Did the sticker read “Dogs can’t believe it’s not bacon!”?
You’re probably thinking of Triconella, a roundworm parasite that can infect pig muscle and causes a variety of problems in people.
There were bigger problems with Triconella at the turn of the century, but disease control programs in pigs and teaching the public at large to cook their meat have helped drastically reduce the problem.
Might be your parents were told not to feed raw pork to the dogs. Raw meat for any pet is not a good idea. But pork for the humans was ok because you, of course, would cook it first.
Ham may cause excessive thirst and bloat in some breeds of chihuahuas, but not the cute black and white ones who can swallow a whole piece of toast in one gulp. So I say go ahead and let gramps share his ham with me, I mean them.
do wild dogs/wolves just eat around the fat of the animals they kill, or something?
yeah, that’s what they do.
My black lab had a big ole meat bone yesterday, it wasn’t a hambone though. Nonetheless, she ripped one earlier that practically peeled paint. It had both the sound and fury components in full force. It actually startled her (the lab) and then absolutely laid waste to the living room. It was practically a neutron bomb. All the furniture was left standing, but all living things suffered and death would have been momentary if we hadn’t evacuated.
Oh yeah, she loves HAM!! Honey Baked ham especially.
I wouldn’t give a dog a lot of ham, due to the nitrates/nitrites/sugar/salt in the curing, but a little piece as an indulgent snack ought to be all right. I gave my little dog a nice chunk (along with some turkey meat) a few hours ago, and he seems fine so far.
Ham bones, like chicken bones, chip and sliver easily, which is why you aren’t supposed to give them to dogs. They can cut and perforate the GI tract.
Wolves and dogs like fat. It’s just that wild game is generally not very fatty, so they don’t get much except in unusual circumstances.
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I have a terrier/mini-schnauzer mix and he also loves ham. It gives him horrendous gas so we don’t ever give him more than a bite or two.
I asumed jz78817 was being silly. I was simply playing along.
I’m not buying it. given that much mass-market dog food is way too loaded with grains, I’m of the mind that fat normally wouldn’t be a problem if we didn’t force our (carnivorous) pets to eat the same shitty diet that we do.
I wasn’t commenting on whether or not fat might be a problem, only that wild canids do not avoid fat.
I thought he was being sarcastic. But there was nothing about your post to indicate you weren’t being serious.
My experience is that dogs do not digest ham & pork very well - you have to be prepared to let them outside immediately upon request for a few hours after feeding it to them.
But, hey, it’s Christmas.
If you had posted my post instead of me, I would surely have thought you were being sarcastic. Especially if it followed jz78817’s “question”.
You would have been wrong. I wouldn’t have posted a remark like that unless I was being serious.
Hear hear. Our Schnauzer went througha bad case of pancreatitis in 200…6, if I recall correctly. It was then that we found out that they are predisposed to have more lipids in their blood than other breeds, which apparently means that their pancreas is already working a bit harder and the tipping point for pancreatitis is lower than with other breeds. In Finland, it’s really common to get a huge spike of pancreatitis diagnoses during Christmastime because we traditionally eat ham for Christmas and dogs often get into the leftovers or the trimmings which have been thrown away. Ours had apparently gotten into the olive oil.
No, Colibri is right. Wildlife in general (herbivores in particular) is/are lean (bordering on emaciation, sometimes), with fewer opportunities to overindulge and become fat. The predators will eat everything they can, but it is low fat to begin with, and the whole carcass is being shared by more than one animal. I also don’t understand your comment to him.
Eating too much fatty food in one sitting HAS been found to be problematic and a risk factor for pancreatitis in dogs. Eating too much to end up bloating HAS been found to be a risk factor for gastric volvulus in dogs. Both of these are emergencies that vets see around holidays.
And then, being a Lab, she naturally turned around to smell it (at least every Lab I’ve ever had has done that).
They remind me of… me.
Nu, so what about latkes? Sour cream or apple sauce?