I'm one of those that says never feed table food. The reason for that though has to do with my toy poodle. He lived to a grand 16 years old BUT the first half of that he was not as healthy as he should have been. When I first got him I lived next door to my grandparents and he spent all day with my grandpa while I was at work. He believed in feeding his poodle straight from his plate and cooked up gizzards and livers for the dogs. Nothing was off limits with him and his babies. He also only fed canned dog food to them. Because of this, Dax (my poodle) gained way too much weight and had LP problems in one knee. Once we moved away and got him on a stricter diet, the LP problems were very minimal but he never would eat dry dog food. I believe this caused his teeth problems to be more pronounced. He had almost all his teeth removed by the time he passed away (some problems even caused infections which affected his heart) - which didn't deter him at all as far as eating was concerned - but I know that better food choices would have been better for him.
Maybe I go to the extreme now with Tatum but she ONLY eats dry food (Wellness) and is perfectly happy with it. She never begs at the table and in fact, a lot of times when we are done eating dinner, she'll sit on the floor and do her little "pick me up noise". She only wants to sit on my lap though while we are all talking. She never even tries to get at the food on the table. I really have a peeve about begging dogs so this makes me pretty happy.
I know there are many foods that YT'ers feed their little ones so you'll have to do more research here if you want to choose healthy people food to feed your pup - if that's the way you want to go.
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