20 FOODS you should
NEVER FEED your PETS!!!
(I don't agree with #1 or #14
so long as it's in moderation.)
#1 HAM:
Ham and other fatty meat are high in fat, which can lead to a life-threatening pancreatic. In addition to being high in fat, these foods are very salty and can cause serious stomach upset if eaten by your cats or dogs. Furthermore, large breeds of dogs that eat salty food may drink too much water and develop a potentially fatal condition called bloat. The stomach fills up with gas and within several hours may twist on itself, causing the animal to die. So avoid giving ham an/ or rich/salty meats to your pets.
#2 Bones: NO NOOOONO
Bones are very dangerous for animals. Every year thousands of animals end up in the emergency room from eating bones, usually given by their owners as a treat. The fact is that dogs are omnivores, not carnivores. Most dogs and cats can't tolerate bones, since they can splinter or lodge in the intestinal tract with disastrous results, usually requiring surgery.
Bones can also get stuck in your pet's mouth or throat, which is just as dangerous. Bones of all kinds are bad; this includes Pork, Chicken, and Beef. So the next time you feel the urge to give your dog a bone, just make sure it's a"MILK-BONES"} or a{"NYLABONE"}.Your pet will love you for it. ( You don't understand what a bones can do to your puppies/dogs-cats, I do! In 1973 it go in to the intestinal tract of the bowels and cut them up very bad, you have to call/go to the veterinarian, ASP?. that may require surgery in can cost you $500. in 1973 ~ but today may cost you-$2,500.00, I know someone who would not listening, he pay this cost in 2006. Please {NO BONES!!!!!!
#3 Chocolate:
A potential lethal dose of chocolate for a 16 pound animal is only two ounces of barker's chocolate or 16 ounces of milk chocolate. Chocolate contains theobromine, which causes increased heart rate, central nervous system stimulation, and constriction of arteries in pets. Clinical symptoms range from vomiting, diarrhea, restlessness, and excitability to cardiac failure, seizures, and death. A serious reaction can occur as quickly as four to six hours after ingestion.
#4 Raisins/Grapes:
You can see what happen
DOG OWNERS AT the bottom
PLEASE READ IT ON RAISINS!!! THANK YOU!
A recent study found that raisins and grapes can lead to gastrointestinal signs like vomiting and diarrhea to life-threatening kidney failure, which starts in about 24 hours after ingestion. Small dogs can also choke on grapes, so it's best to make sure that you provide your pets with a well-balanced diet that's formulated for their life stage.
#5 Potato Peel:
Potato peels contain oxalates, which adversely affect pet's digestive, nervous, and urinary tract systems. Symptoms include lethargy, depression, vomiting, diarrhea, and seizures.
#6 Apple Core/Apricot Pits:
The pits and cores of these delicious fruits contain cyanogenic glycosides, which, when eaten by cats or dog, may result in cyanide poisoning. Signs of toxicity include salivation, apprehension, dilated pupils, difficulty breathing, dizziness, collapse, coma, seizures, hyperventilation, and shock.
#7 Alcohol:
It doesn't take much alcohol to intoxicate a pet. Animals will stagger and bump into things, hurting themselves; alcohol also causes them to urinate uncontrollably. In high doses, it will suppress the central nervous, respiratory, and cardiac systems, and can even lead to death. It's best to just give your pet water-(H2-0).
#8 Moldy Foods:
Dogs and cats get food poisoning, like humans, and actually die from eating moldy or spoiled food, which can contain multiple toxins causing vomiting, diarrhea, tremors, shaking, and seizures. Garbage gut is definitely dangerous, so don't feed anything you wouldn't eat to your pets. PLEASE ONLY FEED YOUR PETS DOGS~PUPPIES FOOD ONLY!
#9 Avocado:
First, avocado are high in fat and can cause your pet stomach upset, vomiting, and even pancreatitis. Second, the pit, besides being toxic, can get lodged in your pet's intestinal tract, leading to a severer blockage that may require surgery. Symptoms of toxicity include difficulty breathing, abdominal enlargement, and abnormal fluid accumulation in the chest and abdomen.
#10 Caffeine:
Refrain from giving your pets coffee, as caffeine is unsafe for them. It contains methylated xanthine, like chocolate, that stimulates the central nervous and cardiac systems and, within several hours, causes vomiting, restlessness, heart palpitations, and even death. So make sure your pets stay away from that early morning brew, they love it with sugar/milk or creamers.NOT GOOD!!!
#11 Mushrooms:
Mushroom toxicity can be fatal if certain species of mushrooms are ingested. These can contain toxins that may affect multiple systems in your pet's body leading to shock and eventually death. Clinical signs include abdominal pain, seizures, hallucinations, depression, vomiting, and diarrhea.
#12 Tuna:
A cat's heart muscle requires an amino acid called ta-urine to maintain normal strength and function. Canned tuna fish does not have this amino acid, and cats that eat too much tuna fish will develop heart problems. If you want to give your cats the taste of tuna that they love, just make sure it's tuna fish for cats, which has the amino acid ta-urine added.
#13 Liver:
Eating large amounts of liver can cause vitamin A toxicity, which severely affects muscles and bones. Hypervitamionosis A causes severs changes including constipation, deformed bones, weight loss, anorexia, and neck joint, or spine stiffness due to excessive bone growth on the elbows and spine.
#14 Fat:
A pet's consumption of fat trimmings can cause pancreatitis, which leads to vomiting and diarrhea. Pets with pancreatitis are usually lethargic with severe stomach pain, and often become dehydrated. If left untreated, the condition can be fatal.
#15 Dough:
If ingested, yeast dough will expand in a pet's stomach or intestines and produce large amounts of gas in the digestive system, causing severe pain and even rupture of the stomach or intestines. Secondly, as the dough ferments it produces alcohol, which can be toxic as well, Symptoms include vomiting, abdominal discomfort, lethargy, or depression.
#16 Milk/Cheese:
Many pets are lactose-intolerant and develop diarrhea when drinking milk. Pets lack the enzyme that's required to break down milk sugar, and this causes them to develop vomiting, diarrhea, and other gastrointestinal symptoms. Even though your pets like it and were nursed as infants on their mother's milk, refrain from giving them milk. Cheese, even in small amounts, is too high in fat and can lead to a life-threatening pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas).
#17 Macadamia Nuts:
These tasty nuts contain an unknown toxin that can seriously affect a pet's digestive tract, nervous system, and skeletal muscles. Clinical signs include vomiting weakness, depression, diarrhea, panting, difficulty walking, and muscle tremors. Dogs have become violently ill from ingesting as few asSIX MACADAMIA NUTS!
#18 Onions/Garlic:
Onions and garlic contain toxic ingredients that can damage pets'red blood cells and cause fatal consequences. Pets may develop vomiting and diarrhea, which may progress to anemia, weakness, and labored breathing. Onions, either raw or cooked, are more dangerous; a cat or dog can be seriously harmed by only a small amount. Garlic is less toxic, as pets need to ingest large amounts to cause illness.
#19 Tobacco:
Tobacco contains nicotine, which rapidly affects the digestive and nervous systems of pets. This may lead to salivation, vomiting, diarrhea, hyperactivity, shallow breathing, rapid heartbeat, collapse, coma, and even death.
#20 Rhubarb and Tomato leaves/stems:
These plants contain oxalates, which adversely affect multiple systems including the digestive, nervous, and urinary tract systems. Pets will experience vomiting, diarrhea, labored breathing, abdominal cramp, weakness, convulsions, muscle twitching, and seizures from ingesting these.
Ham and other fatty meat are high in fat, which can lead to a life-threatening pancreatic. In addition to being high in fat, these foods are very salty and can cause serious stomach upset if eaten by your cats or dogs. Furthermore, large breeds of dogs that eat salty food may drink too much water and develop a potentially fatal condition called bloat. The stomach fills up with gas and within several hours may twist on itself, causing the animal to die. So avoid giving ham an/ or rich/salty meats to your pets.
#2 Bones: NO NOOOONO
Bones are very dangerous for animals. Every year thousands of animals end up in the emergency room from eating bones, usually given by their owners as a treat. The fact is that dogs are omnivores, not carnivores. Most dogs and cats can't tolerate bones, since they can splinter or lodge in the intestinal tract with disastrous results, usually requiring surgery.
Bones can also get stuck in your pet's mouth or throat, which is just as dangerous. Bones of all kinds are bad; this includes Pork, Chicken, and Beef. So the next time you feel the urge to give your dog a bone, just make sure it's a"MILK-BONES"} or a{"NYLABONE"}.Your pet will love you for it. ( You don't understand what a bones can do to your puppies/dogs-cats, I do! In 1973 it go in to the intestinal tract of the bowels and cut them up very bad, you have to call/go to the veterinarian, ASP?. that may require surgery in can cost you $500. in 1973 ~ but today may cost you-$2,500.00, I know someone who would not listening, he pay this cost in 2006. Please {NO BONES!!!!!!
#3 Chocolate:
A potential lethal dose of chocolate for a 16 pound animal is only two ounces of barker's chocolate or 16 ounces of milk chocolate. Chocolate contains theobromine, which causes increased heart rate, central nervous system stimulation, and constriction of arteries in pets. Clinical symptoms range from vomiting, diarrhea, restlessness, and excitability to cardiac failure, seizures, and death. A serious reaction can occur as quickly as four to six hours after ingestion.
#4 Raisins/Grapes:
You can see what happen
DOG OWNERS AT the bottom
PLEASE READ IT ON RAISINS!!! THANK YOU!
A recent study found that raisins and grapes can lead to gastrointestinal signs like vomiting and diarrhea to life-threatening kidney failure, which starts in about 24 hours after ingestion. Small dogs can also choke on grapes, so it's best to make sure that you provide your pets with a well-balanced diet that's formulated for their life stage.
#5 Potato Peel:
Potato peels contain oxalates, which adversely affect pet's digestive, nervous, and urinary tract systems. Symptoms include lethargy, depression, vomiting, diarrhea, and seizures.
#6 Apple Core/Apricot Pits:
The pits and cores of these delicious fruits contain cyanogenic glycosides, which, when eaten by cats or dog, may result in cyanide poisoning. Signs of toxicity include salivation, apprehension, dilated pupils, difficulty breathing, dizziness, collapse, coma, seizures, hyperventilation, and shock.
#7 Alcohol:
It doesn't take much alcohol to intoxicate a pet. Animals will stagger and bump into things, hurting themselves; alcohol also causes them to urinate uncontrollably. In high doses, it will suppress the central nervous, respiratory, and cardiac systems, and can even lead to death. It's best to just give your pet water-(H2-0).
#8 Moldy Foods:
Dogs and cats get food poisoning, like humans, and actually die from eating moldy or spoiled food, which can contain multiple toxins causing vomiting, diarrhea, tremors, shaking, and seizures. Garbage gut is definitely dangerous, so don't feed anything you wouldn't eat to your pets. PLEASE ONLY FEED YOUR PETS DOGS~PUPPIES FOOD ONLY!
#9 Avocado:
First, avocado are high in fat and can cause your pet stomach upset, vomiting, and even pancreatitis. Second, the pit, besides being toxic, can get lodged in your pet's intestinal tract, leading to a severer blockage that may require surgery. Symptoms of toxicity include difficulty breathing, abdominal enlargement, and abnormal fluid accumulation in the chest and abdomen.
#10 Caffeine:
Refrain from giving your pets coffee, as caffeine is unsafe for them. It contains methylated xanthine, like chocolate, that stimulates the central nervous and cardiac systems and, within several hours, causes vomiting, restlessness, heart palpitations, and even death. So make sure your pets stay away from that early morning brew, they love it with sugar/milk or creamers.NOT GOOD!!!
#11 Mushrooms:
Mushroom toxicity can be fatal if certain species of mushrooms are ingested. These can contain toxins that may affect multiple systems in your pet's body leading to shock and eventually death. Clinical signs include abdominal pain, seizures, hallucinations, depression, vomiting, and diarrhea.
#12 Tuna:
A cat's heart muscle requires an amino acid called ta-urine to maintain normal strength and function. Canned tuna fish does not have this amino acid, and cats that eat too much tuna fish will develop heart problems. If you want to give your cats the taste of tuna that they love, just make sure it's tuna fish for cats, which has the amino acid ta-urine added.
#13 Liver:
Eating large amounts of liver can cause vitamin A toxicity, which severely affects muscles and bones. Hypervitamionosis A causes severs changes including constipation, deformed bones, weight loss, anorexia, and neck joint, or spine stiffness due to excessive bone growth on the elbows and spine.
#14 Fat:
A pet's consumption of fat trimmings can cause pancreatitis, which leads to vomiting and diarrhea. Pets with pancreatitis are usually lethargic with severe stomach pain, and often become dehydrated. If left untreated, the condition can be fatal.
#15 Dough:
If ingested, yeast dough will expand in a pet's stomach or intestines and produce large amounts of gas in the digestive system, causing severe pain and even rupture of the stomach or intestines. Secondly, as the dough ferments it produces alcohol, which can be toxic as well, Symptoms include vomiting, abdominal discomfort, lethargy, or depression.
#16 Milk/Cheese:
Many pets are lactose-intolerant and develop diarrhea when drinking milk. Pets lack the enzyme that's required to break down milk sugar, and this causes them to develop vomiting, diarrhea, and other gastrointestinal symptoms. Even though your pets like it and were nursed as infants on their mother's milk, refrain from giving them milk. Cheese, even in small amounts, is too high in fat and can lead to a life-threatening pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas).
#17 Macadamia Nuts:
These tasty nuts contain an unknown toxin that can seriously affect a pet's digestive tract, nervous system, and skeletal muscles. Clinical signs include vomiting weakness, depression, diarrhea, panting, difficulty walking, and muscle tremors. Dogs have become violently ill from ingesting as few asSIX MACADAMIA NUTS!
#18 Onions/Garlic:
Onions and garlic contain toxic ingredients that can damage pets'red blood cells and cause fatal consequences. Pets may develop vomiting and diarrhea, which may progress to anemia, weakness, and labored breathing. Onions, either raw or cooked, are more dangerous; a cat or dog can be seriously harmed by only a small amount. Garlic is less toxic, as pets need to ingest large amounts to cause illness.
#19 Tobacco:
Tobacco contains nicotine, which rapidly affects the digestive and nervous systems of pets. This may lead to salivation, vomiting, diarrhea, hyperactivity, shallow breathing, rapid heartbeat, collapse, coma, and even death.
#20 Rhubarb and Tomato leaves/stems:
These plants contain oxalates, which adversely affect multiple systems including the digestive, nervous, and urinary tract systems. Pets will experience vomiting, diarrhea, labored breathing, abdominal cramp, weakness, convulsions, muscle twitching, and seizures from ingesting these.
If you have a dog ... PLEASE read this and send it on. If you don't have a dog, please pass along to friends who do.
Written by:
Laurinda Morris, DVM
Danville Veterinary Clinic
Danville , OH
This week I had the first case in history of raisin
toxicity ever seen at MedVet. My patient was
a 56-pound, 5 yr old male neutered lab mix
that ate half a canister of raisins sometime
between 7:30 AM and 4:30 PM on Tuesday. He
started with vomiting, diarrhea and shaking
about 1 AM on Wednesday but the owner didn't
call my emergency service until 7 AM..
I had heard somewhere about raisins AND
grapes causing acute Renal failure but hadn't
seen any formal paper on the subject. We
had her bring the dog in immediately.
In the meantime, I called the ER service at MedVet, and the doctor there was like me - had heard something about it, but... Anyway, we
contacted the ASPCA National Animal Poison
Control Center and they said to give IV fluids
at 1 & 1/2 times maintenance and watch the
kidney values for the next 48-72 hours.
The dog's BUN (blood urea nitrogen level) was
already at 32 (normal less than 27) and creatinine over 5 (1.9 is the high end of normal). Both are monitors of kidney function in the bloodstream. We placed an IV catheter and started the fluids. Rechecked the renal values at 5 PM and the BUN was over 40 and creatinine over 7 with no urine production after a liter of fluids. At that point I felt the dog was in acute renal failure and sent him on to MedVet for a urinary catheter to monitor urine output overnight as well as overnight care.
He started vomiting again overnight at MedVet
and his renal values continued to increase daily. He produced urine when given lasix as a
diuretic. He was on 3 different anti-vomiting
medications and they still couldn't control his
vomiting. Today his urine output decreased
again, his BUN was over 120, his creatinine was at 10, his phosphorus was very elevated and his blood pressure, which had been staying around 150, skyrocketed to 220 ... He continued to vomit and the owners elected to Euthanize.
This is a very sad case - great dog, great owners who had no idea raisins could be a toxin.
Please alert everyone you know who has a dog of this very serious risk.
Poison control said as few as 7 raisins or grapes could be toxic... Many people I know give their dogs grapes or raisins as treats including our ex-handler's. Any exposure should give rise to immediate concern..
Onions, chocolate, cocoa, avocadoes and macadamia nuts can be fatal, too.
Even if you don't have a dog, you might have friends who do... This is worth passing on to them. Confirmation from Snopes about the above ....
http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/raisins.asp
“Raisin the Alarm”
Written by:
Laurinda Morris, DVM
Danville Veterinary Clinic
Danville , OH
This week I had the first case in history of raisin
toxicity ever seen at MedVet. My patient was
a 56-pound, 5 yr old male neutered lab mix
that ate half a canister of raisins sometime
between 7:30 AM and 4:30 PM on Tuesday. He
started with vomiting, diarrhea and shaking
about 1 AM on Wednesday but the owner didn't
call my emergency service until 7 AM..
I had heard somewhere about raisins AND
grapes causing acute Renal failure but hadn't
seen any formal paper on the subject. We
had her bring the dog in immediately.
In the meantime, I called the ER service at MedVet, and the doctor there was like me - had heard something about it, but... Anyway, we
contacted the ASPCA National Animal Poison
Control Center and they said to give IV fluids
at 1 & 1/2 times maintenance and watch the
kidney values for the next 48-72 hours.
The dog's BUN (blood urea nitrogen level) was
already at 32 (normal less than 27) and creatinine over 5 (1.9 is the high end of normal). Both are monitors of kidney function in the bloodstream. We placed an IV catheter and started the fluids. Rechecked the renal values at 5 PM and the BUN was over 40 and creatinine over 7 with no urine production after a liter of fluids. At that point I felt the dog was in acute renal failure and sent him on to MedVet for a urinary catheter to monitor urine output overnight as well as overnight care.
He started vomiting again overnight at MedVet
and his renal values continued to increase daily. He produced urine when given lasix as a
diuretic. He was on 3 different anti-vomiting
medications and they still couldn't control his
vomiting. Today his urine output decreased
again, his BUN was over 120, his creatinine was at 10, his phosphorus was very elevated and his blood pressure, which had been staying around 150, skyrocketed to 220 ... He continued to vomit and the owners elected to Euthanize.
This is a very sad case - great dog, great owners who had no idea raisins could be a toxin.
Please alert everyone you know who has a dog of this very serious risk.
Poison control said as few as 7 raisins or grapes could be toxic... Many people I know give their dogs grapes or raisins as treats including our ex-handler's. Any exposure should give rise to immediate concern..
Onions, chocolate, cocoa, avocadoes and macadamia nuts can be fatal, too.
Even if you don't have a dog, you might have friends who do... This is worth passing on to them. Confirmation from Snopes about the above ....
http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/raisins.asp
“Raisin the Alarm”