Dogs are great if have an interest in survival, camping, need to protect your family or alert you at night of someone creeping thru the woods. What kind of dog? Well there are plenty but in context of this sub forum, but I would tell you to go with a hunting dog, Labs are great, my fave is a Coon dog, hunters par excellence and if you have a family, and especially young kids, then its Coon dog hands down. No kids can pull their ears or gouge their eyes so much as to ever cause a Coon dog to raise a hackle. They are also protectors of your family and your other livestock..
Won't go hungry if you have a Coon dog, you will eat and eat often, squirrel, possum, small game that like trees is their domain and they can track them for miles. In fact, you set that Coon dog free, kick back, have a cold or hot drink and wait on the Coon dog bay, when you hear it and you will, grab your rifle or shotgun and go get dinner.
Feeding dogs: Dogs can eat near anything. Dogs have stomaches that can puke at the drop of a hat, its how they protect themselves from all the stuff they eat.
Garlic: Garlic is ok and a daily dose will keep the fleas and tick off the dog.
Rawhide: Rawhide is the SKIN of an animal. A dog will kill, go for the organ meat first, then the rest and finally the skin and the bones
Bones: Dogs can eat raw, BBQ, fried, roasted etc. A daily feed of a raw chicken neck is pure heaven for a dog. I also will boil up chicken necks to make a stock and gravy and give them to my dogs. Avoid the long bone alongside the chicken leg. Leg is ok, but remove that bone, its almost like rubber and will get caught in their throat. Other than that just about any bones will do.
Milk/chocolate: Basically avoid, but I give my dogs my milk in the bottom of the cereal bowl and never had an issue. But don't feed it to them by the bowl fulls. Same with Choc, its not a dog food.
Other stuff: Popcorn, sweet potatoes, peanut butter, eggs (raw or cooked), bacon, orka, green beans, most green veggies, cheese (real), are all good for a dog and supplements their diet, as long as you remember they are not food stocks.
What not to feed them: Wheat, corn, Soy, can cause allergies in dogs just like people. ALMOST all dog treats that are sold in the US and many dog foods use fillers (wheat, corn, soy). Dogs eat protein, it their prime diet, this means MEAT, DOG ARE NOT VEGETARIANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [and YES, there are people who BELIEVE dogs are vegetarians and do not feed their dogs meat!] Also avoid the junk added to many foods that we also eat, chemicals you cannot pronounce, fillers, artificial colors, flavors, etc etc etc.
Dogs can and will eat most table scraps with no issues, but again remember dogs are meat eaters, that is what you feed them. Let them lick the plates is fine, but its not a food stock, the need meat and a lot of it.
COSTCO in the blue bag, Blue Dog Food products are both healthy food stock for you dogs.
Buddy the Coon dog
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