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

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  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!!  Definitely better than commercial treats.