12 Human Foods That Could Kill Your Dog

While we often think of our dogs as family members, treating them as such at mealtimes can do more harm to them than merely spoiling them by spicing up their dinners. Here’s a look at the twelve most dangerous “human” foods that could kill your dog, what's in them, and what it can do to your dogs.

#1 – Chocolate

Image Source: Flickr - John Loo
Image Source: Flickr – John Loo

 

Chocolate is one of the most common foods that is bad for dogs, so we figured we'd knock it off the list early. Dog owners know better than to leave a Toblerone or two laying around.

What's In It:

Chocolate contains caffeine and theobromine which fall under the methylxanthines category. When we hear the phrase “the darker the chocolate, the more dangerous,” it's because white chocolates contain fewer methylxanthines. Thus, less toxicity.

What It Can Do:

If eaten by a dog, chocolate can cause vomiting, dehydration, abdominal pains, severe agitation, muscle tremors, irregular heart rhythm, elevated body temperature, seizures and death.

H/T ASPCA

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8,675 thoughts on “12 Human Foods That Could Kill Your Dog

  1. What a load of rubbish. My 4 bassets literally eat 10 of those foods fairly regularly, and they are all fine. Granted my big boy once at a 2.2 lbs block of cheese in one sitting. He farted cheese for 2 weeks. This is clickbait.

    1. You are so lucky to have 4 bassets. I used to have one, and when we picked her up from the breeder it was amazing to see this house full of bassets, as she had a few other adult bassets as well as the parents of the litter we were getting our girl from. The breeder was a really nice woman who gave my 3 year old a can of pringles, and it was hilarious to watch him walk around the place, calmly followed by a long line of bassets. None of them got any, poor things, not because of draconian food policies like those espoused by this list, but because a 3 year old who has his first very own can of Pringles is not gonna share….

  2. To save u time, the list is……
    Chocolate, Milk, Cheese, Yeast dough, Macadamia nuts, Caffeine, Bacon (fatty meats), Onion, Garlic, Avocados, Grapes, Apple cores (also plum, peach, pear, apricot cores)
    These cause anything from sickness to death!! BEWARE, please!!!

  3. Thanks I have been a Spaniel owner since i was about 7 years old Now 85 years old and I never knew most of that Bad Foods etc that you should not give to your Dog, but thanks to all your very Good Information, I am going to be Very Careful what I feed my Spaniel on in the Future—-Very Well Done Thanks !!

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