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A (incomplete) list of healthy and harmful foods for dogs.

HEALTHY

  • Acai berries
  • Alfalfa
  • Aloe vera
  • Apples (not the seeds)
  • Asparagus
  • Bananas
  • Barley
  • Beans
  • Beef
  • Blackberries
  • Blueberries
  • Bones & marrow (raw)
  • Bran (cereal, oats, rice, wheat)
  • Bread (whole grain)
  • Broccoli
  • Broth (chicken, beef)
  • Brussel sprouts
  • Buffalo
  • Cabbage
  • Cantaloupe
  • Carrots
  • Celery
  • Cheese, incl. cottage
  • Chicken
  • Cinnamon
  • Coconut water
  • Corn
  • Cranberries
  • Cucumber
  • Eggplant
  • Eggs
  • Eggshells (finely ground)
  • Flax oil
  • Fish oil
  • Green beans
  • Honeydew melon
  • Kiwi
  • Lamb
  • Leafy greens, incl. lettuce
  • Nectarines
  • Oats
  • Olive oil
  • Oranges
  • Organ meat: Liver, tripe, tongue, gizzard, heart
  • Papaya
  • Parsley
  • Pasta
  • Peaches (not the pits)
  • Peanut butter (salt/sugar-free)
  • Pears
  • Peas
  • Pheasant
  • Pineapple
  • Pork
  • Potatoes
  • Pumpkin
  • Quinoa
  • Rabbit
  • Radishes
  • Raspberries
  • Rice
  • Sardines
  • Salmon
  • Seaweed
  • Sprouts
  • Squash
  • Strawberries
  • Sweet potatoes
  • Tofu
  • Turkey
  • Venison
  • Watermelon
  • Yams
  • Yogurt (plain)
  • Zucchini

##HARMFUL

  • Alcohol
  • Apple seeds
  • Avocado (esp. skin, leaves, & stems)
  • Baking powder & soda
  • Beer
  • Bones (cooked)
  • Candy
  • Caffeine
  • Chives
  • Chocolate (esp. dark)
  • Coffee
  • Fat trimmings
  • Garlic
  • Grapes
  • Icecream
  • Leeks
  • Milk
  • Mushrooms
  • Mustard seeds
  • Nutmeg
  • Nuts (other than peanuts, esp. macadamia,walnuts, almonds,
  • cashews, chestnuts, hazelnuts, pistachios)
  • Onions
  • Pits(apricots, peaches, persimmons, plums, cherries,
  • etc.)
  • Potato leaves, peelings, & stems
  • Raisins
  • Rhubarb
  • Salt
  • Sugar
  • Tea
  • Tomato (fruit, leaves, stems)
  • Vitamins for humans, esp. iron
  • Xylitol (in gum)
  • Yeast dough
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