Code2High
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Okay folks, here it is!
Teknomad wrote:
With dogs you have a bit more leeway but not much. However, many foods that dogs like are toxic to them including cat foods. Neither dogs nor cats should consume the following: Chocolate, coffee, tea, and other caffeine, Bones from fish, poultry, or other meat sources, Alcoholic beverages, Baby foods, Citrus oil extracts, Potato, rhubarb, and tomato leaves; potato and tomato stems, Fat trimmings, Grapes and raisins, Human vitamin supplements containing iron, Large amounts of liver, Hops, Yeast doughs, Macadamia nuts, Human vitamin supplements containing iron, Moldy or spoiled food, garbage, Milk and other dairy products, Onions and garlic (raw, cooked, or powder), Persimmons, Pits from peaches and plums, Raw eggs, Raw fish, Sugary foods, Table scraps (in large amounts), Tobacco, Bones from fish, poultry, or other meat sources, to name just a few.
Now then, we can have the debate properly, without driving our long-suffering moderator nutso by being off-topic.
I'll start! Perhaps you could tell me why baby foods are off limits?
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ccna2000
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So I guess all the wild dogs(wolves, coyotes, dingos, etc.) are in trouble. I whould bet they eat most of those things and are doing just find. My dog loves to dring whatever we drink. If you leave it sitting, she's got her nose in it.
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CA POPPY
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Well, I have always had to save the last little bit of my (black) coffee for Poquita. Since she was a pup, she's been waiting in my lap for her taste of caffeine. I get such a look if I forget and drink it all. She's 12 now and it doesn't appear to have done her any damage. Can't speak for me, though, they tell me I'm a tad hyper. 
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Our dog loves chocolate bon bons, hershey bars, and Jack Daniels with a beer chaser.
Sound wacky?
No more than the OP's post. 
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What's unsafe about raw eggs? I always thought they were safe to feed.
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MARKW8
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I believe only raw potatoes are bad for dogs. Once cooked are OK. They can't digest raw potatoes. We once had a Husky that ate an entire bag of Toll House chocolate chips. She was one sick puppy. Fortunatly she threw it all up, not so fortunatly it was three brown piles on the carpet. This happened when we weren't home.
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sue.t
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Oh, oh ... it appears we're abusing our pets.
Raw eggs ... all of our dogs enjoy raw eggs twice a week.
Dairy products ... they surely enjoy probiotic yogurt. Love cheese, and eat a fair bit of it. Only one dog has been somewhat intolerant of dairy and his stools are a bit soft when he has too much.
RAW FISH??????? Sled dogs in the far north live on salmon caught in fish traps on the rivers by their owners, to keep dog food costs down. Bones and all. The high fat is essential to these working dogs. They seem pretty healthy. Ours make do with sardines.
When our dogs catch their own meat (bunnies & birds) they eat it all ... bones, brains and livers. Sometimes there's a feather or two left over. When the cat was alive, she ate all her catches except for the livers (which I always thought odd). She lived to be almost 20.
The dogs also enjoy licking the leftover maple syrup on our plates after we've had pancakes. And all of our dogs have enjoyed a nibble of bagel with raspberry jam each morning.
We don't let them smoke or eat tobacco though.
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CatandJim
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sue.t wrote:............
When the cat was alive, she ate all her catches except for the livers (which I always thought odd). She lived to be almost 20.
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That's exactly what Goldie used to do when she was a feral cat. "She left the livers for us" is what I used to say when I found them on our back patio! LOL If she gets lucky and finds a small mouse when she's out in the backyard now she will still not eat the liver.
sue.t wrote:...........
We don't let them smoke or eat tobacco though.
I am so relieved to read that Sue! 
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When I was a kid my dog ate virtually all of that and anything else he could find. He lived to a nice old age.
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Code2High
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The raw eggs thing is a typical half-truth of the sort found on the ever repeating "dangerous foods for pets" list. Raw egg whites have an enzyme that eats up I want to say it is vitamin b-1, but I'm having a rough month and I could be off by a number there. Some dang b vitamin, anyway. What they don't tell you is that raw egg YOLKS have plenty of that vitamin to balance out the loss from the enzyme in the white. Some odd little system Mother Nature came up with for reasons we humans may never understand.
But that is the problem with those lists. They say "don't feed your dog apples" which everyone knows is stupid and ignores. What they need to say is "don't give your dog the core/seeds or let it eat apple LEAVES because that may cause a real actual problem.
It is all part of the dumbing down of not just America, but pretty much the whole world, near as I can tell.
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