[Sca-cooks] OOP - Fw: Jasper and The Uncooked Yeast Rolls

[Tara Sersen Boroson]

Selene, I'm sorry if I made you feel that I was berating you!  This is 
just one of my favorite crusades, and I guess I spout off pretty quickly 
whenever the topic comes up ;)  But, it still amazes me to see how many 
people don't know, or worse don't believe, that it is true.

I see that I made a typo in my first post: I meant to say that the lady 
who doesn't believe chocolate hurts dogs feels this way because her dog 
has *never* been ill from eating brownies.

You are very right about Acetominiphan.  Also, onions and garlic are 
extremely dangerous.  The chemical thiosulphate in the allium family 
causes haemolytic or Heinz body anemia, in which the red blood cells 
become deformed and burst.  The red blood cell count drops rapidly and 
the urine turns brown from the kidney's effort to get rid of the dead 
cells and waste products.  Another dangerous one is Echinacea.  And 
vitamin C - humans are one of few species that need vit. C in our diet 
because we don't produce this vitamin in our own bodies.  Pets do 
produce it, and can easily be exposed to too much by people who give 
them human vitamins.  Too much vitamin A can be dangerous, and liver has 
a high amount of vit. A, so it should be fed sparingly.  And, even a 
very small amount of macadamia nuts can cause painful muscle tremors and 
paralysis, though in all clinical examples of this the dogs have 
fortunately recovered.

I cooked Cooper's food for him, and plan to do so for our next dog.  I 
believe wholeheartedly in a whole foods diet for any critter, human or 
otherwise.  But, we all have to remember that different animals 
metabolize things differently, and a whole food diet for a pet doesn't 
look like a whole food diet for a human!

-Magdalena

-- 
Tara Sersen Boroson

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it for himself. - Galileo Galilei