Do you feed your dog table scraps?

[seriously1]

Our new pup is 7 months. At first I said no way to table food but now I give him a few left overs of our meat and vegetables.  Then, I read how some cook dinners for their dogs so what do you do?  He is just so darn happy when he gets some of our food in his bowl but I don't want to hurt him.

[grover]

No we do not. As a result, we can eat sitting next to pup on the couch and not have him begging us for our food.

[elletr13]

We'll give him a bite, almost always in his bowl. However he does know he can lick the spoon after i put PB on my toast/in my smoothie, so as soon as I face the cabinet, he's right behind me licking his lips

[mcmel]

We do give them a bite or two of leftovers. And they always lick our yogurt cups dry. *insert embarrassed face here*

[redheadbaker]

Our dogs get "human food" (apple slices, carrot sticks, greenbeans, bananas, strawberries, etc.) but not from the table.

[starlettedir]

Randomly but not often. Left overbite of steak, our yogurt cups, and the leftover sauce of frozen Mac and cheese trays are all he gets.

Those happen maybe once ever few months

[nomad100]

Ours get people food like veggies and fruit just about every day. We throw some of what we put in our salad in their dinner bowl. They sometimes get some leftovers from our dinner but we only give it to them in their bowls. Willow gets daily meds for her Addisons and hypothyroidism and we hide them in people food (string cheese, cucumbers, etc.)

They are both walking stomachs so as soon as they even see us making food, they sit so pretty and still waiting to see if they get something in their bowls.

[hamster]

we rarely give table scraps, but he does get meat and veggie trimmings while we are preparing.

[phoeny]

Yes I feed my dog table scraps but not much.

[Dusky]

Very rarely. If she gets a bite of something she begs non-stop for the next week. I'll sometimes sneak a piece of something into her food dish when she's not in the room so she'll find a treat the next time she wanders in.

[shortcake2675]

I have a preschooler and toddler, so they get people food. I'm careful with raisins, grapes, and onions, but don't see a problem with using the dogs as a cleanup force (the command is actually cleanup) and occasionally they get chicken scraps from trimming or leftover quesadilla. Kevin is actually happy to share his food, usually giving a bite to a dog, then a bite for himself.

[Deleted]

Other than things like plain yogurt with each meal, plain steamed vegetables and apples she doesn't get any table scraps.

She gets an occasional egg too.

[everafter07]

Nope. We can't stand begging. My aunt has the WORST beggar of a dog. They feed him off of their own forks at the table and he screeches if they stop. Drives all of us batty.

They get bread once a month with their heartworm pill and they think it's the best thing EVER, haha.

[orangeblossom]

Yes, and he also gets fresh fruit and veggies from time to time. Oh, and he loves to lick the remnants of a yogurt cup.

Rachel Ray's magazine has a pet-friendly recipe every month, though I've yet to make one.

He has taken to begging more, and it is driving me crazy. He picked up the begging when visiting my dad. We're trying to break it, but it's a challenge.


ETA: when we do give him stuff, we put it in his bowl or outside depending on what it is.

[dearprudence]

My husband and I don't. My toddler tends to unintentionally by dropping food, leaving his cereal bowl on a low table, or a ceral bar on the coffee table.

I will give him "people food" (scrambled eggs, pumpkin, etc.) but those always go in the food bowl.

[nital]

My toddler drops food, and we're too lazy to pick it up, so I totally let the dogs hoover AFTER she's done eating. I just makes urge they don't eat foods with chocolate, grapes/raisens or onions.

[purrbox]

Jan 25, 2014 18:41:01 GMT -5 grover said:

No we do not. As a result, we can eat sitting next to pup on the couch and not have him begging us for our food.

This used to be our dog, until we started giving her some of the food we were eating.

[RoxMonster]

We don't feed table scraps. We will sometimes cook up some plain chicken or beef extra for her while we make dinner and put that in her food bowl, but otherwise she only eats treats and food make for dogs.

[christy082]

We don't give her anything from our plates. Occasionally she'll get a few bites of chicken, either in her bowl or we have her sit and give it to her. And apparently we are clumsy because she's always in the kitchen waiting for us to drop something, which we usually then let her eat.

[havenotmetyouyet]

at first we never did and he still begged...it ws amazing...uuh, now we do but not just anything,...I always give him leftover vegetables, sometimes meat or eggs...he goes nuts for brussel sprouts