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Toby Pumpkin
| Sun, 05-15-2005 - 7:51pm |
Here is Toby, my Pomeranian, who is 14 years old. He is getting so old and I hate to think that I might not have him around much longer. He has an enlarged heart and liver. he is such a ham!
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What a little cutie.
I don't feed my pets table scraps either. My parents were very old-school when it came to raising pets - they were always fed table scraps along with their reg. pet food, they were never spayed or neutered, and cats were always let outdoors. I grew up seeing most of the problems that these things cause - obesity and unhealthy teeth, spraying, unwanted litters, a runaway cat, etc. I can't believe my parents were such irresponsible owners... I am aghast at the things they did when I think about them now!
My mom has since learned to spay her pets and keep her cat indoors, but she still feeds them table scraps. Her dog is sooooo fat!
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I think things are different nowadays and people view their pets as part of the family where years ago they were just "pets" I remember when I was a little girl and we had a Westie named Duffy. My mom fried him hamburgers every night for his meals. When we went to McDonalds he would go with us and he got their hamburgers.
Melissa
LOL. Funny that you mention hamburgers - whenever we had hamburgers, my mom always made one for the dog and cat. *sigh* She probably still does.
She says that when she was growing up in rural outport Newfoundland, they had no electricity or running water, never mind proper pet food. Their dogs always lived on table scraps and they were "perfectly fine".
Well, 200 years ago we had nearly no proper medicines, but the human race still managed to live on. But look at the number of people who died from illnesses that are treatable or preventable today! The same thing applies with our pets. Advances in nutrition and medicine allow us all to lead healthier lives, including our pets.
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