Last month I blogged about Xylitol and its life-threatening affects on dogs. That post has gotten a lot of traffic so I’m hopeful that some dogs may have been saved as owners are educated on this new danger.
Today I find it imperative to revisit the subject as I recently learned that Xylitol is also contained in Tic Tacs. If you’ve been sharing Tic Tacs with your dog, please find another treat. Xylitol is deadly to dogs in even small amounts.
This new information made me curious about other pets that might be affected by Xylitol so I did a little research. According to Michelle DeHaven, DVM:
“While xylitol appears safe in people, its safety varies wildly in other species. Xylitol has shown no adverse effects in humans, rhesus monkeys, rats and horses but is toxic in dogs, baboons, cows and goats. There does not appear to be enough information about cats to decide whether it is toxic to them or not. I certainly would not take the chance.”
Read her full article on this disturbing topic. Also worth reading is Doolittler’s series on this emerging threat: “(By the way, you should know that according to the ASPCA’s poison control Tic-Tacs poison more dogs than any other product, partly as a consequence of their extra-high Xylitol levels and partly the result of their ubiquity.)”
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