The Back Story:
The Teenager comes home from school and says that his science teacher told the class today that if you put a raisin in water, after a day or so, it will turn back into a grape.
Makes sense, no big shocker…a raisin is a dried up grape, so put it in water to reconstitute… OK, must have been a slow school day.
But I wanted to know how well it would reconstitute. So when we went to dinner that night we stole a couple of raisins off the salad bar (and for some reason the Teenager also took one rice puff) and stuck them in a glass of water. Sure ’nuff after a day or so, we had a rather pathetic looking, ugly, grapish-looking reconstituted raisin. (And a soggy rice puff.) It looked like the world’s biggest booger. (The raisin, not the rice puff.) I dumped them down the disposal.
It looked so gross, I thought it would be funny to post this little experiment on Facebook/Twitter but tell everyone I fed the results to the dog…because in my mind giving random things to the dog to eat is funny. We don’t give random things to the dog to eat, but if we did, the dog would eat it…being a dog and all.
I thought it was funny. You know who didn’t think it was funny? People who like dogs. Apparently raisins and grapes are bad for dogs. I didn’t know. I only feed the dog dog food because I don’t want it begging for food every time I eat, so I never worried about what it could eat or not eat.
My responses:
Unfortunately, my friends are too smart to take the chocolate feeding to the dog as real, and I didn’t proof read that comment: It should be fed not feed.
My super dog loving friend Mary shares my post to her friends as a word of caution.
Different audience, so the chocolate joke was reusable…and maybe Mary’s friends can look up that I live in Florida and that would explain the bad grammar.
So here is my Public Service Announcement to help the dog community.
A List Of Things A Dog Cannot Digest:
Alcoholic Beverages
Avocado
Chicken/Fish Bones
The Show: Jersey Shore
Cat Food
Anything With Caffeine
Any Music By Kesha or Nickelback
Citrus Oil
Fat Trimmings
Those Costumes They Make For Dogs At Halloween
Fish
Grapes/Raisins
Macadamia Nuts
Marijuana
Religious Debators
The Wiggles
Dairy
Mushrooms
Lindsey Lohan
Onions
String
Most Things British People Eat
Salt
Tobacco
Your welcome Dog Community.
Christopher De Voss 
Funny dogs and I have many ‘things we cannot digest’ in common! Such as Kesha, Jersey Shore.. Who knew? Grapes, onions, garlic -it’s not that they can’t digest so much as they cause renal failure. Also Sago Palms are deathly toxic. People usually learn that one the hard way. & speaking of The Wiggles.. well according to my dog who watches a LOT of Disney Channel.. .that also goes for Imagination Movers.
Anyway, thanks for being so entertaining. 🙂
Thank you for reading!
Dog people (especially those who refer to themselves as did people)annoy the shit out of me. Do you think dogs refer to themselves as people dogs if they really like people? But I digress. Why do people get so freaking uptight about their damn dogs? Grapes are toxic to dogs! Natural selection. If your dumb ass animal isn’t smart enough not to eat what could kill him or make him sick then it was his time to go. It’s ok for them to eat cat poo straight or of the litter box (and them lick your face) but heaven forbid they eat a grape!
That should say (especially those who refer to themselves as dog people)
Signed,
A people person
Why do you suppose there is no cat poo flavored dog food?