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Dog ate raisins, going out of my mind

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Wristfolds · 30/09/2023 12:22

my spaniel ate a snack size box of raisins, possibly overnight. I noticed the empty box on the rug and took her in immediately this morning.

injection didn’t bring anything up, just bile. They’re keeping her in for bloods and obs over the next 3 days.

im absolutely devastated. Please any idea of the likelihoods either way? She’s about 18kg.

We don’t usually have them in the house at all, my toddler was given some at a play date and didn’t finish them so I put them in my bag and forgot about them and left the bag overnight where she got them. I feel so incredibly guilty and worried

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margotrose · 01/10/2023 12:21

Disturbia81 · 01/10/2023 11:57

@margotrose Ahh I see thanks for explaining 😊 Are there certain dog sizes/breeds who react to grapes/raisins more?

Nope - that's the problem! Vets have no idea which dogs will react, so they make them all sick to on the safe side.

ScattyHattie · 01/10/2023 12:23

TippledPink · 30/09/2023 14:28

My dog at 1kg bag of raisins, she was absolutely fine. Wasn't sick or anything. You are catastrophising!

There's no way of knowing if your dog will be one of the ones affected by grapes, raisins/sultanas though so your best to take to the vet to treat and hope for the best than assume it's unlikely and find your dogs showing signs of acute renal failure later.

My friends young dog also scoffed the bag of raisins/sultanas she'd bought to make a Christmas cake that she wrongly thought was safely out of reach on a high shelf. Her dog spent a couple of weeks as an inpatient at the vets and was very poorly with acute kidney damage. Thankfully he pulled though and is still fit and well but she has to had to manage the after effects of kidney damage with a home cooked renal diet and regular blood/urine tests to check the CKD is not progressing further.

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Wristfolds · 01/10/2023 14:25

@ScattyHattie yeah this is what we’ve been warned could happen. We’re now 24-36 hours out (not sure if she ate them overnight or in the morning) so feeling more positive, there’s been no vomiting or diarrhoea (aside from when she was given an emetic)

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Definitelyrandom · 01/10/2023 16:46

Looks like it should be ok by now. Ours ate about 500g of raisins late in the evening and we only discovered it when he sicked up some in the middle of the night and wanted to go out (v unusually). Cue emergency vets, charcoal, vomiting injection and him being on a drip at the vets for a couple of days - and adult sons in tears, especially the one who’d left the raisins out. He was absolutely fine at the end of it. Luckily the insurance covered most of the cost….

Spidey66 · 01/10/2023 17:01

My old dog, (Border Collie) when I was in my teens/early 20s so 1980s, used to eat chocolate all the time. Back then, we didn't know the risks. She was trained using Cadbury Chocolate Buttons. She was always naughty outside shops so I trained her using Cadburys Freddo. If she was good, she had the Freddo, if not I had it.

On my 21st my brother bought me a big box of Thorntons. I ate some then left the rest while i went to my party. When we came back, the dog had eaten the lot. we didn't get her to a vet or even contact them for advice. She lived another 10 years with no ill effect!

We've got a dog now and don't do this now! My understanding is the higher the % of pure cocoa, the more dangerous to the dog. So one square of Cadburys is less likely to cause damage than half a box of Thorntons. 😳

RedHelenB · 01/10/2023 17:19

Mine ate raisins, didn't go to the vets and is still alive years later. Its Russian roulette, hopefully yours is not one who can't tolerate them.

longtompot · 01/10/2023 18:15

Some dogs can eat lots of the foods that are bad for them and have no ill affects and some cant. One Christmas my dog ate a pretty much entire box of After Eights, but she threw them up in a nice neat pile under a dining chair. My dh left the box on the sofa, in the living room where she slept at the time as he'd had 'a few sherries' and she was absolutely fine.
Your dog is in the right place, you got them there as soon as you realised, and your dh is being a bit unfair to blame you for this. I hope you have some good news very soon💐

Emanresu9 · 01/10/2023 18:17

My dog has eaten so many raisins. And chocolate.

it’s a tiny, tiny percentage of dogs who are allergic. Tiny. Your dog is fine.

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Wristfolds · 01/10/2023 19:44

I feel a lot better having seen her- think we’re likely 48hrs out now so she’s just having some expensive IV. There’s one other dog in overnight so I suppose she’s keeping him company…

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GoodOldEmmaNess · 01/10/2023 21:10

It's all looking really positive , @Wristfolds. Best of luck for a continuation of the same good news.Smile

Riverlee · 02/10/2023 07:55

Most mornings, my lab likes to try and eat my muesli (and sometimes succeeds).

Floralnomad · 02/10/2023 15:49

How is the patient today @Wristfolds ?

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Wristfolds · 02/10/2023 18:12

She’s home! Absolutely fine. Quite possibly an expensive precaution but what can you do…

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NoSquirrels · 02/10/2023 18:25

Brilliant news!

GoodOldEmmaNess · 02/10/2023 18:37

Yay!!

Roselilly36 · 02/10/2023 18:46

So please to hear the good news Flowers

Floralnomad · 02/10/2023 18:56

Excellent 😄

whattttttodo · 02/10/2023 19:55

I had one dog eat a chocolate cake and another a kg bar of chocolate they were fine. Try not to worry.

whereaw · 02/10/2023 19:58

When I was a child I (unknowingly!) fed my dog raisins all the time. He loved them! And lived til he was 18. Glad she's ok Smile

TheSkyRaisin · 02/10/2023 20:21

Great news. Give her a big cuddle Grin

Sheswearsby · 02/10/2023 20:25

So happy for you x

ladygindiva · 02/10/2023 20:41

I'm so relieved for you. My jrt/ chihuahua hoovered up a raisin spill ( making Christmas cake )a few years back and also survived to tell the tale .

QueenofFox · 02/10/2023 20:53

Great news. My lab cross has eaten numerous Christina’s cakes, mince pies and chocolate cakes over the years - has always a bee fine, obviously unintentionally but a lab really can find a way to food, it’s really rare and great news!

ScarletPower · 02/10/2023 20:59

My lab ate a mince pie about 3 years ago and we took him to the vets who made him throw up and he was fine. The vets told me he wasn't the only mince pie casualty they'd had brought in that day. He was a big lump of a dog although from comments on here weight doesn't matter

CoughForWeeks · 02/10/2023 21:14

@VeridicalVagabond you have a borzoi? That's so exciting! My DS has one and he's an amazing animal.

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