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Growing up, I remember throwing my dog food. It was just amazing, the food would arch up, intersect with his mouth, and just... disappear. except grapes. They would arch up, intersect with his mouth, and... hit a tongue and roll off onto the floor. turns out grapes (and raisins) are toxic to dogs. How they figure that out during the millisecond encounter with the tongue is mind-boggling. oh, another one: one time whe…
I'm puzzled by this claim. I wouldn't call it a myth, but all the same... I grew up on a vineyard. Each harvest time the grapes would hang down heavily and almost touch the ground. Our pet dogs would park themselves beneath and greedily consume a whole bunch. They would also scoff any dried grapes they found on the ground. The worst effect seemed that they all would get noticeably pudgy during the season.
Re: Backyard Cyanide
#61The concentration of tartaric acid in each individual grape is unpredictable, along with each individual dog's tolerance level to tartaric acid. The only thing that's certain is that anything with tartaric acid is potentially toxic to canines due the development kidney damage after ingestion.