Have you tried to share folk and plate with ur cutie?
 

its not too bad, rite?

Most people food is off limits for yorkies. Too high in fat and other bad stuff. That being said, I have fed both of mine from a spoon when they wouldn't eat any other way. DH thought I was nuts, but it worked.

Mine eat lots of human food...veggies and fruit, cottage cheese, eggs, chicken, noodles, rice...Becca and kate eat banana;s all the time...but they also eat dog foodo just as well..not picky.

I was told quote "NO NO NOOOOOOOOOO"... i am a new mommy, so i normally give my baby whatever she wants as long as is not something that's is gonna harm her... i would recommend reading about what foods are not good for your puppy and get informed about what's the right human food to give them... that way you can spoile them but make sure their health is in check... just a thought... :)

My dogs also eat people food but they also eat their own food also. They love chicken and turkey. They also get ham once in awhile. My shorkie and my yorkie love vanilla ice cream so we buy them vanilla cups.

As long as I am not eating something harmful to the dogs, they always seem to get a bite- sometimes they get it off the fork :cool:

I just want to state that my friend who fed her dog people food, which she normally would get a bite of (so it was not a new thing), on Thanksgiving. The dog got pancreatitis and DIED. The vet said it was 100% the people food that she fed the dog, dogs are not supposed to eat a lot of the foods that we eat. So pick your choices wisely!

I'd stay away from the ham. Pork is usually the greatest cause of pancreatitis in dogs and yorkies are so prone to pancreatitis it is frightening.

Good advice.

I agree with yorkieusa -- I would not feed ham to my yorkies. Maybe the tiniest little piece once in a blue moon. Ice cream is something to be careful of too. I will give mine a tiny bit of the melted ice cream scraped from the bottom of my bowl but never a whole cup! Too much lactose, which they cannot digest. Instead, buy Frosty Paws -- made for dogs and much like ice cream without the lactose.

Some may say they do this all the time, but it only takes one too many times, and pancreatitis shows its ugly head. I know this all too well as I can eat some things occasionally and then all of a sudden -- WHAM, I am sick as can be on the same food! I have chronic pancreatitis and I can tell you it is one miserable and VERY painful disease. I would not want my yorkies to have to suffer through it. So -- be careful and think about those Frosty Paws desserts made for pups. :)

BTW my first bout with pancreatitis was triggered by an Easter meal of ham along with a slice of pecan pie. I tend to be very leery of both now.

Huh define people food...mine eat meat (not red meat or pork) vegis and fruit except grapes and raisins, no grains-Dad gets busted for sneaking bread...otherwise uh no...fried foods, processed foods and dairy are not natural to dogs. I wish I could say my children ate as well as my dogs...stinking drive throughs and pizza...not to mention those school lunches...

It's not bad if it's done right. When giving meat or poultry, be very careful with fat content. Some should be skipped altogether. Some pups are lactose
intolerant and some aren't. So ice cream with set better for some.

Unless you are a really healthy eater, food from your plate probably isn't a good idea. Just depends on what you're eating.

I can't agree when people say they are totally opposed to giving people food b/c my girl may not be alive today without it. She just can't handle dog food. It is very easy to trigger pancreatitis and all of the foods that do trigger it are not known, so it is important to be very careful.

I have been meaning to ask this question for a while now, thanks for reminding me. I have 2 of the Frosty Paws cups sitting in the freezer. Is it OK for a Yorkie to have a whole one, or should I just spoon some out for Beamer and Lil Bit. (The dachsies used to eat a whole one, but they were bigger than the Yorkies)

Ellie had a Frosty Paw once. Don't remember how much she had. She threw up all evening. Thinking it was her first ever episode of pancreatitis. I thought they were cute. Ingredients are yucky. Purina product. She did better with regular ice cream. Now she gets none of it. I'd say if you are going to give Frosty Paws, don't give the whole thing.

Depending on what we have for dinner ~ I might let Lucy or Ringo lick my plate before I put it in the dishwasher.

(Sshhhh) Don't tell my germ obsessed family!

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.