10/21   Deal dog experts. I've heard that chocolates are bad for dogs
        and may kill them because it's like cocaine for them. Is this
        really true? How about other types of food? Say, McD fries?
        I'm asking because my gf's dad fed their dog McD fries (which
        we all had) and the dog got really really sick, so I'm
        wondering if fries are also bad for dogs. ok thx.
        \_ Dogs don't metabolize the caffeine and theobromine properly, so it
           affects them much more strongly and they 'overdose' very easily.
           As for mickey-D fries... was it just sick as in barfing and/or
           diarehea?  If that's all I'd just blame there being more oil than
           their digestive system could handle.
           A small digression:  Do not feed dogs any raw or cooked onions.
           A compound in onions causes hemolysis (destruction of red blood
           cells) in dogs, which leads to anemia or even death.
           Grapes, raisins and wine are also toxic to them for some unknown
           reason.
        \_ As above, plus in general dogs should not be eating more than a
           taste of modern human foods and never raw.  Some people believe
           that since dogs eat raw in the wild, they should eat raw in
           captivity, but this doesn't apply, even to a simple bone, because
           in the wild they consume a bone along with the fur, skin, etc, so
           bone shards are coated in other unedible garbage that passes
           through.  When you feed your dog a raw bone without the rest of the
           kill, you can cause serious harm.  As for the rest of human foods,
           they are simply not build to safely eat all that garbage.  I let my
           dog get a *taste* of a lot of things including chocolate very
           rarely but I'm talking a *taste*, as in less than half a tea spoon
           and more commonly just whatever is coating the tip of one finger.
           Do not feed your dog greasy shitty crap like McDs.