Owner warns of risk from sultanas after death of pet dog
An Invercargill woman is warning the public to be extra vigilant about feeding their dogs treats, after her pet dalmatian died from a suspected case of sultana poisoning at the weekend.
Kerryn Douglas said the drama unfolded after 10-year-old Floyd got into a packet of sultanas left sitting in a sleepout at her home on Friday.
However, it was over-indulgence rather than anything more serious that was playing on her mind when Floyd was struck down by vomiting that afternoon. "He had more than half a kg of sultanas – he really gutsed himself," she said. (...)
The ingestion of grapes and raisins had been associated with acute renal disease that could be fatal in dogs, although it was not known why, Miss Clarke said.
She said she had not heard of another case of sultana poisoning during five years as a veterinarian in the UK and New Zealand.
Other things dangerous to dogs are:
Alcoholic beverages
Apple seeds
Apricot pits
Avocados
Cherry pits
Chocolate (baker's,semi-
...sweet, milk, dark)
Coffee (grounds, beans, ...chocolate covered ...espresso.beans)
Hops (used in home beer ...brewing)
Macadamia nuts
Moldy foods
Mushroom plants
Mustard seeds
Onions, onion powder
Peach pits
Potato leaves and stems ...(green parts)
Rhubarb leaves
Salt
Tea (caffeine)
Tomato leaves and stems ..(green parts)
Walnuts
Yeast dough
1 Comments:
At 7:38 p.m.,
Blair Anderson said…
Also potentially dangerous to dogs are cooked sheep rib bones, they turn brittle and break in a fashion that allows them to be swallowed and jam in the gullet.
I lost an exceptional male English Sheepdog of about 18months to this simple danger. Although he was kenneled at the time, a kindly neighbor who had in the past left him a bone or two did on this occasion albeit unknowingly, cause a slow, and probably painful death.
Uncooked bones do not represent the same risk.
These were different times as many who recall the six weekly trip to the hydatids dosing strip will recall. Without that 'biosecurity' doubtless we would not have the dog control bureaucracy we have today.
Although the intervention was found to be largely a massive waste of time, (a city dog wasn't allowed in the country without valid treatment certification less than 6 weeks old) uncooked or non-frozen meat or offal was a no no.
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