thanks alot Connie,
iread tham all and iam shocked, all thou the one before last of your links talks about theres no research leading to that avocado fruits is posion to dogs, quote: I just happened across this list of toxic to dogs and cats list because of a tree I am planting has berries. Avocado appears on the list.



Ron, I appreciate the information, but these lists of toxic plants drive me crazy, because they rarely specify which parts are toxic.

Avocado is a good example. Avocado PITS are toxic to dogs. The leaves, bark, and skin are also a problem. The fruit of avocado (along with all the other parts) is toxic to birds.

As far as I can tell, the fruit of the avocado, if fed in moderation without pits or skin, is not any more toxic to dogs than it is to humans, but the information is not clear cut and people may choose not to feed avocado to their dogs.

Here is some additional information: END OF QUOTE...
that aricale talks about the diffrents between mexican and gutamalian avocados aswall...

anyway iwont take the chances no more, allthou inever had problems on that before iwill stop feeding it (you cant go against since can you?) iwill allso notefied all breeders and dogsmans iknow...
iguess il have to find new solution to grass eaten now....

anyway thanks alot for the info you might have saved some dog lifes /healths.

sefi.s

Yes, it's good to pass it along.

That last site (where she says the fruit is not toxic), as you see, is older than the others.

The info that the fruit was toxic to dogs was not known until 2000, if I remember right. So there are many people who don't know it yet, like the info about grapes. I think that a dog died of kidney failure from eating 18 raisins in June 2001, triggering that research on grapes.

It turned out that it was not every dog, and not every time that the grapes/raisins caused symptomatic toxicity, and as far as I know, it still is not known which dogs are vulnerable and why.

So, as Sue says, it's roulette to risk it.

the reason I asked is because this is very misleading to the public. There is a brand of commercial food called Avoderm. It implies that the avocado is good for the skin. Just think of how many people may be feeding avocados to their dogs just from seeing this brand.
I would think toxicity would depend on how many they ate and the dogs weight. It is interesting that the jackels eat them according to Sefi. I wonder if they get sick or what part if any they discard?

I think Avoderm actually just contains a small amount of avacado oil. I would actually be more concerned about it's other ingredients!!!

The thing with stuff like this is that some dogs are affected and others aren't, but it's safer to not find out. My GSD ate a pancake with raisins in it a while ago, n knowing that if a dog is intollerent to raisins, just 1/2 a raisin could put the dog into liver failure followed by death. So I called poison control for advice, gave him peroxide to puke it up then took him to the vet for an activated charcoal treatment. The vet explained to me that some dogs will never have a problem and some dogs will die quickly and nobody knows why grapes and raisins do this. The vet's mother used to feed grapes to their dog as treats, and a friend of mine has done the same with their border collie for years with no problems. Odds are my dog would have been fine without a vet visit, but, I don't want to take the chance and end up with a dead dog because I didn't wanna spend $80.

When it comes to stuff like this I say better safe than sorry... perhaps your dog is fine with eating avocado's, perhaps they've been lucky up till now and another avocado tomorrow could be lethal. Who knows. But why chance it? Remember it even stronger for your next dog who may not be as tollerent to it.

Chocolate on the other hand is actually chocolate-strength and dog-weight specific, as well as most dogs tend to puke up chocolate so it depends how much is left in their system after puking it up. A 160lb great dane can eat a whole bunch of milk chocolate, whereas a tiny chihuahua can die from a hersheys kiss.