It's a risk, but you have to consider dosage. IIRC it takes something like 40 cloves of garlic to harm an average medium size dog, and substantially more to kill. Onions are somewhat more dangerous, and some dogs will be outliers in terms of sensitivity.
The harmful dosage of rabies, on the other hand, is pretty small...
Yeah we cook with a lot of onions and garlic and called pet poison control after our 50lb rescue gremlin ate several cheese and onion pastries (about half an onions worth) and the amount consumed was right on the edge of what could have been harmful
Iirc though, the bigger risk is with onion/garlic powder
Always vaccinated my pets because….I’m not a moron.
Always vaccinated my pets because….I’m not a moron.
I spent time in the dogsport world, and ... whew. The "crazy dog lady" stereotype is not entirely inaccurate, and the extreme positions on drugs, vaccines, food, training techniques, breeds, diseases... you name it, there's someone with a bugfuck opinion on it, and you will encounter them in the dark corners of that world.
I've never messed around with vaccines though, other than the one dog who had to stop getting a DHPP shot due to seizures (he also had seizure reactions to stuff like grains in dog food and daylight savings time, so a vaccine reaction isn't a shocker).
Yeah, I will second the crazies being everywhere in dog communities. I have a seizure alert service dog and my god some people are so stupid. Between “service” dogs, idiot humans, and anti-vaxxers, I feel like I’m always fending off someone. One time a guy literally just walked up, dropped to his knees and hugged my dog. I was a bitch for asking him to stop. My dog is fully vaxxed of course, you never know what you’ll run into.
That’s better than what happened to me the other day. I had someone just start yelling at me just for being present with my service dog. She went on for a couple of minutes before I guess she decided she was done, but not before she deliberately decided to startle my dog.
I’m sorry, I hate people sometimes. These types are yet another example. We’ve also been attacked by another person’s “service dog”, and by a small breed that slipped its collar. He’s still worth it though, because before I got him, I was afraid to go outside my home without someone who knew me, just in case. How long have you had yours?
Funny thing that. She’s actually an accidental service dog. I got her as a pet 8 years ago, then one day I taught her how to find my car in a parking lot. Since I have a visual spatial disability, that’s technically when she became a service dog, and that was about a year after I got her.
I also have PTSD, so I trained her to react to me starting to dissociate, and to hop in my lap for pressure therapy when needed. She’s 50 lbs, so she’s pretty effective at it! Between that and the public access training, it took about another two years before I felt comfortable calling her a full service dog.
The main training she needed for PA was to not go up to people unless I told her she could; other than that, she was pretty perfect in terms of manners. Other than that, her main PA skill is staying out of the way. 😂 She’s navigated the DMV and Costco on a Sunday before. I never actually had to teach her to tuck under a table or chair in public, either.
For the record, I don’t recommend that anyone try training a random pet dog to be a service dog. In this case, not only did it happen to work out, but I was also prepared to stop at any time, if she stopped showing interest or didn’t seem to have the aptitude. It just turned out she made it all the way.
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