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.

How do I touch my pet dog?

Do you like pet dogs?
If so, you may want to touch softly your dog to express your emotion for it.

If you really love your pet dog, you need to know that dogs have some parts which they don't want to be touched.

As you can see from the picture above, back and waist and chest of dogs are the parts which dogs like being touched.

When you meet a pet dog for the first time, it is good that you touch chest or back and waist of it from the side not front side.
Being touched from unfamiliar person at the front is a kind of war of nerves to dogs.

Do not stretch your arms toward your pet dog as you are standing

That is one of very threatening actions to your dog.
You must sit down and not look at it at the front when you touch it.

Do not stroke its head powerfully

That can make your dog nervous.
Please touch it softly.

Do not touch back regs

That is very rude to your dog.

Do not hug the neck of your dog from behind

When you face your dog, the best position is the side.
Facing it at the front means challenge and approaching from behind can make it surprised.

If you really love your dog, please remember my posting.