What You Shouldn’t Feed Your Dog

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?