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I bake sour dough bread every Monday using a starter which I have kept going for years. My starter is active but it is white and not mouldy so not truly sour, and is a mix of organic strong white flour and tap water.
The night before I am going to bake bread, I mix my starter with a cup of water and more flour so it can bubble up and get active at room temperature overnight.
Since little children safely play glueing paper with a sticking paste made of flour and water, I cant think that your dog will be poisoned?
I used to walk with a friend who had a black lab, and he would go to root around in the dustbins of every house we passed. If he overdid it, he might be sick but he was never ill.

Some cookery writers use a bit of fruit to create their sour dough. But Jamie Oliver uses just flour and water as I do and he leaves it to ferment and smell beery, so at the worst your dough may have become alcoholic.

People often make bread with small children (I did too with my grand children) and we never regarded it as remotely dangerous.
 
I deleted my post in a hurry as I panicked and thought it wasn't the best thing to do in the end! Sorry!

The vet called back and explained fluid therapy probably best, after making him be sick, and he'll run bloods to check everything there too. Sometimes, I worry they're just doing it for the money, you know.
 
For context, because I deleted my post...! Harvey the lab ate a sourdough starter and the vet mentioned fluid therapy and I had no idea what it was, so panic posted! I also apologised as I haven't been on in ages and then panic posted!

He's at the vet and I'm in the office (handy!). He's had vomit induced (and he was being sick on arrival at the vet anyway), and fluid therapy and bloods run.

The context is that I'm living with a friend while I'm in limbo between house sale and flat purchase due to a break up. My friend who I'm living with has a sliding kitchen door, and Harvey, for some reason, is also quite riled up by her sometimes too. She went out, and I suspect something (maybe her dog) worked him up and he then decided to try pushing the door and it opened and he ate what he could find.

He has been through the mill with the move and stuff too, and he's been so good, but I think we will both benefit from living on our own.

My credit card is about to be £1k heavier... Hurrah.
 
Oh, and he's been under the weather this week anyway, with vomiting and diarrhoea - I think he had a bug rather than ate something this time.

My previous partner and I are going to discuss his living arrangements while I wait for my flat sale to go complete. It's not the right house for him, and I thought we could wait, but I think he needs a more controlled environment with a proper kitchen door and a garden where he doesn't lick fat ball residue off of the patio every time he gets let out for a wee (I supervise him, my housemate doesn't always). My housemate has quite different views on all this to me, and her dog is also quite different (but neurotic in her own way!).
 
Skib said:
I bake sour dough bread every Monday using a starter which I have kept going for years. My starter is active but it is white and not mouldy so not truly sour, and is a mix of organic strong white flour and tap water.
The night before I am going to bake bread, I mix my starter with a cup of water and more flour so it can bubble up and get active at room temperature overnight.
Since little children safely play glueing paper with a sticking paste made of flour and water, I cant think that your dog will be poisoned?
I used to walk with a friend who had a black lab, and he would go to root around in the dustbins of every house we passed. If he overdid it, he might be sick but he was never ill.

Some cookery writers use a bit of fruit to create their sour dough. But Jamie Oliver uses just flour and water as I do and he leaves it to ferment and smell beery, so at the worst your dough may have become alcoholic.

People often make bread with small children (I did too with my grand children) and we never regarded it as remotely dangerous.
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After it happened, I Googled it and it was pretty scary. I know you shouldn't Google things, but with animals it's a little different.

The starter was at least a week old. My housemate often starts one and then forgets it, so it goes in the bin, but this time she actually remembered to keep it going. She says it was only 70-80ml, but I guess even that could be bad. Apparently it can cause alcohol poisoning...

Your point about it being used as glue is valid 😂
 
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