No Table Scraps Please!

Resist the urge to clear the dinner plate into your pet's food dish. The meal you cooked may be nutritionally sound for you and your family, but not for your family pet. They don't need a variety of foods to maintain good health. In fact, feeding pets different foods usually leads to a stomachache. In fact, some foods, like chocolate, can actually be fatal. Or foods that we think pets need--like cats needing milk--can cause upset stomachs. Bones, too, are very dangerous as they can lodge in passageways or cut the intestines.

So provide your pets with a consistent diet of name-brand pet food, and keep some dog biscuits or cat treats on hand for when you want to reward the with a special morsel.