Christmas food for fine dogs.
Well, we are going to have a bit of a meal aren’t we? Turkey and trimmings and lashings of stuff, and we’ll feel the dog deserves just a little share of the feast. But careful as she goes Cap’n, dog tummy can be sensitive, so a few hints for the Holidays.
1. Don’t change your dog’s regular diet, keep them, ahem, regular. Try not to give them any table scraps especially not ones with Turkey bones, and avoid the skin too.
2. The kitchen, if it’s like Dawg’s owners one, will resemble a battlefield re-enactment. Be careful that bits of aluminum foil, plastic bags and wax paper , which have had really doggy-nice smelly food inside, are not in reach of clever dogs. Taking a plastic bag from a dogs whatever/other end on Boxing Day is no fun.
3. Following on about bones, they can be bad news so, please, get rid of them properly, where the dog can’t get them. And no, he doesn’t want to make a wish with the wishbone.
4. No Chocolate. At all. Really, none at all. No sweets, either. And no Onions, no Macadamia Nuts and no booze. ( A very dry sherry is OK for older King Charles Spaniels, but only a very small one, and it must be sipped not gulped. This is OK as it’s well known that King Charles can hold sherry glasses where other dogs can’t).
So what can you give the old chums so they can have a good time too? Well there are lots of things:
Save and use the old gravy, and roasting juices. Totally yummy, but might be a bit fatty so not too much at a time so there are no ‘back door accidents’.
The uneaten veg. With a spot of gravy as above, try and give it without salt being added.
And the Turkey Jerky a la Dawg, from another post! Coming soon, with link!
Enjoy!
No raisins or grapes either! Watch those labradors around Christmas cakes….they can be fatal (not just coz you kill the dog for eating the cake….) being packed with dried grapes…..