Foods that Poison Pets

glendy · Master

Foods that Poison Pets

greyluvver · GAL Membership Co-Ordinator

Feel a bit puzzled by the 'cooked bones' as being a form of poison in the diet. I sometimes get the roasted smoky bones from the pet shops. And and on one occasion have given our hound, Tyler, a bone that was boiled in the soup (much to her delight). I have tried a raw bone from the butchers but very little interest was taken (might have just been the mood she was in)! Also found we couldn't keep the raw bone lying around until the interest arose as it went 'off' really quick.

Lita

glendy · Master

Hi Lita

Bones don't poison dogs but cooked bones splinter very easily so can cause all kinds of medical problems from becoming lodged in the throat to severing the intestines. Raw bones are far more pliable so recommended if you're going to feed bones to your dogs. They're also good for their teeth.

carolineasb · Old Hand

Hi all

Just to say that bones can also re-constitute at the exit end and cause blockages there. My Mother used to be a Vet's Nurse and has seen the damage bones can do so even the dogs I had as a child never had a bone (as well as my 2 now).

Totally off topic (well not totally) but if any of you have pet birds please be careful with kitchen utensils which are covered in Teflon. My friend has just lost a budgie - a teflon covered baking pan fell into the flames in her gas cooker and caused smoke which disappeared quickly when she opened the windows pretty well immediately, but sadly one of her budgies was dead & she has heard since that Teflon is apparently very poisonous to budgies.

Have a lovely Christmas everyone

Caroline

Double Woofer · Rookie

Pork in itself is as harmless to dogs as chicken, beef or any other meat. However, there is a slight risk of your dog being infected with trichinosis by eating pork. Trichinosis, also known as trichinellosis, is a worldwide, food borne disease caused by an intestinal roundworm. Both humans and pets who eat raw or undercooked meat of infected animals can develop the disease. Undercooked or raw meat of infected animals contains the roundworm. The disease can lead to muscle soreness and pain together with swelling of the upper eyelids in mild cases but can lead to more severe symptoms.

If you would like to feed pork but want to take all necessary precautions, it is recommended that the pork be frozen for 3 weeks to kill the parasite. The most important precaution is to make sure that all fresh pork and pork products are properly cooked. Other raw and undercooked meat should also be avoided, especially meat from wild animals.

onions can be toxic to dogs and cats. In dogs, onions can cause a fatal anemia and it does not matter if the onions are raw or cooked. A small amount of onion can harm a small dog - the larger the dog the larger the amount it takes to make a dog sick. Cats too can get very sick and even die from consuming onions. For that reason, pet owners should be careful that their animals don't eat onions.

greyflintstone · Master

I didn't know this about onions! Thanks for telling us about it.

I guess it goes to show that a "complete" dog food is just that ..... Complete! Perhaps we could eliminate the risk of accidental poisoning by sticking to the food that provides complete nutrition and feeding for our dogs! Maybe (and I await your responses!) we should all stop giving our dogs extra bits in their bowls and stick to the food thats designed for them - dog food! Wow! How radical a thought is that?!

UndercoverElephant · Master

By, greyflintstone, you're taking your life into your own hands there. I can imagine you being made nice and welcome at the next GAL event by all these pampered pooches who no longer get sardines on their dinner.

The dogs are revolting.... Certainly at times.

greyflintstone · Master

Hey, it's a risk I'm willing to take!!

It just concerns me the number of people who regularly feed their dog complete dog food, plus fresh meat. Surely that's increasing the amount of protein, fat, etc that a dog is being given?!

FAJ · Enlightened One

I think Pearly would leave home if she never, ever got her sardines again!

Seriously, though, about feeding too much protein. I'm sure it must be pretty easy to do. For example, we always give Pearly a Bonio whenever we leave her alone in the house and also at night-time. She now knows that the Bonio is her cue to settle down for a nice nap. Steve and I were in Pets @ Home tother day and looked at the generic "Bonio" instead, cos they were much cheaper. But they were 16% protein, compared to only 10% in Bonio. I think this is quite high for a biscuit. Given that she gets a bit hyper if she consumes too much protein, we have to watch out for these things.

Karen G · Master

Dinah stole the bag of rabbit food yesterday don't know how much she ate but this morning both her & Noah had strange looking seedy stuff coming from their back end!!!!!

Hopefully she will learn(who am I trying to kid, she is a chancer, you would think she was never fed the way she mooches)

UndercoverElephant · Master

There was the night when Blue managed to snaffle an entire 1 Kg pack of uncooked Basmati rice, by god, he was like a machine gun the next morning. And strangely thirsty.

Didn't blumming learn though.

greyflintstone · Master

Freddy broke into the food bin one afternoon whilst we were out - my fault I hadn't secured the lid properly. Anyway, he ate about 5kg of food. He looked awful and was consuming vast amounts of water. In the end we had to take the water away and not feed him for a good couple of days! I dread to think what might have happened if I'd left the water for him, I'm sure he would have kept drinking until he exploded (I did actually hear of a great dane puppy who died this way. The food swelled up in his tummy so much he couldn't get rid of it ..... take this as a warning!)

Sarah · Graduate

My 3 LURVE bacon and get a few pieces every so often.I know it isn't very good for them but as a special treat every once and a while I was sure it wouldn't actually KILL them but I guess I was proved wrong

Loadsa Luvs

Saz n Gang xx

Anyanka · Master

I read on another greyhound website that a daily cup of weak tea is good for the dogs - yet your list cites tea as a poison.

Confused now.

Thanks for the list though, very useful.

Jade · Graduate

Just curious if, as the title suggest, pork is actually poisonous to dogs? I had understood that it is not reccomended due to the high level of hormones / growth enhancers / antibiotics, etc fed to pigs which are being reared to slaughter for meat. I imagine this would make it pretty unhealthy for humans too but does the meat actually have a toxic effect on dogs i.e if you feed organic pork will it still have a detrimental effect?

Hope to clarify as we occasionally use a bit of garlic sausage or hotdog for training treats and would hate to think it is killing the beasties.

Just saw the earlier post clarifying the pork issue. Does the worm occur in UK pigs or just those from overseas?

-- Edited by Jade at 15:44, 2006-04-29