Should you make your own pet food?

clipped from lifestyle.sympatico.msn.ca Should you make your own pet food? Human treats your dog can eat There are human foods, however, that are good for your pet. Certain animals can't tolerate vegetables -- they cause them to suffer from diarrhea or constipation -- but if they can handle it, celery, carrots, cucumbers, broccoli, and cauliflower all make good, healthy treats for your dog. "Another thing people sometimes do is feed their pets human food that might be a little spoiled," says Joffe. "Rather than throwing it out, they'll give it to the dog, but the same problems that would occur for you or me eating spoiled food occur in dogs." Other foods dangerous to our pets include raisins, grapes, Xylitol (a sugar substitute used in baking), coffee, onions, onion powder, walnuts, alcoholic beverages and salt. the two chemicals (melamine and cyanuric acid) involved in the recent pet deaths are fairly inert individually. Why the recent pet deaths?