Show HN: What dogs can eat? (Web App)
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Can you add an easter egg that says "No can has cheeseburger"?
But in all seriousness, very cool project because as a relatively new dog owner I am searching "can dogs eat <x>" at least once a week.
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> No. Dogs can't eat dairy products.
Is at odds with what it says for milk and cheese
> Yes! Dogs can eat banana,bananas.
> Yes. Dogs can eat capiscum.
This should probably have the footnote of bell peppers is probably fine but don't give your dog hot peppers (I mean, I doubt a dog would eat them)
If you search for chili, it recommends against it because of it being really spicy. My understanding is that capiscum is an entire family that ranges from bell peppers up to peppers that will hurt humans.
> I caught you! I hope it's just pure curiosity and you weren't going to give your dog a fried [blah blah].
AMAZING. That got me when I saw it in the list. Anyone else has to find it on their own. ;)
> Yes. Dogs can eat seeds.Yes, dogs can consume seeds.
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There are some that are the same food (French fries is one I saw three times) but end up at fragmented articles that could be better put together.
What could be interesting and valuable, especially since you seem to have a small dataset, is relate words so you can share these presumably hand-written explanations between words / phrases and give more value and nuance so you can focus on making n / 2 high-quality articles rather than having to write n articles.
For instance, relating all peppers together (chili, capiscum, hot peppers, bell peppers) so you can discuss why it is ok to give bell peppers but not hot peppers or chili.
This would increase how human and valuable it feels so you aren't just running into "Yes, dogs can eat [x]" or "No, dogs can't eat [x]".
You've got cinnamon as being okay, but some cinnamon contains coumarin, which is toxic to dogs (it's only really dangerous in large amounts, but smaller amounts can cause stomach issues). There are two types of cinnamon, Cassia and Ceylon - Cassia has relatively high amounts of coumarin, while Ceylon has virtually none.
For beef you say not to give it raw, but in many cases that's fine. You also say not to give human food as regular part of their diet, but feeding meat, vegetable and grains is often better than kibble.
You also say not to feed beef bones, but raw bones are fine - it's cooked bones that should be avoided (because cooking weakens them and can lead them to splinter).
If you're going to give this kind of health-related information, you need to do a better job and make sure what you're saying is accurate.
Here's a list (but they also have more detailed articles that'll come up if you search for a particular food): https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/nutrition/human-foods-dogs....
Or double check with your vet if you're concerned (and they already ate something).
For training, I use either their normal kibble if the dog is sufficiently food motivated, or string cheese.
The only treats my dogs get are to lick the plate if it’s suitable.
When we first got our pup and had her in for her initial vet check-up, the vet went over all the fancy-ass boutique brands of dog food that were all natural and holistic and organic, blah, blah blah. I said that all seemed a bit silly to me and I'd rather feed my dog kibble unless it was definitely unhealthy for her. The vet then said, "yeah, honestly, that's what I feed my dogs. But people like to get sold all this stuff, so..."
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/nutrition/fda-grain-free-d...
Again, caveats a mile long. No RCT, no systematic reporting, overall small number of cases…but there is at least some association with super fancy boutique diets and dilated cardiomyopathy.
But beyond that: not exactly swimming in good evidence that feeding dogs something beyond, I dunno, Purina Pro Plan, ends up in significantly better health outcomes for dogs. I mean, I love my dog, I'd do a lot for my dog, but there better be a stack of evidence a mile high that I should be paying 3x or 4x for boutique dog food. From everything I can see, keeping him lean and active is going to do a lot more than getting some “paleo” dog food that’s hyped by a TikTok influencer.
In the hopes of this not being entirely low-quality reply: sometimes the fancy stuff is needed / better, but also I think younger people especially want to give their dog something good and not feel like slop that the dog doesn't enjoy. I personally wouldn't give a normal healthy dog any of the mega-brand stuff because of how much filler and crap there apparently is.
I'd much rather feed my dog a custom raw diet than subject them to bunch of filler and grinded up bones tbh. Pet food brands have a steep hill to climb to shake off the impression it is just like garbage-tier materials grinded up.
const canEat = [];
const cantEat = [];
for (const item of myObject) {
const name = item.name.split(',')[0];
(item.value === 'YES' ? canEat : cantEat).push(name);
}
Unlike goats, which at least have a modicum of survival sense, if you've never had Spaniels or Flat-coat retrievers you've never seen natures stupidest vacuum cleaners at work:
- socks
- rope
- a whole tomato plant
- doll's heads
- 5lbs of fresh horse-shit
- books
These are just the thing's I've personally witnessed. Although some of these prompted visits to the vet, usually the vet just said "don't worry they have strong guts, bring 'em back if it doesn't pass in a day". Problem is, when a dog half poop s out an undigested rope, it follows them around in a most undignified way.
Certain types of things like string can also become entangled in their intestines and cause fatal blockages.
our dog is on strict diet (kidney issues :(), but my in-laws have dog on the "farm" house that lives outside, but has a dog house, near the chicken coop (he must be some kind of mutt, or who knows what kind of breed), eats anything it's been given, and has perfect health with strong white teeth (unlike our poor fellow at home, who also needs treatment two times a week).
- cotton buffing wheel
- buffing wax
- numerous work gloves
- balloons (rainbow dog poop)
- small stainless steel chips he licked from the cnc mill trough covered in nasty coolant and oils. (sparkling dog poop)
- toilet overflowed and he helped himself to the poop on the floor.
- wood scraps or chips
- if another dog vomited, he'd clean it up. Oh and his own vomit too (Waste not, want not)
- stray cat poop he found in the yard
- dead racoon he found under the trailer
To his credit I never saw him eat dog poop. He also never had to go to the vet for eating any of the above and he lived just past 16 years. We always joked it was because he wasn't born but built in a machine shop.
Where is the answer coming from here? Is there a database of foods dogs are allowed to eat, or is it pulling the answer from other internet sources dynamically?
Which is definitely true. But what I didn’t realize is humans are the outliers in terms of chocolate. Theobromine is toxic to a wide range of mammals, and humans just happen to metabolize it much more quickly.
And we're their descendants.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q503 << For example.
Honestly, I have no idea why there are so many things dogs apparently can't eat. It's amazing they survived this long and they're not extinct. I suspect much of it is complete rubbish. For instance, I've made halloumi. It was just milk and rennet. About the simplest cheese there is - and apparently they can eat cheese.
It's because most owners know what to feed their dogs.
So in all likelihood a large dog can eat an entire bar and be perfectly fine. Not that you should be feeding it any in the first place, since it's mostly sugar and leads to other issues.
I will bookmark this website!
Edit: Obviously, it was my first search but no info about this.
"What can dogs eat?" would be clearer.
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