Looking for the dangerousfood list

by **Staffy lover** Fri Jun 07 2013, 13:39

Hiya you all wuffies and people. Been a while since I been on and yes I have missed you all. Will be back on soon, Pixee got loads to tell you Big Grin

I am looking for the dangerousfood list? the link wont work that I found on a thread, can someone please point me to the list, its for a friend,a puppy, who has eat a whole onion Surprised

, and I mentioned it may be toxin???? Is it?

by **goldie87** Fri Jun 07 2013, 14:20

Onions are very toxic to dogs. If Zeus ate a whole onion, I'd take him to the vets straight away, they are lethal.

Regarding a list, there is a very good thread on here which may help:

https://staffy-bull-terrier.niceboard.com/t454-dangerous-foods

"Onions & Garlic - Onions & garlic contain the toxic substance Thiosulphate. Onions are more of a danger than garlic, which is commonly given safely in small amounts to dogs.

Pets affected by onion toxicity will develop haemolytic anaemia, where the pet’s red blood cells burst while circulating in its body. At first, pets affected by onion poisoning show gastroenteritis with vomiting and diarrhoea. They will show no interest in food and will be dull and weak. The red pigment from the burst blood cells appears in an affected animal’s urine and it becomes breathless. The breathlessness occurs because the red blood cells that carry oxygen through the body are reduced in number. The poisoning occurs a few days after the pet has eaten the onion. 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.

Onion poisoning can occur with a single ingestion of large quantities or with repeated meals containing small amounts of onion. A single meal of 600 to 800 grams of raw onion can be dangerous whereas a ten-kilogram dog, fed 150 grams of onion for several days, is also likely to develop anaemia. The condition improves once the dog is prevented from eating any further onion.

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. "