OK here are your clues.
People often think that this vegetable is a fruit. It is used to make sweet treats, especially in summer.
It can be a powerful laxative, and it is poisonous to dogs.
Speaking of foods dogs cannot eat, did you know that the following can make your Morkie very sick:
- apple cores (small bits of apple are OK)
- avocados, especially the pits!
- beer, wine and any alcohol
- caffeine, like coffee, tea or cola products
- chocolate
- corn on the cob
- fat trimmings and bones
- grapes
- macadamia nuts
- mushrooms
- onions and garlic
- raisins
- sugar (including glucose products, corn syrup, fructose, etc)
- Xylitol – found in gum and candy and used as a sugar substitute
Back to our quiz…. it’s really a vegetable, although often confused with being a fruit. It’s used to make sweet treats, especially in summer. It can be a powerful laxative… and it can make your Morkie very sick.
If you said RHUBARB – you’re right!
Rhubarb is poisonous to dogs.
I’m just curious, what’s wrong with giving your Morkie fat trimmings and bones? I get that chicken bones splinter. But I’d always heard that bones were good for them.
Hi Stephanie – it’s felt that too much fat – such as trimmings that we don’t eat ourselves (whether cooked or not) can cause pancreatitis in small dogs. High levels of fat in the blood or even high levels of calcium in the blood, can lead to an inflamed pancreas, which in turn can lead to pancreatitis. It’s more common in females and in older dogs.
With severe pancreatitis, the digestive enzymes that the pancreas normally secretes into the digestive tract (intestine), can leak into the abdomen and start to work on other organs – in effect “digesting” them so it’s pretty ghastly.
Dr. Ron Hines, DVM online, says that breeds most susceptible to this include the miniature schnauzer, as well as Dachshunds, Yorkshire terriers, Silky terriers and Skye terriers.
One easy way to avoid this is to cut out table scraps especially fatty trimmings, keep your dog at a good weight. Dr. Hines has a full article about it here: http://www.2ndchance.info/pancreatitisdog.htm
Thanks for writing!
Deb