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[Michael Foster <birdcrazie@hotmail.com>]

I have a dog that eats the sunflower seeds out of the bird feeder and they 
come out the other end in about an hour just like they came in(mostly)

 

 

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.






> From: lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:43:46 -0600
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Will some dogs eat paw paw and plums and get sick?
> 
> While there may be some toxic compounds in pawpaw seeds, I doubt that there
> would be any toxicity issues associated with the seeds in dogs consuming
> pawpaw fruit - if they consume it.  My suspicion is that gut transit time
> would be so rapid that there would be little, if any, likelihood of
> poisoning, and dogs tend not to chew their food any more than is necessary
> to reduce it to a swallowable bolus, hence the seeds would probably remain
> intact and contained within the 'envelope' that surrounds them.
> While there's no accounting for taste, I wouldn't anticipate that dogs would
> be particularly attracted to pawpaws.  Any vomiting of consumed fruit would
> probably be attributable to the alkaloids/acetogens in the skin of the
> fruit.
> 
> LLP
> 
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