DOGS: Dangerous people foods. If you have a dog, read.

[roguevalley]

Dangerous People FoodsThis list is a resource to help keep your dog safe this holiday season, but be aware that it is not exhaustive. Many other human foods can be harmful to your dog, and depending on your dog's particular medical background, any deviation from his regular diet can cause serious health issues. Consult your veterinarian for guidelines specific to your pet.

If you suspect that your dog may have ingested one of these foods or another harmful substance, call the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center National Hotline: [phone].

•Alcoholic beverages
•Avocado
•Caffeinated tea
•Chocolate (all forms)
•Cigarettes and other nicotine products
•Coffee (all forms)
•Fatty foods
•Garlic
•Macadamia nuts
•Moldy or spoiled foods
•Onions, onion powder
•Pain relievers
•Raisins and grapes
•Salt
•Yeast dough
•Products sweetened with xylitol (such as chewing gum, breath mints, and even some "sugar free" baked goods)
•Turkey Skin – High fat foods, such as turkey skin, can be hazardous to your dog. Since the skin is hard to digest, it can lead to pancreatitis. If you still want to share your bird, give your dog a small piece of white meat.
•Turkey Bones – Cooked poultry bones are brittle and splinter easily. If ingested, they can lodge in the esophagus or cause stomach or intestinal irritation.

http://www.cesarsway.com/tips/seasonal/dangerous-people-food?utm_source=Mobile+Storm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NovemberNL_4

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. Mouldy or spoiled foods? Hell, my dogs snub their noses at Fillett Mignon

but a dead bird? Hey, it's on!

[vadawg]

2. +10000 nothing gets my mutt going like a dead squirrel or deer

[Fumesucker]

Dupe, self delete..

I hate it when that happens..

[Fumesucker]

3. It's funny, I have two minature doxies..

One is fascinated by anything remotely edible that isn't dog food while the other doesn't much care about food but eats half again as much (dry) dog food as the first one while still being smaller and skinnier.

Go figure.

[OnyxCollie]

17. Most kibble is made with an "acceptable" level of moldy grain.

[roguevalley]

95. try hundenflaken or solid gold. its awesome.

[OnyxCollie]

99. I haven't seen either of those brands.

I use Innova.

[lob1]

4. I have a Yorkie that will eat anything anytime anywhere. I can't play

fetch with him because he eats the stick.

[zonkers]

54. That is awful. I have seen scotties like that. It must be psychlogical.

[NikolaC]

59. Our Yorkie is the same way

He's a cute, spunky little guy who you cannot step into the kitchen or open the refrigerator around. He even likes to swipe snacks from the cat.

[SammyWinstonJack]

65. My Yorkie loves coffee with french vanilla creamer

and celestial seasonings rasberry iced tea with splenda. Drinks both daily.

[Blue_In_AK]

67. Our Shih-tzu likes sticks, too.

She's also especially fond of cardboard boxes from Costco. They must smell like food.

[POAS]

5. We have two labs and the male

loves his bones.

We get them big cow bones from the butcher that have been smoked and he struts around with that bone in his mouth all day. You rarely see him chewing on it, although he does, but he is most happy just strutting around showing off his bone!

[lillypaddle]

11. Sounds like my ex husband

[laughingliberal]

28. ROFL!! nt

[POAS]

64. Now that's funny! Now that you mention it my ex-wife fits that bill too!

[dysfunctional press]

66. our girl has to have something in her mouth at ALL times...

and nothing makes her happier than a new toy or bone to strut around with. and she HAS to take it around to show the neighborhood dogs.

[POAS]

84. She looks like our female lab

They are half brother and sister. Same daddy, different mommies and born one week apart. The male is a yellow lab and the female is black. What a pair they make!

[aquart]

90. Got a friend with a pair like that. He is utterly besotted.

[LeftyMom]

6. Garlic probably shouldn't be on the list and neither should avocado.

A lot of people include garlic on lists of foods to be avoided because it's a close relative of onions, which are toxic to dogs, but many people give dogs garlic in their food to prevent flea infestation and the dogs suffer no ill effects. Some dog foods also contain avocado or avocado oil (such as Avoderm) with no apparent ill effects. Avocado pits and skins are potentially harmful, but they're not exactly prime eating material.

[Quantess]

7. I second that.

[Raine]

15. My dog loves garlic

actually a wholistic vet told me it was good for purifying their systems.

[old mark]

33. Agreed- I have always heard that garlic is good for them, and I know

dogs love it....especially when it's in something like salami.....



mark

[Gold Metal Flake]

50. Yup. We fed our Springer garlic tablits for fleas and Avoderm was a regular diet.

The list seems rather conservative.

[Shell Beau]

57. I had never heard the avocado one.

[Quantess]

8. I knew a dog who ate cigarette butts. I assume she was a nicotine addict.

Although, I have to think it's extremely rare for a dog to eat cigarette butts.

[Better Today]

32. Actually no it isn't that odd. I don't think it's the cig itself, it's the fact that they see us

put them in our mouths over and over then pitch them. I think the dogs just think, "it goes in human's mouth so it must be good," then since many dogs just sort of gulp things without tasting or chewing, they never figure out it's bad for them.

We stop that by offering lit cigs to our dogs at early ages, not to smoke, but while they are still smoking and the dog is interested, we reach out for them to smell the lit cig, at which point they can't do enough to snort out the smoke from their noses. Dogs we've done this with don't pick up cig butts, those we didn't back in the day, they did pick up butts.

[tavalon]

9. I used to be a sucky dog owner

I let my little poodle have grapes and he and I shared more than one white russian. Luckily, he lived to a ripe old age. My current dog (a beautiful standard poodle) benefits from my knowledge of the above so he only gets approved doggy treats and never gets alcohol.

[tavalon]

10. Hey, since thanksgiving is just a few days away

let's rec this up so people can be reminded of the things Fido shouldn't share this holiday.

[fasttense]

12. One of my dogs was previously owned by a college kid who said

he fed him beer all the time. When I told the vet who was examining him, she said that beer was probably not all that bad for the dog. She said it had some nutritional value and probably just put him to sleep.

And what is wrong with yeast dough? It's natural and full of carbs. Hell my dogs eat horse, chicken and cat shit off the ground, I would think yeast dough would be better than that.

[antigone382]

63. I know from experience that raw yeast dough is intoxicating to dogs.

A family member brought home some raw dough that for whatever reason was unusable at the kitchen where she worked; intended to cook it and give it to the dogs, but they got into it first. The dogs were stumbling around and smelled like breweries; one of them became very sick and almost went to the vet. You can imagine being "drunk" is not much fun for a dog that doesn't understand what's happening. Fortunately they both recovered, but it's not something you'd want to happen a second time.

[PearliePoo2]

13. Thanks for posting this list.

I knew about most of the items but had no idea about grapes or raisins. Yikes!
My Border Collie, Pearl, LOVES grapes. About twice a year I would give her a few grapes...no more.
K and R so others may get this info before it's too late.

[pipoman]

14. High fat foods? Turkey skin?

Our vet tells us to feed our outdoor dogs suet (unrendered fat) with their dry food in the winter time for energy and to keep their coats shiny. Of coarse our dogs are country dogs, this must only apply to those sissy city dogs... :D Seriously, it seems reasonable to me, dogs being what they are, carnivores which hunt in packs and kill small, medium, and even large game, that they would eat fat in their natural state...what am I missing here?

[OnionPatch]

26. I had the same thought. I can't imagine how fat could be bad for a dog.

It doesn't make any sense.

[EndersDame]

53. they cant process it like we can so sayeth my vet

I asked him what foods to avoid and that is what he told me about high fat foods

[OnyxCollie]

77. Yeah. Expect sloppy poopies. nt

[EndersDame]

83. that is a beautiful dog

:)

[OnyxCollie]

86. Thanks!

I wish the judges thought that way. Last year he was ranked 11th or 12th in the country. This year, nothing.

I love him anyway.

[Bonn1997]

16. I dropped a full piece of asparagus on the floor and Lucky ate most of it before I realized it

yesterday. So naturally I had to go online to see if that was OK. It looks like the only bad thing asparagus can do is turn their poop a little greenish!

[pipoman]

19. And give them stinky pee...

[Bonn1997]

22. Hmmmm. It does that for humans but I don't know about dogs. I didn't get close enough to check

either!

[havocmom]

41. My dog & cat both LOVE Brussels sprouts

I do not put butter on them, so that's not it. Just plain ol steamed sprouts. Previous cat loved them too, and lived to 21 years, so I figure if the current fur team wants to share mommy's veggies, a bit won't hurt them.

edited to add: had friends with Dobermans who would steal asparagus, even pulling fridge door open and foraging for it if they saw her take some out of grocery bag and put in in the fridge.

[OnyxCollie]

18. Cooked poultry is bad because of the brittle bones

but raw poultry is fine. My dogs get either a frozen, raw turkey neck or chicken back every morning.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

20. Alcoholic Drinks... What proof are we talking? Beer, liquor, wine?

My dog LOVES getting at a near empty beer bottle.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

34. When my dog was a puppy

He got into the slop bucket at the pub (leftover beer from the pumps) and was soooo drunk he couldn't walk home.

He had a hangover in the morning and refuses to touch beer again.. that was 3 years ago and he seems fine now.

[Individualist]

72. My cat likes Bloody Marys

but he never gets more than two teaspoons when I fix one for myself.

[Brickbat]

21. My 80-pound dog ate two pounds of chocolate several years ago.

He survived. It was a pain in the ass (pumped him full of activated charcoal sludge), but he made it.

[Shagbark Hickory]

23. Very useful posting K&R. Big wags to you. n/t

[Ohio Joe]

24. Good info

Thanks!

K&R

[leveymg]

25. General rule for dogs: they're carnivores and will eat almost anything that's dead and smelly.

Cooked poultry bones are not a good idea, some smaller, sharp cooked pig bones, as well. But, everything else - meat, bones, organs, fat, skin - goes right through them like . . . well, you know what.

[Odin2005]

27. The psychoactive ingedients in chocholate, theobromides, are poisonous to dogs and cats.

they can't metabolize the stuff like we can.

[Barack_America]

29. Yep, that's why darker chocolate is worse.

With baking chocolate being the absolute worse.

[trotsky]

36. Poisonous to us, too!

So don't you dare sit down and eat 100 lbs of dark chocolate in one sitting!

[Odin2005]

61. Actually, I thought they were supposed to have anti-oxidant properties.

Or was I thinking about a different compound in chocolate?

[trotsky]

74. I'm pretty sure you're right.

But I remember the same compounds ARE toxic to humans too, but just that it takes seriously massive quantities to affect us. Or as I think I've heard once before, the dose makes the poison. ;-)

[Odin2005]

87. Good point.

[Greybnk48]

37. And to pet birds (Parrots, keets, canaries, etc.)

[Greybnk48]

38. My daughter's Boston Terrior was treated for pancreatitis after just

a few bites of McDonald's chicken strips. And she's a young dog--will be three in the spring.

[haele]

73. Shari (45 lb aussie shepard/queensland heeler mix) chows down an any Ferrero Rochers she can find

When she was about two, she opened finished off a holiday package of about 12 when they were left out on the coffee table overnight. Pooped gold foil wrappers for a week.
And she's done that several times since; she even climbed on furniture to get to another year's gift box that I naively thought would be safe on top of the bookcase. Little did I know the back of the nearby wicker peacock chair gave her just enough height to get on top of the bookcase...
Any chocolate and nut combination needs to be kept from her reach; as soon the room is vacated by people, the box or package is ripped apart and candy or cookies are devoured. Candy stays in the refrigerator when it's not being eaten.
And she's going on 15 years; just a bit achey with arthritis with some senile dementia but otherwise she's an otherwise healthy, happy puppy...

Haele

[TwilightGardener]

30. Jeez, how did my old dog make it to almost 13?

I mean, fatty foods and poultry skin? That's BAD, now? (I can understand bones and everything else on the list.)

[Better Today]

31. Onions?!? Toxic? It must mean raw onions, because mine get leftovers with cooked

onions all the time with no problems.

Raisins? Again I've had dogs who really like raisins, don't feed it like food, but they've always gotten a few when I've had some.

This list seems questionable on many levels. I agree too much of any of the above isn't good for dogs, but much of this list is very suspect to me considering how many dogs I've owned, all healthy into double digit years, and knowing that they've had some of any of the food products throughout their lives. Clearly I haven't fed them tobacco (who would?), nor gum or sugar-free stuff because I don't use them myself. Otherwise everything on the list, only giving poultry bones to my relaxed eating dogs (not the scarfing dogs) and only when no other pets are around to cause any rushed eating of bones. I treat all bones whether poultry or not the same way because truly any baked or cooked bones can shatter into splinters when dogs work on them.

If only there were lists like this for children. Seems anymore people are way more concerned with their pets' diets than their children's or their own.

[mwb970]

39. I take lists like this with a large grain of salt.

Sounds like you do too. Most of the items on the list have been disputed by someone on this thread. Makes me wonder what the real list would look like.

[rucky]

48. Salt is on the list, too, you know.

[B3Nut]

49. Onions, raw or cooked, are bad for dogs

they cause hemolytic anemia. Raisins are known to cause renal failure in dogs as well, per my wife the vet tech. Veterinarians routinely warn against these foods, it's not just a random list made up to cause a stink.

[Shell Beau]

58. Exactly. And not every dog will have a bad reaction, but why chance it.

[GoCubsGo]

79. Cats, too.

They can get hemolytic anemia from onions, garlic, shallots and their relatives, as well. No raisins for them, either for the same reasons dogs should not have them.

[roguevalley]

97. how do you know your pet didn't get sick from some of the stuff

you gave them? My dogs are awesomely stoic but I have had them so long (15-20 years) that I can tell by looking at them when they get sick. Pippin is just getting over a heart attack, the wanker. How dare a 15 year old dog get sick? Sigh. I wish they all could last as long as the rest of us. I love my dogs so.

[FarCenter]

35. Worse is the ingestion of inedible things, especially around the holidays.

Vets get to remove all sorts of things that dogs swallow. The toddler's socks, beer bottle caps, ...

Before the holidays, euthanasias go up, since people will be traveling and have to weigh whether it is worth boarding for a couple weeks instead.

During the holidays, its these emergencies.

Afterwards, the new puppies and kitties come in for their shots.

[havocmom]

45. My sis had an elkhound/coyote hybrid (don't ask) who ate a bowl of fruit off the table

It was artificial fruit. She was fine, and had very colorful poops for a spell.

Then, there was that huge bowl of cookies she stole. Climbed up on the counter to reach top of fridge for that too. She had food issues.

Vet gave my sister a book on emergency dog first aid, with page on opening stomach bookmarked. Said the coyote in her might someday force the issue and require opening her belly fast to avoid rupture. Never had to do it, and dog was put down at a very ripe old age, due to spinal degeneration paralyzing her hind quarters. She had a very fun life.

[goodboy]

40. I've been feeding my dog cigarettes and coffee because I thought they were good for him.damn. (nt)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

44. ...

:rofl: thanks

[w8liftinglady]

42. My son bought some homemade fudge at the fair

Delicious chocolate fudge...
he came home from school and asked-"who ate the fudge".We all denied it,and figured we each were lying,until 2 days later when I looked under my bed and saw 2 half-eaten pieces of fudge.Apparently,our chihuahua had scarfed them when no one was looking.I figured 2 days had gone by and the dog was his normal spastic self,so I just maintained his dry food and lots of water.Go figure(and,yes-he will eat anything a human eats..also cat and dog poop)

[Bonn1997]

43. A little OT but my JRT picked up a big (like 4 inches long) live lizard on our walk yesterday and

thought about eating it. I was thinking "ewwwww," "gross"; but then she put the lizard down because she didn't want to eat it. She always picks up all sorts of little creatures on our walks.

[havocmom]

47. Get her a volunteer job at a research center or zoo

Sounds like she is doing a study.

[rucky]

46. I'm surprised to see avocado on that list.

Avocado Meal is an ingredient in some of the premium dog foods. I'm pretty sure that's the ground-up pit of the avo (as in, AvoDerm).

[Codeine]

51. Avocado?

Dogs freakin' love avovados, and I've never seen ANY ill effects from a dog eating one.

[rvablue]

52. Thank you rogue valley for posting this!

I hope EVERYONE takes the advice -- even if your dog happens to "like" one of these foods and was "okay" after eating, I hope they will take the advice of medical professionals (from which this list came from) instead using one-off anecdotal experience.

[LeftyMom]

55. Some of the items on the list are disputed by professionals and even components of quality pet foods

That's what worries me, if you throw some perfectly healthy stuff on a list with potentially deadly stuff, a lot of people won't know which is which and won't take a real emergency seriously as a result.

[roguevalley]

94. you are welcome. I just nursed my Pippin over an onion. !!!!! What a

scare that was. cesarmilan.com is a great resource.

[MindPilot]

56. My puppy will eat anything.

Electrical things are his absolute favorite. I've lost count of the number of plugs I've replaced. One wall outlet is still missing it's cover. I came home once to discover he had taken a brand new outside flood lamp assembly out of the box and completely disassembled it including the bulb. He has eaten--I don't mean chewed up, I mean eaten--a couple of remote controls and several Bic lighters. I find everything from bits of circuit boards to shards of glass when I pick up poop. Yeah I'm gonna worry about chicken bones.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

60. Here's a WebMD slide show (with cute pictures) that explains why the bad stuff is bad.

For instance:

Yeast Dough

Before it's baked, bread dough needs to rise. And, that's exactly what it would do in your dog's stomach if your dog ate it. As it swells inside, the dough can stretch the dog's abdomen and cause severe pain. In addition, when the yeast ferments the dough to make it rise, it produces alcohol that can lead to alcohol poisoning.

http://pets.webmd.com/dogs/slideshow-foods-your-dog-should-never-eat

[Atman]

62. While chocolate should certainly be avoided, it isn't the doggie killer it's made out to be.

Our vet has a chart on his wall indicating the amount of chocolate it would take to harm various dogs, based upon weight. I don't recall any of the figures off the top of my head, but I recall being struck by how much it actually took. Most dogs would have to eat a LOT of chocolate before they were in danger (though it probably isn't that good for their, ehem, digestion). If you have that much chocolate just laying around in reach of your dog, you probably want to check in with your own doctor, never mind the pooch.

.

[DemReadingDU]

89. 1 oz of chocolate per pound of dog

My dog ate half bag of Hershey kisses, appx 6 oz. She's a beagle about 24 pounds. She didn't take time to unwrap the chocolate, we found little foil wrappers coming out both ends. Poor doggie.

Anyway, I called the vet, and was told that most dogs should be able tolerate an oz of chocolate to a pound of dog weight, without any permanent effects. This is milk chocolate, apparently dark chocolate has some kind of chemical that could be dangerous to pets.

[juno jones]

68. I used to give my dogs grapes

They would roll them around in their mouths with puzzed expression, unable to grok biting down on them. They's spit them out and I'd give them another. Hours of fun. Right up there with peanut butter.

PS: based on the adventures of onetime neighbors of ours, leaving the pot brownies in the dog's reach is unadvisable on many levels...

[yawnmaster]

71. I did that with raisins occasionally...

Dog would eat a hamburger in about 3 seconds. A tiny raisin would take about a minute.

[Duer 157099]

82. Same here. Why are grapes bad?

Grapes were the one food that, when dropped on the kitchen floor, my dog just left there. So I decided to show her that she needed to bite into it, and when she finally did, it was like a light bulb went off in her head, she started wagging her tail and smiling, it was really funny. She ate a couple more just to show that she now understood the concept.

[EndersDame]

91. Grapes damage dogs' kidneys if eaten in large quantities they

can even cause kidney failure

[seemunkee]

69. Hops are very dangerous

and for some reason it is worse for sighthounds.

[yawnmaster]

70. I don't see the almond roca cat poo on the list...

So I guess that delicacy is okay for my dog to continue to eat.

Would poo be under "spoiled food"? hmmmm

[Catshrink]

75. I too was looking for the cat poop.

One of my dogs can't leave it alone. I try to keep the litter box clean but can't monitor it every minutes of the day.

[yawnmaster]

78. You'd have to scoop the poo, within minutes, to beat the dog to it. eom

[EndersDame]

92. My friend calls them the tootsie rolls

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[branders seine]

80. my dog is a vegan

:rofl:

[Dreamer Tatum]

81. I had a Min Pin that drank coffee

and you should have seen that dog afterward. Man.

[EndersDame]

85. I have a Min Pin/ Terrier puppy who acts like she has downed 10 espressos naturally !

[ddeclue]

88. Some of those are dangerous to people too..

:hide:

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

93. I had a dog that loved beer.

My neighbor feeds her dog chocolate chip cookies.

[Quantess]

96. And I had a dog who barked angrily at beer

and alcohol in general. I raised him from a puppy, and I have no idea why he distrusted alcohol so vehemently. It was an ongoing joke to offer him a beer, put it to his face, and he reacted by barking angrily. Maybe we trained him to react that way with our approval. But he also barked angrily at a stranger pushing a keg of beer on a handtruck, so maybe he just really hated beer.

[K8-EEE]

98. WHY IS MY BEAGLE 17 YEARS OLD?

That list is like her dream day -- and she's been known to escape on garbage day, knock over stuff and eat GOT KNOWS WHAT~

[PJPhreak]

100. Wellllll....

We had a American Staffordshire that got ahold of a pan of "Those kinda Brownies" that we had baked for a Grateful Dead Show many years ago.

The Chocolate didn't seem to bother him...But the "Other Ingredients" was a totally 'nother thing!

Cross eyed,walked slideways,drooling,with a "Dude Where did ya'll Hide the Foods" look...Funny as hell!

Anytime we lit up after that he would look at us with a look that said "Arseholes" and leave the room.

He lived to be 16,Great Critter,absolutely Full of Personality