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if you won't eat it, don't force mans best friend to either? lolWhats the rule with fish when it comes to dogs?
Whats the rule with fish when it comes to dogs?
salmon is fine cooked, it is the salmon blood that kills dogs...i have fed my dogs a bite of salmon so many times, and it is just a bite because i hate to waste it lolWouldn't it make a dif if the fish was cooked? I can see no raw fish, but I would think cooked should be ok, if he'll eat it (they should know, right?). I'm no dog expert.
A guy told me once that his dog got salmon poisoning for eating dead salmon on the bank. It almost killed his dog. A vetrinarian had to administer a shot for the dog to cure it. Once a dog is cured of salmon poisoning it will never get it again. Kind of like getting measles; once you get it you won't get it again. The same guy told me that when he gets another dog he'll most likely let it eat salmon again, get it cured, then be able to take the dog on fishing trips without worrying about it.
OTF, that is not true. I know this first hand after my pup found a trout head the had wife buried in a shallow grave; in the back yard. I know who I "won't" ask to help me bury a dead body! j/k..
He got really sick.
Only because I found his grave robbing adventures did we put the pieces together.
The salmon poisoning is actually a parasite, a worm called a fluke. Salmoniods returning to fresh water get them almost immediately. Trout being residents, consistently have them.
The treatment is two fold, one to mitigate the bacterial toxins from the flukes waste products. We used Rimfampin, which is similar to; if not the same compounds used for TB.
The second aspect of the treatment is for the fluke/ nematode itself.
Because this "illness" is parasitic/ bacterial, it can be contracted more than once.
So thoroughly cooked fish (salmoniods) would be safe. I never give my dogs any fish, more so because of the bones; same reason I don't give them bird scraps.