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No indication of “it's toxic if your dog eats an entire 2lb bag” vs “it's toxic if they eat a 2 gram slice”, no indicator of where to get more information. Kin
by cwillu 3y ago
No indication of “it's toxic if your dog eats an entire 2lb bag” vs “it's toxic if they eat a 2 gram slice”, no indicator of where to get more information.
Kinda feels like the classic “every symptom means cancer!” issue common to medical databases for laypeople.
And how are there 5 varieties of almond butter listed, but not almonds themselves?
“Almond Milk, Unsweetened: TOXIC”, and yet every site I've looked at says it's fine in small amounts.
- userbinator 3y agoA lot of things are probably toxic if a human eats an entire 2lb bag of it. The dose makes the poison.
- calamari4065 3y agoWhich is why it's important to disclose the dosage
- jjtheblunt 3y agounless anaphlaxis?
- mynameisvlad 3y agoI mean, sure, just like some humans might get anaphylaxis from peanuts. That doesn’t mean that peanuts are toxic to humans as a whole. The problem with the site is there’s no gray area when the reality is that it very much depends on your dog and their size.
- cwillu 3y agoIt's a bad sign that the first several things I checked are all wrong. https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/advice/can-dogs-eat-rice/ https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/advice/can-dogs-eat-rice/ says brown rice can be hard to digest but is otherwise fine, but this still gives that skull-and-crossbones-surrounded TOXIC indicator, as if I'm gonna kill my dog if I don't have his stomach pumped after he gets into a plate of it.
- dankwizard 3y agoIt says Watermelon is toxic. I don't own a dog but I did a bit of Googling and it seems to say the seeds could cause some blockages? That's not toxic...
- jstarfish 3y agoOur vet recommended a chicken and [white] rice diet for diarrhea. They don't digest it well, which is apparent when it blows out everything in their guts, bile and all. It's probably not great for gut flora if eaten all the time but it's not "toxic" in itself.
- hliyan 3y agoIn this part of the world (South Asia), dogs regularly eat rice, and in fact prefer it. Okayed by vets too.
- jjcon 3y agoThis seems to be the answer to why my initial query of apple was reported as fine but apple juice was reported as toxic