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While a favorite healthy snack for people, grapes, raisins, and currants are toxic to dogs and can cause kidney failure. Learn about treatment with VCA.
All types of grapes, whether cooked, seedless, peeled, dried, or fresh, are toxic to dogs, even in small amounts. You should also avoid giving your dog any grape products such as raisins,...
Grapes contain a toxin that can cause kidney failure in dogs. Grapes, raisins, and grape containing products can all make a dog very sick when ingested. This is called grape poisoning or grape toxicity. Immediate treatment is necessary and some cases can still end up being fatal.
Yes, both grapes and raisins are toxic to dogs. The type of grape doesn’t matter: Green or red. Commercially grown or from your backyard. The source of the toxicity is unknown, but here’s what we know: Dogs have become ill and died from ingesting grapes and raisins (dried grapes).
The consumption of grapes and raisins presents a potential health threat to dogs. Their toxicity to dogs can cause the animal to develop acute kidney injury (the sudden development of kidney failure) with anuria (a lack of urine production).
There is no well-established toxic dose of grapes for dogs. The amount of grapes that can cause toxicity signs in dogs has been recorded to be as low as 0.3 ounces of grapes per pound of body weight. For raisins, the toxic dose can be as little as 0.05 ounces of raisins per pound of body weight.
Most dogs with raisin or grape toxicosis develop vomiting and/or diarrhea within 6–12 hours of ingestion of grapes or raisins. Other signs include lethargy, anorexia, abdominal pain, weakness, dehydration, polydipsia, and tremors (shivering).