[nagdu] Finicky eaters

[Linda Gwizdak]

Hey Rox,
That was very funny about how you described people's reactions to your 
feeding a raw diet to your dog and the human grade food! Hahahahaha!!!!!

Seriously, people don't get it that it isn't the WHAT food you're feeding, 
it's the WHERE the food is presented to the dog. What makes the bad behavior 
in restaurants is because people have hand fed their dog people food from 
their plates either at home or in a restaurant.  The dogs become beggers - 
this is what I don't like to see service dog users do.  If a dog gets all 
food in its bowl, it never assoiciates that food with what's on the table on 
your plate.

There's a woman here who let someone else feed her dog while he ate - he 
started the begging habit.  then, we all went to a restaurant and the 
woman's dog made a real pest of herself begging for food.  I sure learned 
the hard way about the habit of begging and how you can't really break that 
when I was a kid with our pet dog.

I think rules are made for breaking - hahaha!  Rules can be great guidelines 
for new people to follow.  If your dog does well on a raw diet,well, that's 
your right to feed it to your dog.  The important thing is that you know how 
to feed the diet so the dog gets a balanced diet - and I'm sure you learned 
this and your dog looked healthy to me when I saw her on your harness 
website.

We are all adults and we should have the right to make informed decisions 
about our dogs and people shouldn't have any complaints about that!

Take care and Happy Fourth!

Lyn and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "The Pawpower Pack" <pawpower4me at gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Finicky eaters


> 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
> http://www.pawpowercreations.com/retreat.html
> pawpower4me at gmail.com
> AIM: Brissysgirl
>
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