Important
Adding this because they’re safe for dogs too
How are turkey skin and bones not safe? Please elaborate.
Dunno about skin, but Turkey bones, and avian bones in general, are really easy to shatter. If a dog eats said shards, it could tear up their insides.
Important for all pet users!!
The skin is very fatty and can lead to diarrhea, vomiting, and/or pancreatitis. Pancreatitis can lead to a very expensive hospital stay, and is quite painful. When in doubt, best not to feed human food.
Important PSA for this (and every) holiday season! As someone with dogs and cats in her life, both of these are nice to have on hand!
uncooked turkey bone is fine, as are most uncooked bones, but cooked ones are not very good because they splinter. corn is fine, but the cob can cause a blockage in the digestive tract so it’s not good to feed them corn on the cob for that reason (but corn on its own is perfectly fine).
i think it’s important to note that gravy and trimmings and turkey skin are not poisonous to your dog, they’re just too salty and too much fat - so you can give them a taste of these things but not much. licking the gravy off a plate, for example, isn’t going to kill your dog.
as opposed to things like onion and garlic, grapes and raisins, and chocolate, which dogs cannot have at all as they are poisonous to dogs
white chocolate is okay, though, again in very small amounts due to fat & sugar content
I will never forget the 14 years my dog spent eating grapes and chocolate. Wild.
I wish these lists differentiated more between “medical emergency” and “you should definitely take that away if your pet gets into it, but it’s unlikely to cause a huge problem“, so that people don’t panic unduly if they drop something by mistake and their pet licks a bit off the floor. (Super dark chocolate is more dangerous than milk chocolate. Like, don’t get me wrong, you shouldn’t give your pets chocolate PERIOD. It also depends on stuff like your pet’s body weight.) Also adult cats and dogs are lactose intolerant, so giving them dairy can cause vomiting and diarrhea (which, you know, you have to clean up) and just general discomfort.
