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Can Dogs Eat Pizza?

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Can dogs eat pizza? In a word, no. Although your dog might find a small slice of pizza a very tasty treat, nearly every ingredient within pizza can be troublesome for canines. It is not a healthy type of dog food.

You only need reel off the most popular pizza toppings to know that most of them are a great big doggie no, no.

Cheese, tomato, onions, garlic, spicy peppers, mushrooms, oily pepperoni, dough – all of these are bad for your dog and in some cases extremely toxic.

In short, no one in their right mind should serve up pizza to a dog.


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Can dogs eat pizza – Any Benefits?

Not one. Your dog may nuzzle up to you while you’re eating some Domino’s on the couch. Resist giving them even the smallest bite. Pizza is just plain bad for dogs.

However, if you are set on giving your dog a taste of pizza there is a safe way of going about it. There are a few pizza flavoured treats available that would no doubt go down a storm with your pooch.

The most popular one available by far is Canine Carry Outs Pizza Bits. These are currently selling by the bucket load on .com. What’s more they are fully manufactured in the USA. You can check them out here.

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Can dogs eat pizza – Precautions

There are articles else where on can dogs eat this, that go into detail on all of the toppings you might find on your average pizza, and the affect they have on your average dog. In almost all cases it is bad.

However, let us look at the more prominent ones here.

Garlic and Onion – dogs lack the enzyme required to process and breakdown the thiosulfate components within garlic and onions. This can lead to stomach upset, diarrhea and even anemia.

Mushrooms – Humans may enjoy benefits from mushrooms, however dogs generally do not. Mushrooms are high in protein and amino acids that again are difficult for your dog to process. If fed to many mushrooms in one sitting your dog could suffer from kidney, intestine or liver damage.

Cheese – it is a well-known fact that canines can be lactose intolerant and that dairy products should not be given as part of a healthy dog food diet. Dogs find it difficult to digest and too much cheese will lead to stomach upset and diarrhea. A pizza will generally be oozing with cheese, ipso facto – dogs can’t eat pizza.

Tomato sauce – The sauce is generally bad for dogs because the it contains high levels of sugar and salt. In fact too much tomato sauce can lead to what is called hemolytic anemia. The symptoms of which are particularly nasty with your dog likely to suffer from fever, vomiting and physical weakness. (You would need more sauce than found on a normal sized pizza however).


What to do if your dog eats pizza

Hopefully your dog would not have eaten very much, and any instance where he has is when the naughty little one had either got into the bin or had found a unguarded pizza box.

In any case, a small slice of pizza will not cause any significant long-term harm to your dog. However, as you can see from the list of toppings above, eating pizza is not going to do him any good either.

At the end of the day, pizza is an awful type of dog food. Do not give it to your pet.


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