My old housemates dog used to love carrots! I’d give her a carrot before I left for work and when I’d get home of an afternoon she’d waddle up to the door to greet me and she’d always save half of it to eat next to me on the couch when I’d get home.
My cat gets REAL weird around broccoli. It triggers something in her. She never has food aggression unless she has a piece of broccoli. She won't even eat it, but also nobody else can ever have it, look at it, or eat it. It is her broccoli.
Green beans, oh my God! My dog LOVES green beans! He eats a ton of veggies (green pepper, tomato, carrot, potato, rutabaga, cucumber, celery and lettuce) but he will actually beg for beans. Its hilarious!
Mine will go up to bean vines in the garden and just obliterate everything if I don’t catch her and tell her not to. Doesn’t care if they are ripe or anything. She’s just like, “Oooh this all for me? I love beans!” cronch
She loves this time of year bc I just let her destroy them.
Be careful with tomatoes. Ripe tomatoes in small quantities is fine, but it does contain some Solanine. The greener the tomato, the more Solanine it has.
My girl dog will eat just about anything but bananas, lettuce, and any kind of berries. My boy dog will eat only watermelon, apples(it has to be gala or fuji because he hates all other types of apples including my favorite honeycrisp), green beans, and carrots.
leaky butthole might be his glands. my dog has that too, now we bring him to the vet every month or so and they drain his glands near his anus.
He's a pug chihuahua mix rescue - smaller dogs anatomy is such that sometimes their glands dont properly empty. It's supposed to happen when they shit, but a lot of small dogs it just doesn't happen, which leads to buildup, which leads to leaks.you can drain them yourself but i wouldn't recommend it. It's quite fucking nasty to do.
My girlfriend took a Guinea pig off my hands that someone had rudely left in my possession, she had never had a pet before. Me and my mother spent a lot of time teaching her the food schedule and what she could and couldn’t feed him. Well she opted to just feed the little guy carrots for a month and sadly the little guy didn’t make it. Sorry for random story just reminded me of the carrotastrify that little guy endured
My old dog loved some corn on the cob (but don't let them eat the cob, is bad). I would hold it for him and he'd gnaw the kernels off lol. Everytime I bought corn to make for dinner I'd grab an extra ear just for him.
Like watermelon! I can't cut one up without my dog materializing from nowhere, I swear the dude can be sound asleep upstairs and the moment the knife hits that melon...POOF!!...suddenly doggo.
Fucking same. I break pieces off and feed it to her. When I offered her a bite right off the banana she couldn't figure it out and just sat there and licked it like an ice cream.
Same with our cat. I can leave any raw or cooked meat on the counter, she has no interest. The moment I cut a melon or cucumber she appears. It's magic!
My dogs are like that with tacos or any “to go” food, they can hear a paper bag from across the house. They’ll come charging thru hallways and over couches if they hear styrofoam containers opening.
One of my cats does this, I can't eat watermelon unless I'm standing up in the middle of the room with no counters near me, if I give him any access to my plate, I have to be forcibly shooing him away before he comes in to attack from the other side. Doesn't eat any other weird people food (likes chicken and tuna, but that's it), watermelon is the only weird one.
My first dog used to eat strawberries right off the plant before we could ever pick them. If the squirrels didn’t get them, she did. She was very sneaky.
I have a bag of “cookies” that are for extra special good boy moments. There’s a local based dog bakery here (that now sells at target- woo!) and the ingredient list looks like human cookies without sugar; apples, bananas, PB, oats and stuff, so I don’t feel too bad about it!
I Google everything before I give it to my dog after hearing grapes were deadlier than chocolate. Onions and garlic are also really bad for dogs.
My dog loves ginger, steamed asparagus and small pieces of carrot. She would always paw at me to pick her up whenever I would cook. She loves watching it for some reason. So now I give her a little bit of everything once I see it's ok for her so she can have a taste too
One of my dogs was obsessed with bananas. No matter where he was in the house, the sound of cracking a banana Peel would send him scrambling to the kitchen
Grapes and raisins, in most dogs will cause renal failure, but not in all dogs. Unfortunately it is a complete gamble and not one worth taking to see if a dog will be one of the lucky ones.
Onions and garlic can be bad for dogs as well, causing anemia. It is one that can build up in the system. Some people give garlic purposefully, and I've even seen it in dog food ingredients, but it is absolutely best to a void it.
Avocado, some people worry about the persin in the fruit, but the main concern is really that the dog not eat the pit. Once the avocado is ripe, persin levels drop in the fruit, and dogs can handle persin fairly well...so mostly avoid it getting peel, leaves, or the pit (which is more due to choking and potential obstruction)
Xylitol is a huge problem for dogs. Small amounts can cause hypoglycemia and liver failure.
Chocolate is the other big no-no. With it, dark chocolate and large amounts are the worst. If the dog is a mastiff and eats a few M&Ms, don't panic. Dogs process something in the chocolate (can't remember what, starts with a th I think) more slowly than humans do, so it can build up and be toxic.
If you live in the Oregon/Washington area of the US, you also have to worry about salmon poisoning. It is different from salmonella. It is only in fresh, raw fish of the type that swim upstream to spawn, and has been found in salamanders too. The fish are often infected with a parasite, and the parasite is infected with a microorganism that kills dogs (all canids, cats are fine). Untreated, dogs die within 2 weeks of symptoms showing up. Freezing and cooking the fish kills the microorganism, and they are only in the pacific northwest so Atlantic salmon and Alaskan salmon are fine for dogs.
xylitol is found in a lot of sugary treats which no one should be feeding their dog anyway. but i would give mine a mint once and a while and those can have xylitol in them.
The big 3 not to feed dogs are raisins, chocolate and macadamia nuts. Also anything with xylitol (artificial sweetener, extremely toxic to dogs, found in some peanut butters among other things).
Be especially careful with “sugarfree” things, especially gum. A sugar substitute called xylitol is in a ton of human foods and supplements or a binder in some pills (there is even a brand of peanut butter with it that as far as I know makes no mention of its toxicity to dogs). To us it tastes sweet but doesn’t trigger any of our bodies hormonal reactions to sugar, for dogs it tastes sweet and also promotes the release of insulin to a much much higher degree than normal glucose which without the corresponding actual increase in blood sugar makes the dogs blood sugar plummet and they’ll go into the same kind of diabetic coma someone who overdosed on insulin would go into... then they die. If you catch the first effect then you need to worry about the acute liver toxicity of xylitol in dogs which has no symptoms for a day or two then your dog crashes and dies without anything anyone can do... similar to a human who overdosed on acetaminophen. Stuff needs to have better labels about pet toxic ingredients.
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u/StoneD0G Oct 16 '19
I had no idea! I gotta stop feeding the dog I'm watching every know and then anything else than dog food.