Most products are, otherwise they wouldn’t have much success with sales.

Most powders/granules are fine, just follow the directions.

If it’s a liquid application make sure it’s dried first then it’ll be safe to have pets around.

Fun fact: a popular pesticide Spinosad is the same flea medicine you buy for your pets

Is there a small area where the ants are that your dog can't get to like on a table? I like the Terro ant baits because they take it back to the colony and kills them there.

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Learned this from a Facebook grandma- I find the anthills and sprinkle a mix of powdered sugar and baking soda on the hill, they don’t differentiate and eat whatever and the baking soda makes them explode

Google this, look for vet source, too many to list,

Quite a few. According to HumaneSociety.

Alcoholic beverages Apple seeds Apricot pits Avocados Cherry pits Candy (particularly chocolate—which is toxic to dogs, cats, and ferrets—and any candy containing the toxic sweetener Xylitol) Chives Coffee (grounds, beans, and chocolate-covered espresso beans) Garlic Grapes Gum (can cause blockages and sugar-free gums may contain the toxic sweetener Xylitol) Hops (used in home beer brewing) Macadamia nuts Moldy foods Mushroom plants Mustard seeds Onions, onion powder and onion flakes Peach pits Potato leaves and stems (green parts) Raisins Rhubarb leaves Salt Tea (because it contains caffeine) Tomato leaves and stems (green parts) Walnuts Xylitol (artificial sweetener that is toxic to pets) Yeast dough

Onions, garlic,chocolate,grapes,raisins.to name a few...

Weird that it would have been much faster to type the exact same thing in Google and immediately had an answer. Who’d a thunk?

Besides xylitol, coffee, and chocolate, this list should say things that might be dangerous in the right circumstances to your dog if they eat a metric ton of it.

Cinnamon isn’t toxic to dogs

Broccoli isn’t on there but my bassets broccoli farts would peel the paint off walls

Onions are pretty high on the list of bad for dogs though. All of the allium family is toxic to dogs.

A little bit isn't likely to do much, and there's a range of reactivity from dog to dog, but it's definitely something to avoid.

So this isn’t actually true. Some dogs are indeed allergic to urushiol oil - the irritant in poison ivy.

It’s important to note that the classic poison ivy symptoms are caused by an allergic reaction. It’s not an actual toxin.

It’s very uncommon for dogs to be allergic to the oil, but it does happen. There are also quite a few people in the world that have no reaction to poison ivy - estimates range from 25-50%.

Carnivores are more specialised than omnivores and so they tend to have fewer ways of dealing with plant toxins in particular. There are certain foods dogs can more easily eat and digest than humans – raw bones, carrion – but that's not really the same thing.

Perhaps the closest thing I can think of is that dogs naturally produce the urate oxidase enzyme, which allows them to metabolise high levels of purines more efficiently than humans to produce allantoin rather than urate; in humans chronically high levels of urate cause gout, but dogs don't have this issue. This is not specific to dogs though, most animals do produce this enzyme and it's become lost only in primates.

Not food, but dogs (or any other mammals, aside from us) aren't affected by poison ivy. 

Dead carcasses.

Dogs like, and can safely eat, things that have been dead for a few days. It's why dog food companies add a smell to their products that isn't so pleasant to the owners: to make the food smell like a bit of decomp is happening. Humans would experience gastrointestinal illness if they tried eating the dead things their pet dog brings home to snack on.

Not a 100% sure but things like this usually involve the animal having stronger stomach acids.

They lack the antibodies to respond to it. With poison ivy, the toxin itself isn’t causing damage, it’s the immune response it triggers that causes the rash and inflammation. So we basically attack ourselves in response to urushiol.

Usually with adaptations like a shorter GI track (less time for bacteria to grow) and stronger stomach acid (kills more stuff).

Dogs also have an amazing sense of smell. You know how you sometimes eat a fruit, see that there's a bad spot, and not eat the bad spot? Maybe dogs can look at a carcass, smell the bad spots, and avoid eating them?

Watched a dog eat a recently exploded wallaby that had been dead for a week. Saw it again 48 hrs later and it was fine, owner walking its designer dog ass, none the wiser. If said owner ate the wallaby I reckon the dog would be chowing down on her corpse a few days later.

In the sense that the dose determines the poison, they can be more tolerant of medications than we are. The bioavailability of diphenhydramine for humans is about 72% and in dogs it’s 8-22%. So if I take 50 mg of Benadryl, I’m actually getting 36 mg. If I give my dog 50 mg, she’s only getting 5-10 mg. So dogs could take a lot more Benadryl before experiencing adverse effects compared to humans.

Is this actually unpopular? I would hope people with dogs are smart enough to understand they are opportunistic omnivores and will seize any opportunity to grab food. That's how my brother's dog died. They had them locked in our basement apartment (where he and his wife lived) with the baby (she was sleeping). The older dog was watching the baby (fine, whatever). But the other dog took that opportunity to get into a bag of cheese puffs, and stuck her head in there trying to get them and breathed in creating a seal and suffocating herself and while the older dog seen her, she didn't jump down to do anything because she was watching the baby,

She was sealed for a few minutes and while the doctor said they COULD bring her back; she'd never be the same neurologically. They had her put down.

I absolutely think if you can't take the 15 seconds of forethought to ensure there's nothing your dog can get into that could kill them, then you shouldn't have the dogs at all. They get into things as quickly and easily as small children do, with just as much abandon.

Damn no cherry 🍒

Does your dog eat them?

The white one looks dangerous, seems like it might be a death cap which is full of amatoxins which shut down your or your dog’s liver if consumed.

I don't know what to look for so, I pull them all to be safe. Figure I'm not the only one curious about which ones are harmful.

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Poisonous mushrooms are only dangerous if ingested. If your dog's are probe to random snacking then it's wise to remove them. Even non toxic mushrooms could cause gastric upset when ingested raw. Sorry I can't provide an ident. You appear to have a mixed bag and not enough available details to give an accurate ident. Providing individual photos with more details and your location in the world could help with getting an ID. Hope this helps.

You say no milk, is this in large amounts or is sprinkling some cheese on my dog's food bad for him? ( he is a pretty big dog if that matters)

Also tomatoes