ranger

Here's my experience with dogs and food.

I have read that pork/ham are not suitable for dogs.
That said, I feed our mutt whatever we eat.
He is almost age 15 and was given only a year to live. That was in Dec. 2010.
He still has problems but seems to enjoy his food and his walks and doesn't seem to be in any pain.
He does sleep a lot but I think that comes with age. We give him 3 or 4 short walks per day instead of one long walk that he used to have.
He loves fruit cake and blueberry muffins and cinnamon/raisin bagels and small pieces of banana/apple.
He's not fussy about veggies except for green peas and green beans.
He'll eat all meats and some he likes more than others.
Her will eat minced meat only as a last resort.

So that's just what our dog eats.
I'm sure others feed their dogs the prepared dog food but we stopped feeding it to our furry friend.