# Do You Dump Your Food Rejects On Your Dog? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 7, 2010, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-dump-your-food-rejects-on-your-dog/545839 "2010-07-07T12:39:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-dump-your-food-rejects-on-your-dog/545839/21 "2010-07-07T17:08:26Z")
My dog will get a bit of chicken if it’s been cooked without garlic or onions (which is actually rare), and since I’m now on a mission to fatten him back up after a med change took too much weight off of him, he’s getting a hard boiled egg (minus half the yolk) every day. (He’s wee small, not even 10 pounds now.) But generally he gets his premium dog food and he’s happy with it. ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-dump-your-food-rejects-on-your-dog/545839/22 "2010-07-07T17:12:01Z")
No. She’s had pancreatitis ( my dad gave her the fat off a giant roast once) and she has a sensitive stomach and food allergies. She gets grain-free, chicken-free, beef-free food. And she’s still fat (and yes, I walk her and try to play with her, but she just gives me that “I’m the world’s stupidest dog and have no idea what you’re trying to do” look when I do something like throw a ball for her to chase or try to run around and get her to run.). So no people food. Ever. Period. Except when she gets into the trash, which we try to avoid. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-dump-your-food-rejects-on-your-dog/545839/23 "2010-07-07T17:17:40Z")
> [@shiftless](#): > > Ideally he would never even know that human food is edible but my wife likes to share. She’s a lot nicer than me. Reverse this and you have my husband and myself. Angel never gets scraps from me: but hubby and the kiddos are a different story. Hubby is worse about it than the kids are. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-dump-your-food-rejects-on-your-dog/545839/24 "2010-07-07T17:25:09Z")
I don’t think I cook enough to have mistakes which turn into dog food. If something is rotten, I throw it out. I don’t like to give her big chunks of food with lots of preservatives. Yes, my dog gets the last bite of whatever I’m eating. Yes, occasionally I do give her people food on purpose. Mostly we’ll share carrots or crackers like **Sigmagirl** and her corgis. I also give her a piece of one slice of bread, which I keep handy in the bread bag. If I open up a bag of bread, she comes running and begs. I can’t afford to give her a whole piece each time, so I give her about 1/4 of a piece and that’s enough. Sometimes I keep stale bread on hand just for this purpose. As with most dogs, she is too cute to ignore. So I let other people give her people food. I figure if I don’t do it that much, since I have the training to ignore her begging face, she’s not too bad off if others hook her up. My dog’s not overweight, btw. Although with those big brown eyes, golden retrievers are really easy to make fat. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-dump-your-food-rejects-on-your-dog/545839/25 "2010-07-07T17:31:03Z")
Yes. My dear bride is especially bad about this. This weekend, she fed the MinPin that owns us AT THE TABLE. Sitting in a chair with her own dish. That canine-unit should be shaped like a cantaloupe on toothpicks, but she is still so active that she maintains her weight very nicely. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-dump-your-food-rejects-on-your-dog/545839/26 "2010-07-07T17:53:45Z")
Definitely not. Dogs get absolutely no people food, ever. This way they think the dry crunchy nuggets we give them are the pinnacle of flavor and deliciousness and it never occurs to them to dig through the trash or steal stuff off the counters. (It helps that they’re kind of dumb.) ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-dump-your-food-rejects-on-your-dog/545839/27 "2010-07-07T18:54:57Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > Yes. My dear bride is especially bad about this. > This weekend, she fed the MinPin that owns us AT THE TABLE. > Sitting in a chair with her own dish. > > That canine-unit should be shaped like a cantaloupe on toothpicks, but she is still so active that she maintains her weight very nicely. My husband and I have been married for 33 years now. He’s always known that I love cats, and if he feels that I don’t have enough cats, then he will get me another one. Or one will just sort of show up. However, about a year and a half ago, Bill decided that it was time for HIM to have a cat, and he was going to have a flame point Siamese, and we went down to the Humane Society. Not surprisingly, they didn’t have any flame points. They did, however, have a small orange tabby boy with white markings, and he and Bill promptly decided that they were Best Buddies. We bring the kitten home, and the next day Bill has a green burrito (beef and bean burrito, with onions and green sauce, which is hotter than a normal burrito). I wander into the TV room, where Bill is taking a bite of the burrito, and then holding it so that the kitten can take a bite. The kitten takes a bite, and gamely tries to chew it with his itty bitty baby teeth.\* I hollered at Bill, and gave the kitten some canned cat food to distract him from the burrito. Since the burrito was from Taco Bell, the canned cat food was probably of higher quality. \*Some days later on, I found a baby fang snagged in a towel. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-dump-your-food-rejects-on-your-dog/545839/28 "2010-07-07T19:05:37Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > You have a cat that SHARES? With a DOG? My cats won’t even share with other cats. I have to carefully portion out the tuna juice when I open a can of tuna. All three cats like that. However, one cat won’t touch other human food, one wants to sniff the bit of chicken or fish, while the third will happily scarf down many things that you wouldn’t think a cat would be interested in. She likes corn, asparagus, and avocado, for instance, in addition to meat. > > \ Yes, the cat is half-dog anyway, having been raised with dogs his entire life. He has no idea he’s a cat. He is quite sure that he is King of the House™, but no clue that he shouldn’t throw the dog a bone once in a while. Once I was making shrimp kebobs. I had my shrimps all nicely skewered (six bamboo skewers) and left the room for one minute. (I swear. It was only a minute.) When I returned to the kitchen, a skewer, with six shrimps on it, was missing. :dubious: A brief shakedown and search ensued. I found the cat in another room, with each dog’s snout about two inches away from his, each one happily munching on my raw shrimps. I took the skewer away and let ‘em have the shrimp, thievin’ little bastards. 😃 To this day, I am not convinced that there wasn’t a little collusion going on. I don’t know what those dogs offered in kickbacks to that cat (“You can have the sunny window for a _whole month_; just get us some shrimp!”), but they are a stealthy food-stealing machine when they team up. ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-dump-your-food-rejects-on-your-dog/545839/29 "2010-07-07T19:19:06Z")
I don’t feed my dogs and cats anything but animal products - I’m another BARF evangelist with freakishly healthy, slim, muscular senior dogs who never vomit or have diarrhea to show for it - but I don’t eat much other than animal products (and some veggies and fruit). So they get the old leftovers/pan scrapings etc that I deem appropriate for their consumption. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-dump-your-food-rejects-on-your-dog/545839/30 "2010-07-07T20:33:37Z")
I used to all the time. It would be somewhat difficult to do so now. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-dump-your-food-rejects-on-your-dog/545839/31 "2010-07-07T21:22:54Z")
Nope. Our dog has a sensitive stomach, particularly when it comes to bones (as an aside, this is the first dog or cat I ever had that didn’t eat bones.) She pukes them up. Also, black pepper causes her to get a rash. However, we do give her tablescraps mixed with her kibble. ---
**Author:** ![Minnie\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Minnie\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minnie_Luna)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-dump-your-food-rejects-on-your-dog/545839/32 "2010-07-07T23:30:02Z")
We generally do not give the dog table food when at home. When she did agility or the training classes and such, we would use chicken or hot dogs as motivation. She will get carrots as regular treats, but I buy them as much for myself as I do the dog, so I don’t consider them “people food”. The vet says they are good for her, so she can have them. She is on a high quality, grain-free diet. She is the ideal weight. If a treat falls on the floor and the kitten gets there before she does, she will let the kitten eat it and look at us for another one. The cats will not share with her and will do everything in their little kitty power to steal her treats. That was another reason we switched to carrots, the cats will not eat them. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-dump-your-food-rejects-on-your-dog/545839/33 "2010-07-07T23:41:25Z")
A few years ago, I bought some soy “bacon” and “sausages”-they were horrible! So I cooked them up and put them in my dog"s bowl… -he siffed once, took a bit, and spat it out! That dog was too smart to eat that crap. ---
**Author:** ![SevenOfTeemingMillions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@SevenOfTeemingMillions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SevenOfTeemingMillions)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-dump-your-food-rejects-on-your-dog/545839/34 "2010-07-08T05:19:02Z")
My family used to do this sometimes. With my own dogs I’ve not done this (probably because I always feed them before I prepare my own meals). ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-dump-your-food-rejects-on-your-dog/545839/35 "2010-07-08T06:36:54Z")
Not since the husky stole the cooked leg of lamb off the bench while we were waiting for the gravy to be ready. ---
**Author:** ![Chipacabra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@Chipacabra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chipacabra)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-dump-your-food-rejects-on-your-dog/545839/36 "2010-07-08T08:34:21Z")
The closest I do is when I open a can of tuna, I’ll sometimes drain the water onto the dog’s kibble. She loves the stuff. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-dump-your-food-rejects-on-your-dog/545839.md?page=1)