Anne Jones Webboard User Reg: 04-29-2004
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I get canned sardines packed in water that have no sodium added at the regular grocery store. I feed these 2x a week. When using the canned mackeral which is high in salt content...you need to rinse it multiple times to get alot of salt out of the fish. Because of the high salt in the canned mackeral, I only feed it 1x a week or 1x every other week.
I'd feel good adding cold-pressed olive, grapeseed, canola, or hemp oil.
Far be it from me to call Connie out on *anything*... but ahh... aren't grapes and parts of grapes toxic for dogs?
I don't know about grapeseed *oil*, but I was giving my old dog an antioxidant mix capsule that contained grapeseed extract and she got extremely ill. It wasn't until we saw a specialist at a university that we figured out the cause. She improved once I stopped giving her the grapeseed extract. (I felt extremely bad!)
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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That's a great question, and in fact I did research it back in 2004 or 2005 or whenever it was that people started putting together the grape-raison toxicity problem.
Both UC Davis Vet and the ASPCA stated that they had seen no problem with grapeseed oil for dogs. (The ASPCA still has that statement on their site.)
Grapeseed extract, OTOH, wasn't considered entirely safe because even though most supplements that contain it have a tiny amount far below the possibly-toxic level, there was no real way of ascertaining that amount.
Still, there are several very good oils without including grapeseed, so you could certainly just eliminate any chance at all that the research may not be extensive enough yet.
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Quote: Angela Burrell
... I don't know about grapeseed *oil*, but I was giving my old dog an antioxidant mix capsule that contained grapeseed extract and she got extremely ill. It wasn't until we saw a specialist at a university that we figured out the cause.
If anyone has different/other info on grapeseed oil, I know we would all want to know. I definitely don't want to have missed something as important as a toxicity that's not yet universally known.
Very intersting!
I am thinking I will go with the Hemp oil at this point, only because it is organic and cold pressed and I know it is very high quality.
I have been scrambling a couple eggs and mixing in cream cheese or hamburger meat that gets lightly cooked in the eggs for him at night as well as putting a teaspoon of the hemp oil on his food in the morning.
Since he seems to be doing ok with the teaspoon in the morning I will probably add in another teaspoon at his second meal.
I didn't want to do the satin balls and risk giving him the trots when he can't afford to loose any weight.
No noticeable change in body fat at this point, but he sure is happy with all the food he is getting!
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I have used Avocado to put some weight on my kid as well as some of the foster pups that come through my house.
Avocados are full of healthy fats and good colories and my kid and my dogs really seem to like them. They also are really easy to mush up if you wait until they are good and ripe!
Mod note: avocados (the whole plant, from seed to skin to foliage) contain persin, which is toxic to dogs.
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