A PC friend is telling me about what to feed and not feed my dog, and emphasizes “no chocolate” and “no onions”
Just to piss her off I make my dog onions fried in chocolate when she is around. Now my dog loves it!
I make it for him a couple times a week, just two or three chocolate covered onion rings at a time. My fried is really freaked out, so I am enjoying this immensely, but I don’t want to kill my dog, either.
Will this addition to what is otherwise a pretty good dog (lots of chicken bones ) diet hurt him?.
He seems very happy and robust, but maybe he is just picking up on my good spirits.
Chocolate, or more accurately the theobromine (a chemical similar in structure and effect to caffeine) in chocolate, is toxic to dogs. In sufficient amounts, yes, it can be lethal. It’s unlikely the amount in two or three chocolate-covered onion rings is enough to cause problems, but the real danger is now the dog has a taste for it, and is likely to take advantage of any opportunity you leave him to get more. If he manages to gorge himself on a large amount of it, it could make him very sick, or even kill him.
And for the record, cooked chicken bones can splinter in the dog’s digestive system and rip it to shreds. Raw chicken bones are considered more safe (some say not safe raw or cooked…but most everyone says at least raw).
Why would you potentially threaten the life of your dog just to score ego points with your friend? Irresponsible at best; possible animal cruelty at worst.
As a pinko lefty professor of liberal sciences can I say to you that it would be not so much politically incorrect but more politically totally unacceptable for you to feed your dog large amounts of rat poison. In fact, I forbid you from doing it. If you do it, it will annoy me intensely, totally freak me out, and be as if you turned upon me a firehose of urine.
The more I think about it, the more the OP has ruined my night. This seems to approach a Michael Vick level of cruelty.
I have a pretty thick skin, but hell, feeding chocolate to dogs? What next? Microwaving cats?
There’s no ignorance being fought in this thread, only a primer on how to be cruel to animals. The grapes comment, while probably well-intentioned, could be used by some sick individual to kill a dog.
I humbly suggest you consider closing this thread.
Oh, get over yourself! Are you trying to show us how caring you are about animals or something? You are just showing how foolish you are!
The OP was talking about 2 or 3 onion rings. Probably 20-30 grams of onion. That is 1/20th of the minimum dangerous dose. And this is cooked onion, which is not as bad as raw onion.
And the amount of chocolate used to cover 2-3 onion rings is probably an ounce or two. So unless his dog is smaller than 5 pounds, this is not a lethal dose, either.
The OP is being foolish, but unlikely to even give his dog a stomachache, much less threaten its life.
If you think this is at the level of Michael Vick cruelty, you are seriously deluded. Or wildly exaggerating here. Did you read what Michael Vick did to his dogs? How can you seriously compare that to this OP? You trivialize that level of cruelty when you compare it to something like this.
If you want to go to the Pit, I’ll argue this. You seem to be coarse and cruel. Not very nice. I normally avoid the Pit, but if you have issues with my statement, have at it. You’ll lose any argument, because it is impossible to defend any argument advocating cruelty to animals.
You seem to be defending the OP. I still maintain it’s cruelty.
My suggestion is to find a hobby other than feeding your dog foods that may kill it.
Maybe you could try playing with your dog instead, then you, the dog and you friend can all be happy at the same time. Sure, feeding your dog poison is great for a laugh, but your dog may wind up dead, and that could put a damper on your fun.
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