What kinds of food are bad for dogs?

Question

I know dogs should not eat chocolate . . . anything else?

Answer 1

Here are just a few. I'll include a link to a page of bad foods.

Onions cause hemolytic anemia, which means that the red blood cells break down leaving the dog short of oxygen. Onion poisoning can occur with a single ingestion of large quantities or with repeated meals containing small amounts of onion. The condition generally improves once the dog is prevented from eating any further onion. The quantity of onions, raw or cooked, required is high enough that dogs can generally tolerate small doses of onions without any problem and moderate amounts of onion without apparent signs of onion poisoning. 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.

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.

Peaches, Pears, Apricots, cherries, Apple: The seed pit contains cyanogenic glycosides which can cause cyanide poisoning.

Bread dough: When bread dough is ingested your dog's body heat causes the dough to rise in the stomach. During the rising process alcohol is produced as the dough expands. Pets who have eaten bread dough may experience abdominal pain, bloat, vomiting, disorientation and depression. A pet needs to eat only a small amount to cause a problem, because bread dough can rise to many times its size.

Grapes or raisins: Although the minimum lethal dosage is not known, grapes and raisins can be toxic to dogs when ingested in large quantities. The symptoms are gastrointestinal signs including vomiting and diarrhea, and then signs of kidney failure with an onset of severe kidney signs starting about 24 hours after ingestion. The amount of grapes eaten varied between 9 oz. and 2 lbs., which worked out to be between 0.41 and 1.1 oz/kg of body weight. It has been reported that two dogs died directly from the toxicity, three were euthanized due to poor response to treatment and five dogs lived.

Tomato and tomato plants: These contain atropine which can cause dialated pupils, tremors and irregular heartbeat. The highest concentration of atropine is found in the leaves and stems of tomato plants, next is the unripe (green) tomatoes and then the ripe tomato.

Answer 2

Caffeine is very bad which include:
1) energy drinks
2) coffee
3) chocolate
4) soda (and some beer now)

Honey contains botulism and is not metabolized by dogs

Sugars are not good either.

Many dogs have corn and wheat allergies as well

Answer 3

http://www.hankiebears.com/Things%20not%20to%20feed%20your%20dog.pdf
is a nice list of things that are just not good for your dogs to eat.

A quick version though:

Chocolate or anything with caffeine (coffee, tea, etc)
Grapes and Raisins
Milk
Onions
Sugary Foods

Answer 4

ALL OF IT! I feed my american bulldogs all natural diet of meats and vegetables. No dog food, it's all crap. They do much better, their coats and skin is so much heathier and they used to chew at their pads, which they don't do anymore. Dog food is basically all the leftover **** they can't give to people. I personally would go crazy eating the same crap everyday. But one must do their research before deciding to do a all natural diet.

Answer 5

Is Capsicum Good For Dogs

Answer 6

There's actually a lot of foods that are bad for dogs. I know chocolate, onions, potatoes, nuts, bread, coffee, tea, anything with caffeine, anything with citrus, grapes, raisins, anything with a lot of iron, milk, raw eggs, raw fish, fish bones, cooked bones,and then obviously moldy food.

Answer 7

Onions, capsicum, lettuce, cabbage, ham (a little is ok), anything citrusy.......cooked bones are a definite no!

Play it on the safe side and don't give your dog any human food...stick to designated dog food and you should have no problems

Answer 8

Most table scraps (hard to provide balance), raw meats, raw or cooked bones, and a multitude of minorly toxic items such as the chocolate you mentioned. Try this site: www.peteducation.com and a search of (dog toxic) brings up quite a few.

Answer 9

http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cls=2&cat=1939&articleid=1030

Is a decent site, and it provides very good reasoning. There are so many harmful foods out there for dogs.

Answer 10

they cant have anytihng that going harm their health and even gave them heart worms . such as no fruits , but you can gave them little vegetables thats cut into little pieces . they cant have cookies , or not too much icecreams cause make some dogs go crazy and hyper , and will gave them bad teeth problems . no yogurt,bread,soups,sodas,gums, candies,cakes ,no any ppl medicans . no chips,corns,tuna,butter,fish,crabs, shrimps,no chickenbones, pork, none of ay tables foods cause i heard that if you feed the dogs anything thats grease or fat in it can cause them have worms and lung cancers, heart disease , kill them .


but hotdogs, green peas , other safer foods is ohokay if it not uncook foods .