The following items can be toxic or dangerous to your dog….

Baby Food: Can contain onion powder, which can be toxic to dogs. (Please see onion below.) Can also result in nutritional deficiencies, if fed in large amounts.

Bones from fish, poultry or other meat sources: Can cause obstruction or laceration of the digestive system.

Cat Food: Generally too high in protein and fats

Grapes and raisins: Contain an unknown toxin, which can damage the kidneys.

Chocolate, coffee, tea and other caffeine products: Contain caffeine, theobromine, or theophylline, which can be toxic and affect the heart and nervous systems.

Fat Trimmings: Can cause pancreatitis.

Human Vitamin supplements containing Iron: Can damage the lining of the digestive system and be toxic to the other organs including the liver and kidneys.

Large Amounts of Liver: Can cause Vitamin A toxicity, which affects muscles and bones.

Macadamia Nuts: Contain an unknown toxin, which can affect the digestive and nervous systems and muscle.

Milk and dairy products: Some adult dogs and cats do not have sufficient amounts of the enzyme lactase, which breaks down the lactose in milk. This can result in diarrhea. Lactose-free milk products are available for pets.

Mushrooms: Can contain toxins, which may affect multiple systems in the body, cause shock, and result in death.

Onions and garlic (raw, cooked or powdered): Contain sulfoxides and disulfides, which can damage red blood cells and cause anemia. Cats are more susceptible than dogs. Garlic is less toxic than onions.

Potato, Rhubarb leaves, Tomato Leaves. Contain oxalates, which can affect the digestive, nervous, and urinary systems. This is more of a problem in livestock.

Raw Eggs: Contain an enzyme called avidin, which decreases the absorption of biotin (a B vitamin). This can lead to skin and hair coat problems. Raw eggs may also contain Salmonella.

Raw Fish: Can result in a thiamine (a B vitamin) deficiency leading to loss of appetite, seizures, and in severe cases, death. More common if raw fish is fed regularly.Salt: If eaten in large quantities it may lead to electrolyte imbalances.

Sugary Foods: Can lead to obesity, dental problems, and possibly diabetes mellitus.

Table scraps: are not nutritionally balanced. They should never be more than 10% of the diet. Fat should be trimmed from meat; bones should not be fed.

Tobacco: Contains nicotine, which affects the digestive and nervous systems. Can result in rapid heart beat, collapse, coma, and death.

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FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- A Colorado State University animal surgeon examined a pup rescued from Kuwait on Wednesday to see if it can receive a prosthetic leg using cutting-edge research.

A volunteer with animal welfare group PAWS Kuwait brought Sally, a Saluki, to the PAWS shelter in Kuwait City after spotting her hobbling on three legs in the desert several months ago.

It's unclear how the dog was injured, but CSU surgeon Erick Egger said X-rays Wednesday suggested Sally suffered a fracture in another leg at about the same level as her injured leg, around the same time. Egger estimated Sally is about a year old.

In Kuwait, a veterinarian recommended that Sally's injured back leg, cut off above the ankle joint, be amputated, said PAWS volunteer Steve Holden.

"The veterinarians in Kuwait said we should probably amputate her leg because she was using it and the stump would be rubbed raw," Holden said.

Egger got involved after Holden e-mailed his alma mater CSU and its famed veterinary hospital to ask whether that was sound advice.

Egger said it was but that Sally might make a good candidate for new research on grafting prosthetics to bone. PAWS then decided to fly Sally with Holden to Fort Collins, where the two arrived Tuesday.

While humans typically could be fitted with a prosthetic limb that would be strapped o

dogs don't take to them well. Instead Egger wants to try an "ingrowth" prosthesis.

Egger said one concept involves inserting a metallic implant at the bone, attaching an artificial limb to the implant, then allowing bone to grow around it.

"The real critical part that will make it work or not is whether we can get soft tissues like skin and muscle to grow into the metal that extends into the body," he said.

Sally will then have to learn to walk on the artificial limb.

Egger said Sally is already trying walk on her stump, so he is hopeful she will be responsive to training once she receives the implant.

Veterinarian Robert Taylor in Denver has been working on the concept, which perhaps one day could be transferred to humans, Egger said.

He said it could be a month or two before Sally gets her new leg. He is looking at ways to raise funds to pay for materials, which he estimates could cost about $5,000.

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I found Snoopy running beside the sea, looking very unkept and dishevealed, and very obviously abandoned, a stray dog which is why I decided to rescue her. I took her to the vet to be checked and nicely groomed by Ruel.

She is my dog now, and is a very loyal and loving dog who gives me lots of appreciation, enjoyment and  pleasure.

Although  whoever owned this dog before could have taken her to the PAWS animal welfare  society they would have had to pay which is why she must have been abandoned on a beach in Kuwait.

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