I drive to the groomers with my mother-in-law’s dog in the seat beside me. It’s a tense ride; I hate him, and he hates me, and we’re okay with that. In the loveless silence, my thoughts turn to the post-apocalyptic. I look at his little beady eyes and think to myself; if the end comes and we’re the only ones left, I’d eat you before the cornflakes in the cabinet get stale.
Then I wonder, would the little S.O.B. get me in the end if I fricassee him? I know the medications we give our horse post a warning about not using them on animals destined for consumption by humans. So how about domestic dog (in the US)? Do I need to cross them off my end of times menu?
Looking up horse medications that are “not for horses intended for human consumption” you get a variety of results with widely different active ingredients. This makes me think it is more of a licensing thing than an actual danger to people.
Off the top of my head, I can think of these classes of meds that may thwart your postAp scheme to turn your mom’s beloved pet into a real “wiener” dog: antibiotics, steroids, psychotropics, tranquilizers, hormones (includes meds to treat diabetes).
my understanding is that both onions and garlic are poison to dogs…so feed the dog some nice steak smothered in both, maybe grind it up nice and fine, then you will have a dog all nice and marinated from the inside out.
That sounds horrendously delicious. Are we going to drown it in cognac, as well? I haven’t been able to lay my hands on any ortolan, and am thinking this might work.
Or a pig, or a chicken, or a farm-raised fish, or a horse that was slaughtered in the US to be used ostensibly for dog food but its meat ends up in a European shop and sold for human consumption.:rolleyes:
The OP asked about medical substances that would prevent him from enjoying “bow-wow au jus”. I suggested a few. It is now up to the OP to check with puppykin’s doctor to determine which meds little fluffers is taking and what negative effects, if any, they might visit upon the OP should he wish to prepare “puppy chow”. That these same substances may be found routinely in other animal species raised for human consumption is, including, but not limited to: 1) not germane to the OP; 2) why many people are hygenic, as opposed to ethical, vegetarians; 3) why many people will eat only “organically” raised meat animals. However, this is a digression which may tip the thread into GD-territory, so I bid adieu.
So in answer to the OP; Barring any really strange medications, it would be the same as eating a cow, or a pig, or a chicken, or a farm raised fish, or a nice juicy horse steak in a European restaurant.
