What You Shouldn't Feed Your Dog: Mistakes Many Pet Owners Make

Dog owners should not only deliberately disrupt the animal's diet, but also prevent the consumption of harmful products, especially for puppies.

To do this, you need to leave all food in places inaccessible to pets.

Leftovers from the table

Some owners, wanting to pamper their tailed friends, give them food that they eat themselves and consider tasty, and therefore healthy for their pets. But it is harmful for dogs to eat salty, smoked and fried food.

Boiled bones

Thermally processed bones become hard and brittle. When a dog starts gnawing them, fragments are formed, which can lead to perforation of the digestive organs. Boiled bones themselves are not digested and interfere with the absorption of other food.

Sweets and pastries

Cookies and caramels, pastries and fruits that contain a lot of glucose, such as raisins, grapes and figs, should not be fed to dogs. Large amounts of glucose can cause a diabetic coma in the animal.

Onions and garlic

These vegetables should not be fed to dogs raw or cooked. Onions and garlic contain allicin and allisatin, which cause anemia.

Any products containing these vegetables are not intended for pets.

Chocolate

Cocoa beans are rich in theobromine, a substance similar in properties to caffeine. Even small amounts of chocolate can cause vomiting and diarrhea.

Thus, the animal's body wants to get rid of the toxic substance. A large amount of chocolate can kill a dog.

A dog weighing about 14 kg needs only 100 g of the product to die. In addition, dogs like chocolate because it contains a lot of fat.

Avocado

This fruit is rich in fats, which four-legged pets like. But avocado contains persin, which in large quantities can cause fatal poisoning in dogs.

Mushrooms

This is dangerous food for dogs, their digestive system cannot digest them. In addition, mushrooms can be poisonous.

Nuts

The product contains a lot of fat, which puts a strain on the pancreas, which can provoke pancreatitis.

There are also nuts that contain poison, for example, mycodamia, which even in minimal quantities provokes convulsions and paralysis in dogs. And a small amount of nutmeg can kill an animal.

Alcohol

Any alcoholic beverage is poisonous to dogs. Animals do not have the enzyme that breaks down ethanol into safe compounds.

But dogs love to lap up beer because it contains maltose. But any alcoholic beverages, including herbal tinctures, which owners want to use to treat their pets without a veterinarian's prescription, are dangerous for the animal.

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