I use to get the big fries to share too, til I read that potatoes were suppose to be real bad for dogs.

 

Didn't know taters were,but he only gets them a couple times a year. I'm sure the Bees he eats can't be much better for his health but its hard to get him to stop that...until he gets stung. At least he stopped trying to eat frogs and toads, must taste bad cause he spits them out right away.

 

This is why I eat with my fingers Just grip that T-Bone off the plate and go to gnawing on it.....Gets the wine glass kinda greasy but nobody said cleanliness was easy Besides it makes it easier to hand around the dinner party for everyone to sample it

 

Before or after wrestling it away from the dog?

 

My dogs are not aloud near the table when we are eating. My younger one will do a drive by looking for dropped food under my grand daughters chair, but then she gets the look and immediately goes to her spot and lays down. I do allow them the meat table scraps, once and a while they get to lick the plate, not to often though. When I was growing up we had a retriever/lab mix, he was around 9 months old when I was born. That dog ate nothing but table scraps (everything) mixed in with his dry food every day of his life. I was 18 and home on leave when he died, so figure that dog was darn near 19years old when he died. Go figure.

 

Oh heck yeah ... mine have cleaned the pots & pans in my family for years. That's why we always called them "Pot-likkers".

I don't give a darn if they slop that big ol' tongue up the side of my face either ... I love my dogs to death.

I know all the undesirable things they eat and lick ... but stop for a minute, look around at the people in a busy resturaunt and think about what THOSE people have been doing with their mouths. (Pretty much the same things that dogs have).

The more I know about people ... the more I love my dog !!

Cheers,
PISTOL

 

Yep, Most dogs are considered pot lickers in missouri for a reason. Depending on what was on the plate our dogs always get to lick the plates when we are finished. And then the plate is put into a dishwasher with over 120 degree temps. Your putting worse things in your mouth everytime you eat with a utensil made in China. Just watch the news. We've never had a dog pass on that was younger than 13. And they are all fed Ol Roy dogfood from walmart and scraps. Our lab even eats fruit and will eat blackberries right off the vine. But our dogs mind and know to not bother us when we are eating unless given a bone. I expect the same respect out of our dogs as I do the horses we train.

 

there is a restaurant in town, where we take our own silverware to eat.
i just take a plastic fork & spoon from Wendys in my pocket. don't make no big deal out of it.

it's one step above a food kitchen, it's a front for video gambling, they found $400,000 in there last year.

it's nasty and dirty and greasy and gross.

their pork chops are about a 1/4 inch thick, with a 1/4 inch of breading on each side.

unbelievably AWESOME pork chops.

and a bunch of ole Grandmas in there making homemade "cat head" biscuits.

it's delicious, but dirty!

neither our Akita nor our Bull Mastiff seem to care for fries, or bread.
they like meat.

we have them trained to go lay down, or they won't get nothing.
so I give them a bite when we are done, my wife eats ~half her food at best.

now, the Mastiff has started laying down when we eat, just waiting on us to finish, so he can get his snack.

 

And you worry about a little dog drool on your plates?



chaikwa.

 

LOL, Our dogs are made to sit down and be calm before we will even give them their own food. They are so use to the routine that they will run over to their bowls and sit and wait for the food to be put into the bowl and they won't eat it until told to do so.

 

Also all rear ends they clean. Their own and any other available one!!!

 

And your point IS... ?

chaikwa.

 

Oh no point adds flavor to BBQ!

 

We live on a horse ranch. So anytime I'm in the barnlot I'm ingesting way more than I ever would off a plate that's been in the dishwasher in 120 degree water. And cleaning out the horsetrailer after every ride is even worse. Not to mention cleaning the stables and studs pen. Seems that all the city people that worry about such things are the ones that are sick all the time.

 

be careful the manure

my uncle hauled a load last year, chicken stuff.

guess it was dried out, and he got it all in his lungs from working with it so much, hauling, spreading, and plowing it in.



chaikwa, if you are this way, stop by, we will go get us a pork chop.