Cocker ate 1 raisin.

[nevernotstruggling]

I'm pretty sure he's eaten them before as I didn't know it was an issue until recently and he's 6. I dropped 1 on the floor.

We had a baby cupboard lock on the bin, fridge and all the cupboards at floor level !

@Didiplanthis

We had a baby cupboard lock on the bin, fridge and all the cupboards at floor level !

😂😂😂 they are buggers arn't they!!

In other news it's 6 hours. I can hear him snoring quietly 3 feet away from me.

@sunflowersandbuttercups

Its 1 raisin...your dog probably eats for more poisonous things in the garden...

I used to regularly share a bar of chocolate with my friend's toy poodle to no ill effect.

Surely if was à common reaction it would have been found before 2003. I mean dogs have been living alongside grapes for 1000's of years. We have grapes in the garden.

Quick search in French - the lowest dose demonstrated to be dangerous is 19.6g grapes per kg of dog weight and for raisins 2.8g per kg of dog.

Given that 1 raisin weighs half a gram you would have to have a very small dog indeed for it to be a problem.

my dog ate one and the vets wanted him in immediately to vomit until they had found it.

they said by the time he showed symptoms he would already be in kidney failure so would be too late to prevent damage. they said it could occur with just the one so never wait! he's 21kg so not small.

@Frenchfancy

Quick search in French - the lowest dose demonstrated to be dangerous is 19.6g grapes per kg of dog weight and for raisins 2.8g per kg of dog.

Given that 1 raisin weighs half a gram you would have to have a very small dog indeed for it to be a problem.

This isn't true. Please don't post false information like this.

In many dogs grapes and raisins don't cause a problem but in some dogs, as little as one or two raisins can be fatal as they go into renal failure. Like PP said, once they show symptoms it's too late.

[quote BalancedIndividual]@sunflowersandbuttercups

Its 1 raisin...your dog probably eats for more poisonous things in the garden...[/quote]
Yes, it is one raisin, and one raisin can cause renal failure.

I mean, I wouldn't be risking it if it was my dog. Just like I wouldn't risk it if I knew he'd eaten palm oil on the beach, or a daffodil bulb on a walk.

What poisonous things do you think he'd be eating in the garden out of curiosity? Ours is literally a concrete path and grass!

How’s your dog doing op?

My larger dog ate a whole fruit loaf packed with them, he was fine, I wouldn't recommend it and a smaller dog might have had a problem but one is unlikely to hurt a cocker!

He's fine so far. I didn't sleep very well but he did!
He's mithering me to get up now by sighing loudly.

Gorgeous boy 😍

Did you speak to the vets? Can’t remember seeing that you did?

Our dog ate some cereal with a few raisins in it a year ago. I rang the vet. He said it isn’t quantity (one will do it) it’s tolerance. Think of it like an allergic reaction. If your dog is ‘allergic’ to raisins, one will do it (like peanut allergies in humans), if the dog is tolerant then they’ll be fine. It puts them into renal failure. But there is no way of knowing which dogs are and arent intolerant, so vets will always suggest bringing the dog in for 48 hours of inducing vomit and rehydration. The vet admitted he didn’t bother when his dog ate raisins......neither did I and the dog is fine.

Christ on a bike - i give up. Maybe try him.on chocolate raisins next time, sure he'll be fine.

@Zoomzoom90

Our dog ate some cereal with a few raisins in it a year ago. I rang the vet. He said it isn’t quantity (one will do it) it’s tolerance. Think of it like an allergic reaction. If your dog is ‘allergic’ to raisins, one will do it (like peanut allergies in humans), if the dog is tolerant then they’ll be fine. It puts them into renal failure. But there is no way of knowing which dogs are and arent intolerant, so vets will always suggest bringing the dog in for 48 hours of inducing vomit and rehydration. The vet admitted he didn’t bother when his dog ate raisins......neither did I and the dog is fine.

Bit of a risk to take, though.

How would you have felt if your dog had died of renal failure because you didn't bother to get it treated?

@LEMtheoriginal

Christ on a bike - i give up. Maybe try him.on chocolate raisins next time, sure he'll be fine.

Bonkers isn't it?

Because some peoples dogs have been fine after eating raisins and grapes, they think it's okay to give out frankly dangerous advice to others

Yes, one grape can kill a dog if they're unlucky enough to react to the toxins. Not a risk I'm willing to take and I can't imagine how awful I'd feel if my dog went into renal failure after eating grapes and I knew he'd done it and chose not to get him medical care.

He's had a very normal wee and a poo. He's totally normal. I have put the dog cam on though and rearranged my schedule so I can swing by and check on him a few times today.

It pains me when these threads turn up and a bunch of posters say 'it's just one he will be fine'. I can't ever imagine saying that to anyone unless I was absolutely sure of my vetinary knowledge.

As it happens I covered this on a canine first aid course led by a vet. One raisin can kill. You just don't know which dog will react and which won't. It's playing Russian roulette with your dogs life and one I wouldn't take with mine (or advise a stranger on the internet to do so) so yes it would involve an emergency vet run if that happened.

Hope you dog is ok OP 🤞

@Frenchfancy

Quick search in French - the lowest dose demonstrated to be dangerous is 19.6g grapes per kg of dog weight and for raisins 2.8g per kg of dog.

Given that 1 raisin weighs half a gram you would have to have a very small dog indeed for it to be a problem.

I looked this up in English a while ago and my findings were similar, if not identical.

One raisin in a cocker? Fine. I used to know a pair of dogs that wheedled up to their owner for grapes and didn't keel over.

Being cynical, of course the Vets Now website tells you to bring the dog in. Being kinder, Vets Now could argue that you might not know exactly how many raisins your dog had wolfed down, so best to be safe.

My childhood dachshund ate half a Christmas cake one year. We didn't know it was a problem back in 1967 so just told him off, he retired to his bed and slept it off. He lived to a ripe old age.

Obviously, now I know it's a problem I'd take it more seriously but don't think I'd panic over 1 grape.

I knew raisins and grapes were dangerous but I didn’t know they don’t work like chocolate e.g. according to body weight. Thanks for those clarifying on this thread.

Its 1 raisin...your dog probably eats for more poisonous things in the garden...

My vet described it as similar to a peanut allergy in that one is enough.

Most dogs don’t react but a few do. By the time they’ve started reacting (hours and hours after they invested it) then it’s usually too late. You really need to get them to the vet within the first hour.

My vet described it as similar to a peanut allergy in that one is enough.

I think this is a really good way to look at it. Imagine if a DC had a severe peanut allergy. No one would go 'here have a peanut, one won't cause you any problems'