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Title: Any problem with dogs and peanuts? Post by: Sheryl on Tuesday 15 January, 2008 Sophie LOVES peanuts. She adores them and runs around throwing them in the air, and then settles down and munches open the shell and eats the peanuts. This is way better than commercial dog food snacks!
She also just ran up behind me and ate an end from celery I had discarded from my lunch. She's a little raw food dynamo. I know chocolate and dogs are a no no. Are there any other items to be concerned about? If anyone knows that would be great. I am aware that peanuts can have aflotoxins in them... and am careful not to give her too many. Cheers, Sheryl Title: Re: Any problem with dogs and peanuts? Post by: Jenergy on Tuesday 15 January, 2008 Hi Sheryl,
I was just reading about this yesterday. Macadamia's can cause paralysis in dogs. Grapes are a no no which is odd because Bella loves them and none of my dogs have ever had a problem with them... but apparently they can cause kidney failure in dogs. Onions can be fatal to dogs. The info I was reading came from was originally by Steven Hansen DVM executive director of ASPCA I don't know if they mean raw organic with these things though. Hope this helps! xoxoxo Title: Re: Any problem with dogs and peanuts? Post by: FreedomB on Tuesday 15 January, 2008 Hey Jen jen, you named all the things I was going to! As far as I'm aware, onions are poisonous both cooked and raw, though I don't know if tests have ever been done using organic. In the past, I have fed Casper left-over cooked vegan food that included cooked onion - even though it was in really small pieces Casper carefully avoided it and left the bits on his bowl. So I think they know!
As for macadamias, given how expensive and yummy they are I wouldn't want to give them to my pooch anyway, lol :laugh: Once again, I'm referring to my own experience here - 1 macadamia won't cause problems. A while ago I was sitting on the floor smashing macs with a hammer and someone came to the door - I left one macadamia on the floor out of its shell and when I came back Casper had eaten it! He was fine. As far as I know peanuts aren't a specific problem but obviously they are highly allergy-causing in people so I'd keep a close watch on Sophie. That sounds so cute, her throwing them around!! :ohyeah: Definitely better than commercial treats. Title: Re: Any problem with dogs and peanuts? Post by: Michele :-) on Tuesday 15 January, 2008 I know that peanuts can contain an alflatoxin which can, in excessive amounts, cause liver failure.
I was feeding copra meal from coconuts, to our show horses for their coats, and one of our ponies became quite sick. The vet put it down to an alfatoxin contaminted bag of feed. The pony's liver functions came back dodgy too. Thankfully he is fine now after many, many reiki and cranio treatments and also been put back on a basic "wild horse" diet. After seeing our pony so sick, I would never feed peanuts or anything that could contain alflatoxin again. I had feed two bags of copra before feeding the contaminated bag, and there was no way of knowing if alflatoxin was present except for the pony's symptoms. I have also been told to never eat peanut butter as it always contains alflatoxin. Michele. |