Not sure where is the best place to put this. I know onions are not good for dogs but does anyone know if leeks are the same. and more specifically does anyone know if a 35 kg dog were to steal 1/2 a pan of leek and potato soup and eat the lot therefore eating probably 1 leek and 1/2 an onion should said dog be rushed to the vets or am I ok just to wait an see if he gets a tummy ache. And then said dog had the cheek to bring me the empty pan and ask for a titbit for giving it too me!!! He didn't get one.. Mean aren't I.

He will be fine.

> He will be fine.

Well I am not sure about that. It was my lunch for today he ate. :) He is lucky I didn't kill him. But thankfully so far he seems fine. And completely unrepentant.

LOL I wouldn't worry about it myself.  Glad he's feeling good, bet he was grinning away after eating mums dinner.

Have to admit that before I knew onions were not good for dogs I never thought twice about giving them our leftovers including the cooked onions and any left over salad the may well have contained raw onions and I never had a problem. Do now wonder if there is a problem with cooked onion or not.

As an aside I once owned a GSD that loved pickled onions and would even steal if given half a chance.

I'm the same here,Nova.  My lot always get the left-overs which almost certainly contain small amounts of onions and stuff.  My little one loves boxes of raisins too and I often find my dogs snaffling the dropped ones.  Or chocy too.  If I read those toxic lists, I'm sure half my pack should be dead and buried!

Yum, tottie and leek soup.  Hearty lunch for a clever boy!!lol.

He is still fine. thanksfully. I wouldn't normally worry but there was quite a lot of soup.  On the subject of toxic things I know grapes and raisins are to be avoided. but does that also include other dried fruit such as sultanas and currants? Years ago a GSD puppy I had ate a whole freshly baked Christmas cake. It was before the internet never mind before  we knew about grape toxicity so I didn't worry and she was fine. apart from the most horrendous diarrhea. Another dog managed to steal all the childrens easter eggs one year and again she was fine too. Do I just have particularly badly behaved dogs or do other peoples steal things too?

> I know grapes and raisins are to be avoided. but does that also include other dried fruit such as sultanas and currants?

Yes it does - sultanas and currants are also dried grapes (just different varieties). Years ago before it was widely known about, I knew a dog that ate half a kilo of sultanas and was extremely unwell - nowadays it would have been rushed to the vet straight away, as there can be permanent damage to the kidneys.

There was a small article in Dogs Today a while back which said the toxic element of raisins and grapes hadn't been discovered, at the time nobody knew if it was the flesh, skin or seeds that contained the toxin, some vets had suggested that dogs who became ill were displaying something like an allergic reaction.

>Do I just have particularly badly behaved dogs or do other peoples steal things too?

My favourite story of a dog stealing, is one that my vet teases me about.

I had taken the chicken out of the oven one Sunday, and left it on top of the cooker, while I popped upstairs for something.

I walked back into the kitchen just in time to see my eldest Beardie girl carrying the whole chicken in her mouth, across the kitchen, and was going towards her bed.  I screeched Myfanwy LEAVE. 

She put the chicken on the floor, and crawled to her bed as if I had hit her!  To be fair, freshly cooked, and smelling lovely, she must have been salivating, so I think for her to put it down was pretty good.  Not even a wing dropped off.  When I told the vet, he said that I was to blame, as I should have given the leave command when I left the room!

He knows my 2 "must haves" are recall and leave.   I have to be honest, I didn't fancy it after it had been on the floor, so I waited until the following day, and they all got chicken added to their dinner.  I do admit that it did look funny!

haha, my fav story is of the 2 Italian Spinones (notoriously greedy breed) whose owners were away for the w/e.  The house & dog sitter nipped out to the shops for an hour, foolishly leaving the chest freezer unlocked.  When she got back she found the lid wide open and the top 6" of frozen food - meat, bread etc - stripped out, with nothing but the ripped packaging left on the floor!