Do You Ever Cook for Critters?

[Fern]

Do you ever cook for critters around your yard, or the birds?

I do, in fact, i have a recipe book with simple recipes of things you can make for the birds in winter, using ingredients like oatmeal, corn meal, raisins, nuts, peanut butter, etc. It's fun. Sometimes it's fun to just slather peanut butter in a pinecone, then hanging it from a tree and watching who gets there first.

I often have leftovers which for whatever reason aren't fit for consumption, maybe burning something or it just didn't taste right, or i'm tired of eating it. So i put it on a tinfoil tray outside at night and by sunrise it's always licked clean. I think it's an opossum. I delay putting it out til dark cus i'm not keen on feeding the squirrels, there's enough of them around here taking off with the bird seed and suet.

[PRICEPLUS]

I usually only put food out if the weather, especially the winter, is tough on the animals. I'll put out bird seed for the birds. I chop up mixed nuts for the squirrels.

My dog eats quite well as my wife makes him a treat every night. Not too much but he gets what we get for dinner.

[Fern]

spoiled doggie!!

[PrincessPerky]

I dump all scraps out back, I was trying to compost, but it all got eaten, definatly not just by the cats though (I watch them turn up there noses at something that is later gone)

But I don't cook for any of them.

[Ima saver]

I cook for my puppy all the time. She won't eat dog food. I put corn out for the deer. I also throw old bread out and it is always gone.