Protect your dog from poisons
How to protect your dog from eating poisonous household things??
The only way you can protect your dog from eating any poisonous thing is by knowing all the potential substances which can leave your dog ailing. A dog does not know what is good for its health and what is bad; this is why it ends up eating harmful substances. Only you can protect your dog from swallowing such noxious substances. But for this you must know what all products are harmful for its health. When a your new born baby starts crawling and walking you make quite a few changes in your home décor to ensure your child does not get hurt or swallow something dangerous, similarly you must make appropriate changes for your pet dog.
For a whole day it is quite impossible to keep an eye on your dog’s activities thus replace all those common threats for your dog from the house. This will surely make the place safe for your dog. It is advised to not put things which can attract your dog’s attention. Dog will quickly smell it and will put it in its mouth, this will prove dangerous for it in case your dog swallow it. The lists of potential poisonous threats for your dog from the common household things are as followed.
- Fruits: it is advised to keep raisins and grapes away from reach of a dog. Grapes can trigger severe failure of the renal system. Therefore keep these fruits at a place where your dog cannot even smell it.
- Garlic, chives and onion are very commonly available in the home. But they are extremely toxic for your dog because they contain a substance named thiosulphate. Therefore you need to hide them away so that a dog stays out of their reach.
- It is advised not to feed your dog with cooked bones. Chicken and turkey bones when cooked become quite dangerous for dogs because there are chances of bones getting stuck in the intestines. Therefore cooked bones can also pose a threat for your dog.
- Among the other fruits that you need to keep away from your dog’s reach are cherries, apricots, seeds of apples, plum and peach because they contain cyanogenic substances which may cause poisoning in a dog due to cyanide.
- Tobacco, medicines, corns, chocolates, xylitol and coffee are some other extremely harmful things for your dog.
Your duty is to keep these substances at such places where your dog cannot approach them. You must get your dog trained by some experts because during the training period they teach the dog to stay away from harmful things also. Put these things in locked cupboards and ensure your dog don’t open them. Fix up meals for your dogs and provide it food only at that point, dogs will slowly get use to the routine and will not ask for food before or after the scheduled timings.
Therefore knowing the possible poisonous things for your dogs can help you a lot in protecting it from consuming those food products.
