Warning about feeding dogs,Grapes,Raisins,Sultanas.

ibbo · Senior Member

Warning about feeding dogs,Grapes,Raisins,Sultanas.

Happywanderer · The Master

My dog Mindy used to eat grapes, sultanas and carrots. She loved them all. She lived to 17 years. Just imagine how old she would have got if I hadn't fed her these dangerous foods. I never fed her chocolate though, I knew that was a No no.

ibbo · Senior Member

Happywanderer wrote:
My dog Mindy used to eat grapes, sultanas and carrots. She loved them all. She lived to 17 years. Just imagine how old she would have got if I hadn't fed her these dangerous foods. I never fed her chocolate though, I knew that was a No no.
I guess that dogs are like humans in many ways.The Grapes etc is just meant as a warning.It is well worth reading the info on Snopes,explains a lot better than I do.Yes chocolate is another deadly thing for dogs.Funnily enough I used to give my Staffie a chocolate frog nearly every morning.She died of a cancer aged 12.

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dawa · Guru

ibbo wrote:
Happywanderer wrote:
My dog Mindy used to eat grapes, sultanas and carrots. She loved them all. She lived to 17 years. Just imagine how old she would have got if I hadn't fed her these dangerous foods. I never fed her chocolate though, I knew that was a No no.
I guess that dogs are like humans in many ways.The Grapes etc is just meant as a warning.It is well worth reading the info on Snopes,explains a lot better than I do.Yes chocolate is another deadly thing for dogs.Funnily enough I used to give my Staffie a chocolate frog nearly every morning.She died of a cancer aged 12.
Well worth the warning. . . .thankyou Dawa .

Gerty Dancer · Guru

Onion is supposed to be bad for dogs too, but in large amounts or repeatedly. Just dont let Fido eat a while pizza!

jetj · Guru

I hadn't heard that, I used to give a dog grapes years ago because she liked them but haven't for years, thank for the warning.

msg · Guru

Yes they love them. Have to be careful an not drop any.

sucastja · Senior Member

I know chocolate is poisonous for dogs - but my daughter had a dog that loved chocolate and he lived to the ripe old age of 18!!

Boothie · Senior Member

Like anything, in moderation. Dogs love certain sweet things and realistically, how many of you young lasses out there, like my missus, has CHOCOLATE biggrin in your rig which is attacked occassionaly. How many have the favourite tipple, cointreau, port or something else for that nightcap smile .

In moderation, is good. Our idiot likes mandarin and lychees as well as sitting on my lap. 27.5kg of greyhound is all elbows, so that is in moderation to.

wendyv · Guru

We have a large fig tree in backyard. The stumpy dog adores figs and scavenges all that fall. The rest of the year she has half a banana at breakfast time.

Boothie · Senior Member

Many years ago, my first dog was a fox terrier, jack russell cross, named Stumpy, for obvious reasons, short and thick. The folks retired and he went to live with them as I had no fences. Mother introduced him to tea and toast with vegemite. The day I took him home was the last time Stumpy ever had tea and toast with vegemite. Lake Tyers to Bairnsdale and I had found all about the dog and vegemite fart factor, sort of like 50kms of driving past the Kraft factory. Tried the same thing on several dogs since and same thing, 50kms past the Kraft fctory, phew!

Any carnivore will eat raisins, currants etc with relish. Sugar in general is not good for them. I had hunting ferrets a few years ago and a big treat for them was a raisin. Used to carry a few around when rabbitting and would never put a ferret down a burrow if it had had a raisin. The ferret would go to sleep. But they were great for getting a young ferret out of a warren.

In moderation.

valnrob · Guru

Macadamia nuts are not good either, our doggie ate some and he was very sick. We make sure no one gives him nuts now.

allinone · Senior Member

valnrob wrote:
Macadamia nuts are not good either, our doggie ate some and he was very sick. We make sure no one gives him nuts now.

I will have to agree on the Macadamia nuts, Jack the cross Maltese/Miny Foxy nearly always threw them up one or two, surely a sign that the dog is rejecting them. But he loves natural almonds as a treat, and if he was travelling with me would be nearly mostly vegetarian again. Yes I've heard the bit about grapes etc but would still give them to him anytime.

But expanding dried fruit like sultanas, raisens, goji berries and dried apricots need to be given in moderation perhaps in case of large swelling in the intestines (my uneducated theory) which is different to the one about renal failure.. But saying that he swallows chicken necks whole, go figure that one out, where do they go different to a grape??

Every dog may be different

neilnruth · Guru

Avocado skin is also noxious to them. Our (son's) dog has been eating all sorts of things for the past year as we were told he had cancer and we figured the cancer was going to get him. He is still alive, has had a great 12 months and the vet says he is in good health heart-wise, teeth and eyes and doubts the lymphoma will take him. I think his guts are made of steel but I still would not give him the above. Thanks for the warning.