Re: Foods not so good for Dogs
  By: Cindy Haglund to Mike Roberts on Thu Oct 13 2005 02:16 pm

 > So the 'baddie list' is based on better safe than sorry.
 > Better to avoid a potential danger than deal with the consequences
 > should they arise.
 > 
 > Someone elsewhere I once had a good rapport with got all bent out of
 > shape over the grapes issue because he gives his dog grapes all the time
 > and his vet said it's fine. The weird part is he couldn't understand
 > I agreed with him. I gave no aregument at all.

I used to give my Pug green grapes all the time. He loves em. I didn't even
know that grapes were bad for a dog. Same as my old newfie who passed. that
article said no tomatoes. My old newfie loved tomatoes. He would steal them out
of the window as they were ripening. At first we thought we had a tomatoe
thief, until one day we came home and set a fresh basket of tomatoes down on
the stairs. Next thing I know, I hear a sloshing noise. Look down in the Family
room and he was their gnoshing on a tomatoe. Hence, the window swiper case was
solved.  Some of those things on the list I had never heard of. I just
did not realize they were bad for a dog. Only thing my vet told me over the
years is No chocolate and no Onions.

 > So the 'baddie list' is based on better safe than sorry.
 > Better to avoid a potential danger than deal with the consequences
 > should they arise.

That sounds about right.

 >  :( Allergy most likely. Some people are allergic to chocolate too.

I think so, as the symptoms he had, were that of an allergic reaction like a
bee sting or eating something you are allergic to as a human. I don't know what
the actual symptoms are of a dog who has had too much chocolate.

Take care!
Mike

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