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About a year ago I went down a rabbit hole trying to find out why grapes were listed as toxic for dogs. I found many many anecdotal cases of dogs eating grapes
by Lerc 3y ago
About a year ago I went down a rabbit hole trying to find out why grapes were listed as toxic for dogs. I found many many anecdotal cases of dogs eating grapes without harm. A few reports of dogs dying after eating grapes. A couple of studies concluding grapes were toxic based upon a rather astonishingly small number of cases. Mostly I found references to references to references ad nauseam where the certainty of the claims increasing proportionally to their distance from any actual data.
I ended up feeling like they are about as toxic as peanuts are to humans. Maybe quite bad for some, evidently harmless to others.
- nroets 3y agoHumans have been cultivating grapes for millennia and dogs were there, literally enjoying the wind fall. So feeding your dog a few grapes doesn't make you a bad person.
- EdwardDiego 3y agoIt does make you someone who is likely to step in dog diarrhoea during the night though, depends how many grapes "a few" is, as how small your dog is. I found this out the hard way as a kid. There was quite a few diarrhoea incidents I had to clean up in the morning.
- talldatethrow 3y agoThe best part of having immigrant parents is that we've been feeding dogs things for 40 years+ without a care in the world what the Internet even thought or said. We've always fed our dogs, usually shelter dogs that came to us at 6 months or older, grapes. And basically everything else people say is bad for them too I'm sure.