The New Year is approaching, and everyone has already reunited with their families. As the saying goes, if you gain three pounds during the festive season, you will inevitably end up overeating during the New Year. For dogs, the Chinese New Year is also a good time to enjoy a sumptuous meal, as owners may give their dogs endless amounts of meat or bones to eat. But in fact, there are many foods in the reunion dinner that are not suitable for dogs. Don’t think that it is okay to give them some. These wrong foods may threaten the health of your dog.

Giving dogs bones may cause intestinal obstruction

Many people are used to giving finished bones to dogs, but it should be noted that in the past, when dogs lived in the wild, they chewed raw bones, not cooked bones. The raw bones contain minced meat and are not easy to get stuck. On the contrary, cooked bones become hard and difficult to digest, and can easily get stuck in the esophagus. If swallowed for a long time, they will accumulate in the gastrointestinal tract and cause obstruction.

Therefore, do not give bones and skeletons of chickens, goose and ducks to dogs. Due to their small size, dogs may swallow them directly, causing the bones to get stuck in their esophagus. In addition, large bones with joints should not be chewed by dogs, because the joints are connected by ligaments, and the teeth can easily get embedded in the bones when chewing, causing the teeth to break.

Reunion dinner dishes are too salty for dogs

Even if you think the reunion dinner is not too salty, for dogs, it may be extremely high in sodium and salty. Generally speaking, one-third of the normal amount of salt for humans is already the limit for dogs. It’s not that dogs can’t eat salty food, but relatively speaking, they eat much less than us. Because dogs consume too much salt, it may cause kidney disease, heart disease and other diseases. Dogs' skin does not have sweat glands and cannot excrete salt from the body through perspiration like humans. If they have too much salt in their bodies, it can cause edema or kidney disease. However, excessively restricting your dog's salt intake for a long time may also cause side effects of muscle weakness. Therefore, neither too salty nor no salt is the correct way to eat.

Accidentally drinking alcohol from a dog can be fatal in serious cases

Drinks and wine should be placed high to prevent dogs from drinking secretly. You should know that dogs have a very poor ability to metabolize alcohol, and alcohol poisoning may not appear until 30 to 60 minutes. In addition to irritating the gastrointestinal tract, alcohol produces acidic products after the liver metabolizes alcohol, which can accumulate in the body and cause metabolic acidosis, causing symptoms such as muscle tremors, hypoglycemia, and hypothermia. In the United States, some dogs accidentally drank alcoholic beverages and died from respiratory depression.

Be careful when giving desserts to dogs and eat xylitol by mistake

Nowadays, many candies, cakes, biscuits and other snacks add artificial sugar substitutes (xylitol) to increase the sugar content. But woodSugar alcohols are like arsenic to dogs. Xylitol will significantly increase the insulin concentration in the dog's blood, causing significant hypoglycemia. This situation may occur within half an hour to 18 hours after eating sugar substitutes, and cause the dog to convulse and become comatose. According to the British Veterinary Poisons Information Service (VPIS), they receive more than 300 calls for help every year about dogs accidentally eating xylitol products, and many fur babies have died due to delayed treatment.

Everyone will inevitably socialize a lot during the New Year, but we should avoid overeating that may cause gastrointestinal discomfort. At the same time, owners who love dogs should also control their diet and salt intake when sharing a sumptuous meal with their dogs. This way, you can have a prosperous New Year with your family and dogs~

During the Chinese New Year, many pet hospitals are closed. Only by taking good care of your dogs can you avoid trouble~