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David Epstein: Welcome to growingwisdom.com and today we are here with Dr. Drellich and us going to be talking a little bit about some of the things that pets ingest some of the things that might be okay for us but not necessarily okay for your pets. So, you and I we are just talking a little bit about grapes and raisins. I live on a farm or next to a farm and the grapes fall down, all fall and the dogs love the grapes and you are saying not so much.
Dr. Sharon Drellich: Not so good there are plenty of instances in this better nursery scientific literature of dogs being poison by eating too many grapes or raisins and some dogs seem to be predispose to developing problems with their kidney function when they eat many grapes or raisins.
David Epstein: What about some of the other foods that they like carrots and lettuce and they eat that stuff?
Dr. Sharon Drellich: And those are fine, apricots pits can be a problem. You hope your pet would need the pit because the bigger problem might be get large to near intestine and cause of obstruction that would need surgery. Corn cobs are another big problem. Any sort of physical object that could cause an obstruction like that is potentially problem and something for instance that would to that in a dog this size might not be a problem for saying a Labrador Retriever or a Greatdane.
David Epstein: What about the pesticide that I used in my garden in order to you know stop bugs and just like I have snails and slugs and all that stuff?
Dr. Sharon Drellich: Pesticides are definitely a concerned just as they would be for us. So, first of all I use any precaution that some kind of level if I have to used them in garden for pest. Things that are specifically a problem that we would see in pets are snail baits and some of the other molluscicides and those for the same reasons that the snails and the slugs are attracted to ingesting them, dogs are as well.
So, they will develop severe and potentially fatal poisoning from eating snail baits and even some of the products that out there that say that they are relatively safe for pets can be a problem. So, again if you know that your dog is ingested some of that in those cases I will get them right to the vet but it is also it is going to be wild.
Before you can get to the vet, calling the Animal Poison Control number (1-877-2-ANGEL) would be great.
David Epstein: What about poison Ivy, I got some poison Ivy on me?
Dr. Sharon Drellich: Poison Ivy does not seem to bother dogs to much.
David Epstein: Thank you very much.
Dr. Sharon Drellich: You are very welcome.
David Epstein: So, a lot of tips here dealing with your pets outside and remember because I always need to remember grapes and raisins not a good thing. Comeback every week, for all of our tips here at growingwisdom.com.
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