Dog owners: add this to chocolate and antifreeze

And anything with Xylitol (something diabetics use and sugar free stuff has and I use a lot) which can cause liver failure in dogs and other animals...like birds, which I flock with. (But harmless to humans, go figure.)
 
Would have never thought grapes. My rottie was a fool for grapes all 13 years of his life. But then again, he also liked lettuce...a head at a time :dunno:
 
kevin47881 said:
Would have never thought grapes. My rottie was a fool for grapes all 13 years of his life. But then again, he also liked lettuce...a head at a time :dunno:
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I find it interesting that all this stuff is supposedly deadly to dogs but the dogs eat it anyway and don't have problems. The terrier we had while growing up ate chocolate, table scraps, grapes, raisins, ice cream, pop, anything he could get his mouth on. He never even had indigestion from anything the best I knew unless he was coming down with something already anyway. He finally died of old age around 15 years old.

Dogs have been known to drink out of the toilet and eat unidentifiable things they buried in the yard a week before without getting sick. Excluding blatantly toxic stuff, I think a lot of it is really about sensible moderation. Heck, 60 lbs of chocolate or grapes all at once would do me in too.
 
KennyFlys said:
I tried that as a kid. Heck, I turned out alright, alright, alright, alright, alr...
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Us kids were often sent out on the farm to go find blueberries for pies along the walking trails in the woods: One for the bucket, one for me yum, one for the bucket, one for me yum, one for the bucket, one for me yu..um..um..uh..uh..uh... You only do that exactly precisely once and never ever EVER again.
 
fgcason said:
I find it interesting that all this stuff is supposedly deadly to dogs but the dogs eat it anyway and don't have problems. The terrier we had while growing up ate chocolate, table scraps, grapes, raisins, ice cream, pop, anything he could get his mouth on. He never even had indigestion from anything the best I knew unless he was coming down with something already anyway. He finally died of old age around 15 years old.

Dogs have been known to drink out of the toilet and eat unidentifiable things they buried in the yard a week before without getting sick. Excluding blatantly toxic stuff, I think a lot of it is really about sensible moderation. Heck, 60 lbs of chocolate or grapes all at once would do me in too.
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Frank, it's about what various and sundry enzymes a particular dog has. No different than us - some folks have lactase, some don't.

The biz about eating bacteria that would lay us out, that's a matter of whether the critters have receptors for that bacteria or not. One example is salmonella - the dogs don't have anywhere in the gut for the salmonella to attach to the way that we (well, at least ME, dammit) have.

That's my understanding of it, anyway. Could be wrong! :)
 
Anything taken in large quantities could cause a problem.
Lab experiments cause cancer.
SALT causes problems in dogs.
Did you know there's cyanide is in apple seeds. If you eat a cup, it could kill you. But then, are you sitting there right now eating apple seeds?
I guess I'm fortunate that my dog doesn't go after food left around. Of course, he does get plenty of his own good things to eat. Not that that stops him from wanting more.....
 
As few as 9 grapes have caused serious liver damage in some dogs, from what I've read.

Doesn't have to be 40 pounds of grapes.
 
You know, I had a greyhound that LOVED grapes. It never seemed to effect him, although I never gave him more than a few at a time. I never heard you weren't supposed to give them to dogs. I got him from a greyhound rescue, and the kennel he came from sent a note with him with a list of things he liked. Grapes was on it. He also loved green beans and carrots too. He lived to the ripe old age of 14.
 
Dogs are not little people. Add ibuprofen to the list as well. It causes renal failure.
 
Bill M. said:
Dogs are not little people. Add ibuprofen to the list as well. It causes renal failure.
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good one; I excised a 'burn hole' (perforating gastric ulcer) in a dogs stomach once that a well-meaning md had caused with ibuprofen.
Cats are not just small dogs either, that could be a long thread.
Please just call first, most vets are willing to give tons of free advice over the phone.

Why some dogs succumb to certain toxins, others seem to have a cast iron stomach? I put it down to individual susceptibility which is usually impossible to predict. A graphed curve of expected susceptibility explains it well, most have not problem, some get sick, and at the tail end of the curve a tiny % are expected to die. :(
 
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