Do you feed your pets vegetables? by Succatash

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Do you feed your pets vegetables?

POSTED BY: SUCCATASH
UPDATED: Monday, September 6, 2004 04:19
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Thursday, September 2, 2004 6:31 PM

Lately, I have started feeding my two boxer dogs vegetables. Pieces of carrot, broccoli, and cauliflower. They seem to love it.

My dogs act so hungry between their regular meals - Science Diet Large Breed Adult - and I want to give them a snack. I figure it's better than crappy supermarket dog biscuits.

Haven't found much online about this. Does anyone else feed their dog veggies?

"Gott kann dich nicht vor mir beschuetzen, weil ich nicht boese bin."

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Thursday, September 2, 2004 6:54 PM

NEEDLESEYE

I had a sheltie mutt once who would eat lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, watermelon, and pumkin.
She would steal my jack-o-lanterns at Halloween and devour them.

My current dog a Belgian shepherd is a carnivore through and through. If its not dog food, it better be raw or cooked flesh of some sort.

If your dogs like it, its certainly good for them. It's no different than if they ate grass.
Roughage keeps 'em regular.

Keeper of Jayne's goggles. 8)

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Thursday, September 2, 2004 7:11 PM

SUCCATASH

Quote:
Originally posted by needleseye:
It's no different than if they ate grass.

I've always heard that dogs eat grass to make themselves throw up, because they feel sick.

Sometimes my friends come over for dinner and they feed my dogs scraps of meat under the table. My dogs always get the Hershey Milkshake Squirts from greasy people food. But the veggies don't make them sick at all.

Sorry for the visual. But I'm starting to believe that a crunchy carrot is the best dog biscuit money can buy.

"Gott kann dich nicht vor mir beschuetzen, weil ich nicht boese bin."

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Thursday, September 2, 2004 7:48 PM

NEEDLESEYE

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I've always heard that dogs eat grass to make themselves throw up, because they feel sick.

This link sorta covers it. No one knows exactly since you can't ask the dog why. Well, maybe if you're psychic?
http://www.thepetprofessor.com/secArticles/dog/Why_do_dogs_eat_grass.a
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Squirts from greasy people food.

HEHE! Well, no greasy people food for your dogs! Only non-greasy people food. Like lean beef and chicken. Not processed stuff.
My dog was on this diet in the begining that breeders like to give their dogs called the BARF diet. (Nice name, huh?) It's all raw food.

Here's a link that has some stuff about BARF for beginners! hehehe, Ignore the cheese factor of the site and read the questions. They're pretty funny.
http://www.njboxers.com/faqs.htm

Keeper of Jayne's goggles. 8)

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Friday, September 3, 2004 6:18 PM

SUCCATASH

Thanks, that's a really cool website, despite the name BARF.

"Gott kann dich nicht vor mir beschuetzen, weil ich nicht boese bin."

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Friday, September 3, 2004 6:43 PM

PIRATEJENNY

I do alot of my shopping at the natural Food stores and they have plenty of dog and cat foods made from mostly all vegetable protein..and supplaments there's one called green barley that has the taste dogs really love...

I got that line straight off the label..

so I'm guessing its fine to feed your dogs veggies..espeically if they like'em

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Friday, September 3, 2004 7:01 PM

NEEDLESEYE

I hope you find it useful if not amusing.
At least you can get your dogs to eat Science Diet.
My dog should be named Picky. He'd rather eat the cat food than anything that says dog food on the bag. Of course, he'd eat out of the cat box too if I let him! :P
He's completely spoiled!

Cat box snacks anyone?

Keeper of Jayne's goggles. 8)

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Friday, September 3, 2004 7:19 PM

GINOBIFFARONI

I once had a Hungarian Visla which would dig up beets from the garden and eat them...

Kinda scary the first time they ran in with a purple muzzle... and cleaning him up...

" If I going to get killed for a word....
Then my word is Poon-Tang "

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Friday, September 3, 2004 7:26 PM

SUCCATASH

LOL, I can picture in slow motion -- your dog running in, beet juice dripping down it's chin. The theme of Psycho playing in the background. Scary!

"Gott kann dich nicht vor mir beschuetzen, weil ich nicht boese bin."

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Saturday, September 4, 2004 1:14 PM

MALICIOUS

Sounds more like Cujo!

My dog LOVES red, green and yellow bell peppers. He will beg for them like it's liver, or something else yucky that dogs like. He wanted to try a grape the other day, but lost interest after rolling it around on the floor like a ball.

Mal-licious

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Saturday, September 4, 2004 3:46 PM

SUCCATASH

Ok, I'm about to perform an experiment. I'm going to lay a piece of carrot, cauliflower, broccoli, and celery down on the kitchen floor.

I will let my female dog inside and let her choose.

Place your bets! What will she eat first? What will she eat last?

God, the suspense is killing me.

"Gott kann dich nicht vor mir beschuetzen, weil ich nicht boese bin."

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Saturday, September 4, 2004 7:34 PM

LEEH

BARF diets are the best, at least as a supplement to processed foods like kibble. Think of regular pet food as being the equivalent of McDonald's--full of fillers, sugars, excess carbs, and overly processed proteins. If that were all we ate, we'd be in crappy shape, yet we expect our pets to do well on that.

I feed superpremium pet food, supplemented with pre-prepared raw meat and vegetables (i.e., I buy it pre-made, as there are several now available). I also feed raw egg, plus supplements like green foods (kelp, etc.), flaxseed oil, etc. My pets shed little if at all, and are much more active and healthy than others their ages. And my arthritic dogs are functional without being on expensive, health-destroying antiinflammatories.

"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle. . . ."

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Sunday, September 5, 2004 2:02 AM

HARDWARE

Okay, the veggies you described are fine, but a general note; NEVER FEED YOUR DOGS ONIONS, GRAPES/RAISINS OR CHOCOLATE. These foods are toxic to dogs and in sufficient quantities these items can kill.

My dogs are garbage guts and will beg for anything you have. I think the strangest thing one of my dogs has eaten is a banana. However, one of them is a carbohydrate addict. Several times she has eaten an entire loaf of bread.

Also, we had to switch cat foods due to one of our cats developing a sudden, allergic reaction to the established food. What have we done with the remainder of the old food? We keep it around as a snack for the dogs. We'll take a handful and throw it on the floor and let them search out every little piece of kibble. We call it "free range" snacking.

The more I get to know people the more I like my dogs.

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Sunday, September 5, 2004 10:35 AM

MRSKBORG

I don't know about actually feeding them vegetables as a meal but the last time my cat raided the fridge - which he did frequently before I put a lock on it - I found him halfway down the hall with a lettuce! I thought this was a bit odd since there was cheese, cold meat and other stuff in there and he made off with the lettuce. I have discovered if you actually put it in his food bowl he wont eat it but if he raids a fridge or a cupboard apparently anythings game. (And I second the whole Chocolate thing, makes them very very sick so don't give it too them)

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Monday, September 6, 2004 4:19 AM

CYBERSNARK

My (no longer with us) cat used to love spaghetti. Not just the sauce (that would've made sense; it was homemade and had lots of gound beef), but the actual pasta. He could actually slurp it, almost like a human. He was also quite fond of ice cream, and potato chips, and had been known to go after the occasional dropped cornflake.

By contrast, the first time he killed a chipmunk he didn't seem to know quite what to do, and ended up giving the thing a proper burial.

Obviously, he was a city cat.

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