Toxic to dogs - a food list

Except it's one of those lists that's a bit "panic-stricken" over the wrong stuff and doesn't list some really critical stuff. 

"Chocolate" -- yeah - it's bad, but you'll have a queue a mile long of people who say "never bothers MY dog" -- but it's mostly because 'cheap' chocolate, and milk chocolate aren't as dangerous (and a lot of people think Godiva only means a lady on a horse!).  Dark chocolate is getting really popular and THAT (particularly a good quality dark chocolate) can be super dangerous -- more so than the reaction many have come to expect from milk chocolate. 

"Onions" -- yeah, *cumulative* is more the issue or raiding a garden.  I wish it was more clear.  What it really does is make it impossible for a dog to process calcium and it's 'regular' ingestion of even small amounts that's a problem.

WHY DO THESE LISTS NEVER MENTION ACETAMINAPHINE!!!!!

*sigh* it's probably the most DANGEROUS thing we all have in our houses!  TYLENOL!!  It is absolutely horribly, majorly poisonous to dogs and how many of us have it in our medicine cabinet OR PURSE right now??

Cold meds, pain meds -- ANYTHING with acetaminaphine is majorly dangerous to dogs.  Just *one* regular strength Tylenol (and who takes 'regular' strength?) JUST ONE will shut down a tiny dog's kidneys and can cause death in just a day or so.  I have a friend, and she lost her dog because she set her purse down on the table and the dog got into her purse and she had some Tylenol loose in her little change area of her purse.  Purse got tipped over and the dog snagged that Tylenol -- *sigh*.    We've gotten SO used to taking Tylenol or acetaminaphine for pain that WE honestly don't even think about it.

Ibuprophen is almost as bad -- it's a close cousin of carprophen (Rimadyl) but it's dangerous in pretty small doses

And if you've got kids around -- the kid's version of these meds are dangerous -- particularly because they are often flavored and candy-coated and really attractive to dogs. 

It never ceases to amaze me how many people will panic over one raisin and leave Tylenol sitting on the counter. 

Nice to have a list but man, I wish they'd add Tylenol to it!!  *sigh* 

I'm just astounded those are such little known poisons.  It's one of those things we should be screaming about all the time.  Simply because people are so prone to dropping one, or the dog noses into a purse -- we scream about raisins all the time -- but no one talks about Tylenol/acetaminophen.

I hear you, I especially hate the chocolate hype. A 50 lb dog would need to eat TWO POUNDS of  Hershey's bars to get VERY sick, or a moderately sized 4-5 oz block of unsweetened baker's chocolate,, but only ONE Tylenol for SURE death :(.  

I remember once on Animal Plant' Emergency Vets, a  most beautiful Husky was brought in.  It had gotten into it's owner's purse and eat a lot of deit pills---which contained caffiene.  The dog's heart had gone into overdrive. They said if it made it til all the caffiene was out of it's system it woudl live.  But it was justs to kmuch for the heart, a very young heart at that, and the beautiful dog died.  I did see caffience listed, but it most ju named tea and coffee. But we have to be aware of the pills tht contain it also.Thanks for that site goldentails.  Very informative.