Who buys ice cream for their pet?

[Chubby]

Before I go off to the bar to hopefully have pre-marital intercourse with an attracive co-ed...

Who actually buys ice cream (i.e. Frosty Paws, Cool Claws, Dogsters, etc...) for their pets? I have a customer at my store who goes bonkers if we are out of Frosty Paws. The warehouse was out last week so finally we ran out and she threw a fit so it made me wonder. She swears her dog is as important to her as her grandchilden (which means she had kids <shudder>) which I just find mindbogling. She buys like 6 boxes a WEEK! I wouldn't even do it for a treat but who knows...

Anyone? Anyone?

[ScottVib]

My girlfriend claims one of her co-workers buys them occaisionally for her dogs.

Our cats will occaisionally steal some normal ice cream.

[Chubby]

Stealing normal ice cream is ok, you didn't buy it specifically for them :) Even occasionally I can sorta see (though still a little strange to me)...

Ok, bar time. Discuss :)

[clintl]

My parents used to buy ice cream for a dog they had. I think it started as a way to give him some kind of medication, but it got to the point where the dog would expect it every time they had ice cream.

[SunDancer]

Giving animals ice cream? Never heard that before.

[Ksyrup]

My wife used to buy Frosty Paws a couple of years ago for our Chihuahua, before it developed diabetes and got Cushing's disease. Now the damn dog gets 1 cup of plain, dry dog food a day, and nothing else. Except for needles in the back of the neck, twice a day. Hell of an existence.

[Bubba Wheels]

Frosty Paws was invented by some guy that discovered dogs do not actually like the taste of the ice-cream itself (some say dogs can only taste meat), but they are attracted to the cold and texture of it. So this guy supposedly took all the taste-stuff out of it (thought that included the sugar) and a new, capitalist millionaire is born. :D

[General Mike]

Sometimes I give my dog a little spoonful of vanilla ice cream. I know he loves the cold because he doesn't want to stay inside at all during the winter.

[Marmel]

I buy a small dish of vanilla ice cream for my dog whenever i get some for myself. He loves that shit. I have also bought the frozen dgo treats on rare occassions. He cannot get enough of it. Hey, whatever makes him happy.

[sabotai]

What if you and him moving to Sweden would make him happy...?

[Marmel]

*going to travelocity.com right now*

[sabotai]

*cue porn music*

[SunDancer]

Isn't ice cream bad for dogs though? I know chocolate is a posion to them.

[BigJohn&TheLions]

You are missing a golden opportunity here. Go get drunk, then show up with a half-gallon of cookies'n creme. Go wild with her! She's a barracuda! ANd after a quart or two of Mr. Boston's she might even took like something that you could, well, you know! ;)

[General Mike]

Isn't ice cream bad for dogs though? I know chocolate is a posion to them.

I thought that was a myth. My 1st dog, used to steal all kinds of chocolate and eat it, foil and all, and it wasn't the chocolate that killed her, and my current dog is always stealing chocolate chip cookies and reese's peanut butter cups and he's far from dead. I'm sure It's not the best thing for them, but its certainly not fatal.

[Cringer]

My mom used to get one of our great danes, Vicki, soft serve ice cream cones whenever she would go through a fast food place, she loved them! I can't remember ever giving any of my danes ice cream though.

The chocolate thing as i always understood it was because of the caffiene in chocolate, and the caffiene is what they shouldn't get too much of....i don't know if any of tat is true, but i still don't let the dogs eat it.

[Sloan]

Isn't ice cream bad for dogs though? I know chocolate is a posion to them.
Snopes to the rescue! http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/cocoa.htm

Apparently it is poisonous to pets. Depends on how big the pet is, what kind of chocolate, and how much they eat.