Do you ever cook meals for your furry friend?

Burglecut83 · #1 03-09-2014, 10:55 PM

I got home from the oilers game tonight, the wife wasn't home. My buddy and I had a few drinks at the game and decided it would be funny to cook a steak for ourselves as well as my golden retriever. "Lucy" absolutely loved her tbone and baked potato. Has anyone else ever prepared a full on meal for their favourite furry friend before? My uncle used to make breakfast for his basset hound when he was in college but only on sunday morning. I gotta admit the look on the dogs face once it realized it was getting its own steak and baked potato was priceless.

rwm1273 · #2 03-09-2014, 10:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Burglecut83

I got home from the oilers game tonight, the wife wasn't home. My buddy and I had a few drinks at the game and decided it would be funny to cook a steak for ourselves as well as my golden retriever. "Lucy" absolutely loved her tbone and baked potato. Has anyone else ever prepared a full on meal for their favourite furry friend before? My uncle used to make breakfast for his basset hound when he was in college but only on sunday morning. I gotta admit the look on the dogs face once it realized it was getting its own steak and baked potato was priceless.

Did you set a place for her at the table too?

Lefty-Canuck · #3 03-09-2014, 11:01 PM

If I am cooking a special meal I usually ask her to wax or at least trim first

Oh the OTHER furry friend....if I am cooking some steaks or a roast the pups will get a bit of the trimmings with their dinner.

LC

Au revoir, Gopher · #4 03-09-2014, 11:06 PM

Cook? No. But when I butcher the deer, the scraps are packaged up in single serving sizes and frozen. The little rat dog loves getting venison as her evening meal and is really hoping I get an elk or moose soon.

ARG

Burglecut83 · #5 03-09-2014, 11:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rwm1273

Did you set a place for her at the table too?

hahah no but I just got her to pose at the table.. shes very photogenic

rwm1273 · #6 03-09-2014, 11:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Burglecut83

hahah no but I just got her to pose at the table.. shes very photogenic

Awesome photo. Lucky dog. My dog just gets scraps.

220swifty · #7 03-09-2014, 11:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lefty-Canuck

If I am cooking a special meal I usually ask her to wax or at least trim first

Oh the OTHER furry friend....if I am cooking some steaks or a roast the pups will get a bit of the trimmings with their dinner.

LC

If you feed them the strings off the roast, you get a 'pullstart pooch' the following day. We had a mutt next door growing up that figured our lawn for his personal pooping grounds, until dad fed him a roast string. The next day's turd followed at home, and his owners never let him wander again.

And to avoid the derail, I have been known to fry up an egg or two for the mutts. When u am prepping a meal, my 'audience' usually makes out with a treat or two as well.

Norman · #8 03-09-2014, 11:42 PM

When the doctor gave my beloved Dachshund Flash two months to live due to cancer I asked what I could feed him and the vet told me cooked ground beef and rice. That's exactly what I did, well the little turd lived for almost two years after that and I swear it was just for his next meal

Alberta Bigbore · #9 03-09-2014, 11:43 PM

I freeze ziploc fulls of moose and deer trim... and cook Bella up a bag once a weekend cor a treat. She has come to expect it now.. and awaits the weekend.

Xiph0id · #10 03-10-2014, 12:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alberta Bigbore

I freeze ziploc fulls of moose and deer trim... and cook Bella up a bag once a weekend cor a treat. She has come to expect it now.. and awaits the weekend.

That's my dogs name too!

Redfrog · #11 03-10-2014, 01:55 AM

All the time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVwlMVYqMu4

sewerrat · #12 03-10-2014, 06:08 AM

The only time our dog gets a cooked meal is when she has the poops, and then she gets a bowl of cooked rice.

omega50 · #13 03-10-2014, 06:58 AM

Was camping in the North Ghost by the Wilderness boundary in the mid 80/s.
We were drinking bowls of rye and coke and grilling steaks- These hikers came by camp with their dog after coming over Alymer Pass.
They were shocked to see us. They were dripping sweat.

I offered them a cold Rye&coke and I turned my back on the BBQ
Turned back just as there dog snatched my steak of the BBQ and tore off into the bush.
Does that count?

Fisherpeak · #14 03-10-2014, 07:09 AM

My hound dogs Luna and Tick love when I butcher,they get a few pieces thrown their way.Never seen a piece hit the ground yet.
Sometimes I`ll make them peanut butter dog biscuits too.
(P.S) see what I did with the names?

wags · #15 03-10-2014, 08:09 AM

Absolutely.

At home, she gets roast/steak when the family has some - but she also gets whatever the kids drop on the floor.

When we're camping, she gets breakfast with me, which is camp-fire cooked bacon, eggs, hasbrowns, cheese and bun.

Pretty sure that's why she loves camping so much

Cheers

Sporty · #16 03-10-2014, 08:24 AM

My dog has health issues where many of the ingredients in pre-made foods aggravate his condition. Rather than keeping him on the gross expensive corn based vet "prescription" foods, I now prepare his food at home. I've tried various raw foods but he won't eat them, treats them like the plague. I've saved tons of money now that I don't need to purchase the vet food and he's much healthier now.

recce43 · #17 03-10-2014, 09:29 AM

duke gets bacon and the fat on his food ever saturday. He will drive you nuts saturday morning till he gets his breakfast before me ..I must be the lowest on the totem pole in the house

32-40win · #18 03-10-2014, 09:56 AM

I don't "cook for him" as per se, but, he sure seems to know when I cook rib steak. Get the evil eye, until such time as he gets the bone. The last two dogs used to get canned food as a treat, when we went out camping or hunting. The old girl gave me really dirty looks and had a pout, if there wasn't some in her meals later in life. Few times, she turned away and went off and laid down, and essentially said "go pound salt" to dry dog food. Toss a spoonful of canned stuff in it, she'd down it all in a heartbeat.

mooseknuckle · #19 03-10-2014, 10:56 AM

The only meal I actually cooked specifically for my dog was when it was time to put her down. After a tough day and a few falls I knew her time had come at 14 years old. So Sunday evening I cooked us up steak with all the fixin's... she loved it and I think she knew what was happening.

greylynx · #20 03-10-2014, 11:09 AM

Farm dogs have meals prepared for them all the time.

It is called haute cusine al la slop pail.

owllight · #21 03-10-2014, 11:16 AM

Be careful with cooked bones, the heat causes the structure to change and they don't break down in the stomach properly. The heat also causes the bones to split and splinter much easier than raw bones.

Just a heads up!

Burglecut83 · #22 03-10-2014, 12:58 PM

yeah I just let her eat the meat off it and throw the bones in the garbage.

bosshog · #23 03-10-2014, 01:31 PM

I dont prepare meals just for him but my pooch gets an extra patty or chicken thrown on the grill quite often. He got a bit of leftover roast and gravy last night and was in heaven.

ren008 · #24 03-10-2014, 02:08 PM

Dogs get food scraps/old leftovers and cats get to lick the tuna cans clean every once in a while. That's as close to home cooking that the critters get.