Dangerous Foods
Generally speaking people food is not the greatest for pets, but did you know that there are some foods that can cause major health problems for your pet.
Food Items that Could Cause Problems:
- Alcoholic Beverages
- Chocolate (baker’s, semi-sweet or milk chocolate): the amount of damage is determined by the size of your pet, the amount of chocolate it ate and what kind of chocolate. The closer the chocolate is to cocoa form more harmful it is.
- Bones: chicken bones especially can shatter and splinter in your pet’s mouth and intestinal tract.
- Food Scraps: just not healthy
- Fatty Foods: just not healthy
- Onions, onion powder: not good in any amount
- Garlic, garlic powder: not good in any amount.
- Coffee (grounds, beans or chocolate covered espresso beans)
- Yeast dough
- Salt: like people, animals don’t need a lot of salt.
- Grapes/raisns: the research hasn’t discovered the exact cause, but grapes and raisins cause kidney failure. However, they are not consistent. Some pets eat them all their lives and others can go into kidney failure after eating just one or to. So, better to error on the side of caution.
If you pet does happen to ingest any of these items that are really harmful, please call us or the emergency clinic immediately for treatment.
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Food Items that Could Cause Problems:
- Alcoholic Beverages
- Chocolate (baker’s, cocoa powder, semi-sweet or milk chocolate)
- Bones
- Food Scraps
- Fatty Foods
- Onions, onion powder
- Garlic, garlic powder
- Coffee (grounds, beans or chocolate covered espresso beans)
- Yeast dough
- Salt
- Raw eggs
Wellness
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When greeting each other we often ask “How are you?” We often reply “Fine”, “good”, or something like “upright and taking on air”. How do we really know? Sometimes we answer the way we do just to say something. Sometimes we flat out lie about our feelings and condition. I know I have said the above things when feeling the opposite. I can tell when my wife answers positively when she really means the opposite. She might just be testing my concern for her and is searching for some affirmation that I really do care about her.
Do you ever think? ”How am I” I was listening to a talk show once and the host said that he knew what it felt to be middle aged. He said that every twinge in the chest and you think “This is it” only to find out that it was just stress. I went to my doctor once for a black spot on my nose. I was sure that I had melanoma and being in the health profession I was looking for that reassurance that I was so good that I had caught it early and was not going to need my nose completely removed. Well this sounds morbid but it just turned out to be a small cyst. It was removed and I look just the same which for me is good but maybe for others it is bad.
So why do you care about my ramblings? Have you asked your pet “How are you?” Even if they could answer they would probably be misleading us half of the time. Animals age at a much more rapid rate and also hide their symptoms due to being pack animals. If they are perceived as week the rest of the pack would remove them due to that weakness. This instinct is still intact in our domesticated pets. We often see a pet for “ADR” which means “AINT DOIN RIGHT”. By the time the owner loads them in a car and hauls them to us they are miraculously cured. When they go home again they redevelop the symptoms. So how were they really? Well we have learned to listen to our clients and not the pets in this situation. I have also had the experience of having the client tell me that their pets were slowing down due to age. Only to find that the pet had severe dental disease and when treated the pet started acting like a puppy or kitten again.
It is estimated that 20% of pets over the age of 6 that were examined by a veterinarian and considered normal actually had some abnormality detectable by blood work. So. How are you? How are your pets? How do you know?
Call today to set up an appointment for a complimentary exam and baseline bloodwork for only $18!
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