22/12/2024
🐾 Save yourself and your pet a trip to your emergency veterinarian this festive season.
Here are some foods to NOT feed your pet, and what is SAFE to treat them with instead. 🩺✅️
❌️ Food containing grapes or raisins, like fruit mince pies or fruit cake - These fruits can cause kidney failure and severe gastrointestinal upsets.
❌️ Chocolate or products containing Xylitol - Can cause gastrointestinal upsets, tremors and seizures in high enough doses.
❌️ Alcohol - Severe gastrointestinal and neurological issues, cats are especially sensitive. 🐱
❌️ Corn cobs - These cause blockages in the gastrointestinal tract that need to be surgically removed. This is life threatening.
❌️ Bones... Any bones... - They cause major trauma to your pet's mouth, oesophagus and GIT, and cause intestinal blockages and perforations that are often fatal.
❌️ Rich or fatty foods, like fatty braai meat or chicken skin - Fatty/rich foods cause major gastrointestinal upsets as well as pancreatitis, which can be fatal.
❌️ Avocado
❌️ Caffeine
❌️ Onions or garlic
Also refrain from giving any food that has been seasoned and food that is very salty. 🐾
🩺 Here are some safe and delicious alternatives:
✅️ Small servings of plain, boneless, cooked chicken, turkey or duck
✅️ Small servings of boneless, plain, cooked fish
✅️ Small servings of cooked scrambled eggs
✅️ Cooked, unseasoned, whole or pureed fruits and veggies like apple, carrots, sweet potatoes, pumpkin or beans
✅️ Fresh fruit and veggies like apples, blueberries, blueberries, strawberries, watermelon, carrots or broccoli
✅️ Tinned dog or cat food (in moderation)
Always make sure your pet's servings are mindful and given in moderation.
REMEMBER - Any new food that your pet is not used to can make them feel ill if they eat too much. ⚠️
Keep your pets away from the Christmas decorations like tinsel, and keep your garbage cans out of reach. 🎄🗑
❤️ Your pets are super happy to just be with their families, they do not need to be fed from the table to feel loved. Table scraps can often be fatal.
Save your pets, and yourself, the heartache of a vet visit.
Be mindful of what you feed your pets. 🐾🩺
Trusted veterinary care with every visit. ❤️
