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    Default my dog just ate a whole avocado incl. skin and pit-- he ok?

    just wondering if I need to worry.
    I was feeding him the avocado so I'm not worried about the fruit
    portion, but the pit fell on the floor (which was pretty small about
    the size of a large jawbreaker) and fucker ate it in two seconds.
    didn't even try to chew it. must've gone down like the magic pill
    in Princess Bride.

    and then I put the rest of the avocado on the floor for him thinking
    that he'd eat the fruit, not the skin (which is what he does for
    oranges, coconuts, and a few other things.)

    Nope! Ate that too.

    should I worry?

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    Default Re: my dog just ate a whole avocado incl. skin and pit-- he ok?

    Oh no please keep us updated on the situation. I'd try to get the dog to a vet asap though.

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    Default Re: my dog just ate a whole avocado incl. skin and pit-- he ok?

    If he doesnt seem sick he SHOULD be ok...its mostly dangerous for small breeds. Some dog foods like Avoderm even use avocado in their food.

    Its the pit that I"d worry about. It could splinter and cause tearing in his digestive tract. Or get stuck and impact him .If he JUST ate it...you can give him some peroxide(a spoonful at a time) until he pukes it back up.

    If its been longer then an hour..call the vet. They can x ray and see if he is ok.

    Actually..call the vet either way since you may need to keep them on alert if he gets sick later.

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    Default Re: my dog just ate a whole avocado incl. skin and pit-- he ok?

    from the ASPCA site:


    Animal Poison Control
    Toxic Plant List
    Avocado

    Common Name: Avocado
    Alligator Pear
    Scientific Name: Persea americana
    Family: Lauraceae
    Toxic Principle: persin
    Clinical signs:
    Horses: inflammation of the mammary glands, decreased milk production, colic, swelling of ventral abdomen, head and neck

    Cattle: inflammation of the mammary glands, decreased milk production

    Rabbits: inflammation of the mammary glands, decreased milk production, difficulty breathing, fluid around heart, heart rhythm problems, death

    Goats: inflammation of the mammary glands, decreased milk production, difficulty breathing, fluid around heart, heart rhythm problems, death

    Birds: difficulty breathing, fluid around heart, heart rhythm problems, death

    Dogs, cats: vomiting, diarrhea

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    Default Re: my dog just ate a whole avocado incl. skin and pit-- he ok?

    well, he's a rottweiler...so I'm thinking he should be okay-- it was a rather small avocado, and the pit was pretty small too-- so he should be able to pass it. I'll be staying up well into the morning so I'll keep an eye on him--
    but he seems fine and since he didn't chew the pit it probably shouldn't splinter.

    and the aspca thing says if they've scavenged quite a bit of the fruit, so I'm thinking one won't kill him. but I'll keep a close eye on him. he'll probably get diarrhea.

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    Default Re: my dog just ate a whole avocado incl. skin and pit-- he ok?

    You really shouldn't be feeding your dog things that you know are toxic to him. Take him to the vet. Avacado is poison to dogs without the pit.


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    Default Re: my dog just ate a whole avocado incl. skin and pit-- he ok?

    ^ actually avocado in small portions had been recommended on a raw food forum-- and he didn't have a problem with it.

    since I fed him the whole avocado (took a couple bites though) I didn't deskin it like I normally do-- so the skin and the pit is actually the question.

    as far as researching it now-- I'm finding that it's dogs who live next to an avocado tree and eat a shit load that have a lot of problems-- or dogs who've never had it in their life and had some and then had some issues.

    I already know my dog tolerates small amounts of avocado fine as a rare treat. It's just going to be a matter to see how he tolerates the skin and the pit which were not fed on purpose, although the skin is really more my fault since I expected him to treat it like orange rinds and whatnot.

    I will not be taking him to the vet at the moment, though I will be keeping a close eye on him over the next six hours until I go to sleep.

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    Default Re: my dog just ate a whole avocado incl. skin and pit-- he ok?

    I'd say keep an eye on him to be sure, but if it was a small avocado, and he's a rottweiler which is a pretty big dog, he should be OK. Of course I am not a vet, have no experience with avocados and dogs, and there are certain foods much more toxic to dogs than humans, like chocolate I have heard. But dogs are by nature scavengers who eat garbage and rotting corpses in the wild, among other things. Like intelligent, cute, land-going sharks.

    We had a dog that would eat fucking lightbulbs, I swear. I mean obviously we didn't feed them to her, but if she found one it was gone--there'd be the base and a few shards left lying there. Then there was the time our three dogs got a hold of some dehydrated food we had for camping--the poor things ran around panting with big swollen bellies for most of the night, the water in their systems got sucked right in there.

    Hopefully he will be fine, but yeah keep an eye on him.
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    Default Re: my dog just ate a whole avocado incl. skin and pit-- he ok?

    Make sure to check his poop for the pit...if it passes whole he'll be ok. If he gets sick,doesnt pass it in a day or so,or he starts passing bits of it...get him to the vet right away.

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    Alright, just making sure. *whew* Sorry, I didn't mean to get accusatory there, it just scared me.

    Watch him closely for me!


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    Default Re: my dog just ate a whole avocado incl. skin and pit-- he ok?

    I guess I'd be more worried if it was a huge pit, or if he'd chewed on it (he didn't even have to try to swallow, it was just suddenly in his mouth and then gone because it had fallen on the floor.)

    also, one time he ate this huge chocolate chunk laden brownie with frosting-- I was so mad and scared! but then I talked to a vet hospital friend and they said I could try the hydrogen peroxide, but that for a dog his size (he's around 90 lbs) that it wasn't going to kill him and it probably wouldn't even make him sick.

    and damned if he was perfectly fine! I smacked him a couple of times right after he ate it for scaring me so much (yeah, full disclosure, now I know what my parents went through with me sometimes.)

    so, a small avocado pit (plus some skin) compared to a ginormous chocolate brownie-- yeah, I'm going to think the chocolate would have been more of a threat.

    since he seems to be fine two hours later, I'm not too worried.

    my plan is to just keep feeding him so he has to poop a lot. He's having a can of sweet peas right now (rinsed... I know I should feed him raw veggies, but the canned organic veggies are just so much easier. he does get raw fruit though from time to time as well as raw chicken.) He tends to pass sweet peas pretty quickly so I hope it just pushes the pit and skins along.

    I'm defrosting some chicken right now so he can eat a whole bunch in a couple hours.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lysondra View Post
    Alright, just making sure. *whew* Sorry, I didn't mean to get accusatory there, it just scared me.

    Watch him closely for me!
    Lys, I love ya to death, but if anything I'd watch him closely FOR ME.

    He's my best friend-- give me a little freaking credit. I had researched avocado insofar as small amounts of the meat. I didn't exactly research pits and skins because those aren't what I would purposefully feed him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fancygirl View Post
    Lys, I love ya to death, but if anything I'd watch him closely FOR ME.

    He's my best friend-- give me a little freaking credit. I had researched avocado insofar as small amounts of the meat. I didn't exactly research pits and skins because those aren't what I would purposefully feed him.
    I love ya to death to.. that's why you gotta watch him for me too so I know you're all intact and stuff and I get an update.

    I think my original reaction was like yours with the choccy brownie. NO BAD AAGGGHHH omgIwassomeanooopsbutYOUSCAREDME.


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    Default Re: my dog just ate a whole avocado incl. skin and pit-- he ok?

    it's cool. he just got a can of garbanzo beans (rinsed several times) and he always pushes out new (as in never tried before) veggies really quickly.

    he was freaking out a little bit and I couldn't figure it out until I remembered the chicken is defrosting on top of the fridge. He keeps tap dancing right there and going between that spot and me, like "can I have some? mom! can I have some? MOM! MOOOOM!! can I have some! what about now? Now, Mom? how bout NOOOOOWW!"

    he's pooped a little but nothing substantial. just little "I ate too much fat" poops.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fancygirl View Post
    also, one time he ate this huge chocolate chunk laden brownie with frosting-- I was so mad and scared! but then I talked to a vet hospital friend and they said I could try the hydrogen peroxide, but that for a dog his size (he's around 90 lbs) that it wasn't going to kill him and it probably wouldn't even make him sick.

    and damned if he was perfectly fine! I smacked him a couple of times right after he ate it for scaring me so much (yeah, full disclosure, now I know what my parents went through with me sometimes.)
    Those dogs are damned near indestructible. He probably would laugh at you smacking him in terms of how much it hurt, but since I'm sure he loves his Mistress a great deal it might have bothered him that She was Mad. I never doubted you love your dog, and I'm sure Lysondra didn't either.
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    peas, avacados, beans....aren't dogs carnivores? I mean, sure, veggies are good for them..but don't they need meat too?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Djoser View Post
    Those dogs are damned near indestructible. He probably would laugh at you smacking him in terms of how much it hurt, but since I'm sure he loves his Mistress a great deal it might have bothered him that She was Mad. I never doubted you love your dog, and I'm sure Lysondra didn't either.

    eh, I've learned to handle my anger with him better so I don't smack him around anymore. not that I would ever think of myself as an animal abuser, but damn-- sometimes I used to have a short fuse with him and yes I did hit him harder than he deserved, either on his head or his rib cage. It's been a maturing process-- but yeah, the fact that he's so big probably made it easier to justify that I wasn't really hurting the big dumb ass, even though I know that a couple of times I did hurt him.

    Now I just tweak his ear until he listens, or tell him to go lay down under the bed and away from me so I have some cool off time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peanut_Butter View Post
    peas, avacados, beans....aren't dogs carnivores? I mean, sure, veggies are good for them..but don't they need meat too?
    yep. He gets about a pound a day, sometimes more, sometimes less. On a raw diet, they get meat, fruit and veggies. The fruit and veggies I guess is more for their vitamins, their roughage, and a variety of nutrients.

    for example-- he loves celery, oranges, likes some strawberries, likes blueberries. He likes chicken, turkey and occasionally beef and pork but his stomach gets upset easily on red meat. He does not like liver at all. Hates cranberries. If cranberries even TOUCH any other food I'm feeding him he refuses to eat any of it (after, of course, figuring out after a couple of bites that I put cranberries in it.)

    he likes carrots and beets, but they're canned so not technically raw and not fully nutritious. He likes canned green beans, sweet peas, and garbanzo beans-- I try to get them organic, unsalted and then rinse them a few times.

    he gets raw chicken backs, and occasionally wings and drumsticks. Wings are the perfect thing to feed them because it's the perfect proportion supposedly of protein, fat and marrow bones. It's cheaper to give him chicken backs which still have a buncha meat on them.

    He also loves beef marrow bones and can play with those for hours.

    he likes eggs, whole and with the shell-- some people think you should only give (I think) the yolk because otherwise they get too much biotin which leaches some other nutrient out of their body. We haven't had a problem so I just give him everything.

    He also occasionally gets virgin cold pressed coconut oil-- I use it for myself topically and cooking-- so when I cook he tends to get a spoonful of it. Although it's also really good to put in their water.

    He also likes pineapples, almonds and tomatos, which I later found out were no-nos. and evidently the asshole likes brownies although I'm tons more careful about what I leave out on the counter.

    said asshole has been playful with his squeeky ball and had fun outside just now chasing bugs (and smacking his head against a wall when a bug flew at his face) and running around. No more poop at the moment, but considering he's so playful four hours later on-- I'm still thinking he's fine.

    I'll keep trying to get him to poop

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peanut_Butter View Post
    peas, avacados, beans....aren't dogs carnivores? I mean, sure, veggies are good for them..but don't they need meat too?

    Actually, dogs are omnivores, like people. There is such a thing as a vegan dog diet. Really!
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    Dogs can eat the strangest things and be fine. My last dog (lab/greyhound X) Liked to eat the prickly pear cacti. Like chomped down. And then one morning we woke up to find she had put her paws up on the kitchen counter and eaten the entire plate of homemade fudge, plus my grandfathers whole plastic pillbox with all of his heart medications inside! She was fine, little shit.

    You're doing the right thing. Just keep an eye on him. The slightest change, it's vet time.

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    ^awesome article. I know I'm supposed to grind the food....but I don't

    I might start doing that-- or just researching it more.

    don't want to cause pancreatitis. I know some people let veggies marinate in apple cider vinegar to start the breakdown process.

    I've done this rarely. might have to look into it more.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fancygirl View Post
    don't want to cause pancreatitis.
    Kind of random, but we gave my lhasa pancreatitis back in the day. Gave him a ham hock that was a little too fatty and his little tiny organs couldn't deal and he got really sick.

    Your dog should be fine though. He's a big boy, but I would err on the side of caution in regards to giving him any food that might be bad for him, you know?

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    update: he threw up bile last night, and then threw up again this morning and the seed popped out. checked it out and it was whole but had cracked on one side (probably from drying out in the bile.)

    doggy still seems to be fine. pooped a bunch yesterday.
    still haven't seen the rinds but we'll see.

    I think, knowing what I know now (besides not feeding him more than a spoonful or so of avocado) is if he eats another rind or something like that-- even if it's several hours afterwards, I might still try the hydrogen peroxide.

    because I swear my dog has a lounge in his throat where crap hangs out no matter how much food he's eating. I was thinking the seed would get pushed along by all the veggies and chicken he was eating and he'd poop it out.

    nope-- he threw up. but he ONLY threw up the seed.

    how bizarre is that?

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