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In many halachos about food (Kashrus, owning Chametz on Pesach, etc.), a standard for determining if something retains its status as food is if it is "fitting for a dog to eat."

What about other animals? If a pig or chicken would eat it, does it count? Is a dog just the archetype of a non-picky eater, or is there something specific about the dog that gives it that status?

Yishai
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  • Avoda Zarah 67b and Bechorot 23b (and tosfot there, but cf Challah 1:8) are probably relevant but also consider http://judaism.stackexchange.com/q/56900/759 – Double AA Aug 29 '16 at 00:42
  • Maybe cause they eat their own feces. And they are 'starving' & eat anything. – user6591 Aug 29 '16 at 02:11
  • @user, in other words the archetype. But the tosfos in brachos that doubleaa referenced seems to say there is a special limud from a posuk specifically for dogs. – Yishai Aug 29 '16 at 02:22
  • @Yishai *bechoros not brachos – Double AA Aug 29 '16 at 02:32
  • I'm not realy in the sugya there but isn't that a limud specificaly for tumaah? – user6591 Aug 29 '16 at 02:34
  • we learn this from the verse "לכלב תשליחון" it seems that dogs is Davka. "לגר" is also Davka. I think that if we fing a domestic animal who eat thinks that dog cannot eat, perhaps pig or Hyena or alligator, this is not counted, because you cannot prove this, despite that it is a Kula generally – kouty Aug 29 '16 at 06:44
  • @user the first part of tosfos is saying there is a verse for achila which is not the source for tuma. The verse alone I don't find dispositive, as the verse can have reasons like the ones you site. But the way tosphos frames it, would seem to be a dog specifically. – Yishai Aug 29 '16 at 11:29
  • The Rambam in hilchos de'os perek 3 halacha 2 writes, "Therefore, don't eat that which your palette desires like a dog and a donkey". – Shmuel Koppel Aug 11 '22 at 00:58

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