7. Onions, Garlic, and Chives
One of the most toxic foods for dogs are onions. While it takes ingesting a fair amount of onions to prove fatal, they can cause weakness, respiratory problems, and vomiting. This includes both raw onions (which fortunately most dogs won’t eat), cooked onions, chives and scallions, and garlic (fresh, cooked, or powdered).
Garlic is especially toxic to dogs when they chew it as it releases organosulfur compounds, which are easily absorbed by a dog’s intestinal tract, where they metabolize into highly reactive oxidants.
Onions and garlic can both kill red blood cells and cause anemia, so best to keep them all away from your dog. Bonus: it will also spare your pup from having onion or garlic breath.
