Warning raisins, grapes and currants toxic to dogs

[damo]

I can't imagine that a pizza "bone" as we call them, would do any harm (except for the carbs!), but I have always been told that dogs cannot digest pork. In fact, my friend had a perfectly healthy dog who, a few years ago, got up on the counter and scarfed down half a ham. The dog quickly developed pancreatitis so severe that it destroyed the dog's pancreas, thus making her diabetic. Even though she gets daily injections, within 6 months the dog became totally blind!
So if eating ham just once was this catastrophic, I will never let my dog eat pork of any kind!

Pancreatitis is a severe problem for any dog digesting a high amount of fat. I've heard of it with turkey leftovers and friends of ours lost their cocker spaniel this Christmas after digesting a dozen shortbread cookies. Reasonable quantities of low fat pork or any meat is just fine.

 

[daisax]

It's not that ham is pork, it's that it's preserved with lots of chemicals (can never remember nitrites/nitrates). Salami, etc., same thing. Anything cured.

At any rate, ham/bacon is bad news for pets (especially since if they get into it, they tend to eat more than a person would).

A lean pork cutlet? Not an issue.

 

[allie&mattsmom]

I'm glad your dog is OK! I'm kind of concerned about mine now. I give him his anti-seizure meds in turkey bologna or a bite of a turkey dog daily. Hopefully since it's turkey it's not as bad. Sometimes I'll give it in a piece of cheese. He has to have this twice a day. He is a lab and let me tell ya, you name it, and he has eaten it. He has eaten some really bad things! From corn cobs and chicken bones to loaves of bread, baggies and all.

Oh, btw, he gets pizza crust all the time cuz I don't eat my crust!

 

[damo]

I'm glad your dog is OK! I'm kind of concerned about mine now. I give him his anti-seizure meds in turkey bologna or a bite of a turkey dog daily. Hopefully since it's turkey it's not as bad. Sometimes I'll give it in a piece of cheese. He has to have this twice a day. He is a lab and let me tell ya, you name it, and he has eaten it. He has eaten some really bad things! From corn cobs and chicken bones to loaves of bread, baggies and all.

Oh, btw, he gets pizza crust all the time cuz I don't eat my crust!

A little piece of meat or cheese isn't going to hurt a lab. We do the same thing with antibiotics -- hiding them in a piece of hot dog works great. Our dogs would never get their meds otherwise.

 

[allie&mattsmom]

A little piece of meat or cheese isn't going to hurt a lab. We do the same thing with antibiotics. Our dogs would never get their meds otherwise.

Right. He's sneaky and has still been known to spit the pill out of the piece of meat or cheese where we have found it later so now we make sure to watch him swallow it haha. Just like a kid.

 

[Poohgirl]

Before I knew this (less then a year ago) I would feed my dogs grapes and they would always spit them out. I was very surprised by this since they are garbage disposals. Lucky for me they seemed to know it was not good for them...

 

[Todd&Copper]

My dogs get pizza crust all the time, and they are absolutely fine.

Add macadamia nuts to the list of doggie no-nos. Although, you'd be bonkers to give dogs those delicious, expensive nuts.

 

[daisax]

He's sneaky and has still been known to spit the pill out of the piece of meat or cheese where we have found it later so now we make sure to watch him swallow it haha.

The easiest thing to do is to play on their greed. Take the same piece of bread/cheese and make 2 pieces out of it. Feed the first one with the pill while displaying the second half. The dog will snarf down the first piece to get to the second. And you'll know the pill was swallowed -- no muss, no fuss, and it's FAST!

 

[Aimeedyan]

My dogs get pizza crust all the time, and they are absolutely fine.

Add macadamia nuts to the list of doggie no-nos. Although, you'd be bonkers to give dogs those delicious, expensive nuts.

Avocados are poisionous, too, but who in their right mind would feed something so expensive to a dog! I guess it's only a problem in places where they are grown freely in yards.

 

[Tracy Savage]

When I was a kid we had grapes growing in the back yard. My dog would stand up on the fence and just feast away, one grape at a time. He never got sick, and he lived to be 16. Go figure.