have a 110lbs Sheppard mutt that just sits there waiting to gently eat from a fork or a spoon. No barking or active begging. He enjoys the last bite and I ignore him while I’m eating.
I just teach the dog not to beg for food. If she gets any scraps it’s not when I’m eating and it goes in her bowl.
I hate visiting people who feed their dogs from the table.
I hate visiting people who don’t feed their dogs “human food” as if that’s not what they ate for most of their evolutionary history. “Dog food” is a modern invention.
but you do know that a lot of human food is not very healthy or straight up posion for dogs?
Meat, bread, cheese, potatoes, and just about every veggie is fine though. The exceptions are short enough that most dog owners should be aware of them. Onions, chocolate, grapes, garlic, and tomatoes.
But so fucking many snotty pet owners practically brag about their dogs not eating human food or claim they get pancreatitis if they eat a pretzel.
My dogs beg politely off to the side and always get the last bite of everything.
A lot of small breeds really can’t handle the same wide variety of food that other breeds can. My husky is a garbage disposal with an iron stomach. My chipoo gets an upset tummy just being shown a picture of cheese.
Have you tried giving him queso? /s
Kibble is a WW2 invention, yea. But you can feed a dog human grade food without training them to beg from your table. Just like the guy above, it goes in the dog bowl, not the floor.
I feed from the table after I’m done eating and they patiently wait for it. They’re pretty smart creatures. If they fuss or whine, they don’t get the last bite.
Yeah that’s begging and we train our animals to not to do that.
And animals that beg will also steal. People cant leave food unattended on their kitchen counter and think that’s normal or acceptable. Blows my mind.
We have cats, if they start associating human food with their food they’ll be all over the counters and tables when you turn around or up in your face when you try to eat. It’s just easier to not associate our food with theirs in their minds at all.
We give them stuff sometimes but it’s a treat, one goes absolutely mad for grocery store rotisserie chicken, and we don’t serve off our plates.
Yup. I made the mistake of trying to switch an older cat to raw food and followed the internets advice of searing the outside so to get them used to it. From that day on kitty knew anything we cooked was edible and you couldn’t turn your back for more than 10 seconds.
My dog begs because I don’t think that’s a bad thing. My dog also leaves a slice of sausage on the floor when I leave the room. Those are two very different things. I just taught him, that food is only what I give him, so he doesn’t accidentally eat anything dangerous to him.
They know when they’re handed food it’s their food. If it’s not hand fed to them, they ignore it. I’ve never had a dog steal food? I’ve had eight dogs over the past 26 years and they don’t take what isn’t theirs.
Yea that is exactly the behaviour I find undesirable. But I was raised around large dogs that could take your dinner from you. As such they were raised to have zero connection between humans eating and them eating.
I have a 110lbs Sheppard mutt that just sits there waiting to gently eat from a fork or a spoon. No barking or active begging. He enjoys the last bite and I ignore him while I’m eating.
This. Also, I’ve trained my dog to think that begging for food is done by laying down across the room, so when she is begging, it’s not annoying.
Did the same to my old Border Collie. People always said “He’s so polite, he’s not even begging.”
Oh, but he IS. You just don’t see it 😁