Re: [RC] Grapes-toxic? Or chocolate? - Suzi Maiorisi
Some dogs are allergic to chocolate - that's where the deaths come
from. Chloe, my Dane again eats chocolate, too when she can get to it...I
believe my vet's nickname for her is GarbageGut, LOL! She's been known to
eat whole bags (large) of Twizzlers, malted milk balls, chocolate of any sort as
well as clean up leftovers left a brief minute too long if I got distracted
while cleaning up from dinner! She now sneaks into the kitchen to 'clean
up' the garbage can (yes, lids, covers, etc, etc) for me if she feels it's got a
treasure in it. I've sprayed her, swatted her, chased her to retrieve
disgusting things from her...all to no avail. She at least sits just
outside the dining room while we eat and waits for me to put her 'food' in the
'dish' : )
One morning, several years ago, after
the annual Easter Egg Hunt at our house (Grandpa is the Easter Bunny), the
grandkids had missed numerous foil-wrapped chocolate eggs. Our Border
Collie, who is your basic glutton and will eat anything that isn't nailed
down, had sniffed out the chocolate eggs and had scarfed them down. I
found the results all over the garage floor.......lots of mucous and about 12
different-colored pieces of foil. Casey is still alive and
kicking!
In our local newspaper, there is a vet column & I was
extremely surprised to read that raisins are deadly to dogs - like
chocolate. I can't remember if they affect the liver or the
kidneys. I immediately called my mother-in-law who give her big yellow
lab raisins! Grapes are fine for dogs, but not raisins.
Raisins (or grapes?) deadly to
dogs? That's odd, because our Border Collie loves grapes (and apples
and nectarines), and he isn't dead yet. Maybe raisins have something
in them that grapes don't?
I,ve got a neighbor who has a few thompson
seedless grapevines hanging over the fence. The grapes are fabulous and
Lancer loves them but I'm hesitant to let him have too many. I
know raisins can be deadly to dogs, anyone know about
horses?
