After we got home Mark looked up the effect of raisins on dogs and found they are VERY VERY toxic. So we called our vet, which was closed, so we called the emergency clinic. The had real concern about the raisins and told us to bring him in IMMEDIATELY. This concerned me, so we brought him in. They made him throw up and he only threw up about half the raisins. (They counted them to make sure.) So they decided that he needed to stay over night for observation and to be given fluids and charcoal to help flush his system.
We were told raisins (and grapes) are very toxic to dogs. It can cause kidney failure, which once it happens they is no way to correct the problem. We were even told that they have seen a maltese go into kidney failure after only consuming 3 raisins. 3! I was shocked. I know Dutch is a larger dogs, but he still had at least 20 raisins in his system! So although the price was high we decided that the best course was to leave him there for observation and fluids. They made it sound like raisins are more toxic then chocolate even, and about as bad as a dog ingesting antifreeze.
Poor guy, we picked him up the next morning and he had a "cone of shame" on and an IV still in his leg. We took him to our vet that day and they kept him a whole day to make sure he was fine. Here are some pics...
We brought him home Thursday night and had to watch him VERY closely as he still had his IV in. So when he went to bed we had to put the cone of shame back on him.
Thankfully he is all well now. We have him home and he is VERY happy to be home!
BTW... I threw out the rest of the raisins in the house. It just isn't worth it.
I had heard this before.
ReplyDeleteIt's weird though because we actually had dogs growing up that one liked green grapes and the other only liked purple grapes!
They lived long healthy lives...
I would think raisins would be worse though maybe because they can swell up again....glad Dutchy is okay!