toxic foods

We answer a lot of questions about what you should and shouldn't feed your dog.

With hundreds of brands of kibble, canned food, and raw diets to consider this can be a very confusing subject! We recommend you look at the ingredient list of various foods and choose a brand that has meat as the main ingredient. Avoid brands that have Corn, Soy, and Wheat on the top of the list as a dog's digestive system does not know how to process these. Spend some time doing research online and in a pet store and you can find a food that fits both your budget and your dog's needs.

A lot simpler is to list the foods you should NOT give your dog. According to the ASPCA national animal poison control center these are the foods that are toxic to dogs:

Onions or onion powder

Chocolate- especially dark or baker's chocolate

Coffee and all coffee- related products

Chocolate covered espresso beans

Tea

Alcoholic beverages

Macadamia nuts

Hops (used in home brewing)

Grapes and raisins (including all associated products such as juice or wine)

Tomato foliage (leaves and stems)

Green parts of potato (green peelings, sprouts and foliage)

Rhubarb leaves

Avocados

Pits and seeds from fruits

Bitter almonds

Moldy or spoiled foods

If you want to feed your dog well stay away from the foods on the toxic list, keep table scraps and salty foods to a minimum, and take some time to choose a good quality food from the many commercially available.

The Dark Moon Puppy Project is working on AKC Canine Good Citizen Certification(CGC). We would like to invite members and friends of the Puppy Project to join us for training sessions designed to get you and your dog ready to pass the CGC test!

The CGC program is designed to promote good basic manners in dogs and responsible ownership for their people.  We think that everyone should be comfortable taking their dog out in public. Passing the CGC test proves that you and your dog can handle situations that commonly arise when a dog goes out for fun or to the groomer or vet. The program lays the foundation for other activities from therapy certification to competition obedience to dog sports like lure coursing and agility. When you work together well enough to earn your CGC certification you can be proud to take your dog with you whenever you go out!

There are 10 test items that a dog must be able to handle gracefully to pass the CGC test:

1. Accepting a friendly stranger
2. Sitting politely for petting
3. Appearance and grooming(allowing the groomer to do her job)
4. Out for a walk(loose lead)
5. Walking through a crowd
6. Sit and Down on command and Staying in place
7. Coming when called
8. Reaction to another dog
9. Reaction to distraction
10. Supervised Separation

You are invited to join us as we work on these skills over the next few months. We will finish by taking the test with a qualified CGC evaluator to see if your dog can be a Canine Good Citizen!

If you and your dog would like to join us for our CGC training sessions contact Asia at:

phone (702)480-8918

email sunhorse1@att.net