How much garlic should i feed my dog

Thanks in advance! I feed my little Coton de Tulear a little each day. I just heard about this and bought my dog garlic gel capsules……it was mg caps….. I suggest fresh, organic. Nothing from a jar or capsules if you are going to give garlic. There is a world of difference in what form of garlic to give.

Please do your research. You would have to give TONS to be toxic. Check out AKC. A LOT of things are toxic in great amounts. Angela — You are stuck. Getting a bit OCD.

Please stop. I say, the other ingredients on the pizza!! Cheese, cheese! Or, perhaps something else he got into when you were not supervising him. Here is the statement from the AKC -American Kennel Club For garlic to become toxic to a dog, it would have to consume 15 grams per each 1 kg of weight. The average clove weighs 5 grams. A 16 lb dog would equal approx. This small dog would have to consume 3 — 6 cloves of garlic X 7. Do you people believe in Vampires, too? So would you feed chocolate to your dog, knowing that theobromine in chocolate is poisonous to dogs?

Well ,chocolate might kill some dogs that are feed large amounts of it. But my little tiny dog live to be 14 years and ever once in a while l would give her a small square of my Hershey bar or sneakers when l was eating one. She was crazy for it. Most candy, cakes, treats contains Milk Chocolate. Just go google how much Milk Chocolate it would take to harm a dog.

Yes, a dog would have to eat lots of garlic to die from it. Some breeds are more tolerant. Just like some breeds are more susceptible. Intentionally feeding a dog a known toxic substance even at small doses, no thanks for my pooches. All these herbal remedies is a hearsay. I have not read any scientific research on the benefits of garlic for dogs. I love my rescue boy too much, he survived distemper, and i would never take amy chances with his health.

Good for you Olga. My rescue Lurcher Deerhound is so precious to me that I would never forgive myself if he died or was seriously ill as a result of my giving him any garlic. Rather than take a risky chance why give them garlic anyway, will they be ill without it?

Research the side effects of any drug. Did you know heartworm, flea, tick preventative are pesticides? What would you use instead to treat those things you just mentioned?

Well of course it will have no scientific backing since you can get it at your local grocery store or from your own backyard garden. Who makes money from the medications with the scientific backing? Go figure. Your post was the exact reason i have started using powdered garlic to prevent fleas ticks etc and to stop using the flea preparations contain so much harmful chemicals that would proberly ending up causing dreadful harm to your dogs insides.

Thank you for your comments to help bring people attention to this harmful drugs that are being used. Patricia Fincham.. My dogs have all had garlic fresh, organic, non-irradiated for their entire lives and thrived. People do your own research NOT funded by dog food companies or anyone who can make a fat buck from you or your animal being sick.

Hello there, i have a 5. I hope this message gets back to you i could really use some real advise thanks so much ,Regina. She is on 3 meds and had IV fluids at the vet. Also, this little girl is like my own child to me. The same ingrediant used in pesticides is used in dog flea medicine.

Good that you know your stuff about common pesticides! Try looking that up next time. All the ingredients and their purpose are on a list that is, by law, available to the public.

Please look further into this before calling responsible owners ignorant. Perhaps take some of your own advice. And purely terrible. Killing so many dogs and harming and have even killed some humans.

The pesticides in a flea collars are leaking into ponds, rivers, water — killing wildlife, and water insects and in the UK have destroyed acres and acres of land — and have killed thousands of dogs and cats and even harmed children. While in small amounts garlic may not be show significant adverse health effects, it is still a known poison, same as chocolate, garlic has no scientific backing for positive health effects to warrant the risk. He is a 50 pound English Springer Spaniel.

I believe in homeopathic medicine combined with modern medicine. Both have their place in wellness. I am desperate to help my dog be lesion free and healthy. I believe it starts with his immune system and gut health.

I feed him home made milk Keifer and have had him on a raw diet for 3 years. Currently we have cultured his new set of weeping wounds to see what he may be susceptible to still waiting.

Coupled with stabilized Allicin garlic capsules, my hope is that once the infection clears that it will stay cleared and NOT reoccur. The vet is not homeopathic but not against it either. I will plan on providing my dog with a break from the Allicin after he clears and then supply him with a maintenance dose every other day. My dog is beloved because he is pure therapy for my family. We are praying for answers and solutions that work. When you are backed into a corner with hardly any options you will try if the dog can tolerate it.

So far he has done great for two weeks! Here is hoping! If you have helpful insight to my dilemma, please provide…. Thank you! Have you tried Colloidal Silver??? Oh my god Colloidal Silver is not good for anything! That is such an outdated claim, it has been proven to even be harmful, if you use it excessively it can damage kidneys and brain, among other things.

It can also interfere with medications. If large amounts of garlic are ingested over a long period, it can cause anemia and even death. From the early s, wild onions were fed to grazing animals cattle, sheep, horses, etc.

In the s, testing showed that dogs who ate onions showed toxicity symptoms. In the s, testing showed the same results as cats. Although onions and garlic are related, does this necessarily mean garlic produces the same toxicity symptoms? Most of the scrutiny and negative attention surrounding dogs and garlic came when a research paper was released in by Hokkaido University.

Eccentrocytosis appears to be a major diagnostic feature of garlic-induced hemolysis in dogs. But, too much of anything can turn toxic, even something like water! Thankfully, our grocery store carries locally grown produce and we have plenty of farmer's markets that also share local produce.

It may be tempting to buy peeled garlic or minced garlic in the jar, but this is processed and won't have the same impact. Growing garlic is surprisingly easy; I grew two whole garlic in a pot and the following year, I grew several in my garden. If you plan to create a garden spread the garlic around — it repels bugs.

These dosage amounts were derived by Dr. They are what can be fed daily to a dog, however, I've also read that it's important to do this every other day or every couple of days rather than daily and that dogs should be fed garlic every other week. I add garlic to my dogs' diet by mixing it to the veggie mix that I make or adding it to my vegetable ferment. Below are my recipes:.

Someone once told me that we have to crush the garlic and allow it to set for 20 minutes before feeding it to my dogs. I puree the garlic when I'm making my veggie mix and I make such a huge batch that it does set for 20 minutes.

When I'm fermenting vegetables, I toss cloves of garlic in the mix; I believe that the act of fermenting will release the same benefits that are released when crushing the garlic. Hope that makes sense. According to Herbalist Rita Hogan in this article she wrote for Dogs Naturally Magazine , the property in garlic that provides the medicinal benefits is called allicin and it degrades after a period of time minutes , so it must be used immediately. Garlic might be good for us, but dogs metabolize certain foods differently than we do.

According to the Merck Veterinary Manual , garlic and other members of the allium family, including onions, contain thiosulfate, which is toxic to dogs but not to humans.

Thiosulfate causes oxidative damage to red blood cells, resulting in hemolytic anemia. Symptoms of anemia include pale mucous membranes, rapid breathing, lethargy, weakness, jaundice, and dark colored urine. Garlic toxicity also causes symptoms of gastrointestinal upset, including vomiting , diarrhea , loss of appetite, abdominal pain, depression, and dehydration.

To put that into perspective, the average clove of supermarket garlic weighs between 3 and 7 grams, so your dog would have to eat a lot to get really sick. However, some dogs are more sensitive to garlic toxicity than others, and consumption of a toxic dose spread out over a few days could also cause problems.

This means that if your dog accidentally eats something containing a little garlic, he will probably be okay, but intentionally feeding it to your dog is a recipe for disaster. This high-calorie food is also a source of unnecessary calories and fat, and offers no nutritional benefits to your pet.

This contradiction can be very confusing.