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Foods To Avoid In Dog Food Recipes
Just as taking the time to cook your own meals can be healthier than eating out or eating a meal that comes in a box, making your own dog food recipes is a way to both add variety to your pet's diet and have more control about what goes into your dog's body. And although making your own dog food recipes can result in a happy, healthy canine who doesn't have a lot of artificial flavors or preservatives, there's also the potential for missteps if you add the wrong foods. If you're starting to cook your own dog food recipes, here are some foods to avoid: Chocolate One of the most commonly known things to avoid feeding dogs, you should never add this food to any dog food recipes. The substance theobromine, which occurs naturally in chocolate, is toxic to dogs. While the concentration of theobromine varies in chocolate, with milk chocolate containing the least and baker's chocolate the most. In any case, avoid chocolate in dog food recipes. Onions Onions, though they make great flavoring for both human and dog food recipes, can lead to a condition called Heinz body anemia, which destroys red blood cells and can lead to full-blown anemia in dogs. You have a few ways to minimize this risk, such as cutting the onions big enough that they impart some flavor to the food before easy removal before serving, or just leaving the onions out of your dog food recipes altogether. It's been suggested that the biggest danger in this comes from low-quality onions, so if you purchase good-quality onions, you may also minimize the danger. Two Japanese breeds, the Akita and the Shiba Inu are particularly susceptible.... http://groups.google.com/group/dogfoodmave |
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Foods To Avoid In Dog Food Recipes
"ashley ross" wrote in message ... It's been suggested that the biggest danger in this comes from low-quality onions, so if you purchase good-quality onions, you may also minimize the danger. ........never heard that one before. Sounds like poppycock to me. buglady take out the dog before replying |
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Foods To Avoid In Dog Food Recipes
It's been suggested that the biggest danger
in this comes from low-quality onions, so if you purchase good-quality onions, you may also minimize the danger. .......never heard that one before. Sounds like poppycock to me. Yeah. Onions are onions. The "suggested" part of this statement shows that it is more than likely an old wives tale. For the OP, Onions (and garlic) contain the toxic ingredient thiosulphate. Pets affected by onion toxicity will develop haemolytic anaemia, where the pet's red blood cells burst while circulating in its body. All forms of onion can be a problem. Saying that a "good quality" onion wouldn't be a danger is kind of like saying that if I eat a "good quality" lobster I won't die from shell fish allergy. |
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Foods To Avoid In Dog Food Recipes
buglady wrote:
.......never heard that one before. Sounds like poppycock to me. This bozo--under various names--has been spamming the same blog in every single dog group I subscribe to. I don't see any reason to take anything she/he/they say seriously, just on general principle that spammers are self-interested liars. This goes a little beyond that, though, in that they seem to be giving out advice that could actually be harmful to pets. Ugh. -- Shelly http://www.cat-sidh.net (the Mother Ship) http://esther.cat-sidh.net (Letters to Esther) |
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Foods To Avoid In Dog Food Recipes
"Sharon Too" wrote in message ... Yeah. Onions are onions. The "suggested" part of this statement shows that it is more than likely an old wives tale. .......Ain't gonna look for the link, but there is a difference in the quantities of compounds causing Heinz body anemia in onion relatives. IIRC wild onions and leeks have the most of those compounds. But that still ain't got nothing to do with the quality of regular onions. buglady take out the dog before replying |
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