Know-how :: bad food for dogs

What food is bad for dogs?

Some people feed their dogs food for human because they love their dog or their dogs look like wanting eat that.

The best is not to feed dogs human food.
If you have to feed your dog human food, you need to remember that there are some food which you avoid to feed your dog.

1. chocolate

Maybe many people know that the chocolate is bad for dogs.
The ingredient 'theobromine' in chocolate can cause vomiting, diarrhea, thirst and arrhythmia for your dog.
It can even cause death of your dog.

2. onion

The onion destroys erythrocyte(=red blood cell) of your dog.
Because of that, your dog can have anemia.
It can also cause vomiting, diarrhea, losing appetite, difficulty with breathing for your dog.
In severe cases, it can even kill your dog.

3. grape

The nephrotoxicity in grape can cause renal failure for your dog.
a few of grape seeds can even kill your dog in 4 hours.

4. peanut

Eating peanut or food made of it is fatal to your dog.
its symptoms are muscle cramps, weakening muscle of hind regs, abnormal walking and vomiting etc.

5. caffeine

Eating a lot of caffeine can cause your dog's death.
Its symptoms are similar to that of eating chocolate.
So you avoid feeding your dog coffee, black tea, cocoa and coke which include caffeine.

6. chicken bones

It is natural to give dogs bones.
But cooked or be boiled bones of chicken is very danger to your dog.
Some pieces of those can be stuck in your dog's throat or scratch your dog's organ and
get it infection.

If you feed your dog one of those, you must take your dog hospital immediately.

For the happy life with pet dogs, please remember those food.