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I mean no added sugar or milk, just plain tea.
I am thinking green tea is a good stuff for human as a kind of antioxidant, is it good for dog? thanks for advice
Not unless its decaffeinated green tea as caffeine is poisonous to dogs,although I expect even decaffeinated tea contains traces of caffeine.There's much better sources of antioxidants.

Every now and again our dogs get normal tea (used tea bags) with a splash of milk. Doesn't do them any harm but isn't good for them, they just like a cuppa now and again!
By Missie
Date 08.06.09 08:47 UTC

Not that I would recommend it, and mine don't get it, but my mums' dog had a morning and bedtime cup of tea (with sugar?!) for 15 years! He died of old age.
By CVL
Date 08.06.09 09:22 UTC

Every time I visit my Mum, she makes the dogs very weak cups of tea with a splash of milk and a piece of toast! It's more than I get!!! No ill effects, but not something I'd do regularly...
By kayc
Date 08.06.09 09:28 UTC
My dogs drink tea, whether I make it for them, or catch them 'in the act'
When My girls have had a litter, and not really wanting plain old nasty water.. to encourage them to drink, I make a pot of tea for them.. no sugar, and a touch of milk.. it is much appreciated :-)
It is not ideal for dogs, but there are times, when it won't hurt.. but I would not give it to them as an antioxidant.. just a very occassional treat..
When our youngest was a puppy we had difficulty getting him to drink anywhere but at home, and any water except ours.
I remember being in a hotel room watching him reject yet another bowl of water so I put the last quarter of my cup of tea in with his water. Earl Grey with milk but no sugar. I'm not sure what the appeal was but he drank half his bowl in one go!!
He's nearly two now and he still doesn't like other people's water much . If I'm worried he's not getting anough to drink whilst we are away from home. I'll still add a bit of tea. Milk sometimes works too, but tea is definitely more successful :)

My GSD boy LOVES tea. He will steal it out of cups left within range, and I occasionally treat him to a small bowl of weak tea with the tiniest splash of milk. My other GSD isn't that bothered. But if you say to Indy 'want a cup of tea' he starts drooling :)
I must stress this is very very much in moderation.
My very first dog was a very very sick puppy when she and her Mum and littermates were rescued, and the vet really didn't think she would make it. So he said to the lady fostering them (presumably joking and having no other treatment to offer) 'just pray and give her lots of tea' :) She took him literally and did just that, and the pup survived. She came to me at 9 weeks old and very feisty (though still full of worms) occasionally had a little drop of tea which she loved for the rest of her life which was 16 years, without one vet visit apart from her spay and vaccinations.

ChinaBlue, That story jut goes to show "everything in moderation" :)

Someone I knew had two gsds and would say that when having a drink of water they left trails of slobber over the floor however a cup of tea completly different story not a drop spilt !

I know exactly what she means :)

I used to have a dog with a 'dicky' stomach similar to colitis and spent many a time at the vets when she was having a particularly bad episode. My Vet used to tell me to let her have tea without milk as it contains tannin which helps calm the stomach.
By velma
Date 02.07.09 19:00 UTC
one of my terriers likes a little green tea, cooled of course! the other one won't touch it, hates anything with a strong smell.

My lad has a cuppa... small amount not much milk no sugar most afternoons :-)

My Dad and our collie use to sit and have a cuppa and a chat every morning when my Dad came in from work.
Then the dog would come and wake us kids up !
Many years ago my Mum went to visit and old lady (Becky) for a drink she thought tea she got a sherry so did Becky's dog lapped it up, my Mum was tea total so she had a tea and the Becky drank that one as well!! she was about 90 when she died Mum did not make 70!
When JAke was castrated I could not get him to drink so I gave him really really weak tea with milk and he drank the lot, will not touch it when he is well.

I wonder if doggy fondness for tea comes from river water with a high organic content ie vegetation, just like tea when it's brewed I guess. My two would drink a good murky river dry if they could! :D
When we walk through the woods my two have set trees that collect water in their roots that they head for like a cafe!
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