Ask the APCC: Tea for Toto?
Can dogs drink green tea?
—Alice E.
Alice, while we generally do not advocate offering people food to pets, decaffeinated green tea can cause minor stomach upset if ingested, and it may still be possible for mild hyperactivity to occur from large ingestion. The bottom line? An occasional lick or two of a green tea beverage (provided there are no herbs or xylitol added) should not pose a problem—but we would not recommend letting your dog consume more than that.
More new questions:
- My kitten is in the habit of breaking my wine bottles and drinking the spilled wine. Is this safe for her?
- What effects can be observed if a dog were to eat Adderall?
- I would love to have a poinsettia plant this holiday, but I’ve heard that they are poisonous to cats. Is this true?
—Alice E.
Alice, while we generally do not advocate offering people food to pets, decaffeinated green tea can cause minor stomach upset if ingested, and it may still be possible for mild hyperactivity to occur from large ingestion. The bottom line? An occasional lick or two of a green tea beverage (provided there are no herbs or xylitol added) should not pose a problem—but we would not recommend letting your dog consume more than that.
More new questions:
- My kitten is in the habit of breaking my wine bottles and drinking the spilled wine. Is this safe for her?
- What effects can be observed if a dog were to eat Adderall?
- I would love to have a poinsettia plant this holiday, but I’ve heard that they are poisonous to cats. Is this true?
posted by ASPCA at 3:21 PM PERMALINK
2 Comments:
I just read an article re China's "one family, one dog policy". 50,000 dogs have already been beaten to death, in some cases, in front of their owners, all because officials fear outbreaks of rabies.
I don't care whether or not dogs drink green tea. I do care, and so should you, about the needless slaughter of these innocents...
Nice.
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