Are grapes poisonous to dog, fresh ones off the vine? I have done a search on this site but nothing found.
Thanks
Diane

Hi Diane, yes Grapes are toxic to dogs. It's strange you didn't get any result from your search on here, I did one too and hundreds of posts came up. I only used the word, Grapes. Try it again and see what happens.

Dawn R.

  what do they do to the dog . our neighbour has a plum tree ( i think thats what it is ) and it overhangs our fence and they fall in to my garden in the summer, should i be worried?

My puppy ate ALL the plums off our plum tree this year , you just need to be careful of the stones PLUS they can give the dogs the trots. Plums are not grapes though ;)

 

Grapes can do damage to the liver or kidneys,cant remember which one???

This is interesting, to know that grapes are toxic. I've had a problem with my young bitch with what I thought was a food or yeast allergy. Her lips swelled up on one side of her face. they are still slightly swollen, but much improved, not red any more, and she is on a fresh course of Atarax, antihistimine from the vet, for a further week.
I had put another thread on 'health' thinking it was a yeast allergy. I didn't realise until reading this, that it could have been some grapes she ate a few day before that caused the problem. I'd completely forgotten about her eating them! And here I am trying to get to the bottom of an allergy to her diet and it could well have been this all along.
Thanks for shedding a light on my little dillema. Its such a good message board I'm so glad I come on it

I never new about grapes!!!!  Ours always used to eat them from the vine in our garden!  they never had any problems so we never worried.  Thank god it's dead now (the vine not the dog!!!)

I have a large grape vine in my conservatory and there are currently about 200 bunches of grapes on it.  I also have two vines in the garden laden with more grapes than I have seen in 7yrs of living here.  My dogs DO eat grapes.  I don't encourage it, but it is only since this subject was posted a few weeks ago that I realised grapes were poisonous to dogs.  They have never shown any ill effects.

The vine will stay, it's been here longer than I have been alive.  I am confident my dogs will be fine but I will bear it in mind when I next see them chomping their way through a bunch.

I have done quite a bit of research into this, and I think you will find they have to eat a fair few before getting ill, not just a couple. But then, a lot of things can be bad for dogs in excess. A friend of mine had a collie who died last year from eating a large piece of stilton. Another friend's dog's mother (?!) died from eating a packet of raisins. I was glad to see Blue Peter putting out warnings about chocolate last Easter, and another programme I saw was warning about onions and tomatoes. The average dog owner doesn't know these things and when you think vets in dog training books are suggesting using Mars Bars as treats, it is little wonder!

Is stilton bad in small quantities Claire or was it just because it was a large piece? Had thought about using some in next batch of treats cos it's so crumbly and smelly but I wont if thats the case!

Tomatoes, I didn'nt know about dogs not been able to eat those, I often give Maisie a little piece when i'm preparing a salad !  

why are tomatoes bad for dogs?  Mine loves tomatoes and is at her happiest when she is getting a tin of pilchards in tomato sauce as a treat.  Can anyone explain why they are bad and what side effects to look out for.

From what I have read, it is the tomato plants that are most dangerous to dogs . Just type into google TOMATOES TOXIC DOGS and you will get a pile of info :)

My dogs have the odd tomato, the odd grape and cheese. It is in EXCESS you have to be careful. The amount of tomatoes in sauce with pilchards is not enough to hurt them. I can't remember exactly what they do, just that they are basically toxic in large doses. Onions cause the stomach lining to bleed and can trigger anaemia, and are worse raw, but a few in left-over casserole are ok. Anything from the onion family, including leeks, is thought to do the same. With the stilton, the dogs body releases something to counteract the richness of the cheese and it was that that killed the dog, not the stilton itself. Forgive the lack of terminology, but I am useless at remembering long words! I also know someone who now has an epileptic dog thanks to stealing a piece of chocolate cake! The cocoa in choc cake has even higher levels of theobromine (sp?) which is the toxic part. It was enough to trigger the epilepsy. Scarey stuff.

Tomatoes are NOT toxic to dogs, (although even water, in excess, can be toxic).  They are sometimes not advised for animals with arthritis as they are part of the nightshade family but they are perfectly fine to feed dogs.

Grapes are a different matter as NO ONE has determined the "safe" dose of grapes or raisins for dogs, unlike other things such as chocolate for example.

Cheese is not toxic to dogs per se either, unless of course the dog is completely lactose intolerant or allergic to casein the milk protein; however, just as some people have life threatening allergies re peanuts for example, dogs differ in their ability to support various things they were not DESIGNED to eat!

So you can continue to feed tomatoes; I would not recommend any dairy product except for training treats.  Onions, chocolate, grapes and raisins are, IMHO, something that at best the dog does not need and at worst can be life threatening.

As I have already said in my previous post .....tomato PLANTS are toxic to dogs.

Actually it was a vet (not mine) who told me you shouldn't feed tomatoes to dogs, but like I said, I can't remember why! The vet in question goes to our agility club so when I see her next I will ask her. And I didn't say cheese was toxic either, I said it was the dog's body's reaction to the stilton that killed her, not the cheese itself. She ate an enormous slab. (she could open the fridge)