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Until the last twenty years or so, it was possible for a dog to live a healthy life eating table scraps. However, as the modern American diet has changed, table scraps have changed to the point that feeding them to dogs is not longer advised. Fats, so important to a dog, are neatly trimmed and boned from meats sold for people. Vegetables are now sold frozen, dairy products are pasteurized and chicken is thoroughly cooked. Prepackaging makes cooking for families simpler, but it also reduces the amount of leftovers that most families have.

When a meal is prepared from all these cookie-cutter packages, there is almost no extra food for our little furry friends. The only things left are usually inedible or tiny amounts. Certainly nothing that would satisfy a hungry dog. These tiny unwanted quantities of food will not suffice as a proper diet for a dog.

Before a dog owner feeds his dog scraps off the kitchen table he should ask himself a question. What would he do with that additional food if he didn't have a dog to feed it to? Would he put those leftovers in the refrigerator and save them for his next meal? If so, then it's absolutely fine to give the scraps to his dog. On the other hand, if he knows that he would never eat those scraps and would probably throw them out, then he is simply using his dog as a trash can.

And this is not the only concern when it comes to table scraps. While table scraps are lacking in nutrition, they are very tasty for your dog. And as your dog develops a taste for these table scraps, he will loose his taste for the healthier, balanced dog food that he should be eating. In fact, when table scraps are tossed onto a pile of commercial dog food, most dogs will just pluck out the table scraps and leave the rest of the dog food behind.

Unfortunately, these scraps are loaded with fats, carbohydrates and calories, but not the nutrients and vitamins that they truly need. This means that the dog eats his fill with this nutritionally incomplete food and then is able to completely disregard the commercial food. When an owner refuses to feed a dog table scraps, he may feel guilty and that he's denying his dog a truly enjoyable treat. However, most dog owners realize that to feed their dog table scraps is the equivalent of letting children choose candy over a healthy, balanced meal.

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