What foods are poisonous to dogs?
Dogs love scavenging for food including helping themselves to left-overs and sharing our sweets and biscuits but Victoria explains how this can be more harmful to your dog’s health than you’d think. What to Avoid There are a number of human foods you should never feed a dog. Most of these are common-sense no-nos, but others are less familiar. As dogs are natural scavengers, they sometimes eat positively harmful substances and give themselves a bad case of poisoning. Prevention is the only way. Dog-proof your house and garden the way you would for a baby or toddler and keep potentially lethal substances locked away, including alcohol, household chemicals and medicines. Chocolate Chocolate can kill dogs, especially baking or plain chocolate that contains a greater proportion of cocoa solids, but in sufficient quantities milk chocolate can also be harmful. (Incidentally, chocolate is also toxic for cats). The two chemicals that cause the damage are caffeine and theobromine, but it is the
