dogdaze

When our family gets together on holidays and special occasions you can bet there’s plenty to eat. It’s a food feast for everyone, including our beloved dogs.

On the Fourth of July, we usually have lots of fresh fruit including watermelon and cantaloupe. If you’ve never seen a dog eating watermelon, you don’t know what you’re missing. Our dogs love to chomp on the sweet taste of the summer fruit, right down to the rind.

Memorial Day and Labor Day bring the family together for cookouts featuring anything from hamburgers and hot dogs to steaks and barbecue. I’ve always heard that smoked meat such as barbecue is not good for dogs, but a little taste won’t hurt them.

On Thanksgiving Day, we treat our dogs to a special home-cooked meal. They still get an occasional bite of turkey and dressing. One year, I think everyone in my family gave my dog, Sweetheart, some turkey because at the end of the meal she slept like a baby for hours. I think it was because of the tryptophan in the turkey.

We usually have the same big meal for Christmas that we had for Thanksgiving, only extra desserts and other goodies. One Christmas, when Sweetheart was about three or four years old, she excitedly walked among the Christmas gifts until she found her own.

Can you believe she actually found one of her presents — some Puperoni beef jerky treats — and ripped right into them? By the time we realized what she was doing she had eaten almost half the bag. She looked so cute we didn’t even scold her for pigging out.

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