Can Dogs Eat Onions?
Is It Really Safe for Your Dog to Eat Onions? Read more to find out.
Dogs should not eat onions or foods that contain onion.
Onions are very dangerous for dogs to eat because they contain a toxic chemical called thiosulphate (also found in garlic). This includes all forms of onions including raw onions, cooked onions, dehydrated onions, table scraps of cooked onions, leftovers such as pizza or Chinese food, and some flavors of baby food that contains onion.
Poisoning can happen with either a one large ingestion of onion or with repeated ingestions of small amounts of onion.
Onion poisoning leads to haemolytic anemia, which causes red blood cells to burst throughout the body’s circulation. Poisoning typically occurs a few days after eating the onions.
Symptoms initially include vomiting and diarrhea. Dogs may appear weak and have no interest in eating anything. Since red blood cells carry oxygen, the reduction of oxygen in the blood causes breathlessness.
The condition begins to improve once the dog has stopped eating any more onion.
Tags: onion, raw, toxic, vegetables
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Recent Comments
January 28th, 2011 at 10:11 am
I was wondering about garlic cause its in many comercial dog foods including the one I am feeding
February 7th, 2011 at 10:30 am
I would talk to your vet about it, just to be safe.
June 16th, 2011 at 10:45 am
Keep onions away from your dogs. My Min Pin got into some chinese food and ended up in the emergency with severe seizures. Two days later she was much better but my pockets were empty from the Vet bill…
February 10th, 2012 at 9:06 pm
This site is very helpful but I couldn’t find the place to contact or add foods. I read on one website that baked potatoes are ok but raw potatoes and potato plants are not!!! Any thoughts? Also, could you cite the source of these things you find? I guess that’s a little hypocritical since I can’t find mine but still… it’d be helpful!
March 1st, 2012 at 10:20 am
@ Rotem: In response to your question about garlic. Ground dried garlic is found in a lot of commercial foods because most dogs like the flavor and in very small quantities it can be beneficial just as it is for humans. Garlic is a natural antiseptic and used by many pet owners to fight off infections, but you should never add any form of garlic to a dogs food.
April 2nd, 2012 at 5:43 pm
and my mother wonders why I give her an earful about feeding the dogs table scraps, especially with onion. However I didnt know the same went with garlic until last year through a college course. before i had known garlic was toxic I would in the winter cook up some pasta and mix half a teaspoon of minced garlic in each food bowl with the pasta and dog food for a warm supper, they never did get sick from it but after reading that it looks like the garlic will most DEF be stopped.