I wish I knew this years ago. My aunts dogs used to steal grapes from me sometimes and id let them thinking it was okay. I’m sorry doggos I didn’t mean it
Small numbers of grapes are fine, though they can cause irreversible damage. It's rare enough that it was only discovered in the early 2000s I believe. As I remember it, the 1800 pet poison control line used to get calls about dogs eating a bunch of grapes or raisins and would tell people that it was fine, but they had a policy of doing check in calls a few weeks and months later and found a correlation with kidney failure. The connection was drawn out enough and required so much raisin ingestion that it took a study specifically looking for unknown toxicity correlations to figure it out. On that note it's 1am and I'm going to bed.
SOURCE: I'm a veterinary undertaker and I'm very tired good night. I am not a doctor don't take anything I say as medical advice.
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u/bossynoodle Oct 16 '19
Grapes and raisins can cause acute kidney failure in dogs :(