Dustytuu wrote:
Rockhillmanor wrote:
If you buy a 'real thick around 2 inches' piece of liver from your butcher and boil it in water with garlic
Garlic and onions are bad for dogs. Can make them sick and could kill them if they eat it for extended time. Dogs can not digest garlic and onions.
Also liver and rich meats can cause an effect on their pancreases and could be fatal.
Actually dogs can digest onions and garlic which is part of the problem; they absorb and then metabolize chemicals in the onions into toxins. But like all toxins it is how much is consumed relative to the toxicity level that is important.
Toxicology Brief: Allium species poisoning in dogs and cats reports 15-30g of raw onions/kg body weight to reach toxic levels. I did the conversion for you and that is about 1.5tsp of raw onion per lb body weight (an entire small onion for a 20lb dog). Much more onion then would be present in the boiled and dried liver treats. This particular toxin does not accumulated; meaning repeated and spaced in time exposures do not add to one another. There are other websites (from veterinary sources) that implied cooking the onions lessened the toxicity for dogs (not cats).
The likelihood of a dog getting pancreatitis from liver treats is probably no greater than a dog getting obesity related diseases from treats. They are treats, not their full daily caloric intake.
