Author: Blessing Otoro

Blessing Otoro is a certified canine nutritionist with over 4 years of experience in helping dogs live healthy through well-planned diets. Blessing started her journey from the lovely companionship she shared with Sophie, her gorgeous pup and the desire to know the science behind her nutritional needs.

I wouldn’t advise any dog owner to feed their furry pets mushrooms. While some of them may be safe for dogs, the rest are highly toxic and poisonous to them. And since it’s very difficult to know which ones are edible or toxic, it’s better to play it safe. This entails not feeding your dogs any type of mushroom at all unless you want to risk your pets becoming seriously ill or even dying. Of course you don’t want that. Even edible mushrooms may still be dangerous for your dogs and this makes it not worth the risk to your…

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As delicious as the cream of a mushroom soup is, I don’t recommend feeding it to your dogs and this isn’t just because of a bias against mushrooms, it applies to any cream soup. Aside from the mushrooms being toxic to dogs, the cream soup contains a lot of fat, added seasonings like onions and garlic, and sodium, which makes them harmful for your dogs to consume. So, if you must feed your dogs any kind of soup, it has to be low-sodium broths or dog-friendly vegetable purees. Is Cream of Mushroom Soup Safe for Dogs? The short answer is…

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