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Originally Posted by nanahas3

Originally Posted by navillusc
I am curious...besides the boxes, bottles, and bags of chemicals colored and shaped to look, smell, and taste like food, what is the "real difference" between "people food" and "dog food"...seriously? After all "dog food" came into being as a commercial, "for profit" enterprise...and has fulfilled the "for profit" part so well that there are now hundreds of thousands of pet food "products"...and there are all these recalls...and dogs getting sick and dying...and there are ingredients in those "products" which are not fit for canine or human consumption.

If I could create a "garden" or "farm" where I only grew "dog food" perhaps I'd understand the difference. However, long before there was any product called a "dog"...anything...food...biscuit, etc., there was something we just called "food" and we grew it, and hunted it, and gathered it...and we people ate it and shared it with our dogs, cats, etc., to ensure their survival, and amazingly survived the ordeal.





I am very careful with my yorkies but I will admit and please don't hang me lol, before the internet (Yes I am old lol) and before our yorkies we always had little poms. Our poms were between 4 and 5 lb babies but I like many was raised with bigger dogs in the old days who we fed table scraps to and they thrived on them. We fed our poms Eukanuba and they did great but they also ate lots of food we let them have from the table and they lived to be 15 and older. I would never feed my yorkies anything but their regular diets because now I know better but I do know accidents happen. A friend of mine has a little silky and we argue about its diet all the time because her kids leave everything around and he has ate everything from chinese food to a full jar of salsa with not even a loose stool. I still wonder if not for the internet and all the wonderful info we get now about caring for our little ones what we all would be letting them eat.

My bff had a cocker spaniel growing up. That dog would get all the table scraps. I mean everything. One she was out in the yard running around and all of a sudden seized and keeled over and died. Of course they didn't get a necropsy, but I just assumed she had a heart attack. After that they never gave their dogs scraps again.