What You Shouldn’t Feed Your Dog
If your dog has ingested any of these foods, you might consider getting veterinary help immediately.
Apples, Cherries, Peaches and similar fruit: The seeds of these fruits contain cyanide, which is poisonous to dogs as well as humans. Unlike humans, dogs do not know to stop eating at the core/pit and easily ingest them.
Tomatoes: Tomatoes can cause tremors and heart arrhythmias. Tomatoe plants and the most toxic, but tomatoes themselves are also unsafe.
Avocados: The fruit, pit and plant are all toxic. They can cause difficulty breathing and fluid accumulation in the chest, abdomen and heart.
Grapes and Raisins: Grapes and raisins can cause kidney failure in dogs. As little as a single serving of raisins can kill a dog.
Onions: Onions destroy red blood cells and can cause anemia.
Chocolate: Chocolate can cause seizures, coma and death. Baker’s chocolate is the most dangerous. A dog can consume milk chocolate and appear to be fine because it is not as concentrated, but it is still dangerous.
Coffee, Coffee grounds, tea and tea bags: Drinks/foods containing caffeine cause many of the same symptoms chocolate causes.
Macadamia Nuts: Macadamia nuts can cause weakness, muscle tremor and paralysis.
Animal fat and fried foods: Excessive fat can cause pancreatitis.
Nutmeg: Nutmeg can cause tremors, seizures and death.
Raw eggs: Raw eggs can cause salmonella poisoning in dogs. Dogs have a shorter digestive tract than humans and are not as likely to suffer from food poisoning, but it is still possible.
Salt: Excessive salt intake can cause kidney problems.
Bones: I’m on the fence with this one. Bones can splinter and damage a dog’s internal organs. But then again, wolves eat bones and they do just fine. Canines have been eating bones for thousands of years so natuarally the stomachs of some dogs has adapted to accomodate the rough edges of bones. For larger dogs such as mastiffs or rottweilers I think bones once in a while can be a good thing. I found a good book about this called Give your dog a bone. Definately worth checking out if your into feeding your dog healthy naturaul food that you can prepare yourself. Even better the book sheds a lot of light on the debate over should dogs have bones and if they do, how should the bone be prepareD, cooked or uncooked?
Don’t feed your dogs cats.
If you find your dog eating cats, stop them at once and let them know it’s not proper for dogs to eat cats or kittens. Bad doggy!
– But, if you’re looking for information on what to feed kittens check out this super resource: CatChannel.com
6 Responses to “What You Shouldn’t Feed Your Dog”
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Churn
Said this on January 19th, 2008 at 3:43pm:Photos I can understand. But are you saying I shouldn’t feed my dogs onions either?
Abbey
Said this on January 31st, 2008 at 4:32pm:what about seedless oranges?
Greg
Said this on February 9th, 2008 at 4:55pm:Yes I am saying it’s not good to feed your dog onions. Granted, I’m not a vet – but I’ll take my moms advice on this one and just know it’s bad to give your dog onions. We enjoy Clementine tangerines often for desert and the dogs love them. I would think seedless oranges are totally safe to feed dogs.
Tracy
Said this on February 23rd, 2009 at 7:42pm:Thank you sooooo much for this website. I learned so much. I wasn’t sure about tomatoes, because on one website it said the tomatoes and raw eggs were GOOD for your dog. Thank heavens I didn’t listen to that.
Dio Morales Naranjo
Said this on June 11th, 2009 at 9:01pm:Is rice an option? I own a labrador retriever and he does love rice haha I would be very thankfull if u can answer me this question. Thanks for the info though!!!!
LC
Said this on August 14th, 2009 at 12:49pm:My dog is lover of lemonheads… good or bad? Although it might be too late…