[nagdu] Finicky eaters

[The Pawpower Pack]

Tami,
psst, the guide dog police are also out looking for me.  Glad to know  
there's someone else out there who is as improper as I am! ha ha
My dogs eat a raw diet and it's amazing the reactions I get from  
people once they find out that my dogs eat "human food."  Rather than  
feeding them food which is not fit for humans to eat, I guess.  People  
seem to think that a dog who eats "human food" will be unable to enter  
a restaurant or other place where food is being served because they  
will suddenly lose all of their training, and turn into a food  
obsessed maniac who will hop from table to table, snarfing everyone's  
food before you can say boo.  Add to that the fact that I am a clicker  
trainer and use food-- yes-- human food, in my training and some  
people are just sure that my dog will never learn to behave  
appropriately, will become an out of control monster, or die because I  
am "breaking all of the rules."  Even though the only "rules" my dogs  
have are mine since I'm the head trainer/CEO/nutrition expert at my  
guide dog school.
I get told all of the time what damage I'm doing and how my dogs will  
suddenly become ravenously insane food vacuums once I enter a  
restaurant.  Forget that I've been feeding this way for ten years and  
training this way for six years.  According to "the experts" I've just  
gotten lucky thus far, and any day now, my dog will explode, or  
something.
*sigh*

Every dog is different and what works for most doesn't work for all.  
meh!

Rox and the Herbal HenchHounds
Bristol (retired), Mill'E SD. and Laveau Guide Dog, CGC.
"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point  
out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half- 
wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."-- Neil Gaiman
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