okay so what are your hounds having for their Christmas Dinner??

I'm working right through until Sunday so we are having our dinner on Monday (but I might get some bargains )

The hounds will have meat scraps and skin (as long as not salted) with a selection of veggies, plus bits of raw veg as I'm prepping before the meal

Until then it's chicken wings and tripe as normal lol

They've been really good too, I know there's some chocolate wrapped up under the tree but they have no interest in it (my lurcher would have had that by now - she has previous for breaking into the dining room in old house and scoffing the galaxy bar that my Mum's cats got me!)

Here's hoping you all have a fun festive time

I too am working 12 hour shifts up until Sunday but my hounds will have a full cooked christmas dinner tomorrow night as I am taking them one each home from work. I cant wait for Monday when I will take them to the beach and let them have a good run

Happy christmas to you

Working as well so today was christmas dinner (I cook for my parents). Normally Brice would have all the trimmings but being partway through getting him eating he just had some sprouts and cocktail sausage with his supper as I think turkey would have set him off again.



His brother had this

Yummy - can I come to your houses for lunch... pweeeeease

I wont give mine any of the fowl, as one of mine suffers from pancritus,
so it wouldnt be fair, theres some trout in the frezer, so there going to have that
with some pasta and raw carrots, as they love them.

Our whole family will be round on christmas day for dinner so our hounds will be having left over turkey, wild salmon, and venison, plus the trimmings

Hope we have some food left for Christmas day, Ben's eaten half the sausage rolls and pork pies already. Will have to make sure the turkeys well out of his way tonight.

My lot will have a family size haggis mixed into their dinners, plus whatever left-overs are going from our dinner.

Murphy is being a right pain in the bum today. Turkey is cooked, as is gammon. My hubby took them out to the golf course for 2 hours and he got to play with 3 other dogs, well terrorised is more the word, but it is play in Deerhound terms...apparently! he was tired when he came back, ate his own tea and has been whining and whinging ever since because he knows the meats are out there in the kitchen. It is with military prescision that baby gates are closed and doors are shut, or he will pinch them.
But tomorrow, I haven't cooked anything up for them, they will have leftovers, meat and veggies etc, mixed with their complete food.

What is it with Deerhounds and whining?

Lurch8252 wrote:


They know it's a strategy that gets round us humans.

Ben gets a good quality meal everyday so he'll get the usual plus leftovers. He's very partial to sausage rolls, pork pie and cheese so he'll probably be getting lots of these as well. I bought him a small turkey to himself one year and he wasn't interested at all so that exercise won't be repeated.

my lot will get leftovers with their tripe

No he wouldn't, they are usually only interested with what us humans are eating!

Oh, tripe, I have 25lb of that in my freezer (they have their own doggy freezer)...it takes a brave person to dish it up, the smell is unbearable, I cooked it once.....and ran outside with the pot and had to spray the house, it was vile. I need a calor gas stove to cookit up down the shed. It smells fishy?

As expected they turned their noses up at the XMas leftovers and only managed to eat some leftover sausage meat and sausages wrapped in bacon with some coaxing. It was even free range pork as well.

Dogs today live as kings compared with times past. I don't think that Ben would last long on the moors in mid winter.

fascinating to read all the variations - particularly like the idea of haggis and venison!! Those lucky hounds will be eating better than some 'umans I know!!

as for tripe, I never cook it! It gets fed raw, occasionally with a raw egg on top of some evening left overs (as long as not cooked meat)

I had to ask Steve to provide a shed with power specifically to house the chest freezer for the tripe!! Must be love lol

I really want a Christmas dinner today, poor me, I have got home-made chilli here at work, made enough to last today and tomorrow, Steve came home early from work before I left, looks like he's got a bug that's been going round at work, so no chilli for him!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Mine are extremely hungry in witer usually - especially when it gets as cold as it is now ; around -12-15C during the - sunny ! - days and colder at night of course . So , as they always get fresh raw meats of various animals and veggies and fruits , I do something very special now , cook a bit every week - sometimes turkey , sometimes stewing hen and , every so often some moose , which I got through a friend from a hunter . Moose stew was , what they had for solstice ( we celebrate rather this than xmas here ) and they LOVED it ; several lbs of moose meat boiled with a bit of barley ad all kinds of veggies , garlic , broth and extra oil , my gosh , that was a feast !
I , being a vergetarina , started an extra pot with almost everything the same as they got , but the moosemeat of course - also , I did wash my veggies a bit better and added more seasoning . What a good time in the year !

The girls had roast veggies with their meat. Lockie isn't eating with Bree in season so has only had a couple of morsels of meat.

Graizelund wrote



It is love Liz .... his love for Leah he dotes on that girl

Daisy had pretty much the full dinner, turkey, ham, pigs in blankets, potatoes, carrots, brussels and she loved the parsnips. Mack wouldn't eat the parsnips but he and Rocky finished off all the rest. I swear Daisy had a big smile on her face and she slept it off.

Mine had leftovers mixed with dry stuff and all looked very well stuffed. The chickens also had leftovers this morning (I wouldn't put it out to them after dark or the wee brown furry chaps nick it) Bella and Bess had great fun ratting in the sheds and the chicken pen this morning, that's a grand day out for them. Bryn and Cara helped, Cara dug holes and Bryn barked a lot.

MrsMc wrote:


and isn't that just how it should be!!

everyone should have a Deerhound to love (or 2, or 3, or.......)