My bf almost killed my dogs at dinner tonight

[BoomerD]

http://www.starbreezes.com/11/foodsafe.html

http://www.envtox.ucdavis.edu/cehs/TOXINS/dogs.htm

http://www.peteducation.com/category_summary.cfm?cls=2&cat=1939

http://www.co.clackamas.or.us/dc/health/poisons.htm

http://www.virtualvet.com/petowners/poisonfacts.htm

 

[destrekor]

yea, some things are not nearly as bad as some lead people to believe.. a normal sized dog can consume a rather large portion of chocolate and be fine, if not simply vomit.
its like humans and caffeine, a smallish amount simply has side effects on us, but in large doges (multiple grams, sometimes less depending on the person), we will vomit, and in even larger doses we can enter comas or simply die.

we had fed our dog table scraps all the time, it was a treat. if she begged when she shouldn't have been, we simply told her in a way that she understood to go lay down, and she'd listen. give dogs some credit. and they deserve to eat better than the crap that is their regular meal. pellets of junk isn't what I'd want to eat, and I completely support giving dog table scraps as treats every now and then.
i'd feed my dog a piece of chocolate or of something covered in chocolate, but I won't give her more than that, and not regularly either.
too much of anything, for any creature, is rarely a good thing. some people exaggerate the dangers of small treats for their pets simply because an excessive amount if dangerous. guess what, most of the things we eat on occasion could harm us if we ate whatever it was constantly, all day.

since dog's aren't exposed to foods that harm them, they will eat a ton of whatever it is. i think a good way could actually be to expose a dog to 'harmful' food, that way they start to not like it anymore and thus won't consume an amount later down the road that can lead to death. its just like us. we'll eat a lot of something because it tastes good, but if we don't learn that its also deadly, we'll eat enough to kill us. we learn that it hurts us, we either dont eat it or dont eat a lot of it.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
http://www.envtox.ucdavis.edu/cehs/TOXINS/dogs.htm

from that link:

Theobromine is also present in differing amounts in different kinds of chocolate. Milk chocolate has 44-66 mg/oz, dark chocolate 450 mg/oz and baking/bitter chocolate or cocoa powder varies as much as 150-600 mg/oz. How much chocolate a dog can survive depends on its weight (and other unknown circumstances). Under 200 mg theobromine per kg body weight no deaths have been observed.

so people who were saying chocolate is extremely lethal.. wake up. dogs can, and have been known to, consume pounds of chocolate and simply puke it up everywhere and move on. my mom's dog had done that (big thing of assorted chocolates). even a pound of dark chocolate may only induce vomit in anything besides a small breed. a lab could probably handle a pound of dark chocolate just fine.
bakers chocolate.. well why anyone would have it in reach for a dog is beyond me, we kept it in a cupboard, and i wouldn't feed it to a dog because to me it tastes like crap. its not an eating chocolate.

either way, theobromine is also in tea and coffee. its an alkaloid similar to caffeine. our body breaks it down fast enough, but its not impossible to have theobromine poisoning, but very close to impossible as it would likely take an insane amount of chocolate that would force us to puke from the stomach feeling alone, before we could ever reach toxic levels of either caffeine or theobromine.

 

[jjmIII]

People worry more about their dog than themselves.

JR (big, fat, male, Golden) loves pasta. He has never had a problem with the onions, or garlic in the sauce. He's a good boy, and loves people food so much. We have always fed our pets people food....with NO problems. They have all lived long, happy lives!

 

[SophalotJack]

Originally posted by: jjmIII
People worry more about their dog than themselves.

JR (big, fat, male, Golden) loves pasta. He has never had a problem with the onions, or garlic in the sauce. He's a good boy, and loves people food so much. We have always fed our pets people food....with NO problems. They have all lived long, happy lives!

You mean to say that you don't feed your dogs their natural food choice of freeze-dried crap pellets?!!!

You better let them out in the wild so they can sniff out those rich and abundant sources of naturally grown pellets.

 

[DrPizza]

It's the quantity that makes the poison, (as well as the size of the animal) and while a dozen people have listed poisons, in very few cases have they listed the quantities that cause it to be a poison. If I fed my dog 2 human sized servings of spaghetti, complete with sauce (oh noooes! Tomatoes!), and onions in the sauce, he wouldn't be anywhere near an even slightly harmful dose. Newsflash! Some of the foods mentioned above are toxic to humans too! Nutmeg stood out like a sore thumb... in small quantities, it's safe. In large quantities, far from safe. A piece of pumpkin pie with his Thanksgiving dinner isn't going to kill my dog though.

 

[wfbberzerker]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_health#Poisons

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: Number1
Yes take them to the vet immediately and have them put down to alleviate any suffering they may suffer. I would also report your BF to the SPCA.

I hope you're joking?