Caribbean Dog Food: How Other People Feed Their Pet

I am a typical Jamaican and I had the experience of working at a customer service company that does outsourcing for The United States. I used to handle on average about 120 calls per day. Out of those 120 calls I had about 65 persons asking about how their dog would be transported and what type of treatment they would be given. Some people especially older folks care for their dog in a different and bizarre way. I had an elderly lady who wanted to buy a first class ticket for her dog while she flew in coach

In the Caribbean not only Jamaica, people cook for their dog in the same way they cook for their family. That means that the dog eats out of the family pot. Other people give their dogs scrapples (waste food such as the skin or fat from meat such as chicken). While we have these two ways of how people feed their dogs, we still have another group who cook a separate meal and that meal would be like a national dish for the dogs.  This dish is called “Turn Cornmeal and chicken back”. This meal is comprised of cornmeal that is made thick only not like pudding mixed with chicken back which is the waste part of uncooked chicken.

This type of meal for the dogs is very cheap and so that only gives you a clue that Caribbean people does not spend big on dogs. Dogs are good animals but it is not necessary to spend  big money on a dog as much as some Americans do. I am not ruling against their view but our dogs are very big and they serve well as a guard dog as well as a loving pet. Our concern is mainly focused on how clean the dogs are to be near our kids and in our home. In addition we don’t have time for dogs. We have so much house chores plus the children to attend to that we do not have the quality time to pet and shop for a dog.

Mark this, there are some people mostly entertainers or celebrities in the Caribbean who adopt the same principle when it comes on to dogs as the Americans. There are also those who have traveled and like the idea of a pet and so they adopt the same principle. While these points are true there are actually people who don’t have children and so they turn to a pet dog. They go to the supermarket and buy all those expensive stuff and take their dogs to the veterinarian every month. Now that is one thing I don’t think I could or would ever adapt to.

In times like these most people do not have the resources to care for a pet dog. If they even have a dog as a pet, they divert back to the old style of turn cornmeal and chicken back.

There are many reasons a person keeps a dog:

There is no doubt that this dog would need proper nutrition. After all the owner will be making money from it. In a case like this a Caribbean resident would not hesitate to spend on his/her dog. What i am trying to say exactly is people in the caribbean mostly spend money on dogs only if they are useful to them.

This article was not intended to be biased but it gives views on how other people would treat a particular situation. For example you have people from different cultures who eat different types of food. This is a picture of a Chinese man who eats live frogs. Now Caribbean people are very afraid of frogs much less to eat one!

Dogs are wonderful as they wake you at nights, protect you from thieves and rub against you when you get home from work. They can become your best friend as well as your worst enemy. Whatever clause applies I am sure your dogs is given the best treatment and nutrition you think fits.