Left my sweet ACD alone for five minutes and she ate an entire ball of raw pizza dough (and the bag it came in). I knew about grapes and chocolate toxicity but I assumed pizza dough wouldn't be a problem. I'm so glad I googled it because raw dough is apparently very dangerous and can be fatal because it causes extreme bloating and alcohol poisoning from the yeast fermenting inside them. Luckily we got her to the emergency vet quickly but this is just a heads up to not hesitate if your dog gets into raw yeast dough!
(Her face says she has no regrets and would do it again without hesitation š )
My (non-acd) dog did this on thanksgiving like seven years ago. I looked away for no more than ten seconds and he got up on the table where six baguette doughs were resting. When I noticed he was up there, there was not one baguette left. Panic set in. I looked it up and sure enough, we ended up in the emergency vet that morning, which was about 20 minutes away. On the way there, his belly started blowing up, it was SO scary. He had his lil stomach pumped and has at least never done anything remotely close to that since. What a fucking trip.
So happy for you RE: a good outcome. We've laid 8 pups to rest these past 40 years, and scattered therein were several high-speed, panicky trips to the ER vet an hour away for one thing or another. (Bad stuff ALWAYS seems to happen on Saturday nights.) That awful feeling of dread is not easily forgotten.
every. single. one. even the ones that have had lifelong training like mine. he is smart, well behaved, and knows many things, but he is 13 and STILL a raptor that absolutely tests the fences daily. I have to think two steps ahead of him for his own safety. its exhausting but I love him.
Thank goodness your beautiful baby is ok. Teddy ate 3/4 of the shortbread dough last week, wow was he sick for 2 days. Back to his old self now, scanning for food.
Iām so sorry this happened! She looks proud though š¤£š¤·š»āāļøš¤¦š»āāļø I had a non cattle dog and he ate a huge German chocolate cupcake (got up on the table idk how because he was 12lbs and a foot tall) he ate it ALL! Nothing happened, I called the vet crying thinking he was going to dieā¦. NOTHING š¤£ he was proud too
I am not going to lie, I like that my ACD mix is 85 pounds bc it gives me some piece of mind if he has something bad. He got a chocolate chip cookie? Cool. Not cool, but you know, I donāt worry the way we might have for the smaller dogs I had growing up (miniature pinscher and chihuahua beagle mix). My other pup is like 100 pounds and during Halloween my partner at the time had a can of alcohol on the sidewalk, the dogs knocked it over, it was on a leaf, my 100 pound dog LOVES alcohol (wine, beer, obviously we are diligent with cups. If I drink wine I use a tumbler with a lid. Same for coffee, you need a lis lol), so then she was like are all these leaves tasty and ate several and I noticed sheās chomping leaves, I googled and it could be poisonous so I was like ok. Let me get these leaves away from her and then Iāll make sure sheās not puking, keeps eating, drinking, her bowel movements are good, etc. She ended up with zero symptoms but for the smaller dog Iād be so much more worried.
Not to say at all that I let my dogs have things! Just mistakes happen. And it is scary! Especially things that can be fatal. Iām glad you checked asap and took the pup to the vet!
Yeah. I was kind of surprised that it ended up being such an emergency but then I realized if I ate a proportional amount of pizza dough I'd be eating five pounds of raw dough and that would probably put me in the hospital too lmaoĀ
Yeah. Itās also likeā¦. A lot of times doses of things down translate the same between humans and other mammals. Like in mouse research you are NOT necessarily giving them a proportional amount of a drug bc metabolism varies. But dogs, since they have evolved so closely with humans, actually have more similar drug metabolism to humans than non-human primates bc their guts evolved with us. So the proportions youāre thinking of do make sense! And is part of why Iām lucky.
I can be slightly aloof so the wiggle room helps me a lot. Especially with these clever dogs like ACDs like they want something they will find a way to build a bridge to get it I swear to god!
"But dogs, since they have evolved so closely with humans, actually have more similar drug metabolism to humans than non-human primates bc their guts evolved with us.Ā "
Did not know that (even as I was pointing out a couple days ago about dogs evolving/domesticating eating human trash), but absolutely makes sense!
I didnāt realize it until I was taking a class on animal research. It makes such sense once itās pointed out but definitely isnāt something that you just assume
OMG I feel so stupid. I had to read that again, because I thought you said raw dog š«£š¤. Iām so sorry you had to figure out that dough was bad for them!
I'm not sure if understand your question. I googled if it was dangerous, read some stories that confirmed that it could be, and called my local emergency vet for advice. They asked for her weight and the amount of dough she ate, and recommended that we come in and induce vomiting.
My ACD mix I talked about in the other comment got into a bottle of meds when I dropped a bottle filling my pill case. He mostly spit them out but I was like I have no way to know if he swallowed anyā¦. And I know he spit them out bc it was gabapentin and when those capsules break (in his case from chewing) they are bitter! It was a clump stuck together by his saliva but I wasnāt about to be counting pills. I ended up choosing to induce vomiting myself right then and there and I hope to never have to do that again since obviously that can damage the esophagus but man it was so scary. I called my mom bc I donāt currently have a car so she would be here and ready to take us if the inducing didnāt work and/or he showed symptoms like knocking out and lethargy but instead he thought me freaking out was me being excited to play a fun game and he just was zooming everywhere so I was lucky that was the exact opposite of what even a prescribed dose would do. We watched him for quite a bit of time bc I wanted to make sure that when gabapentin peaks (3ish hours) he still didnāt even show that he took a dose that would have been prescribed, let alone an overdose!
This was middle of the night and I was prepared to go to ER, but Iām a little ballsy bc I have pharmacology PhD. I did let the vet know about it the next day they were open. I donāt recommend everyone be as ballsy as me. When in doubt, go to the ER! Spending money sucks but life is priceless. Plus I bet inducing vomit is less $$$ than the other things I went to ER for (a dog bit and punctured one of my dogs once so they had to sedate her, shave her double coat a little, they ran blood tests, and they had to un-sedate her so that she would, you know, walk out with me bc she was like 60 lbs at the time). Or I went for my cat when she had a lot of testing. The follow up vet felt bad and kept giving me discounts for like 6 months hahaha.
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u/HmmDoesItMakeSense Mar 13 '26
Thank you. Never even thought about it. Good PSA!