I can honestly say, I’ve eaten half a box of pedigree chum biscuits with absolutely no side effects…woof!
Really? Cause I knew a guy who did that, and had a really ruff time of it.
I read somewhere on the internet that eating too much dog food can result in an increase of pedestrian vs. automobile injuries. Especially when crossing the street.
Since this zombie thread is already re-animated by SWIM, I’ll feel free to run with that and add to it.
I wonder if Johnny L.A. refers to the period of Nixon’s wage/price freeze in the early 1970’s, when ranchers slaughtered their cattle because they couldn’t get enough for them to pay for raising them, and people had bumper stickers saying “I got no beef with Nixon.” It became a scandalous news meme that poor people, especially seniors, were eating dog food.
This evil, of course, would not be allowed in California. As I recall it, our legislature jumped right onto the case, and passed the necessary legislation very very quickly. They made it illegal for humans to consume any food that was not packaged specifically for human consumption. In plain English, they criminalized eating pet food. Voila! Problem solved! :smack:
I think a milkbone would be a pretty good approximation of the hardtack biscuits that 18th century sailors ate.
A crewman on the USS Constitution told me that many sailors chipped or broke their teeth on those things-most would break them up with a hammer and soak the bits in water, to soften them. As for canned dogfood-the canned beef that WWI soldiers ate (“bully beef”) was probably similar.
As a kid, at Cub Camp, the leaders pulled a fast one on us and when we went in to dinner the final night, all of our plates had three milkbones and none else. The leaders were hamming it up “MMMM!!! DINNER!!!” and dove into it enthusiastically. Naturally, all of us were grossed out, but through friendly coercion the they were able to get most of us to try of our own will, and when the last straggler or two could not be convinced, being told they would get REAL dinner when they ate the milkbones did the trick. They then served us the best dinner we had the whole time, I can’t even remember what it was, something that young boys go ape-doo for, pizza and tacos or something like that. It was awesome!
(Thanks for the shot of childhood nostalgia!:p)
Back to the point, the milkbones weren’t so bad at all, they weren’t *good * persay, but they weren’t bad either. They have a fairly rich flavour, imagine cardboard bullion soup and you will get the picture.
I’d never have a craving for one, but knowing they aren’t so bad I’ve used eating a milkbone a few times at parties and social functions to break the ice/get a laugh/whatever, and it is usually encountered with someone trying one out of curiosity, or someone saying “yeah, I eat/have eaten them before” and having one themselves to perpetuate the joke.
Stranded in the middle of nowhere, if I came across a bag of kibbles and bits, I’d eat that shazbot like it was a filet Mignon, and be very glad to have every crumb of it. Although, I would laugh at the situation and make stupid comments about having to eat dogfood the whole time.
I have never eaten wet dogfood, and pray that I never have to, as above if I were starved I would in a second, with some rue and hesitation. The smell is not exactly the greatest in the world, and I am off-put by texture a lot moreso than taste, and the way dogfood LOOKS when out of the can is very unappetizing to me.
CATFOOD, on the other hand is an entirely different story. To put it quite plainly, it STINKS. Even the dry stuff is pretty malodorous, the wet food is REPULSIVE. It’s such a strong deep smell I would have a very hard time swallowing it. The way the grease/gravy congeals on the meat (meal?) is pretty reprehensible…
I would eat it to stay alive, but it would be an awful experience, I would imagine.
The only experience I have had with a person eating catfood is: (spoilered for the squeamish)
[spoiler]When my brother was younger, he had two friends over. They were doing silly, jackassey stuff that young men often do, things like snorting rails of black pepper, taking shots of hotsauce, spoonfuls of cinnamon, you get the drift, much to my hilarious pleasure.
Anywhoo, one guy decided he’d up the ante and eat some catfood, daring the other two to follow suit, knowing it was beyond their scope. No-one agreed of course, but he decided to stay the course. I made him do it outside, which I am EXTREMELY thankful for. We head outside, he opens the can, (oh gods, I will never forget the wet, squishy sound) and digs the fork in, extracting a quite sizable chunk. Still full of bravado, he examined the piece and smiled, shocked and amused we observed as he popped it into his mouth and began to chew slightly.
His face turned IMMEDIATELY, he stopped mid chew, eyes widened, jaw slackened, the face of both absolute disgust and realization that he was in way over his head. His two friends started egging him on that he had to man up and swallow, with a concerned look he nodded no emphatically. A few more moments of badgering by my bro and his friend, he finally gave in and attempted to swallow…
…As soon as he tried to swallow, when it hit the back of his throat, he threw up extremely violently all over the driveway and himself, the remaining three of us quickly recoiling back from the event horizon.
Laughing my @$$ off, I gave him some water, paper towels, and sent his sorry self home.[/spoiler]
…from what ive read, dogfood is ok to eat cus dogs can eat pretty much anything people can eat whereas cats can’t… Only thing is dogs can’t eat vitamin c, technically you can live on dogfood but you would need to consume some sort of vitamin c to stay healthy!
Ruff.
i mean i don’t see why not.
zombie or no. lots of oils in the dry stuff so eat before the freshness date, otherwise the oils go rancid and it’s disgusting.
It’s not that dogs can’t eat vitamin C, but most animals don’t require vitamin C in their diets like we do because they have the capacity to make the vitamin C (or at least the active components that they need). Humans and some other random species lack the needed enzyme, and thus obligatory require vitamin C, at a dose that is likely higher than that found in most animal feeds.
I’d like to turn it around a bit.
Since chocolate is very bad for dogs, I see it as my duty to eat as much chocolate as I can. 
Chocolate is poisonous to us too; it’s just that we have a higher tolerance to it. A human could die from eating a large enough amount of dark chocolate.
I used to eat dog food back in the '80s. I loved doggie jerky. It was cheap and good. I also liked doggie treats. Now we used to smoke a lot of pot and were always hungary and would run out of food. I never really noticed any difference in taste. I did this for years until I got rid of my dog.
Cite?
Wherever I initially heard it was talking about how much chocolate a human would have to eat. I don’t remember but I think it was two or three pounds of dark chocolate, a very high but possible amount.
Dogs also aren’t quite as sensitive as some people think. Just a little further down that page, it says that average-size dogs suffer from theobromine poisoning after consuming almost a pound of chocolate. It doesn’t specify what kind of chocolate, but I’m guessing it’s dark chocolate. In other words, if your chihuahua eats a Hershey’s bar, you likely have a problem, but if your lab does, you likely don’t.
Also, further down it has a link to theobromine poisoning. Dogs are only about three times as sensitive to the stuff. Also, I’d have to consume about 6 kilograms of dark chocolate to hit my LD50, but only less than 200 grams to hit the lowest published toxic dose.
Cool. Thanks for the info.