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Thanksgiving Pet Avice Anonymous
Try not to poison your pet this year with people food, your loving pet can't handle everything you can.

Turkey Skin - High-fat foods, such as turkey skin, can be hazardous to your dog. Since the skin is hard to digest, it can lead to pancreatitis. If you still want to share your bird, give your dog a small piece of white meat.

Turkey Bones - Cooked poultry bones are brittle and splinter easily. If ingested, they can lodge in the esophagus or cause stomach or intestinal irritation.

Xylitol - This sweetener is present in products from gum to sugar-free cookies. Even in small amounts, ingestion can cause low blood sugar, seizures, liver failure, and death.

Grapes and Raisins - These common snacks can induce permanent and life-threatening kidney failure in some dogs. Though some pets seem to handle eating grapes just fine, it's safest to avoid grapes and raisins completely.

Chocolate - Most pet owners are aware of chocolate's danger, but with the recent popularity of dark chocolates -- which contain higher doses of toxic cocoa -- it's more important than ever to be vigilant about chocolate consumption. Ingestion can cause abnormal heartbeats, kidney failure, and death.

Onions - High levels of onion ingestion in dogs and cats can cause life-threatening anemia. Be aware of food at your table -- such as stuffing or casseroles -- that may contain this dangerous ingredient.
>> Anonymous
..this should be stickied.
>> Anonymous
Thank you so much! I always have trouble telling my stepdad that fatty meat is NOT good for my precious pup :(
>> Anonymous
Thank you for posting this. Lots of people assume bones are safe even when they're cooked, but they're not. I had to get my dog to the hospital at 2:00 AM last Christmas because she had a smoked bone that got all impacted in her.
>> Anonymous
LAWL look at the stereotypes in this picture- big dogs are the parental figures, little dogs are the annoying boys, kittens the little girls, and a token tabby as the nigger cook!
>> Anonymous
bump for savin the puppies
>> Anonymous
I've always heard chocolate kills dogs, but I've heard of dogs that eat whole boxes full of chocolate with no repercussions whatsoever.
>> Anonymous
>>181459
Depends on the dog's size, individual sensitivity to it, and the potency of the chocolate. Kind of like alcohol for humans, I think, except it can be a lot more deadly. If a lab ate a bar of milk chocolate, it would probably be okay, but if a chihuahua ate a bar of dark chocolate, it'd probably die.
>> Anonymous
>>181462

I have seen a lab eat a bar of chocolate, and while she didn't die, it was NOT pretty.

Think explosive ass.
>> Anonymous
>>181468
pics or it didnt happen
>> Anonymous
>>181468
Hence "probably." Usually labs have iron stomachs is all. Fuck, they need it, with all the random stuff they eat.
>> Anonymous
Bump for pet's sake
>> Anonymous
someone feed their dog chocolate, I wish to see this explosive ass phenomina
>> Anonymous
>>181462
Theobromine, the dangerous ingredient in chocolate, actually affects humans too, but we are much more tolerant to it than dogs and cats. This is partially because humans are bigger, and partially because of a different metabolism. But roughly it means that the smaller the pet, the more dangerous a small amount of chocolate will be. Average-sized dog will survive eating a few hundred grams of chocolate, a small dog will not (without proper medical treatment). Dogs with theobromine poisoning will actually get seizures before they die.
>> Anonymous
One Easter Sunday when I was a kid I got a great Easter basket. Well we went to sunday service and when I came back my Shar-pei(who was blind mind you) found and opened every egg and ate all my chocolate. She was okay, but the exploding ass thing occured, accompanied by tin foil. haha.
>> Anonymous
>>181714but the exploding ass thing occured, accompanied by tin foil. haha.
My that sounds festive!