[Sca-cooks] Garlic as toxin was [OT] Dog biscuit recipe?

[margaret]

Presentation of Allium poisoning symptoms occurs with ingestion of more than 
.5% of the body weight of the canine, so a two kilogram dog might have some 
problems if it ate all 40 cookies at once.  That being said there are 
various genetic condition that will make some dogs more susceptible than 
others and I wonder what mild chronic poisoning would do over time.  The 
whole thing is complex enough that I would probably avoid it were I dog 
owner.

If you want to make a truly informed choice, let me recommend this article 
from Veterinary Technician August 2001, 
http://www.nssvet.org/student/references/simmonsvettech_424.pdf .

Bear

>I am certainly traveling along the little tiny amounts line.  The telling
> line in the ASPCA propaganda piece is "can be potentially toxic".  As 
> garlic
> is more than occasionally prescribed by vets as a gentler flea repellant
> than pyrethrin and permethrins, I am using garlic powder in injudicious
> quantities.  2 teaspoons of garlic powder will season about forty 2"
> diameter cookies.  What I will do is provide an ingredients list to my
> patrons, allowing them to make their informed choices . . . not unlike a
> feast menu. YMMV.
>
> I'm avoiding meat ingredients, BTW, so that they will appeal more broadly
> and include vegetarian types who refuse to feed meat products to their 
> pets.
>
> niccolo difrancesco
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Irmgart wrote:
>> >Please don't include garlic! From the ASPCA website:
>> >
>> >OCTOBER - Onions, Garlic, Chives
>> >Did You Know… Onions, garlic, chives and other species of
>> the plant genus
>> >Allium can be potentially toxic to pets?
>
>
>> I'm guessing she wasn't planning to feed her dog "large
>> quantities" of
>> garlic.
>>
>> --
>> Adele de Maisieres
>
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