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[Daingurse]

Never known a dog to eat fruit.

My dog actually likes lemons and oranges.

 

[Lashley]

One of my dogs has ate grapes before (He was fine), he eats other fruits too.

One Christmas morning we came down to find he'd ate all the chocolate truffles and was drunk.

15 years old and still going strong.

 

[Complistic]

I'm pretty sure my childhood dog used to love eating grapes.

well is he dead now?

Case in point.

 

[LyleLanley]

well is he dead now?

Case in point.

I hope you're disgusted with yourself. This joke was made on the first page.

 

[SneakyStephan]

I knew about chocolate (though from what I heard and have seen they'd have to eat a very large amount of it to die from it, never seen a dog get sick from getting a small piece as a treat).

Grapes is new to me though.
My dog (rip sandy ) wouldn't eat grapes.

 

[gaugebozo]

So some of these are exaggerations. Chocolate (especially dark) and grapes can be dangerous in very low amounts, but I think only the pit is a problem for stone fruit (That's an Ahhv-a-cado eatin' dawg!") is the pit. Also, for like 30 pound dogs, they have to eat like an entire onion or a whole bunch of garlic. Just some in food won't cause problems.

 

[Freshmaker]

So some of these are exaggerations. I chocolate (especially dark) and grapes can be dangerous in very low amounts, but I think only the pit is a problem for stone fruit (That's an Ahhv-a-cado eatin' dawg!") is the pit. Also, for like 30 pound dogs, they have to eat like an entire onion or a whole bunch of garlic. Just some in food won't cause problems.

I wouldn't put it past a dog to eat a whole onion. We had a Springer Spaniel that ate a whole ginger root once. (Didn't seem to hurt him, but some dogs just don't care and will keep on eating even the most pleasant things.)

 

[foxuzamaki]

Can somebody explain to me how dogs can just drop dead from eating these not only normal but even healthy foods, does it have something to do with being a carnivore? And people are saying its toxic and poisonous, in what way?

 

[CrocMother]

Can somebody explain to me how dogs can just drop dead from eating these not only normal but even healthy foods, does it have something to do with being a carnivore? And people are saying its toxic and poisonous, in what way?

It causes renal failure. Scientists are not sure. The relationship between the chemicals in food and the body are incredibly complex and poorly understood, even for human beings.

 

[Freshmaker]

Can somebody explain to me how dogs can just drop dead from eating these not only normal but even healthy foods, does it have something to do with being a carnivore? And people are saying its toxic and poisonous, in what way?

Healthy is relative. The human system is actually one of the more robust ones in nature. We get by where other things can't mainly because we're really durable. Never assume that what's good for you is good for another species.

IIRC, dogs tend to be unable to break down the sugars in grapes so they get their kidneys ruined by them.

Humans also suffer from chocolate toxicity, but they have an innate sense to stop eating before things go wrong. Dogs don't have that trigger so they'll just eat an entire bag of chocolate chips etc. (Not necessarily fatal but it gave one of my dogs a nasty case of diarrhea and it acted like it was cracked out.)

Acetaminophen wrecks their liver super fast. Comparatively small body mass does them no favors vs standard dosage for humans etc.

Onions mess up their red blood cells making them less able to process oxygen. Large doses induce anemia.

 

[nictron]

Xylitol shuts down their liver almost immediately. Be careful with gum.

 

[jonnyp]

Our black lab ate lots of grapes. Never did seem to bother him at all.

 

[Poona]

Never known a dog to eat fruit.

Had apple and cherry plum trees where I used to live and whenever my dogs went near they'd always eat them off the ground.

My dog today will have strawberries, tomato, mandarin, cantaloupe, watermelon, pineapple and apple but especially loves bananas.

She loves many vegetables too. Had a vegetable garden once which kind of just ended as she loved to raid it.

 

[CrocMother]

Our black lab ate lots of grapes. Never did seem to bother him at all.

Well your dog could have easily died. You were quite fortunate.

 

[Askherserenity]

Thanks for this thread! Really had no idea.

 

[xkramz]

the timing.

 

[KrisB]

Wow, didn't know about the grapes, knew about a few of the others. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[NewGame]

We fed our dog fruit for a long time. Apples and pears, cherries and orange.

Didn't hurt it one bit.

Oh but it did get some gas.

 

[CrazyDude]

What food is poison to humans but other animals can eat it?

 

[hateradio]

the timing.

Gaf hates and loves dogs.

 

[Hibiki Kurosawa]

Yeah, I found this out recently. Me and my family were dogsitting for another family and I would always have grapes every morning and thought it would be harmless to give the dog one and I did. Nothing happened, but later I told someone about giving a grape to the dog when she told me she fed her dog yogurt and she told me how I have to be super careful about giving dogs grapes. Had I not brought that up I probably would have fed the dog many more grapes which could have led to some troublesome shit. I got lucky.

 

[darkblade77]

IIRC isn't this why commercial grape ice cream doesn't exist, at least in the US?

 

[hughesta]

My dog somehow ate liquid grape candlewax. We had a candle in one of our bathroom and it must have tipped over somehow. He barely made it, but he did. He's a good boy

 

[Toxi]

What food is poison to humans but other animals can eat it?

Quite a few. Any kind of fruit that's poisonous to humans (like holly berries) isn't poisonous to some animals that will transport and poop out the seeds.

 

[moniker]

Once when I was a kid, we went out and left the dog and home for a couple of hours (small cocker spaniel). For some reason this dog, who was never usually a problem, decided to knock down all of the Easter baskets from a shelf (out of his reach) and eat all of the Easter candies and chocolate. There was quite a bit. To be honest, I'm not sure how he survived, but he greeted us at the door when we got home by immediately vomiting up the contents of the entire basket, foil wrappers and all, right at our feet as soon as the door opened. After that he actually seemed none the worse for wear, so maybe he got lucky and something made him vomit before too much could get digested.

I always assumed the chocolate thing was a bit hyperbole because growing up my friends dad would feed his big ass german shepard king sized butterfingers and shit all the time and that thing outlived 2 of my dogs.

Guess im surprised it never killed it.

It depends of lot of factors. Theobromine content varies greatly between different kinds of chocolate. Milk chocolate contains a lot less of it than dark chocolate (and the concentration varies in dark chocolate as well). The size of the dog makes a huge difference as well. Chocolate will poison a 2 kg chihuahua a lot faster than an 80 kg mastiff (obviously).

IIRC theobromine is "only" three times as poisonous for dogs as for humans, so for big breeds, chocolate isn't exceedingly dangerous, unless they eat unusually large amounts of it.

 

[FiddyShadeJ]

Wow I remember reading this after my dog wound up eating some grapes. She's fine but lesson learned.

 

[Maximus.]

Yup, dogs are not compatible with a lot of food that we would think is harmless. Always a good idea to double check before feeding them any food and to be aware when they are on a walk or running around outside.

 

[Meciu]

I've always been wondering what makes dogs so vulnerable to so many different things? I feel sorry for the owner of the dog.

 

[Kangi]

Always saddens me to see people who feed their dogs lots of human food without ever reading up on what's toxic to them. Like my mother does...

Scraps of plain chicken, big bones that won't splinter, and peanut butter are some good go-tos, but any treat can turn them into greedy slobs if you aren't careful about moderation.

 

[Brakke]

Oh wow holy shit sometimes when I'm eating cherries I'll give my guy half of one. I had no idea! Somehow I knew about the rest of these but nobody ever said "stone fruits" out loud so I didn't put it together. I did some poking around and it looks like maybe they're ok in very small doses (all I've ever given him) but I'll definitely tread careful. Cherries never get called out explicitly on those guides...

 

[Keyser Soze]

My dog understands the word chocolate, and he will sit down and act super nice if he hears the word. I sometime give him the tiniest bit, and he likes it, and he is then super happy about it afterwards. He is never sick, but I never give him a large amount, and it is usually very low cocoa (25%) milk chocolate. Sometimes if he hears the word chocolate mentioned, he refuses to eat any other food left down for him. He's weird.

The only big problem is I think he would eat a whole bar of chocolate if he found it.

 

[Kangi]

The only big problem is I think he would eat a whole bar of chocolate if he found it.

Yep. That's the issue with these borderline cases (like the mention of pitted fruits earlier); you know how to prepare it and how much to give, but your dog doesn't. It's alright if you're confident in your ability to keep your dog away from human food, but a dog acquiring a taste for potentially dangerous food can be a disaster waiting to happen when you're not paying attention.

Though it's true in any case that dogs can't help but try to gorge themselves. I have to be careful with even safe foods around my Hoover of a pug, because one dropped baby carrot means she's begging for some every time I have any around.

 

[Red Liquorice]

I know about chocolate but they love it!

My dog is weird, I've had other dogs in the past who would never eat fruit, but this guy likes apple, banana, even orange and I've never known a dog to like citrus fruit. Grapes too.

 

[rykomatsu]

My old dog was a tomato monster...he ravaged our tomato patch...and only the ripe ones too...came back from the backyard with a yellow nose during summer everyday.

A single grape made him really really sick, though :-(

 

[Nekofrog]

are sour patch kids poisonous to dogs?

they're probably not good for them.

 

[Dec]

Worth noting that cats have a lot of the same risks.

Don't feed your cat human Tuna very often (if at all if you can help it), very large amounts of Mercury that is safe for Humans but a very large amount for cats.

Onions. Will barf all over in a best case scenario.

Milk. Will give them the shits. Cat milk is a thing.

Grapes and Raisins.

Chocolate.

Bones.

 

[C.Dark.DN]

I got bit the other week taking a grape away from my dog. I gave it to her cause I didn't know.

 

[Nekofrog]

also, this son of a bitch. this son of a bitch, once every 6 months, will go outside and eat a cherry from our cherry tree. he'll spend the next 24 hours shitting liquid everywhere before remembering that there was a reason he isn't supposed to eat them.

malamute/wolf hybrids are really stupid sometimes, but goddamn are they beautiful

 

[suzu]

Kinda surprised that so many people don't know about these (the common ones at least).

Or even purposely let their pets eat risky food. It's not worth it even if they don't get ill.. who wants to deal with explosive shit? lol

I thought dogs loved chocolate? I've seen one open up a Mars bar like candy that was still wrapped on the floor on the street and after it managed to open the wrapper it processed to eat the whole thing.

I mean.. I've seen dogs try to eat rocks before.

 

[Radec]

I once let my dogs ate a bread with raisins on it.

Never again.

- -

My Huskies hate Bananas though. They don't like the smell.

 

[213372bu]

I use this as a guide:

Yup, though I wouldn't trust popcorn as there are other variables that could cause your dogs to have problems. Even having a serving of fully-popped perfect popcorn can lead to stomachaches.

Additionally, a good snack that can be made at home are dehydrated Sweet Potatoes, they don't necessarily have to be cooked either.

 

[Spiritreaver]

Apples, carrots, and blueberries are my goto dog treat as I always have them around and they can be easily given out in super small portions that equate to almost nothing nutritionally.

Popcorn is the same way but I'm not a fan with the way it sticks to your mouth, can't be any better for a dog.

 

[TheExecutive]

I'm pretty sure my childhood dog used to love eating grapes.

Also add macadamia nuts to the list of things that can kill them.
And avoid avocados too.

Edit: link

It even says in the above article that grapes and raisins are deadly for some dogs and not all. Sounds like an allergy tbh.

 

[213372bu]

It even says in the above article that grapes and raisins are deadly for some dogs and not all. Sounds like an allergy tbh.

Just because a dog like to eat something doesn't mean it won't cause bad effects though.

A dog will eat raw meat, chocolate, alcohol etc. when they are all bad for it. It's not like it is able to do the research and find out what will cause their lifespans to shorten.

 

[NekoFever]

Plenty of people don't know about the chocolate thing, to be fair. My cousin posted photos on Facebook one Christmas day of her dog hilariously eating dozens of chocolate decorations that were hanging on the tree. Oddly she didn't post another silly photo of it vomiting everywhere.

 

[pj]

IIRC isn't this why commercial grape ice cream doesn't exist, at least in the US?

Yep, same reason we don't have chocolate ice cream. Or chocolate covered raisins.

 

[CitizenCope]

My dog that loved to play with and eat grapes and one year ate my entire bag of Halloween candy lived to 15.
Maybe she would have been 17. =(

 

[Volimar]

IIRC isn't this why commercial grape ice cream doesn't exist, at least in the US?

http://www.bromygod.com/2015/04/15/grape-ice-cream-is-illegal-thanks-to-ben-and-jerrys/

1976 was the year Ben from ‘Ben and Jerry’s’ tried to make grape ice cream. Ben confessed in a People Magazine interview in 1984 that he had a huge crush on Becky (Jerry’s sister) and promised to create the flavor just for her. Knowing the history of grape ice cream, she coyly requested it, thinking it to be impossible. Ben began to include the grape skin and juice to better see the differences between batches. It turns out that the grape skins were the key to his success in making the ice cream, but that victory was short lived.

“Becky jokingly gave her dog a lick from the cone. He liked it and took a couple of licks. Then he just gasped and dropped dead. He flipped down onto the floor and was just gone. I had no idea grapes are toxic to dogs. Specifically to the anthocyanin. Becky was devasted. I had invented a deadly dog poison, and I definitely wasn’t getting anywhere with her now.”

Ben then relayed the information to the pharmaceutical industry and in 1982 the FDA banned the ale of grape flavored ice creams or sherbets. They even banned the sale of artificial flavored grape ice cream due to pet hazards. The ban ends in 2028 and who knows if the FDA will renew that ban or not.

 

[Calamari41]

Anyone else's dog go apeshit for sweets?

My shepherd will sit patiently in whatever spot I assign her when she begs but when I'm eating any kind of candy or ice cream she'll ignore all commands and climb into my mouth.

My dog is the same way, a perfect citizen who will sit down at a glance and patiently wait through a hurricane to be released.

But then one day I accidentally dropped a McDonald's fry on the ground near her. Now whenever she gets a whiff of a fry or sees that red box, all bets are off. She would climb up my leg like a cat on one of those tall scratching post things if she could.

 

[gaming_noob]

I saw a dog owner feeding his fully grown golden retriever some grapes the other day. Are some dogs ok with grapes?