Dog ate sugar!!

[pistolpete]

Naughty Lurcher got a bag of sugar off the side in the kitchen while I was out. Don’t think she ate much as half a bag still there and loads in the floor! She’d been quite thirsty!! Naughty girl!

 

[Tiddlypom]

Vet.

 

[FinnishLapphund]

I agree with Tiddlypom, when half a bag is gone, and there's a risk that it just looks like all the rest is on the floor, but you don't know if or how much she might've eaten, I wouldn't gamble. At the very least call a vet.

 

[BigRedDog]

My Lurcher ate half a bottle of agave nectar. The sticky, watery vomit was pretty disgusting and she looked a bit sorry for herself but she was fine by the morning. I think the digestive system of a Lurcher is pretty indestructible.

 

[skinnydipper]

My Lurcher ate half a bottle of agave nectar. The sticky, watery vomit was pretty disgusting and she looked a bit sorry for herself but she was fine by the morning. I think the digestive system of a Lurcher is pretty indestructible.

Not so much the digestive system. More to do with blood glucose and insulin levels, I think.

 

[pistolpete]

She’s fine! Bit farty in the night! . Just scoffed her breakfast!

 

[Jenko109]

I'm surprised.

None of mine will touch plain sugar.

Although my lurcher did once consume half a pot of coconut oil

 

[CorvusCorax]

I'm surprised.

None of mine will touch plain sugar.

Although my lurcher did once consume half a pot of coconut oil

I have fed coconut oil in the past.

 

[Errin Paddywack]

I have fed coconut oil in the past.

So have I, my dogs love it.

 

[FinnishLapphund]

I'm glad your girl is okay @pistolpete .

Regarding the other replies on this thread, I want to point out that Coconut oil contains mainly saturated fats, and should not contain any natural sugar. I presume that that is one of the reasons for why Coconut oil is considered a good option for diabetic persons. Coconut sugar is made from Coconut palm sap (note, this is not the same as Palm sugar, which is made from another type of palm tree). So that dogs have tolerated eating coconut oil, says nothing about the risks involved with dogs eating too much sugar.

According to what I've read, a dog that eats too much sugar does not only risk an upset stomach, or as @skinnydipper mentioned, a risk for diabetes/a diabetic reaction, without if you're unlucky, it can also in some cases lead to the dog developing pancreatitis. Which I didn't want to be all doom and gloom, and mention yesterday, without instead thought that if they at least call a vet, the vet would inform them about the potential risks.

 

[Jenko109]

Yes. I wasn't really likening coconut oil to sugar.

Was more meaning that my dog was happy to eat large quantities of something that does not really taste of anything, yet will turn her nose up at sugar, which you would assume they would like the taste of.

 

[skinnydipper]

Yes. I wasn't really likening coconut oil to sugar.

The big girl knows when the butter dish is empty, her job is pre-wash.

One of my lurchers was the same but she could be upstairs asleep and she knew.

 

[SkylarkAscending]

One of my lurchers ate half a bag of flour once……. along with (at other times) small pots of lipsalve/shampoo/conditioner from Body Shop, several squirrels(real ones sadly), a swede from the fruit bowl that was intended as a horse toy……

 

[gryff]

I think most people with lurchers are pretty pragmatic about their munching exploits. I wouldn't have worried too much about any of mine eating that. I'd have kept an eye on them.

 

[HorseyTee]

I had labs. Honestly the various things that they consumed over the years.
My bitch once ate a box of malteasers including the box. My friends lab ate a used condom which she didn't know until it was hanging out her bum.