Our lovable furry friends just adore food. Food is a direct path to their hearts, so it can be hard to ignore them when they show up at the table and give you the begging look with their big adorable eyes. Many Bolton houses are totally table scrap free when it comes to their pets, but other households feed their pets enough food from the table that their animals might as well have a chair at the table. Here are some things to consider when you're deciding whether or not to feed your animal from the table.

Pet food is specifically designed to provide all the nutrients that your pets need to be healthy. Buying a good quality pet food is all you need to do to ensure that your animal is getting everything it needs. Therefore anything you feed them off the table in your Vaughan homes is extra. Too much extra food can lead to pet obesity and also to your pet rejecting its pet food in favor of filling its stomach with junky people food, thus missing out on important nutrients. This is why vets recommend against feeding animals table scraps.

Pet trainers also recommend against feeding your animals table scraps. Why? Because you're teaching your pet that they're able to train you instead of the other way around. Feed them once from the table at their prompting and they'll learn that they can get what they want from you by acting a certain way and expect to get scraps at every meal, whether it's at home or at a friend's PEI real estate. So by giving them scraps, you're undermining your position as their leader.

There's also the possibility that if you feed your pet table scraps, you might accidentally be giving it something that is find for people to eat but toxic for a pet to eat. Most Etobicoke real estate is full of people favorites like chocolate, grapes, raisins, garlic, onions, macadamia nuts, tomatoes, chicken bones, and xylitol (a sugar substitute) that are harmful or even deadly to your pets. They'll eat it and they'll like it, but it will make them sick.

If you want to feed your pet natural foods instead of processed commercial pet foods, you can't just feed them table scraps from your meals, which are designed to fuel people, not pets. You need to put aside your team building music and make a concerted effort to learn about pet nutrition, make them their own healthy meals, and feed them from their pet bowls, not from your dining table.