Why don’t you let dogs eat food fragments on the table? What are the reasons?

 9:33am, 22 July 2025

Why not send the table pieces to dogs

Dining table pieces and other "people's food" can compete and imbalance with the nutritional value of high-quality, well-studied commercial diets. Table waste tends to increase empty calories, making dogs prone to weight gain. The obesity rate in companion dogs is rising, which is a serious health problem. People’s food can be delicious to a dog, interfering with its appetite and making it uncomfortable with the taste of a regular diet. Fat foods, such as poultry skin, ham, bacon, sausage and gravy, can cause painful and potentially dangerous pancreatitis. Feeding pets from the dining table encourages begging and backsurfing, which is an annoying behavior that most people find. Some dogs are lactose intolerance and produce unpleasant diarrhea when feeding, cheese, cheese or other dairy products.

Why some people's food may be good for dogs

Not all human food is bad for all dogs. Of course, it is not wrong to occasionally eat snacks to break the monotony of ordinary old rough grinding. Many owners often add leftovers and table snacks to their dog’s meal bowls, or share eggs and toast for breakfast. Small dogs can enjoy Cheerios as a low-calorie snack. Carrots, bananas, apples and many other fruits and vegetables are good for dogs and many people love these healthy foods. Almost all dogs like to eat cooked, boneless meat, poultry and fish. For dogs suspected of having food allergies, rice and boiled chicken are used as part of a veterinary-supervised elimination diet trial, often used in those dogs recovering from gastrointestinal diseases or surgery.

Dogs usually like to boil eggs, whether they are cooked, fried, cooked or fried. Jerky and turkey jerky can be rewarded during training because they are delicious, easy to store in your pocket, and easy to split into bite-sized pieces.

Dog handlers use a variety of delicious human food to keep their animals concentrated in the display ring. Dogs with diarrhea can be fed with canned or cooked pumpkin, sweet potatoes, or yam without sugar, which can harden the feces. Some breeders place their puppies on various combinations of human baby rice paste, fresh or canned goat milk, raw egg yolks, ground coarse ground and puppy milk replacement powder. Freezing mini bagels can provide plenty of relief for puppies with pain in gums, although chewing them can make a mess.

How to compare dog food labels

Although standardization is attempted, dog food labels are still difficult to explain due to the following reasons:

only require minimum and maximum guaranteed analysis values. The crude fibers have poor measurements of available fibers. The minimum crude protein percentage reflects only quantity, not quality.

The ingredients are listed in descending weight order regardless of the relative moisture content, which can be extremely misleading. For example, fresh meat on the top of the ingredient list (about 60% water) may contain less nutrients than meat powder (about 10% water) located in the list because fresh meat is heavier than dried meat. If divided into different ingredients such as cereals, cereal medium and cereal shells, some ingredients are displayed far away from the list.

Dog food test. Whether and when to test dog food is not standardized well. The quality and consistency of Canadian pet food is usually tested every 2 months, while American food can only be tested once for the product's service life.

For these and other reasons, consumers should be careful to use labels as the only way to assess dog food quality. Veterinarians, breeders and professional pet food suppliers all have access to good resources.