Day by day, I read posts on the Internet of all kinds that talk about feeding the dog. Within those entrances, I sometimes read true fallacies about feeding our dogs, which I will gradually unravel from here. You have to clarify ideas to people and not let the false myths continue to gain ground. And this is not an easy thing.
It is something easier said than done, since the Internet is full of information that is copied from one blog to another, without even changing the text many times. The subject of the post that concerns us is proof of this. Without more I leave you with The false myth of the onion in the dog's diet.
One of the problems we face when unraveling that tangle of false myths that have been forged around how to feed our dog, It is the fact that feed brands have flooded consumers with false information by all means, and that has ended up placing a series of urban legends (I don't see a better way to define them) that are repeated from one medium to another, without anyone contrasting them. In a previous article, in History of the Pet Food Industry, I explain how the industry that creates food for our animals works. Do not miss it.
Going to the heart of the matter, I have read hundreds of times, in hundreds of entries, in hundreds of different blogs, that onion is something more or less like a deadly poison for our dog.
A dog of about 30 kilos, must eat more or less, 1% of its weight in onions so that it feels bad. This means that the dog would have to be fed about 300 grams of onion for it to suffer possible poisoning.
Is there a problem in which my dog eats a rice that I have, that has onion? Well not at all. as I said Paracelsus: Nothing is poison, everything is poison: the question is in the dose.
Giving our dog some onion in his diet is something that will not be negative, since it will provide you with healthy and natural nutrients, and that on the other hand, it is almost inevitable if sometimes we give him our leftovers.
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