To remind you that mince pies are poisonous for dogs?

[JesusInTheCabbageVan]

Just thinking back to this time last year when ddog stole Santa's mince pies and spent Christmas day on a drop at the emergency vet.

Unlike chocolate, there's no way of knowing whether your dog can eat raisins safely. Some dogs can eat a whole plate of mince pies (or whatever) and be fine, others could die after 3 or 4 raisins. This is probably old news for most people, but dh wasn't aware last year, and when I started a thread venting about bloody thief ddog, a few posters commented that they hadn't realised.

Merry xmas!

*Drip, not drop...

DD’s dog found an abandoned mince pie on the road when they went out for a walk yesterday and, as dogs do, inhaled it before they could do anything. Visit to the vet, £250 for an injection to make him puke, loads of worry. He seems ok today.
Please don’t leave stuff where other people’s dogs can get at them.

Also, a reminder that the pleading look the dog gives you is not an indicator that they've risk assessed and found it to be fine

Amazed people still don’t know all this. How depressing

Our local vet has a Christmas display up reminding people of seasonal things which are poisonous to dogs and cats, which is helpful.

DDog also stole a mince pie a couple of years ago and I had to wrestle it off him 🙄

Mince pies, christmas cake, christmas pudding, alcholic things that they may drink when guests put glasses on the floor such as advocaat, baileys etc.

But also, really sugary things can also prove dangerous for some dogs.

Ditto very high fat things (like greasy turkey left overs).

Also cooked bones.

Also drunken people of all kinds, and small children pose a risk to dogs.

Stay safe everyone!

I think I remember your thread of last year, I hope Ddog is fighting fit this year.

Mine ate a single raisin last year which dropped from a piece of Christmas cake, the morning before she was due to travel to BIL’s house where she was staying for the holidays while we went abroad. Fortunately I got her to the vet within half an hour and we got away with her being given an emetic and vomiting up the raisin, rather than having to go on a drip.

How do you tell which dogs can eat chocolate safely then?

People don't know what they don't know. I was at my (lovely) SIL's yesterday and saw her flowers on the side. They've recently adopted a cat for the first time. I said 'ooh, I've seen your beautiful flowers. The only thing is that lilies are poisonous to cats, the leaves, stems, stamens and pollen....' The flowers went straight in the bin and she washed down all the surfaces immediately. She just didn't know.

Thanks for the reminder. I’m aware but there are a lot of people who are trying to give my dog mince pies because “it’s christmas”. When I tell them that it’s poisonous for dogs, I get told to not be so precious and that their old dog would often be given chocolate and mince pies over Christmas and were fine.

Other things they can’t have:
Onions
Grapes
Alcohol
Chocolate

Good advice to put out there.

A few years ago when my little dog was quite young I was at a family Christmas lunch and one of the men kept tossing raisins to his dog.

I asked him to stop doing it because, as I explained to him, if one dropped on the floor and my dog picked it up it had the potential to cause her to be very ill, if not kill her.

He laughed at me and went on tossing them to his dog as I was getting more and more irate, ignorant pig, also he made jokes about it for several weeks afterwards; clearly he thought I was a stupid neurotic woman.

Fortunately, his dog wasn't affected and he was very good at catching food so didn't drop any.

@Nomorechickens

With chocolate it all depends on the weight of the dog, the amount of chocolate eaten and the type of chocolate; the darker the chocolate the more likely it is to poison the dog.

@Nomorechickens
No dog can eat chocolate safely there’s a toxic threshold for all dogs

This thread is about raisins. The only way to tell us to feed a dog raisins and if they don’t die of kidney failure then they may be raisin tolerant. However it’s not certain because no one knows what causes the toxic reaction - it could be something in the raisins themselves or it could be natural fungal spores that are present on many raisins - so the toxicity may vary from batch to batch. Regardless it’s not a gamble i’d Recommend

I remember in the 60/70’s everyone would give their dog a saucer or little bowl of beer to join in the festivities. There weren’t sick/dead dogs everywhere.

Doesn’t happen anymore, not because dogs were dying in droves, people just realised it was unnecessary and stupid.

Thank you Bark, she is fine and a lot (well, a bit) calmed and better behaved than this time last year! Mince pies this year are in a tupperware tub on the highest shelf in the kitchen cupboard. D'S is leaving a note telling Santa where to find them.

Sorry, yes, I realise having reread my opinion that I didn't word the bit about chocolate at all well!

At the e emergency vet last year p retry much every dog that came in had eaten something it shouldn't. Bloody nightmare time of year for dog owners, especially around here where people just drop half eaten food everywhere outdoors.

Another 60/70’s story, this time about chocolate. They used to have dog chocolates in round cardboard tins. Maybe they had whatever poisonous element removed??? Anyway, along with the beer everyone found it necessary to gift the dog these dog chocolates at Xmas. Every family with a dog had one of these wrapped under the tree.

As kids we were fond of chocolate. Not like today, we didn’t get any often. As it turned out the dog chocolate tasted exactly the same as normal chocolate - they were round, flat buttons. So, usually the kids would nick most of the dog chocolate once it had been gifted to the dog thinking the adults wouldn’t realise . One year, while many neighbourhood families were together for a Boxing Day BBQ, the adults made a big song and dance of talking between themselves on Boxing Day about how dog chocolates were poisonous to kids. We all then tearfully confessed we had eaten the dog chocolates. Adults pissed themselves laughing.

Dog chocolates have ash in them they were quite nice as a child

We used to eat dog biscuits as kids We once persuaded the village posh girl to eat some too, much to her mum's horror.

The dog stole my son's Bickiepegs I had got him for teething on: they had a ribbon pinned to the child's shoulder, and the dog just went gronff and they were gone leaving only the ribbon behind, three times in a row. So the teething child was given the dog's Bonios, which I realised were the perfect shape for said bratlet to hold in his fist and also to hit the dog on the nose with if he tried to steal them.

Dog chocolates are carob, and therefore 'mockalate'.

Yep, dog chocolate is made from carob and contains no theobromine, the toxic chemical in real chocolate.

My dog earlier this year age TWICE the lethal dose of theobromine, when he stole some cocoa powder. Despite it being many hours since consumption, the vet made him sick and this saved his life (he still needed to spend the night in the vets and it was still a close thing!)

Dog chocolate btw does not contain 'ash'... the listing of 'ash' on the ingredients refers to the inorganic mineral content of the food, that is left if you burn a quantity of the food.

Not sure I understand what the point is of chocolate for dogs that is not actually chocolate; I mean apart from being able to sell it to their owners for silly prices.

Wouldn't a dog be happier with a bit of pig's ear or a biscuit of some sort, which would be less bad for the dog's teeth and digestion? Mine used to love little bits of carrot as a treat!

Yes, I've never understood why dogs need stuff that looks like chocolate.

Surely it's better to let them think that anything resembling something that could seriously harm them is not for them.

Mine snaffled a mince pie and has lived to tell the tale. He also nicked 2 onion rings as a puppy! Hasnt yet got hold of any chocolate yet!