The reason you shouldn't feed your dog human food isn't because dogs and humans can't eat the same things, but because most humans have awful diets. amirite?

At least for cats i think the other reason is to prevent them from getting into the habit of jumping onto the dining table and eating foods that you left there.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

You know you've done a terrible job of training your german shepard when it leaps onto the dinner table while you're eating.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

that i can understand.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

My cats jump on the table anyway when we're not looking.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

My dad's cat does this all time. Whenever we cook chicken he jumps onto the table

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Too late. My cats already know that they can go straight to my plate and eat what they want. My cats can do no wrong so of course they can have what they want.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

what toxoplasmosis does to a mf

by Anonymous 2 years ago

That's disgusting

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Aside from the food that is actually just bad for dogs (and humans), I've always considered the notion to be because it teaches dogs bad behaviors more than anything else. If my dogs get a little scrap of meat or potato or something they get it far away from the kitchen or dining room or anywhere that I might eat food so as not to encourage begging.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Is this completely dependent on the identity of the food? or tied to the hand feeding behavior. If i share my salmon with my dog will she want salmon from me later? I don't see it as particularly problematic, though maybe a little annoying.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

my grandfather fed their 2 dobermans rice veggies and steak every day pretty much…i will always remember thinking what the hell …they eating better than me

by Anonymous 2 years ago

There was just a study that showed that the variety of a dog's diet by getting scraps is good for dogs. It wasn't that dog food is bad for dogs. It is engineered to be ideal for them. It was eating the same thing constantly is bad for dogs because their body adapts to literally process one thing. If I feed my dog the same food and give them my leftover hamburger, their stomach/bacteria don't know what to do. You should feed your dog dog food nearly all the time. But you can't SOLELY feed it dog food because it loses the ability to process anything else.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Like when you're a vegetarian for a long time and start eating meat again. It's a very unpleasant transition for your body if it forgot how to digest meat.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

No, dogs do not perspirate so they cannot handle the amount of salt in our food. Also, some of the things we eat are poisonous to dogs, e.g. onions.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

shouldn't be eating that much salt. that's exactly the point i'm making

by Anonymous 2 years ago

dogs have a shorter digestive tracts than humans so we have more time to break down food matter, we dont give dogs our food because dogs cannot physically process the type of complex carbs and fats we consume. proteins are also very hard on their stomach and liver as they age. nothing to do with quality

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I don't think dog food is all that healthy, either. Including the quality brands.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

However, if you are racing Sir Robert Falcon Scott and his ponies to the South Pole, you should definitely feed your dogs the same food you eat, so you don't have to haul several tons of hay along with you.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Also dogs have different vulnerabilities than humans. My friend works quality control at a dogfood plant and he says they regularly have meat that doesnt pass their quality standards that they ship to food processing plants for human consumption, because it failed for some type of bacteria that is harmless to humans but could kill a dog.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Dogs can eat most things we eat no problem, and it makes them healthier than just living on kibble. My grandparents (silent generation) were rural folks, had a farm\horse ranch. Lots of dogs that just showed up and got adopted. They got table scraps in their bowl just about every night. For the majority of man's relationship with dogs, they have lived off our scraps. Food was a major catalyst to domesticate them and forge our relationship with them in the first place. Wolves would follow and scavenge off our nomadic ancestors, and eventually become man's best friend.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Where I live, stray dogs eat literal garbage from trash cans. And they seem fine.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

To those of you saying that dogs have different nutritional needs, i promise you that ten thousand years ago we were eating exactly the same foods/

by Anonymous 2 years ago

U-huh. I'm sure that dogs and humans have different teeth and digestive tracks is purely for aesthetics then.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

😂😂😂 tell me more. what did domesticated dogs ten thousand years ago eat and what did humans eat.

by Anonymous 2 years ago