Things NOT to feed your dogs.

[Mike Leonard]

[Majestic Tree Hound]

[Grzyadms4x4]

[bearcat]

I've seen my dogs eat just about anything, especially if its been out long enough to get ripe. But the one that caught my attention was coffee. When I'm camping and make coffee I always toss out the old grounds, and every dog I own absolutely loves them, when they find whereever I tossed the coffee grounds I gurauntee they will lick the ground clean. Never thought much of it, I like coffee myself, even if people tell me it's bad for me. And never seen it affect the dogs at all.

[Kevin D]

I was rummaging through the dumpsters behind the Kwiki-mart several years ago when I came across several gallons of out-of-date milk they'd thrown out. Thinking I could cut down on my dog food bill, I replaced all my dogs water with milk.

Bad idea.

Every dog I had got a bad case of the runs.......and it was everywhere. The stench of the soured poop was so overpowering it was weeks before I could enter my dog kennels without burying my nose in my collar.

I never seen milk mentioned on your list Mike, but after my experience, is it something I'd definately include.

[Emily]

my dogs have eaten just about everything on that list without ill effects. The only thing I avoid feeding them intentionally is chocolate and alcoholic beverages although they have gotten into those. My bloodhound once ate a five pound box of gift chocolate truffles that guests had brought. We left it on the coffee table while we went into dinner, and Hector ate the whole thing including the ruffled papers. He vomited, but there were no lasting ill effects.
My hounds are housedogs and routinely lick out the dregs from my coffee cup in the morning. They eat dinner leftovers including onions. They eat all fruit including avocados and apple cores. They eat cherries pits and all. They eat bacon fat and ice cream. They eat nuts, especially pistachios and almonds.
On the other hand, my eighty pound redbone routinely gets diarrhea from his heartworm meds.
Coonhounds are big dogs with sound constitiutions. They are not inbred lapdogs. I try not to make suspect items routine parts of their diets, but I don't mollycoddle them either. And I keep an eye on them if they get into something, but I don't panic either.

[Houndswoman]

Things our dogs have eaten:

dead dried frogs
dead field mice
ground squirrels
dried up coyote carcasses
cow and horse dead piles
deer kills (pups come in looking like they ate a 50lb. sack of feed and then crap deer hair for 3 days)
almonds
fruit of all kinds
tomatoes (green and red)
cat droppings
cow and calf droppings
wild horse droppings
greasy aluminum foil
greasy plastic wrap

There is probaly more but this is what comes to mind when I was along.

Hounds are ultra tough as a rule and if anything has a cast iron stomach I suppose they do. We had a female hound that was feeling puny for about 6 months, all her blood work was within normal range and the vet said it did not appear that she was sick. Well we could tell she was not herself and waited, she never stopped eating and never ran a fever. She wanted to go hunting every day but just did not have the energy. Her last day she seemed a lot worse and would not eat, she died that day with an infection throughout her thoracic cavity. My point is she never seemed real ill other than low energy until the day she died. Hounds are Tough!

[twispcougarhunter]

[uncle Brisco]