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Poppy just got some raisins, I think she ate about 6-10ish. What should I do?

I know they are poisonous. My mums dog ate grapes all the time and was fine but I'm worried.

Should I make her sick? Or should I just phone the vet?

Please help

 

[jinnyfizz]

I've just had a quick look for scientific evidence and found this ........

http://www.ukvet.co.uk/ukvet/articles/toxi...-%20raisins.pdf

The main message to take away from this is that quite a large amount of raisins would need to be digested to cause fatality (from 10g per kg bodyweight), however, other problems have been known to arise with lesser amounts and there is no sure way of telling.

Personally, I would telephone your vet's emergency service and ask for their advice :thumbsup: as making Poppy sick won't be easy (I've tried it with mine!) and the other alternative is to feed deactivated charcoal to absorb the poison (I didn't have any of that!!)

Good luck and please try not to worry too much as she has only eaten a very small amount :luck: x

 

[maggiwing]

Help please
Poppy just got some raisins, I think she ate about 6-10ish. What should I do?

I know they are poisonous. My mums dog ate grapes all the time and was fine but I'm worried.

Should I make her sick? Or should I just phone the vet?

Please help

CRIKEY is that true? I had no idea! our whippets often have a few grapes each when we're eating them and

they've probably had a bit of fruit cake at sometime in their lives!

Now that I've read this they won't be getting grapes any more. Talk about learn something new every day!

I hope Poppy will be alright.

 

[Seraphina]

Hope Poppy is OK. :luck: :luck: :luck:

I have also been always giving grapes and raisins to my dogs; heaps of them. They were never sick and lived to old age. But now I do not dare to give it to them anymore. Everything else that is toxic to dogs they have isolated the compound that is dangerous; what is puzzling that nobody seems to be able to find anything toxic in grapes. But, better safe than sorry, so my girls are not allowed grapes or raisins.

 

[AnnSa]

I used to share my grapes with Sada until i spotted on here

that they shouldn't eat them. And she's had raisins when she

would follow me along on the chin run. So i think it must be

in large amounts that it gets dangerous. I dont let her have

any at all though now.

How would you make a dog sick ?

 

[Nicola]

http://vetmedicine.about.com/od/toxicology...rape_raisin.htm

I can't vouch for the source of this information, but a quick google revealed this info. on the above link.

 

[whippetsrus]

Beau is a menace for both grapes and raisins. He will help himself out of the shopping bag if given half the chance. Whilst I don't encourage him to eat them I have had no problems if he does many to get a few.

 

[wilfred]

How would you make a dog sick ?

I once had to make one of mine sick a few years ago (my vet was at the other end of the phone I hasten to add) - she told me to put a damp walnut-sized lump of household soda crystals in my dog's mouth, make him swallow it and get ready IMMEDIATELY for him to be sick (so best do it on lino or outside then).

It worked.

But always get your vet's advice cos some things they swallow, they should not vomit back up.

 

[eve]

I do hope that Poppy is OK

I did not know about rasins and grapes either!

Please excuse the following suggestion but it is Friday night!

TO MAKE A DOG SICK

a) feed the darling as much as they can eat

2) take your them on a drive with as many speed bumps and bendy roads as posible

WORKS EVEY TIME !!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[littlenell]

My lot demolished a massive bunch of grapes one night- just leaving me the stalks. I rang the vet who said as I didnt know which of the dogs had eaten the grapes, I should make them all sick :x He told me to give them salt (cant remember how much tho - sorry) and get them all outside. Within 5 minutes all had been sick :wacko: and Teazle (Border Terrier) was revealed as the only one to have eaten the grapes. Not nice having syncronised vomiting! (w00t) and the look of disgust on the others faces having to go through all that cos of Teazle

 

[whippetsrus]

How would you make a dog sick ?

I once had to make one of mine sick a few years ago (my vet was at the other end of the phone I hasten to add) - she told me to put a damp walnut-sized lump of household soda crystals in my dog's mouth, make him swallow it and get ready IMMEDIATELY for him to be sick (so best do it on lino or outside then).

It worked.

But always get your vet's advice cos some things they swallow, they should not vomit back up.

Soda Crystals was the one I was taught at doggy first aid.

 

[bertha]

Making a dog sick, when one of mine stole 16 uncooked bread rolls that I had put rise, I poured very salty water down his throat. The rolls were continuing to rise inside him, gave him a great spring of rib. The salt water did the trick and all 16 were returned thankfully!!!! So it does work.

 

[meddling]

Making a dog sick, when one of mine stole 16 uncooked bread rolls that I had put rise, I poured very salty water down his throat. The rolls were continuing to rise inside him, gave him a great spring of rib. The salt water did the trick and all 16 were returned thankfully!!!! So it does work.

sorry...but PMSL...great spring of rib!!!

 

[Snap Dog]

Our dogs love to both, the grapes as raisins. After that, they are not ill. I think that there is no need to be very concerned. Watch your dog and give him a drink.

 

[Judy]

Personally, I would telephone your vet's emergency service and ask for their advice :thumbsup: as making Poppy sick won't be easy (I've tried it with mine!) and the other alternative is to feed deactivated charcoal to absorb the poison (I didn't have any of that!!)

Re seactivated charcoal, I used to get BCK granules but they seem to have been discontinued. Substitute found here Granulated Charcoal

 

[Seraphina]

Does anybody know what happened with the OP's dog?

 

[doggy182]

Hi sorry I forgot to report on the outcome!

I rang the vet who said it was best to go in......

£140 and lots of vomit later Poppy was fine and back to trying to steal everything within or without reach!!

Thanks for the advice and info, next time I will try the salt water before rushing to the vets.

 

[Lal]

Please be careful if you ever decide to use salt water, it can have fatal consequences if used to induce vomiting in humans by upsetting fluid/electrolyte balance (so presuming the same could apply to dogs?).

I was taught soda crystals or, in the absence of soda crystals to use mustard powder. Once had to use the mustard powder when Rifle found and ate a latex surgical glove - the results were instant although I don't think he liked me very much for an hour or two!

Pleased your dog made a good recovery (even if you did have to endure the financial amputation of an arm and a leg!!!).

 

[caitlin]

Am I alone in thinking that this incident/replies to it were a massive overreaction?

I used to regularly feed my dog grapes and raisins until all this stuff about them was publicised - but since then she has stolen slices of fruit cake and biscuits (with chocolate on them) without incident. I would be bankrupt if I was going down the vets every time the greedy girl scoops up things she shouldn't eat.

 

[FeeFee]

Most dogs seem to be able to eat a few raisins without any ill effect. Unfortunately some dogs seem particularly sensitive to them and have died after eating even small quantities, sadly including one belonging to someone on another forum I visit who ate only one of the little tiny boxes of raisins, so no, I don't think it's an overreaction.

My dogs are terrible foragers when they are out and seem to eat all sorts of disgusting stuff with no ill effect, but I would worry about them if they ate raisins