Things poisonous to your dog...

steveinaz

Interesting, most of these I was NOT aware of:

Pesticides
Sweet smelling rat poisons that are meant to attract rodents also attract your dog. Insecticides can also be easily accessed by your dog nosing around in the garden, and his flea/tick collar can make him sick if he chews on it. It is crucial you keep rat bait in inaccessible places to your dog, and monitor him if he wears a flea/tick collar or is in the garden. Pesticide poisoning symptoms include: Fatigue, pale gums, internal bleeding, nosebleeds, blood in urine/stool, excessive drooling, breathing difficulty, muscle tremors, and death.

Antifreeze & Other Chemicals
These contain sweet-tasting ethylene glycol, among other dangerous chemicals, highly fatal to pets even in the smallest amounts. Keep all chemicals out of canine reach. Symptoms of ingestion include vomiting/diarrhea, dilated eyes, depression, increased thirst, kidney failure, seizures, irregular heartbeat/breathing, coma, and death.

Household & Garden Plants
Most plants in large amounts can be potentially toxic. These common flowers are particularly dangerous: amaryllis, aconite, azalea, belladonna, buckeye, foxgloves, hyacinth, hydrangea, ivy, all species of lily, night shade, rhododendron, tulip, and yew. Symptoms of ingestion include: dilated eyes, vomiting/diarrhea, irritation around mouth, swelling of the mouth and throat, excessive drooling, excessive thirst, irregular heartbeat/breathing, muscle tremors, seizures, coma, and death.

Chocolate
Theobromine, a chemical similar to caffeine, cannot be easily metabolized by animals. Depending on the type of chocolate and your pet's size reveals how much can be deadly. Just one square of baker's chocolate is fatal to a 10 lb dog, and 2 squares are deadly to a 20 lb dog. Signs include vomiting/diarrhea, irregular heartbeat, hyperactivity, muscle tremors, seizures, cardiac arrest, and death.

Alcohol
Even so much as a drop of beer can cause intoxication. However, alcohol poisoning doesn't come from just alcoholic beverages, but also vanilla extract, and raw bread dough. The fermented yeast of swallowed dough can cause not only alcohol poisoning, but also bloat or intestinal rupture. Symptoms include: disorientation, vomiting/diarrhea, seizure, coma, swollen stomach, seizures, coma, and death.

Onions & Garlic
Ingested in large amounts can be fatal. A chemical found in these foods, thiosulphate, causes the red blood cells in the blood stream to rupture, resulting in anemia. Baby food containing onion powder has killed puppies. Symptoms include difficulty breathing, vomiting, weakness, irregular heartbeat, and jaundice.

Xylitol
This artificial sweetener is found in sugarless candy and gum and can be potentially deadly to your dog as his blood sugar rapidly drops. Symptoms include fatigue, staggering, irregular heartbeat/breathing, seizures, coma, and death.

Grapes and Raisins
Just a handful of either can be fatal to some dogs. Symptoms include vomiting/diarrhea, foamy/bloody urine, irregular heartbeat/breathing, restlessness, kidney failure, and death.

Avocado
All products of the avocado plant are poisonous to canines, including avocado fruit and guacamole dip made from it. It destroys the heart muscle and other tissues, including the lungs. Signs of poisoning include difficulty breathing, irregular heartbeat, swollen abdomen, fluid build up around the heart, seizures, coma, and death.

Typical dog reactions to poison:

Vomiting or diarrhea
Irregular heartbeat
Dilated pupils
Difficulty breathing
Pale gums
Swollen abdomen
Muscle tremors
Bloody/painful urination or defecation
Bleeding from any ****


Read more: Top 10 Things That Can Poison Your Dog - VetInfo

WagnerRC

Great post Steve.

steveinaz

No more letting monkey-face lick the top of my beer bottle I guess. Little lush.

Drenis

Hmm some of those I knew but most are new to me. Great post.

steveinaz

Right? Grapes? Never knew that one.

Drenis

That and Avacado.

Glowrdr

Makes you wonder why something like Avacados are so healthy for us, yet they destroy heart muscle and lung tissue in dogs.

I knew most of these (parents owned a pet shop years ago) - but theres always a place for a good reminder to all.

drumminman

Thanks for posting. I knew some of those, but there are some that are eyebrow raisers.

SolidSqual

Jesus, Avocado sounds like lethal injection for dogs.

cristo

Add macadamia nuts to the list.
http://www.cvah.com/article/MacaNutTox.html

coolsax

with regards to plants add Sago Palms to that as well. a Sago palm bulb will kill a dog very quickly.

Tbone289

steveinaz wrote: »

Alcohol
Even so much as a drop of beer can cause intoxication.

Really? My 20lb Boston Terriers must have built up one hell of a tolerance then....

steveinaz

Almost ashamed to admit it, but the poodle I had in Germany drank beer like a sailor...he lived to 17yrs. I miss 'ol Bernie, he was a good boy.

I did not know that alcohol could hurt them at the time. Yikes.

Willow

Interesting; my mother in law was seeing a naturopath for her dog who told her to give her dog garlic as a natural flea and tic repellent. It worked.....

apc

Thanks for the post. I didn't know about a bunch of them, specially the grapes!

gudnoyez

One of our dogs became violently ill from drinking the water out of a bowl of water that was soaking Jack Daniels wood chips, that we use for our charcol smoker. I couldnt figure it out he was having a hard time walking, keeping his head up, he was throwing up
slime, at the time we thought he got into something like a dead critter or something, I was smoking a pork roast and did not realize that he had drank the water from that wood chip bowl, after I discovered that he drank it, I figured I would let him sleep it off, a friend of mine told me we were lucky that he didnt die from it as alcohol is as bad as poison for a dog., long story short we kept the woodchip bowl in the garage after that incident.

72RR

Be real careful with the use of the topical flea & tick medicines also.
We were at the vet's office and reading the ingredients in some of them.
Turns out they contain some nasty chemicals that my wife (licensed to buy and apply pesticides) is familiar with.
Things that cannot be used near edible plants or water sources.
And we're supposed to put them directly on a dog's skin?

zane77

When I lived in SoCal I had an avacado tree in my front yard. My German Shepard ate these all the time. I kept them away most of the time because I thought they would be too fattening for him (and me). He would always let them lay on the ground for a few days untill they were ripe, the birds did the same thing except they would eat the fruit through a hole about the size of a quarter.

blueboxer

Grapes are actually on the high end of the toxicity scale in comparison to some of the others. Iron supplements are also a huge risk for dogs. The chocolate one is a little over blown, unless it is dark chocolate (i.e. high cocoa percentage) it usually takes quite a bit to poison a dog. If your dog does consume any of the above, it is always great to have a couple tubes of activated charcoal to help minimize the risk and effects. Charcoal and i.v. solution are about all you can do unfortunately. The i.v. can simply be sub-dermal to help keep your buddy hydrated since they will most likely throw up and **** for a good 12 hrs until everything is flushed out. Let as much as of the i.v. solution build under the skin, to the point where it looks like there is a tennis ball hump under the skin, as it absorbs and your dog either recovers or continues to have issues, you might want to give them a second round of the solution. Just pinch the skin like a cheek and insert the needle into the raised portion pinched between your fingers, it takes some pressure so don't be scared to push the needle thru the fur. However, if you have a 24 hr. animal clinic, spend the couple hundred bucks to have a vet look at your pooch, but a lot of times they will keep them over night to simply do the above and your dogs will fight much harder when they have your familiar warmth and touch to help them thru it.

MrDHEJ

You can add lead to the list also. More then a few of my niebors have found out that hot lead is instantly fatal to there dogs shitting in my yard.

drumminman

MrDHEJ wrote: »

You can add lead to the list also. More then a few of my niebors have found out that hot lead is instantly fatal to there dogs crapping in my yard.

If you're serious, you're a total cretin.

tonyb

Garlic in small amounts is actually good for them, along with Brewers Yeast, helps keep the mosquitos and ticks away. They don't like the taste or smell of either. Too much garlic as Steve points out has the opposite effect.

MrDHEJ

drumminman wrote: »

If you're serious, you're a total cretin.

Yes I'm serious. It's not only because of thier dogs crapping in my yard, which is extremly disrespectful, espically after informing them of the state wide leash law, but also dangerous to my four children trying to play outside.

soundfreak1

Had a cat that died from chewing on a speaker grill.

.i shot him. Lol