—Abbie Cheng, Queens, New York No. The belief is common, as dogs so seldom get food poisoning. But that’s because their stomachs are far more acidic than ours, and their digestive tracts are much shorter. This allows them to handle all sorts of rank stuff, including rotting garbage, that would make us deathly ill, and they will often gobble it up with gusto. Yet we should never feed our beloved animal companions anything that isn’t fresh.
