Chocolate can be lethal to pets because it contains theobromine, which causes increased heart rate, central nervous system stimulation and constriction of arteries. Clinical symptoms range from vomiting, diarrhea, restlessness, and excitability to cardiac failure, seizures and death. This can occur as quickly as four to six hours after ingestion. Baking chocolate is the worst because it contains the highest amount of theobromine.
A potential lethal dose is only one pound of chocolate in a 16-pound dog. If your pet has gotten into chocolate, you should contact your veterinarian immediately.

Oh, my dog loves fruit. He eats every single type of fruit including durian and he is still as healthy and fat as ever.

It's the small pieces of bones that are going to rupture their stomach.

My dog licks Chivas Regal 13 years old Whisky.

Sincerely I dont know what to do with my dog

Imagine all the small bits that didnt manage to exit via its stool - it sure hurts. Same to the cats that eat fish bones, small, sharp pointed edge flexible bones. We ourselves got into hell of a trouble if any tiny fish bones got stuck in our throat.

Add garlic to your dog food. Dogs enjoy the flavor and garlic is a natural flea repellent.
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Onion and garlic poisoning

Onions and garlic are other dangerous food ingredients that cause sickness in dogs, cats and also livestock. Onions and garlic contain the toxic ingredient thiosulphate. Onions are more of a danger.
Pets affected by onion toxicity will develop haemolytic anaemia, where the pet's red blood cells burst while circulating in its body.

At first, pets affected by onion poisoning show gastroenteritis with vomiting and diarrhoea. They will show no interest in food and will be dull and weak. The red pigment from the burst blood cells appears in an affected animal's urine and it becomes breathless. The breathlessness occurs because the red blood cells that carry oxygen through the body are reduced in number.
The poisoning occurs a few days after the pet has eaten the onion. All forms of onion can be a problem including dehydrated onions, raw onions, cooked onions and table scraps containing cooked onions and/or garlic. Left over pizza, Chinese dishes and commercial baby food containing onion, sometimes fed as a supplement to young pets, can cause illness.
Onion poisoning can occur with a single ingestion of large quantities or with repeated meals containing small amounts of onion. A single meal of 600 to 800 grams of raw onion can be dangerous whereas a ten-kilogram dog, fed 150 grams of onion for several days, is also likely to develop anaemia. The condition improves once the dog is prevented from eating any further onion
While garlic also contains the toxic ingredient thiosulphate, it seems that garlic is less toxic and large amounts would need to be eaten to cause illness.

I also dont know which one is corrrect?



This post has been edited by providence: Jan 20 2006, 09:16 PM