We all feed our pets some of what’s on the table at Thanksgiving, so here are two tips to keep it safe:
1. Control the amount of calories.
Don’t give your pet more total calories today that it usually has. Too many calories cause pancreatitis, which is very painful, and doesn’t go away just because we stop overfeeding. Nope, we can harm a pet for life by feeding too many calories on only one day of the year.
2. Limit fat.
Don’t give your pet more fat or oil on Thanksgiving that it normally has. To limit fat intake, remove the skin from the turkey, tear it into strips, freeze, and feed a strip a day for the next couple of weeks. Avoid putting gravy on the vegetables your pet gets, and don’t give sweet potatoes baked in butter. Hold the stuffing.
Bless you for wanting your pet to enjoy its food. If your pets aren’t used to human food, give only small amounts of deeply pigmented fruits and vegetables, and small amounts of meat, fish, eggs, or other proteins. For example, give a Labrador a half dozen blueberries, a quarter cup of sweet potatoes, a quarter cup of cooked broccoli, and a quarter cup of turkey. Give a little poodle, 3 blueberries, one tablespoon of sweet potatoes and a tablespoon of cooked broccoli, and a tablespoon of turkey.
Let’s give gratitude to our pets for what they bring us all year long by feeding them well on Thanksgiving and every day of the year.
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