Woman sick after eating tainted pet food

[columbine]

well it doesn't sound like this was the case.... it is one thing to eat for survival... but to try to trick your dog into eating somethign it doesn't want? You would think that if you dog didn't want it.... perhaps it might not be very good.

I wasn't there, so I can't know, but I'm guessing that perhaps this might just have been her story so as not to have to admit that she was eating dog food for sustenance. You'd be surprised how many people will eat pet food or garbage before accepting charity - it's a deeply ingrained value for some people. But since "never accept charity" is a matter of false pride - maintaining a certain face to the outer world - getting caught eating pet food would be worth fibbing about too, since it would mean that you'd committed the equally egregious misdeed of failing to provide adequately for yourself.

It's a fading and little-understood ethic, but it's still around.

[sirrahved]

One of the rules I try to follow in life... If my dog won't eat something, I'm sure not going to eat it!

[critter crazy]

I wasn't there, so I can't know, but I'm guessing that perhaps this might just have been her story so as not to have to admit that she was eating dog food for sustenance. You'd be surprised how many people will eat pet food or garbage before accepting charity - it's a deeply ingrained value for some people. But since "never accept charity" is a matter of false pride - maintaining a certain face to the outer world - getting caught eating pet food would be worth fibbing about too, since it would mean that you'd committed the equally egregious misdeed of failing to provide adequately for yourself.

It's a fading and little-understood ethic, but it's still around.

Okay this has me thinking! Why would you choose to eat dog food, when for the same price or less you can buy real canned Human food??? Dog food isnt exactly cheap! I mean a can of Raviolis is cheaper than a can of dog food!

[Catty1]

But I bet you ravioli has less nutrition than dog food. It's crappy for protein.

[My Peanuts]

My cousin (more like my sister) used to taste her dog's food if it was switched. She said she wanted to know how it tasted before coaxing the dog to eat it. I know it's a little weird, but I've done weirder things for the good of my pets

[caseysmom]

The vet my daughter volunteers with tries dog food sometimes....he is a great guy and the dogs are just one of the family members to him..

I am sort of surpirsed by everyone's critisism of this woman, I wouldn't do it but why judge?

[king2005]

I am sort of surpirsed by everyone's critisism of this woman, I wouldn't do it but why judge?

The little dog we had (omg so many yrs ago) Missy, was the pickiest eatter, going days without eatting anything... If you pretended to eat her food as if it was your, then handed her some, she would gobble it up.

With my old dog, I liked it when he would drool like crazy for a treat. So I would take a milk bone & would bite it & say mmmmm (thinking EWWWWW! why am I doing this again!).. He would drool like crazy, then I'd give him his treat & give him the piece I bit off

[sparks19]

The little dog we had (omg so many yrs ago) Missy, was the pickiest eatter, going days without eatting anything... If you pretended to eat her food as if it was your, then handed her some, she would gobble it up.

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I knew a lady years ago... her dog would not eat.... UNLESS... she was sweeping the floor near the dogs food. LOL how strange... When she would sweep she would take the food off the floor... sometimes she would forget to set it back down (she was elderly) the dog figured out that when the broom came out it meant the food was going away.... so now she has to take the broom out and start sweeping and the dog will gobble up the food. HA isn't that funny lol

[sumbirdy]

The little dog we had (omg so many yrs ago) Missy, was the pickiest eatter, going days without eatting anything... If you pretended to eat her food as if it was your, then handed her some, she would gobble it up.

Our dog Lacy is like that. But we have to actually lick the food before she'll take it. Most of the time we try to have one of the other dogs lick it instead but that doesn't always work.