Can dogs eat Garlic chives?
Garlic chives(にら)
Do not feed
Never give this to dogs. It looks like a leafy green, but it is an allium, like onion.
If your dog ate this
Confirm what your dog ate, how much, and when.
Call your regular clinic; after hours, contact an emergency animal hospital.
What kind of food is this?
Garlic chives (nira) belong to the same allium family as onion, green onion, and garlic. The organosulfur compounds in alliums can oxidatively damage a dog's red blood cells, which can lead to hemolytic anemia.
Symptoms may appear not right after eating but some time later.
They look much like a leafy green, and once finely chopped and cooked they become hard to tell apart from spinach or komatsuna.
Cooked, in broth, or powdered — all the same
Allium compounds remain even after cooking. Boiled, grilled, or stir-fried garlic chives are treated the same as raw.
The compounds also pass into cooking liquid. Even with the garlic chives themselves removed, the soup — or any food with that broth on it — is not for dogs.
Dried or powdered forms are treated the same way.
Nutrition
Nutrition values are not shown for foods that should not be fed.
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