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Post by Really Red on Dec 28, 2018 4:49:00 GMT
No licking, but we do give people food now and then. Funny story. I took out my diamond earrings one night and put them on my nightstand safely pushed under the lamp. My dog was a pup at the time and there was also an empty bowl of popcorn on the table. I guess the smell was too much for the pup and we all know where this is going. Two days later, I realize one of my earrings is missing. They were my mother's and my dad had them hand made for her. I looked for hours. Finally I told my husband to start collecting the dog's pooh in bags and I would start checking. He brought one home later that morning and low and behold, there was my earring in the poo and tons of peanuts. "We" weren't feeding the pup any people food, so my husband was busted for giving him treats when I wasn't there. On the positive side, I was so happy to have that smelly earring back I didn't care. Haha. Who had to clean the earring?
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Post by 950nancy on Dec 28, 2018 5:03:28 GMT
No licking, but we do give people food now and then. Funny story. I took out my diamond earrings one night and put them on my nightstand safely pushed under the lamp. My dog was a pup at the time and there was also an empty bowl of popcorn on the table. I guess the smell was too much for the pup and we all know where this is going. Two days later, I realize one of my earrings is missing. They were my mother's and my dad had them hand made for her. I looked for hours. Finally I told my husband to start collecting the dog's pooh in bags and I would start checking. He brought one home later that morning and low and behold, there was my earring in the poo and tons of peanuts. "We" weren't feeding the pup any people food, so my husband was busted for giving him treats when I wasn't there. On the positive side, I was so happy to have that smelly earring back I didn't care. Haha. Who had to clean the earring? It went to the jeweler who made me give him both of them so I'd never know which one was the crappy earring. I have worn these earrings for 30 years and love them dearly.
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Post by alexa11 on Dec 28, 2018 5:45:21 GMT
As I posted in the other thread, Louis licks the oatmeal bowl a couple of times a week. He always gets the a little of the meat I cook, which is chicken most of the time. He eats that with his dog food and maybe a few veggies. He's 14 1/2 and has never turned up his nose at his dog food after eating table food.
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Post by AngieandSnoopy on Dec 28, 2018 6:29:30 GMT
Haha. Who had to clean the earring? It went to the jeweler who made me give him both of them so I'd never know which one was the crappy earring. I have worn these earrings for 30 years and love them dearly. HOW much did you have to PAY said jeweler?
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Dec 28, 2018 7:17:46 GMT
Aw that's not fair. I don't have a pet so I can't vote, but I wanna see the results! Pleeeease can you change the poll Gennifer?
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Post by Gennifer on Dec 28, 2018 7:24:28 GMT
Aw that's not fair. I don't have a pet so I can't vote, but I wanna see the results! Pleeeease can you change the poll Gennifer ? I don't think I can! Vote for "my pet does whatever the hell he wants!"
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Post by J u l e e on Dec 28, 2018 11:45:59 GMT
My dog is getting old and we no longer enforce her manners like we used to. She used to have to sit on her bed anytime any of us were in the kitchen or at the table. She is a super polite beggar though. Sits like a statue and stares. She doesn't pace or whine. She is such a sweet dog that we let her sneak off her bed and pretend not to notice. I give her bits of carrot or apple when I'm making dinner or packing lunches. It makes her so happy and I like making her happy. Same with occasionally licking plates.
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Post by gar on Dec 28, 2018 12:44:26 GMT
Aw that's not fair. I don't have a pet so I can't vote, but I wanna see the results! Pleeeease can you change the poll Gennifer? Are you trying to guess what percentage of your friends with dogs let them do it and weighing up the odds of you having eaten off a dog-licked plate?! 😀
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Post by purplebee on Dec 28, 2018 14:00:10 GMT
My little Chihuahua licks plates before they go in the dishwasher, and sometimes gets a bit of people food on the licked plates. None of my indoor dogs (only have the Chi at the moment) have ever licked stuff loaded in the DW. Big outside dog occasionally gets leftover meat table scraps/broth or gravy on her dry kibble, but not often.
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Post by kate on Dec 28, 2018 14:13:18 GMT
Mine has food allergies, so the consequences of people food are swift and gross. She only gets dog food/treats from her special diet.
Begging dogs drive me a little crazy, and my family is a bunch of softies, so it's probably better that we have a dog that we can't feed! That said, I don't judge what other people do with their pets. À chacun son goût...
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Post by johnnysmom on Dec 28, 2018 14:45:53 GMT
So, those who give people food: do your pets only take it when you give it to them? Or will they eat anything they can get to? Remi is a puppy (almost a year old) and a lab. So basically he's completely untrustworthy For the most part he's been trained to leave stuff alone however he's an opportunist so if he thinks he'll get away with it I'm assuming he'll try. We've got him to stop getting stuff from the counters, we can finally leave the dish towel on the hook in front of the sink and there's currently a partial pack of hamburger buns he could easily get to but he hasn't bothered them (that wasn't always the case). But we guarded the Christmas roast after taking it out of the oven, if we're eating in the family room and get up to get a drink we take our plate with, etc; he might leave it alone but there are times we don't want to risk it. We also don't allow ds8 to eat on the family room couch without one of us right next to him; he can eat at the table, in the kitchen, or in the front room (where there's a door and Remi isn't allowed....it's the boys' hangout space); I don't think Remi would try anything but I don't want ds to be between 60lbs of muscle and food he wants.
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Post by 950nancy on Dec 28, 2018 15:55:20 GMT
It went to the jeweler who made me give him both of them so I'd never know which one was the crappy earring. I have worn these earrings for 30 years and love them dearly. HOW much did you have to PAY said jeweler? He's made/fixed a few things for me (local guy in small shop) and just dropped them in his cleaner and ran them through a few times. They have a gold band that surrounds them with a little space between the diamond and the gold. Lots of room for "cling-ons." I have worn them for years since and never had an ear infection. Now the story just makes me laugh.
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Post by shamrock on Dec 28, 2018 16:23:57 GMT
I voted that my dog doesn’t lick plates but we give people food. She doesn’t get much people food. We’ll toss here a couple pieces of popcorn when we are all eating it. She LOVES popcorn. DH will give her a bit of steak sometimes if the boys don’t finish it all. The amount of people food is very very little.
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Post by schizo319 on Dec 28, 2018 16:33:56 GMT
So, those who give people food: do your pets only take it when you give it to them? Or will they eat anything they can get to? Our dogs only take what's given to them (within reason - I'm sure an unsupervised steak on the coffee table probably wouldn't make it too long before one of them caved and stole it). When we eat, they go to their respective spots and are not allowed to beg - if they forget their manners, they're removed from the area. We taught them the "Leave It" command pretty early, so I can set a treat (human or animal) in front of them and they won't touch it until I say "Ok, get it". One of us typically saves a "bite" for each dog after we finish eating, last night they each got a small piece of bread about the size of a pencil eraser.
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Post by KikiPea on Dec 28, 2018 16:45:20 GMT
I chose this: No, my pet doesn’t lick dishes, but yes, we give people food.
We do give our pups people food, but only foods that are good for them like baked chicken, scrambled eggs, blueberries, banana, apple, carrots, green beans, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, but very rarely as a special treat. Wili is super picky, and may eat these things one day, but not the next. CrazyJ eats all of these things when offered, as well as spinach and ice. He'd eat everything if we'd let him.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Dec 28, 2018 16:47:45 GMT
no to licking, but yes to occasional small tastes of people food. Tiny pieces-- like a slice of banana cut into thirds- 1/3 for each dog; a teeny piece of celery, baby carrot, or cucumber; a few shreds of mozzarella cheese; a lick of yogurt from my finger when I clean out a container-- things like that.
(and since one of our dogs is missing all of her teeth except for her canines, depending on the food, I will also sort of 'pre-chew' the food a bit for her, too-- like if it's a piece of celery, for example. Judge away. If you'd chop up the food for your 90 year old grandma with no teeth, then this is the same thing.)
ETA: they only take people food that we give them, with two exceptions- years ago now, Bisbee stole a baloney sandwich off of my unattended plate sitting on the ottoman; after Thanksgiving this year, Prescott tried to swipe the leftover turkey leg-- also from an unattended plate on the ottoman. And I blame THAT one on DH!!! We don't usually have turkey (we have duck), so I guess the smell of turkey was too much for him!
and yes, "Leave it" and "wait" and then "okay" (to eat) is one of the first things we taught them... they do pretty good with it most of the time.
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 28, 2018 16:59:26 GMT
We have two 17 year old rescue dogs and they eat a lot of people food. I occasionally catch my husband letting them lick his plate. I always scold my husband but he is as incorrigible as my dogs.
Over the years, my dogs have broken into the pantry and eaten all kinds of things which are bad for them, but they have never gotten sick. They once ate an entire bag of chocolate chips w/out incident. The big dog once knocked a fruitcake tin off our stairway bannister (my husband got it as a joke and left it on the bannister when he got home and forgot about it). The dogs managed to get the fruitcake out of the tin and out of its wrapping. They ate the whole 5 lb. fruitcake before we discovered what they had done. Neither dog got sick.
I know dogs shouldn't eat people food, and certainly shouldn't eat chocolate chips and fruitcake, but my dogs have lived to be 17. We still go on a long walk everyday and they still have most of their teeth. I guess they both have good genes.
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Post by PEAcan pie on Dec 28, 2018 17:27:35 GMT
no to licking plates I do sometimes dice up some rotisserie chicken put it in cow hooves, pack wet dog food over the chicken and freeze it for a treat. once in a while a little bit of cheese. Or I will take steak juice and put it on their kibble. But that is pretty much it.
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Post by scorpeao on Dec 28, 2018 18:19:05 GMT
I will give my dog table scraps, but only after we are finished eating and she has to sit nicely at her dish before she's allowed to eat it. I also let her lick sour cream, yogurt, cottage cheese, etc containers before I put them in the recycle bin.
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Post by alsomsknit on Dec 28, 2018 19:34:47 GMT
So, those who give people food: do your pets only take it when you give it to them? Or will they eat anything they can get to? Usually, only what is given to her. However, she loses all sense when it comes to cake. Lost a cake and a layer on two separate occasions. It’s odd because we have never had issues with her countersurfing, though she is obviously big enough to do so.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Dec 28, 2018 19:56:55 GMT
Aw that's not fair. I don't have a pet so I can't vote, but I wanna see the results! Pleeeease can you change the poll Gennifer ? Are you trying to guess what percentage of your friends with dogs let them do it and weighing up the odds of you having eaten off a dog-licked plate?! 😀 Haha! As most of my friends have neither dogs nor dishwashers, it isn't an issue. I was just curious!
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Dec 28, 2018 20:00:29 GMT
Aw that's not fair. I don't have a pet so I can't vote, but I wanna see the results! Pleeeease can you change the poll Gennifer ? I don't think I can! Vote for "my pet does whatever the hell he wants!" Actually I read it again and as we give the gecko mashed banana once a week as a treat, I went for the third option. He has his own "plate", washed separately so that he doesn't get any nasty washing up liquid on it. Geckos and people don't share the same germs. What we need is another poll asking whether the people who let their pets lick the dishes have a dishwasher or wash up by hand. I trust dishwashers far more than hand washing.
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Post by Zee on Dec 28, 2018 21:22:30 GMT
Gracie was a lab and no amount of training would ever get her to pass up food of any type of she wasn't being watched. She was a canine garbage disposal.
Our new puppy doesn't seem nearly as fixated on food, though she loves the Temptations the cats get. Catnip Fever is a favorite with all, lol.
I know I'm weird but cats licking dishes doesn't bother me the way dogs do. I'm sure it has to do with the size of their tongues and the fact that I kiss my cat every day. I do not kiss the dog. She smells like a dog. Cats don't have any odor normally, and are fastidiously clean (though their mouths are very foul!).
I know I'm not sensible about it but to me dog mouths are gross because they eat disgusting things off the ground. Cats don't do that.
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Post by Peal on Dec 28, 2018 22:02:52 GMT
My dog licks the beaters when I make cookies. She insists on apples and carrots when we give treats to the horses in the filed behind our house. I give her the yolks from my eggs. She's part lab, about the only thing she wont try to eat is bananas and citrus. Even then, she'll lick it if she thinks it will make us happy.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Dec 28, 2018 22:04:05 GMT
I know I'm not sensible about it but to me dog mouths are gross because they eat disgusting things off the ground. Cats don't do that. you have seen your cat bathing itself * all over* its body, right? lol!!
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Post by lisacharlotte on Dec 29, 2018 0:11:10 GMT
I know I'm not sensible about it but to me dog mouths are gross because they eat disgusting things off the ground. Cats don't do that. you have seen your cat bathing itself * all over* its body, right? lol!! I still can’t believe that nobody thinks about the body parts their mouths have been on. Nobody in this scenario is exempt from mouths in crotches including the humans.
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Post by Zee on Dec 29, 2018 1:25:58 GMT
I know I'm not sensible about it but to me dog mouths are gross because they eat disgusting things off the ground. Cats don't do that. you have seen your cat bathing itself * all over* its body, right? lol!! Yes, I know, I said I wasn't being sensible! Lol!
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