Best guess: it varies with the dog and the breed-- My dog seems to enjoy garlic in small quantities as garlic powder, or our food cooked with onions. And as with ALL poisons, dosage is a critical consideration. Arsenic in small quantities used to be used to make rosy cheeks for women back in the 1800s--and whether or not ingestion of it over time was deleterious is not much recorded. ----- Original Message ----- From: "MARK MAZER AND FREDRIKA MAZER" <markmazerandfm13@earthlink.net> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 5:54 PM Subject: Re: [pbs] are all Allium edible? > > >> >> >> I'm not convinced yet. For instance, bears and dogs are related as >> mammals >> go, and bears eat wild garlics > > An experimental study of hemolysis induced by onion (Allium cepa) > poisoning > in dogs > X. TANG, Z. XIA & J. YU > Internal Medicine Laboratory, Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, > College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, > China > > This study confirmed that onion poisoning in dogs causes hemolytic > anemia.. > > http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/… > Y=0 > > Feeding the onion family to a dog that is to be anesthetized is known to > be > risky. > > Mark Mazer > Hertford, North Carolina USA > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/