[Herbalist] Iasmin's Current 4 Favorite Balm Recipes

[Tara]

You're welcome!  Only the echinacea is poisonous enough to worry about
your dog eating occasional stray stuff.  My dog, Cooper, steals grapes
occasionally.  Milk chocolate takes one ounce per pound of body weight
to be dangerous.  That's four and a half pounds of chocolate before it
becomes dangerous to Cooper.  So, they're all things to be cautious
about, but I wouldn't worry about an occasional dropped grape or M&M.
Just don't feed these things on purpose.

Same with garlic.  A lot of people feed a little bit of garlic on
purpose to ward off fleas, even though it's been well proven *not* to
work.  (Dogs don't sweat.)  These dogs have no trouble.  It's mostly a
problem with dogs who develop a taste for it and start eating whole
bulbs.  Personally, while I don't include any garlic in Cooper's
home-cooked food, if I make pasta with aglio olio I don't worry about
giving him a little bit of the leftovers.  But, I don't give him
leftover pizza with onions and garlic on top and in the sauce.

I found out about the onions and grapes when I started home-cooking for
my pets.  Home-made pet food includes veggies, and some people include
fruit.  Dogs *love* fruit.  So, it's primarily a danger to people who
may be including large amounts in their dogs diet, and secondarily a
danger to those pets who develop a taste for one of the things.

Interestingly, some of the most common food allergens in pets are: beef,
wheat, eggs and corn.  You wouldn't believe how flatulant Cooper becomes
when he eats beef...  hoo, boy, 65 pounds of flatulant dog is not fun.

-Magdalena

Janece Turner wrote:
>
> > Grapes and raisins are very poisonous.  And, of course,
> > chocolate.
>
> Thank you for this information, Magdalena! I knew about the chocolate of
> course, but didn't know about the onion, garlic, grapes and raisins! I
> don't give our animals people food at all, BUT they certainly aren't shy
> about snatching a grape from the baby's hand or running over to try to
> eat a raisin he's dropped. I so far have  always caught them before they
> ingested anything and taken it away from them, but now I think perhaps
> the animals need to be outside or in a cage when Joshua's having a snack
> of this sort..
>
> Again, thank you,
>
> Sioned
>
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