What foods are Toxic to Dogs?! Human Food can kill dogs!!

Hi everyone, welcome back. Today, I’m going to talk about What Foods Are Toxic to your dog. So I did some research on common items found at the grocery store. That might be in your fridge or pantry, where your dogs could get hold of it, and it can be toxic to them. 

So, let’s go through each of these ingredients, and you’ll have a better idea of what not to feed your dog.

Toxic Treats: Common Human Foods That Can Seriously Harm Your Dog

We love sharing our favorite snacks with our furry best friends, but did you know that some common foods in your kitchen can silently harm or even kill your dog?

In this guide, we’ll walk you through everyday items that are toxic to dogs, why they’re dangerous, and what to do if your pup gets into something they shouldn’t. Let’s keep our companions safe, because they trust us with their lives.

Grapes & Raisins – A Silent Killer: Cause of Sudden Kidney Failure in Dogs

Let’s start with some of the foods that I get the most phone calls about as a veterinarian, so let’s start with grapes.

Grapes are a very common food that is fed to dogs, which is toxic, and it is a medical emergency if your dog gets the toxic effects from them, which can cause kidney failure. Therefore, grapes and raisins both cause kidney failure in dogs. 

If you feed your dog grapes or accidentally feed them raisins, call your veterinarian, have them throw up the grapes, and then see if they need IV fluids or any other detox procedure, which your vet will find out from blood work. So grapes cause kidney failure.

Chocolate – A Sweet Treat That Can Turn Deadly

The next one that’s the most common thing is chocolate. We all love chocolate, especially on holidays like Halloween, Christmas, and Easter. There’s gonna be a lot of chocolate around, dogs love to get into chocolate, and then I also brought some Hershey kisses because these have foils around them. 

If it has owners, like I don’t know if my dog ate all of the Hershey Kisses, we take an X-ray, we can see all the aluminum on the X-ray, confirm they ate it, and then proceed to make the dogs vomit up all the chocolate.  

Then give them activated charcoal and go through with a detox procedure because chocolate has theobromine in it, which speeds up the heart rate, causes muscle tremors, leads to seizures, and in severe cases, results in death.

Caffeine – The Sneaky Threat Hiding in Your Daily Brew

Then caffeine is in here too, which does the same thing, so moving along with caffeine, you don’t want to give your dog any coffee. 

So I have a coffee here because a dog could, you know, they could dump it and lick up all the coffee on the floor, drink it, you’re in your car, and this has caffeine that speeds the heart rate, same thing as the chocolate, so no coffee for your dogs.

Sneaky Foods You’d Never Suspect  But Still Harmful for Dogs

In our kitchens, we use everyday ingredients without a second thought, but some of them, while safe for us, can quietly harm our dogs. Garlic, onions, macadamia nuts, even apple seeds and avocados. 

These might not make headlines, but they can still cause serious health issues if ignored. These are the “silent threats” we might unknowingly drop into our dog’s bowl. Let’s take a closer look at these lesser-known but dangerous foods, because our furry friends rely on us to protect them.

Garlic & Onions – Common Foods That Quietly Destroy Your Dog’s Red Blood Cells

I’ll start with garlic, and so here’s our garlic and the onions, so I’m grouping these because garlic and onions both cause anemia and dogs. 

so that means low red blood cells that’s because the toxin in both of these destroys red blood cells that’s pretty severe that’s that’s you know it’s crazy what I know that and you could make dishes of dinner at night or give your dog some pieces of the onion when you’re cooking but they are toxic to dogs. 

It depends on the quantity and how big your dog is, of how bad their toxic effect is, but overall, don’t feed your dog garlic or onions, try to avoid that.

The Lesser-Known Dangers Hiding in Nuts and Fruits

The next one is gonna be macadamia nuts. This is not that common; I don’t get a lot of phone calls about this, but they are toxic to dogs. 

Let’s say they ate this whole bag, they might get muscle tremors, be weak in the hind legs they can get seizures. 

Something says they can die from it, but this is a less common one in dogs, but they are toxic, and that goes along with apples, you know, apples, just the seeds are what is toxic, and that’s if they eat a ton of apples, like 20 apples or something, or 15 apples not. If they had one core with the seed, that’s not gonna not gonna hurt them, and the toxic effect of that is just some vomiting, diarrhea, nothing very deadly. 

So if they get hold of an apple, eat the core, and your dog is most likely gonna be okay.

Avocado – A Trendy Fruit That Could Harm Your Dog

Then, this is becoming more popular as a toxin to dogs because people are eating avocado toast and homemade, so avocados have a toxin in them called persin, and that causes vomiting and irritation; it is toxic to them. 

The pit of the avocado has most of that person in it, and if your dog swallows the pit, and first of all, the pit is stuck, and that’s a foreign body, and then it continues to release toxins, that’s the worst part about avocados is if they swallow the pit. 

So, whole avocados with no pits, and the avocados as a chew toy, and everyone will be okay.

Corn – Safe to Eat, But the Cob Can Be a Hidden Hazard

Here is corn, so corn isn’t toxic to dogs. Dogs can eat corn off the cob, but if you give your dogs corn on the cob as a chew toy, you leave it in the crate with them, they can swallow it. 

Then you have a foreign body and obstruction, don’t give them corn on the cob just straight, especially if you’re not watching them. 

So corn is not toxic, but the cob is toxic, so that’s why that’s up here, what’s not toxic it’s just an obstruction, okay.

Xylitol – A Sugar-Free Killer Hiding in Gum and Everyday Products

The next one is gum, so gum has xylitol in it, which is a sugar-free flavoring. If you get gum that does not say sugar-free you’re you’re in the clear. They use sugar, but if the ones that say sugar-free are gonna have xylitol and which causes liver failure in dogs, gum is really bad, and it kills dogs. 

So don’t have them lying out where they can eat it, or if they do get hold of it, bring them to your vet right away, have them vomit up the gu,m, and then do blood work and proceed to detoxing your dog. 

If they get hold of anything with xylitol in it, other things with xylitol are mouthwash and toothpaste, so look out for that if they get hold of those things in your house.

Beer Isn’t for Dogs – It’s Poison in a Bottle

The last item here is beer, which I have an adorable squeaky toy of a Corona Extra. Do not give your dog beer that contains hops, as it can be an irritant to their gastrointestinal tract. It also causes toxicities that happen to humans, like a taxi enough. 

A walk Street can cause seizures and coma, things like that. You don’t want to give your dog beer; it is toxic to them, and it’s not safe, so stick to water when you’re giving your dog things to drink. All right, guys, thank you for watching my video. 

This is the short list of items that I picked up, and we just went through on why each one of these is toxic. Grapes and chocolate are the most toxic foods to dogs.

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