Which is worse for a dog: eating human food or cat food for a week?

Question

Which is worse, feeding a dog canned cat food for a week or feeding it pizza, fried chicken (no bones) and steak?

I have a bet that dogs won't be harmed on either diet since it's only for a week.

Answer 1

They won't be harmed, but will have liquid stools on either diet if it is a sudden change.
I'd bet on it!.... lol

Answer 2

A dog will eat anything if it is hungry enough. Just like you would if you had to go without for awhile, in fact I would be willing to bet that a human would eat dog food if they got hungry enough. I have been in this same predicament. I started giving my dog table scraps too often (which is very bad for them by the way) and she got spoiled and started turning her nose up at her much healthier kibble. I realized then that I had a problem with overindulging my dog. The best thing to do is put her dog food out for her and do NOT give her any other food, no matter how pathetic she will look, or how much she cries. She will eventually eat the dog food.

Answer 3

I think that the human food is worse than the cat food! At least it is still pet food and some dog chows add a bit of fish to them now as well. Human food in some cases can be deadly for dogs....chocolate is very bad as well as garlic and more!

Answer 4

I really think it depends on the breed of dog, some smaller doggies stomachs are a bit more delicate than the larger dogs,also I do believe it also depends on what one started feeding the dog at its early age,but most dogs can satisfactorily eat any type food and digest it,anything that can eat it`s own vomit should`nt have to ask for a menu at meal time lol.

Answer 5

The saturated fat content is very high in the foods you mentioned, it wouldn't harm a dog for a week, perhaps give it the runs but other than that, it wouldn't harm a dog unless you gave it these foods for its entire (short) life.

Just look at the mess evolution to eat for survival + sedentary lifestyles has done for so called civilized nations!

Answer 6

Both is not recemended by Vets...I do advise u do not try either. But...cat food is not for dogs...hense the name "CAT FOOD"...and human food is not for dogs either. Some human food...like mean juice, and meat is okay for dogs, but some dogs have stomache problems and cannot diguest the food...then they get sick...and vet bills..oh they are expensive.. Though it is only for a week...both could have harm on dogs. Cat food and dog food have simular ingidents..though still have differences. Different foods have different affects on different dogs..so really...results may vary..

Answer 7

The human food you mention would be more detrimental because it's fatty. If however you substituted raw chicken (with bones) steak (raw) and the like then you would be OK. Cat food isn't great so....

Answer 8

human food is really not that bad for dogs, if you ever read whats in dog food you will see that it contains the same things we humans eat, just stay away from spicey foods.my dogs won't eat tuna so cat food would not work for them, plus dogs eat more than cats.

Answer 9

Probably human food, more fats and mixtures of other foods. Cat food and dog food have similar things in them, don't do it though... your just being cruel and mean to a dog then, hence the name Dog Food...

Answer 10

not true if you ate pizza fried chicken etc for a week your blood pressure will be through the roof and so will the dogs and it will most surely alter the dogs behavior

Answer 11

Human food.