Dangerous Bites for Dogs

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My friend Becky is a chef and just learned a hard-earned lesson about human foods that are toxic for dogs. Thought I'd pass her story on to you:

(And who knew Zante currants are actually small grapes?)

Should have known better but I left a bag of what I thought was kitchen equipment in my car last night with Bubba. She got into it and ate about a cup or more of dried Zante currants (which, we now know is a type of small grape and not a dried currant) Apparently grapes are quite toxic to dogs. They are not sure how much it takes

but in the quantity that Bubba ate immediate care is needed. She is spending 2 days in the emergency vet, on IVs and they are checking her kidney function carefully. They had to induce vomiting and give her charcoal to maybe absorb some toxin. Not all dogs react but they can die quickly if they do. She seems totally fine and is happy, but I wanted to let you all know so that you can be careful with the following items. If you don't have a dog, maybe forward this to your

friends who own dogs.

* Alcoholic beverages

* Avocado

* Chocolate (all forms of chocolate) the more chocolate it

contains, the worse... cocoa is especially bad

* Coffee (all forms of coffee)

* Fatty foods

* Macadamia nuts

* Moldy or spoiled foods

* Onions, onion powder

* Raisins and grapes (including zante currants)

* Salt

* Yeast dough

* Garlic

* Products sweetened with xylitol (that would include most

chewing gums, and I know for a fact Bubba has eaten that before!)

 
Thanks for posting. I had no idea about the grapes. Every dog is different though...

Mine is almost 16 and she has eaten fallen avocados from our tree her whole life. Also the oil from 16 years' worth of anchovy cans. She never got the memo about "fatty foods."

 
The following explanations for the listed foods was posted by a DVM

Never Feed Your Pets...
1. Alcohol -- for obvious reasons
2. Apple cores --the seeds contain small amounts of arsenic...you would really have to feed your pet a steady diet of nothing but apple cores to do any real damage, but why take chances
3. Avocado -- toxic for birds, high in fat for other pets (can spark a bout of pancreatitis)
4. Bones -- can cause an obstruction or splinter and cut your pet up inside, also can give them GI upset
5. Caffeine -- affects the heart rhythm, one of the toxic principles in chocolate
6. Cheese -- high in fat and can cause diarrhea, most pets are lactose-intolerant once they are weaned
7. Chocolate -- toxic theobromine and caffeine can primarily affect the heart; unsweetened and bittersweet chocolate have the highest concentrations of the toxins; white chocolate does not have toxins but is high in fat
8. Dough -- yeast dough can blow up in the stomach and cause bloat with possible twisting of the stomach or an obstruction
9. Fat -- can cause diarrhea, pancreatitis, etc., etc.
10. Garlic -- can cause abnormalities in the blood resulting in anemia
11. Grapes -- idiosyncratic reaction causing acute kidney failure (you can never predict who is going to react, so be safe)
12. Ham -- extremely high in salt and can throw off electrolyte balances
13. Liver -- I'm not certain on this one, certainly it should always be cooked and from a reputable source as liver is a filter for body toxins (which could theoretically remain in the liver to be ingested by your pet), it is a rich food and could cause diarrhea
14. Milk -- most pets are lactose intolerant post-weaning
15. Moldy foods -- obviously
16. Mushrooms -- if I remember right, they contain a compound that interferes with the absorption of some vitamins
17. Onions -- causes the same blood abnormalities as garlic (same family) but worse, particularly in cats
18. Potato peels -- green potato peels contain a toxin (can't remember the name), the most concentration of potassium is very close to the skin and could potentiallly throw off the electrolyte imbalance
19. Raisins -- same reason as grapes
20. Tuna -- can contain mercury, deficient in nutrients that cats need

 
The inclusion of garlic on this list is wrong

Garlic got lumped into the list because of people jumping to conclusions that if onions must be bad, then the related garlic must be as well. This is not the case. Follow the link to read info from a vet on the garlic issue.

My pups eat garlic.

 
This month'sNational Geographic mentions dangerous bites for dogs...and garlic is listed

According to National Geographic:

Garlic breaks down a dogs red blood cells, leading to anemia and possible kidney failure from leaking hemoglobin.

Onions - Their damage to canine hemogobin is cumulative, so small tastes over time can be worse than wolfing down a whole bulb.

 
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