No, not talking about their own shit or vomit, har de har. I mean how dogs can’t have chocolate, can’t eat grapes. Are there things it’s no big deal for them but would be toxic for us.

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    My dog often eats raw bones of various animals. Last month he came home with a wild boar skull which has now eaten almost entirely, aside from the teeth and tusks.

    Yesterday he caught and ate an entire rabbit. There wasn’t even a single hair left.

    These are not things any human I know can do, safely or otherwise.

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      This isn’t true, at least in the US. The vast majority of dog food is safe for human consumption, albeit not recommended.

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    Some antibiotics, like sulfonamides, can be used in dogs but might cause adverse reactions in humans, such as allergies or severe skin reactions.

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      might cause adverse reactions in humans, such as allergies or severe skin reactions.

      This is true for every antibiotic used on human beings as well. All of them can give you severe skin reactions or you might develop potentially deadly allergies against them. It might be rarer with the ones we use regularly, I don’t know, but it happens.

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    Old meat. Immune to botulotoxin. May get diarrhea, but if they gobble up some old thing they find, they’ll be more or less fine.

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      Well that’s how I got thinking about this - they’re not fine to eat some foods which seem innocuous to a human, it could kill them, like grapes. Some commenters here have talked about sort of the condition of food - if it’s old, spoiled, has bacteria or maybe parasites. But I’m curious specifically about food that’s inherently toxic to humans, even in pristine condition, which isn’t to dogs.

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        I have 51 dogs at home and can’t think of anything. BTW: garlic being toxic to dogs is an old myth, we feed them lots of garlic powder in summer to repel mosquitoes a little.

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    They seem to tolerate eating straight up poop just fine. Humans wouldn’t handle that so well.