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My furry baby , stupid hot weather & stupid flies.

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Not a pregnancy question & maybe a little horrible for some although it's only about flies.

Nothing about human babies but my baby. My doggy!

He eats a 'dry' diet ie kibble food and we give him fresh cooked meat with it (usually chicken) & mix it up with boiling water. His dry food is kept it a zip lock bag, in the pantry. However yesterday, we had a big early morning walk & so I made him some lunch, but as I was making our lunch too, I left his ziplock bag out & open, and didn't realise until after lunch when I closed it & put it in the pantry.

Anyway! When I came to give him supper, I heard a strange buzzing & opened the ziplock to find a fly had been trapped in there!

His food is quite expensive & I only bought this bag yesterday (it lasts about 2 week) & I'm the only one who really worries about these type of things so OH said 'it'll be fine' and father said scrape the top few layers of kibble out.

My questions 'Would the house fly lay eggs on his kibble?'
'If so could I see this before they hatched?'

If the case was the fly had landed on our food I'd probably not worry so much but he's my baby & I worry as much as if he was a human baby.

I'm probably gonna throw out the food, but is that just a waste of food & money, money especially with a baby on the way?
 
Argh, I would hate this too. But I think try and go with the fact that you wrote if the fly was on your food you wouldn't worry so much. A fly could land on his bowl of food any time and lay an egg (I would think).

If that doesn't work for you, best to just throw it out - peace of mind.
xxx
 
I def wouldn't throw it out.. Dogs eat all kinds of s**t... Literally so a housefly won't do any damage.
Plus the fact when you make his tea up of you add hot/boiling water that'll kill anything off
 
I couldn't bring myself to give him it. His bowl isn't left down because of bugs, he eats it right away. I found his food in a different shop £2 cheaper so I guess that's something!
 
Our dog eats all kind of bugs spiders you name it I wouldn't worry at all about flies on the food, they eat their own poop if they want lol! YUCK
 
Yea, not sure I'd worry about it either tbh, however I would keep an eye out for any nasty bugs or fly babies and hope for the best.

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