Please understand the difference between allergy and toxicity before commenting on this topic any further. I am not going to enter into debate with somebody who won’t take the time to understand the subject.

Furthermore, I think it is unfair to suggest that I am basing my argument on a single experience. My dog’s situation prompted me to learn a great deal on the topic, and I have supported my argument with evidence.

I’d be happy to review your evidence just as soon as you provide some.

Dogs are NOT the fragile creatures people like you want to believe they are. I feed my dogs scraps from the table, what all dogs were fed up until around the 1950s and ’60s because there wasn’t any dog food available in most locations and dogs were a heck of a lot healthier back then than they are today.

I’m sorry about your dog, but that is a single occurrence. Some children are allergic to peanut butter. But just because one child is allergic and has a serious recation, or even dies, would not be grounds for telling parents not to feed peanut butter to children under any circumstances. That is what you are doing and it is irresponsible of you to do so based on a single experience.

Your comment is very frustrating. I have seen first-hand the damage that one meal of bolognaise sauce did to my dog, and he was very lucky to survive. The following morning I woke to find my living room floor covered in a sea of red urine, which was the result of the red blood cells in his body exploding and being rejected by his body. For a few days we weren’t sure whether he would make it.

Did you catch that? One meal with onion and we nearly lost him.

This article clearly states that not every dog is affected by these foods. In fact, my previous dog used to eat all of our leftover stews and sauces filled with onion because we just didn’t know better. She lived a long life and was obviously a dog who was not affected by the thiosulphate.

I’m glad to hear that your dogs are fine, but your argument is based solely on your own experiences. I think it’s really irresponsible of you to label my article as “garbage” without providing a shred of evidence to support your claim.

If you want to discuss this further I’d be happy to give you the number of the vet who saved my dog’s life.

Are you for real? grapes, raisins, sultanas, onions, macadamias, chocolate, garlic, coffee or fruit pips will NOT hurt — and certainly will not kill — a dog! Perhaps if you fed your dog a steady diet of any one of these items, and nothing else, the dog would eventaully die of malnutrition, but these items will no more hurt a dog than they will hurt a human.

I have owned dogs all my life and fed them all these items at one time or another. I had a beagle that drank coffee with milk every morning of his life and he lived to be 16 and my daughter used to feed him raisins and chocolate, and he regularly ate garlic on leftover Italian food. Every other dog we’ve owned has done the same and none has been sickly or died an early death. Get a grip, people, and stop believing all this garbage!