But, the really hot water should kill any "doggie germs":)

Mine has a sanitizing cycle on it - don't know if that is standard or not.

:)Oh, we know better than that, doggies don't have germs. lol;)

As for OP, my grandparents had Pekingese they started feeding with a fork as a pup. She NEVER ate food from a bowl, would refuse for days if she had to. They finally gave up and hand fed her the rest of her life. She would eat canned food~only from a fork and refused to eat food after it touched the floor. :rolleyes:
So, I am not sure if your question means feeding food from your plate in general, or actually always using a fork to feed your pup. If feeding from plate in general, just make sure you know what foods are harmful to your pup.

http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/yor...oods-dogs.html

I fed my cat with a spoon when she was a kitten and wouldnt wean

I had the same problem with a Frosty Paw and will never give one to another pup!

My girls will eat off of a fork.

My girls eat human food a lot. Their main diet is Honest Kitchen and raw mixture, both of which are human food.

In addition, we will give them pieces of our meat as long as there is NO sauce/seasoning added yet, eggs, cheese, fruits/veggies. They get nothing with grain or nothing processed.

For ice cream, we usually use Yoghund. I split the cup into chunks and share it between my four dogs. They get it rarely.

We don't feed ham. The girls have had pork ribs though and lean ground pork.

Just remember- dog food doesn't come from any special source. It's just the parts of the animal that humans won't/can't eat.

Jackson gets alot of human food. I pretty much always give him a little bit of whatever I'm eating (noodles, rice, chicken, steak, things like that). Obviously never chocolate or anything toxic to dogs. Luckily for me, he won't eat things like potato chips, cheetos, etc... he just spits them out. So typically speaking, the only human food he eats isn't all that bad, except for pizza (he does love pizza).

He's also bigger at 15lbs and doesn't have a sensitive stomach. He's also a beggar, which could have been prevented had I not given him people food... but it's so hard in a family full of dog lovers who always give him things. If I was living by myself, it would have been easier to enforce that rule. He still willingly eats his dog food out of his bowl and stuff, so no problems there.

That isn't true. Now there are many human-grade dog foods.

Not really. They become NOT human grade as soon as they are processed in the pet food factories. The only one legally human-grade is Honest Kitchen. The rest use human grade ingredients but you cannot eat the final product so they are NOT human grade.

Regardless, the meat is still from the same source so human food alone DOES NOT cause pancreaitis. That is, if it is done right of course.

You could eat it. You just choose not to. The dry food I buy will not include pork products for certain. Feeding a dog a diet of pork chops, port roast, ham, or any fatty meat, like bacon, will certainly cause pancreatitis in time, if not immediately.

That's the if done right part :D

To late to editmy last point

The "you could eat it" is kind of a moot point. You can eat tons of things that are human foods but choose not too.

I'm not totally against kibble, not at all, but I am against the notion that you cannot feed your dog any people food. My main point was that dog food comes from the very same animals that human food comes from.

Like I said before, there is not kibble that can legally be labeled as "human grade" once the product is finished. Many premium kibbles to use human quality ingredients but the food is processed in pet food factories, which do not have the same standards as human food factories. This makes the finished product not human edible. Of course, who hasn't eaten kibble at *some* point in their life :)

I think she meant in general as she pointed out some human grade foods-she just worded poorly.
Yorkieusa I love it..."you could eat it.." technically Elmers glue adjusted their paste formula due to so many children being glue eaters! LOL!
Good point many human grade food are not dog appropriate!

On a note of hand feeding I feed mine raw fruits and vegis with meant (Stella and Chewy patties) for lunch...kibble is for breakfast and dinner here. We just went grainless fron Innova to Taste of the Wild
Also my dogs (ha ha watch they'll read this and do it):rolleyes: are trained to not eat off the floor, eat fod they "find" or take food from someone else's hand...exception being Princess foraging the apples in the yard and well she's a naughty cheater...I too have the toxic foods for dogs and another list of seizure enducing substances on my fridge...

I started the no foods off the ground from other people after having Scoobers at my daughter's softball game and catching a stranger feeding him corn nuts from behind! The nerve of some people! Feeding my dog ranch flavored corn nuts because he was so cute...idiot! Needless to say he won't take bacon from a stranger;s hand or off the floor now! I got lucky Elvis just refuses food from people to to forage period...I wonder if he was "trained" to do that like I did Scoobers.

So maybe having odd feeding practices...has justification and reasoning like with us.

:D Roxy, my westie, foraged apples off my mother in laws Christmas tree! She didn't mess with any of the other ornaments, just the apples.

Rio and Bullet are both on the small side at a little over 3 lbs. I am very concerned with pancreatitis with my little ones, so NO, I never share a fork with my furbabies. They do get healthy human treats - plain organic yogurt, apples, carrots, green beans, but never anything off my plate. They are so accustomed to not being fed while I eat, that I can sit on my couch with both of them sitting next to me and they never beg. I'm glad I've taught them to not beg, because I'm always concerned that a family member or friend might give them something that might upset their sensitive tummies. I guess if you have a larger Yorkie they might be able to tolerate table food in small amounts, but better safe than sorry.

The same here. Kacee doesn't beg and she sits next to me when I'm snacking and pays no attention. She eats the healthy veggies, too. But a larger yorkie can just as easily get pancreatitis. Being bigger doesn't protect them.