Christmas Foods & Dogs

Christmas Foods that are toxic to dogs.....

I do love Christmas, but although we have our decorations up, we don't have a tree just yet!! What!....hopefully that will be sorted this week. Anyway, I realise it can be really stressful for some and it can certainly be stressful for our pets.

What are your plans? Are you hosting?

There are lots of foods around at this time, which are SO tasty, but not so great for our dogs.

If you're hosting and have people coming over, it would be worth mentioning to them to not feed your dog. Perhaps they're not very familiar with foods that can harm our dogs. No one wants to end up in the vets over the Christmas period. To help, below is a list of foods that are toxic to our dogs:

Chocolate 🍫🍫🍫 (there will definitely not be any lying around near me!!)

Christmas pudding, mince pies and Christmas cake (grapes and dried vine fruits, including currants, sultanas and raisins, can cause severe kidney failure if eaten)

Onions (and garlic, leeks, shallots and chives)

Alcohol. Make sure your dog can't help themselves to any unattended alcohol left lying around

Macadamia nuts

We want our dogs to have a nice time too, and often people want them to have some Christmas dinner.

A little bit of Turkey meat, with some veg might be nice, (no gravy). I'll leave it up to you if you go with the Brussel sprouts (I love sprouts), but if your dogs not used to eating them, you may be in for a fragrant evening!

If you're worried that your dog has eaten something they shouldn't have, get in touch with your vet.

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