Two Cents Tuesday Topic: Dogs Eating Grass?

I could not help but notice that when I take my dog Ellie out for her daily walks, she manages to find a patch of grass and take to a good munching. I pause for a moment and watch her each time because I see how much her tail gets to wagging. I then think to myself how grass isn’t a necessarily common ingredient in dog food so I question its effects on my pooch and call her back to continue our walk.

To find out the facts about grass I decided to investigate!

So WHY do dogs LIKE to eat GRASS?

After my crafty google searching, I found dogs have a history of being veggie lovers for tens of thousands of years. Dogs then resort to plants as a supplemental food source because of its abundance. Medicine Net explains that sometimes dogs who resort to eating unconventional foods have a disorder called Pica, as a result of

5 Tips to Keep your Dog and Candy Safe this Halloween!

It’s that time of year again. Bikini season has ended, and sweaters and coats are starting to be all the craze again. What does this mean in terms of our daily diet? Cookies, Chocolate & Candy are making their way back into our grocery carts!

Here at Bionic we LOVE when Halloween rolls around because it means our co-worker Gary will be breaking out daily portions of cookies and candy for the whole office. BUT while we’re busy stuffing our faces and getting chocolate on our keyboards, we must not forget to have an eye out for our special pups!

So I’ve set my delicious Snicker Bar down to tell you some tips about keeping your canine safe this holiday season.

  #1 NO CHOCOLATE! ZERO IS YOUR HERO!

-Chocolate and cocoa possess the chemical, theobromide, which is highly toxic to most dogs’ heart, lungs, kidney and central nervous system

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-Pure Baking chocolate is amongst the worst kind that can be consumed, but products made of milk chocolate require a much higher quantity to be consumed to cause harm.

Ex. 20 pound pup could be poisoned after 2 ounces of baking chocolate, but the same dog would need to consume nearly 20 ounces of milk chocolate to be poisoned.

-Signs your dog may have snagged some of your treats and been poisoned include- unorthodox excitement, tremors, seizures, diarrhea, abnormal heart reate/rhythm, vomiting, coma, drunken gait and/or hyperthermia.

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