As a pet owner where do you draw the line.........
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I love buster, but the thing i love most about him is that he's not human. He's not so complex and conceited as people as some people can be. the things i value most in our relationship is all the things that make him a dog.
i don't like seeing dogs in clothes (for warmth reasons i don't mind) i also like to see a dog walking not being carried or wheeled around, but i do know there are some people that this works for, ie: an old dog that can't go very far so has to be carried after a while.
A dog shoudl eat from its own bowl in its own spot. But should have food to eat that you don't consider absolutly disgusting.
I've been cooking dog food a few times when my friends were at home, a few times they have come up to me and gone "that smells good, what is it?" lol they look pretty disgusted when i tell them its dog food.
i don't like seeing dogs in clothes (for warmth reasons i don't mind) i also like to see a dog walking not being carried or wheeled around, but i do know there are some people that this works for, ie: an old dog that can't go very far so has to be carried after a while.
A dog shoudl eat from its own bowl in its own spot. But should have food to eat that you don't consider absolutly disgusting.
I've been cooking dog food a few times when my friends were at home, a few times they have come up to me and gone "that smells good, what is it?" lol they look pretty disgusted when i tell them its dog food.
I don't think I'm too strange. I sleep with my dogs, spend all my free time with my dogs, let Bandit ride in the passenger seat of the car, Spanky sits at the kitchen table (mind you I don't eat at it ever and he likes to sit on the chair and look out the window), feed them off my plate, if I'm in a hurry and we're all gross and icky they can shower with me too.
I don't think of my dogs as people though. I am well aware they aren't human.
I don't think of my dogs as people though. I am well aware they aren't human.
Glad I posted this topic..........pretty funny stuff! Seriously though, I definately think their is some under lying phychological issues with some people and the way they treat their dogs. Namingly my aunt's neighbor.....She is a sweet woman and all but she is a bit "off" if you know what I mean. She came to my aunts barbeque a month ago and brought her dog over who by the way is the size and width of a coffee table 
. She is very fat and a neurotic mess as you could tell with her panting heavily lying under her owners feet and at some points trembling. Her owner said she is afraid of men "So leave the d@mn dog home" is what I say. She seemed as if she could be a fear biter but showed no aggression just nervousness which still wasn't good. I told my aunt the next barbeque she has to tell her neighbor to leave the dog home because she potentially could bite someone and explained to her what a fear biter is. After that my aunt wasn't to keen on her being there. I wouldn't let my daughter go near her but she was in the pool all day anyways. Some people mean well, but in the end ruin their dogs. I nicely brought up the fact that her dog was to heavy "overweight" and what it was doing to her joints and would ultimately decrease the length of her life. She told me "she's not fat, just big boned" errrrrrrrrrr............OKAY! I left the conversation at that opcorn:
. She is very fat and a neurotic mess as you could tell with her panting heavily lying under her owners feet and at some points trembling. Her owner said she is afraid of men "So leave the d@mn dog home" is what I say. She seemed as if she could be a fear biter but showed no aggression just nervousness which still wasn't good. I told my aunt the next barbeque she has to tell her neighbor to leave the dog home because she potentially could bite someone and explained to her what a fear biter is. After that my aunt wasn't to keen on her being there. I wouldn't let my daughter go near her but she was in the pool all day anyways. Some people mean well, but in the end ruin their dogs. I nicely brought up the fact that her dog was to heavy "overweight" and what it was doing to her joints and would ultimately decrease the length of her life. She told me "she's not fat, just big boned" errrrrrrrrrr............OKAY! I left the conversation at that opcorn:
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I've let Milo have a few licks of a vanilla ice cream cone when he was a puppy. I've also slipped him a french fry or two. Last time Milo and i were in my dad's truck, we stopped for mcdonalds and my dad gave Milo a piece of the chicken strips they have there, which was fine. But after Milo had an entire strip and my dad went to feed him a SECOND i was like "um, do YOU want to clean up his vomit later?"
When we had my eskie, we'd occasionally get him just a regular kid's meal hamburger from mcdonalds. He loved him. He also enjoyed buffalo chicken (i can't imagine that was good for his tummy). He had hot dogs, grilled cheese, omlets, etc, all occasionally, and he lived just short of 16 years, playing hard until the day he died. It's all in moderation, it's fine.
well Victor thinks the next best word after GOODDOG is Burger. He gets one on the days we go to the guild right and he rides in the passenger seat. He sleeps with me, as does Mary. He thinks posing for photos (we do this to make people laff) is a hoot and yup he is styling when he does it. Costume or not. The sofa is theirs, i actually DO NOT WANT Mary on the floor because it stoves her up and makes it harder for her to walk. As to what other people do, if it doesn't harm the dog's health, and everyone is happy, then depression is lifted, health is better and it's their lives to do as they please. If it means a dog isn't sitting on a chain or in a pen i say bring it on.
To the cat stored under the sink? Any one read Hotel NewHampshire and the part where Sorrow floats? And for dear Lyric, misery loves company i sit down with about as many bottles. In fact i think we could share alot of supplements, looks like we are taking some of the same stuff. so Cheers with some milk thistle.
To the cat stored under the sink? Any one read Hotel NewHampshire and the part where Sorrow floats? And for dear Lyric, misery loves company i sit down with about as many bottles. In fact i think we could share alot of supplements, looks like we are taking some of the same stuff.
so Cheers with some milk thistle.
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Teddy goes everywhere with me.I have a backpack for when he gets tired but he is barely in it. He has a cute tshirt he wears some times and last winter I had a sweater on him when we went out.(he was still a puppy).He should not need it this winter,I do not bath with him or eat with him at the table.I do let him be a dog.He does sleep with me.
Yeah Smkie....I agree. A little bit of those things we like which aren't terrific food but snacks aren't going to hurt a dog if it's once in a while and just a little. There is nothing wrong unless it's got onion or some toxic thing for dogs in it or if a dog has a sensative tummy. These days I have to be careful because Lyric mustn't have stuff with salt or anything that would be hard on his liver. His diet is specifically formulated for that and *disclaimer* what I wrote down would NOT be good for a healthy dog. There are some things missing which dogs need but Lyric can not have on account of his liver disease. (just in case it looked yummy and someone might make it for his/her dog) Besides, it isn't even the complete thing. Amounts of things are important.
Here are the suppliments he takes. See what you are taking that is the same:
vit D
zinc
bone meal
magnesium citrate
calcium
iron chelate
fish oil
lecithin granules
L carnitine
L arginine
ester C
vit E
garlic (but that's real garlic in his food)
milk thistle with dandilion and artichoke
B Complex
Kelp
acidophilus
Some of the necessary elements are in the food. For instance selenium. Brazil nuts are a natural source of selenium so he gets the equivelent of one a day ground up. (boy do I make a mess in my kitchen when I cook this stuff and some is put through the food processor)
Plus 3 prescriptions
Oh, and I forgot to mention cilantro in his veggie mixture too. It's suppose to be good for the liver. I hate the smell of that stuff. Yuk!
So, I suppose everything is relative. Some people think I'm crazy to spend about $700.00 a month on his food/Rx (very expensive) and suppliments plus blood tests every month. But it's keeping him feeling good and keeping his liver disease under control a little bit anyhow. My daughter was aghast. I just told her, "Honey, I'd do the same for you." Hee hee hee. I know that a lot of Chazzers would also do the same and some have, but we're major dog lovers.
Here are the suppliments he takes. See what you are taking that is the same:
vit D
zinc
bone meal
magnesium citrate
calcium
iron chelate
fish oil
lecithin granules
L carnitine
L arginine
ester C
vit E
garlic (but that's real garlic in his food)
milk thistle with dandilion and artichoke
B Complex
Kelp
acidophilus
Some of the necessary elements are in the food. For instance selenium. Brazil nuts are a natural source of selenium so he gets the equivelent of one a day ground up. (boy do I make a mess in my kitchen when I cook this stuff and some is put through the food processor)
Plus 3 prescriptions
Oh, and I forgot to mention cilantro in his veggie mixture too. It's suppose to be good for the liver. I hate the smell of that stuff. Yuk!
So, I suppose everything is relative. Some people think I'm crazy to spend about $700.00 a month on his food/Rx (very expensive) and suppliments plus blood tests every month. But it's keeping him feeling good and keeping his liver disease under control a little bit anyhow. My daughter was aghast. I just told her, "Honey, I'd do the same for you." Hee hee hee. I know that a lot of Chazzers would also do the same and some have, but we're major dog lovers.
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I have never showered with my dog, I do get in the bath tub (with clothes on) to hold them sometimes when they are being bathed but we do not take a shower together. That is just really weird to me.
I have never dressed my dogs up in any clothes. I dont like it but to each their own!
I saw a show the other day on TV, it was one of those reality shows where people switch wifes for a week. Anyway, this lady bathed with her poodles EVERY single day (like they took a bubble bath). It was fairly sad because this lady had a human child and the kid said "the dogs come first" like he had accepted this is how things were. The wife made the husband pick up the dog poo (her dogs did not go outside nor really on puppy pads, they went where they were), even though the husband did not get to sleep on the bed because the wife wanted to sleep with the dogs instead.
THen when she got to the new house when she got to make her own rules, one of the rules was the would get dogs.
I take everything on reality TV with a grain of salt (since it could easily be set up & is edited however they want to edit it) but to know there are quite a few people out there like that is disturbing to me.
I do love my dogs, but they would NEVER be allowed to eat from my plate, and I am not going to have one stuffed and put under my kitchen sink.
I have never dressed my dogs up in any clothes. I dont like it but to each their own!
I saw a show the other day on TV, it was one of those reality shows where people switch wifes for a week. Anyway, this lady bathed with her poodles EVERY single day (like they took a bubble bath). It was fairly sad because this lady had a human child and the kid said "the dogs come first" like he had accepted this is how things were. The wife made the husband pick up the dog poo (her dogs did not go outside nor really on puppy pads, they went where they were), even though the husband did not get to sleep on the bed because the wife wanted to sleep with the dogs instead.
THen when she got to the new house when she got to make her own rules, one of the rules was the would get dogs.
I take everything on reality TV with a grain of salt (since it could easily be set up & is edited however they want to edit it) but to know there are quite a few people out there like that is disturbing to me.
I do love my dogs, but they would NEVER be allowed to eat from my plate, and I am not going to have one stuffed and put under my kitchen sink.
I do give Tosca some human food, but not table scraps or fast food. I mix things in with her canidae. Things like raw egg, ground turkey, cooked salmon, cottage cheese, dog food roll, yogurt, chicken breast, green beans, carrots, sweet potato, chicken broth. I feel that some of these things allow me to control her weight besides keeping mealtime more interesting. Putting just nekkid kibble down for her now is always a riot. She looks at the bowl, then she looks at me, then she looks at the bowl.....