Some Items You Should Never Let Your Puppy or Dog Eat

Some items you should never let a puppy or dog eat, because it can harm or kill them, so you should be aware of them. I'm sure most people already know you should never give a puppy or dog chocolate, not even a little piece. Chocolate usually has caffeine in it, and even just a small amount, could kill a puppy or dog, or put them into convulsions.

Just like people, some big guys can eat 15 hot dogs, and 5 bottles of beer, and the next guy can't even eat 1 hot dog, and would never finish a bottle of beer, that is just an example really. A puppy or dog is the same way, no two dogs are going to be alike. Some dogs might be fine eating broccoli, and other dogs might bite the bullet from it, so it's just nice to know what kinds of foods could hurt your dog, and this list could change at any time really.

Some items you would not want to give your dog might include: raisins and grapes, macadamia nuts, walnuts, cooked bones (raw bones are good, cooked bones splinter and can hurt your dog much more easier that raw soft fresh bones.) You would not give avocado, onions, garlic, mushrooms, broccoli, tea or coffee, white bread, white potatoes, white rice, peppers, raw spinach and probably some other things your vet might have on a list for your dog.

Granted, some dogs might have been eating some of these products for years, but all young children need to be taught, that giving event the smallest amount of chocolate to a puppy or dog, can be deadly, even the candy bar wrappers on the ground, a dog might try to lick it up. Teach children that candy has no place in a dogs life. Some dogs can not digest broccoli for example very well, and other dogs might be just fine, but it is better to find alternative foods, since the world has so many kinds.

The best food of all, is food you make yourself, since you can actually see the real ingredients going into it. Some super market dog foods, are so full of corn and soy beans, you wonder if your dog gets any nutrition from it, unless he or she eats the whole bag, and that could be the case. If you learn the fix your dog healthy food at home, and leave out the stuff that might hurt or kill him or her, you would be doing your dog a big favor!

Vince Stead has 15 books he has written so far, and he has been raising dogs for over 25 years now.

He was in the navy for 8 years as a Yeoman, and he visited 16 countries, and went around the world in 1986. He was on a destroyer, a submarine tender, a short stint on an aircraft carrier, and 4 years shore duty at a VAW squadron.

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