Grapes are DANGEROUS for your dog
28 Aug 2007 1 Comment
The other day, before Karen developed her grape-o-phobia, I was eating grapes. I was about to toss one to the BBD, when I decided to research the idea first. Boy am I glad I did, because I found instances of dogs dying after eating just a few grapes. It’s the same thing for raisins too. They don’t understand why this seems to be a recent occurrence, but they’ll poison a dog no matter if the grapes are commercially grown, home grown, organic or not. If your dog eats a grape, or raisin or even a raisin bagel, call your vet right away. If your vet is unfamiliar with this problem, then try to quickly explain the situation to them, and if they still are unwilling to treat your dog, go elsewhere.
What’s tragic is that many dog handlers and trainers use grapes as little motivating rewards. They don’t know that they’re actually hurting the dog and sometimes don’t find out until its too late.
Aug 29, 2007 @ 06:48:48
Wow, that’s good to know. I’ve always heard chocolate and onions were bad, but I hadn’t heard about grapes. That’s almost as weird as when I found out that parrots can’t eat avocado.