How much cooked chicken can I feed my 10lb dog a day? I buy rotisserie chickens and she loves it!?

I buy rotisserie chickens and she loves it! So I want to stick to that.


I assume the chicken itself is pretty fine (just a protein source), but the salt and other things they put on it are probably not good for her. Also be careful about feeding cooked bones.

You could look into a raw diet if you are serious about wanting to give her copious amounts of chicken everyday.

Take the skin off of the chicken - it's really too fatty and has too many spices, it'll just upset her stomach.

But the shredded meat of the chicken (no bones!) should be fine.

You should just subtract the amount of chicken you give her from the amount of dog food she gets.

For example, our 35 pound 15 month-old dog eats 2 cups of food a day (one in the morning & one at night). So if I wanted to give him 1/4 of a cup of chicken with no skin as a treat, I'd give him 1 3/4 cups of dry food.

You can research homemade dog food on the web, chicken and rice and all kinds of vegetables are good for them. Dogs need quite a few carbs.

My dog loves leftover plain pasta and carrots and sweet potatoes.

You shouldn't be feeding her any of your chicken. They love it because of the flavour and it's something different. It's not her food it's yours. You should only feed her a small piece or a couple per day at best. I don't know about rice, but I know they can't always have our food either, not all the time and in large quantities, which doesn't sound like you're giving her large amounts anyway so that's good. Our food can make them very sick and fat, and at worst case scenario, kill them from giving them too much of it. For them it's like feeding ourselves mcdonalds every single day. Not healthy, can causes problems and will only make us fat. Same for them. They can't digest our food they way we can, but some every now and then is ok for them, it won't hurt them, but like I said it can make them gain the pounds fairly quickly.

Also, constantly feeding a dog table scraps will lead them to be constant beggers, which will ultimately make it difficult for you to eat alone without having her hover over you consistently, and you won't be able to trust her with food alone because she'll gulp it up at every opportunity. We had a dog that was a begger and you couldn't leave ANYTHING you didn't want eaten out..he was highly intelligent but yeah...opened tuppereware containers because we would feed him scraps sometimes so it's not the best habit to get your dog into. A little here and there will not hurt her though, just control the portions when you do.

Honestly no matter how much she likes it she shouldn't have it. Yes chicken is good for them but not as prepared for human consumption. Please do not continue, you will have an obese dog with a horrible bowel problem.

My goodness - she needs a well balanced meal - this means a high quality dog food with some chicken bits in it if she loves it so much. She needs more dog food than chicken.

Watch out for the spices too - that can upset her tummy.

Yucky answer...but I'd watch her bowel movements...not too hard, not too soft.

Try one half cup for a week and see what happens.you can also give your dog some home made rice...

Not too much, I think not more than 1 pound a day. Anyway, food with too much spices or too salty isn't good for dogs.

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