Not being a dog...
June 24th 2007 19:14
Once upon a time, dogs ate the scraps around the house. In fact, many dogs owners still give their dogs just the scraps and nothing else – and the dogs do well.
We’re baby-sitting a dog at the moment that’s not allowed to eat ‘human food.’ I suspect they don’t mean the dog isn’t allowed to eat humans, as such, though it’s fun to think that it might be allowed to. This dog has a nourishing selection of various bits and bobs that are fairly chewy, but nothing like getting ones canine teeth into a good bone. The dog has plenty of things to chew: several demolished balls and squeaky toys (doggy-type) lie around the garden. But you miss the sight of the dog getting its fangs into something really chewy, like a good juicy bone.
I can agree that dogs shouldn’t have inferior dog food, but to me, in a way, most food that comes out of a tin or a pack is inferior, even stuff that’s labeled organic dog food. I think dogs survived best when they could pick up the leftovers and then go for a good run round the yard or across the field to lose any additional calories they might have gained by eating ‘human food.’ Too many dogs nowadays are picking up ‘human diseases’ from cancers to liver complaints, from arthritis to you-name-it. Could it be that we’re just feeding them the wrong sort of stuff altogether?
And anyway, it’s boring for an animal to eat the same thing day in and day out. Well, it would be for me if I was a dog.
We’re baby-sitting a dog at the moment that’s not allowed to eat ‘human food.’ I suspect they don’t mean the dog isn’t allowed to eat humans, as such, though it’s fun to think that it might be allowed to. This dog has a nourishing selection of various bits and bobs that are fairly chewy, but nothing like getting ones canine teeth into a good bone. The dog has plenty of things to chew: several demolished balls and squeaky toys (doggy-type) lie around the garden. But you miss the sight of the dog getting its fangs into something really chewy, like a good juicy bone.
I can agree that dogs shouldn’t have inferior dog food, but to me, in a way, most food that comes out of a tin or a pack is inferior, even stuff that’s labeled organic dog food. I think dogs survived best when they could pick up the leftovers and then go for a good run round the yard or across the field to lose any additional calories they might have gained by eating ‘human food.’ Too many dogs nowadays are picking up ‘human diseases’ from cancers to liver complaints, from arthritis to you-name-it. Could it be that we’re just feeding them the wrong sort of stuff altogether?
And anyway, it’s boring for an animal to eat the same thing day in and day out. Well, it would be for me if I was a dog.
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Comment by katyzzz
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My mother diligently went through our leftovers for the dog. As there were 6 of us this was not a problem.
What do dogs eat in the wild anyway, but I do remember raw bones for the dog which he insisted on burying then taking great delight in digging it back up when it suited him.
We did have dog biscuits tho, much better looking and I suspect tastier than todays junk. I remember my father coming home late one night and helping himself to a biscuit from the tin, not realising it was the dog's tin for biscuits and complaining the next day to my mother about how hard it was. It was a great joke, lasted for years with different visitors.
I would not like to eat that dried food or that soggy mush or from a tin everyday.
It is a convenience for people nowadays. I wouldn't like to have that sort of food if I was a dog.
Great money spinner tho isn't it.
Good post, the little dog that you are minding sounds like a real pain, bad parenting I suspect.
katyzzz
Comment by mcrowl